Crazy, love.

Crazy how love changes everything. Your perspective on life, things and people. It's a feeling that nothing else can re-create, and only God can duplicate. He loves us, so in turn, we love others. Without love we can't spread love. Without love, we would die, as empty souls. Life wouldn't be worth living without love.

But with the love of Christ, life is more than living. Feeling the love of someone who was willing to die for you, and no matter what you do in life, He'll love you anyway. It's an incredible feeling. Once you find that love, you will find yourself falling in love with Him over, and over and over again. And it's the best.

Anchors away!

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure..."

Hebrews 6:19

God has been showing me this verse over and over again the past few days. First, I opened up my sketchbook the an anchor I drew based off this verse, then I heard a song by Phil Wickham that had the same reference. The last thing that got me was this; a few months ago I tied bible verses to my chandelier over my bed because I have nightmares a lot, and one of them fell off. Picking it up, I opened it and guess what verse it was! Yup, Hebrews 6:19.
Who says God doesn't show Himself? You've just gotta look for it. This is what He is teaching me.

God is truth. Be secure in His promises! Wondering if His plans will change is worry unneeded. Our hope, (God) is IMMOVABLE. His promises and words don't change! It's just how an anchor holds firmly to the sea bed. If a ships anchor didn't hold firm, it wouldn't be doing what it's meant for. Therefore it would be a lie.

God is our anchor. Our lifeline. In times of trouble, sailor would drop anchor and wait for bad weather to pass. Same goes for life. When times are bad, God drops anchor in our hearts. It digs and embeds in our souls, giving us hope. Down where the anchor is dug, there is peace. The storm rages on the surface, but if you dig deep in yourself, you'll find God, you'll find that place of peace. And that's the place to stay.

The anchor to our souls. The unfailing hope.

Get it together.

Not words I really know how to follow. Reckless should be my middle name. My room is anything but together, and it's something that doesn't really bother me. One person it does bother is my wonderful mother, though. Sometimes I'll come home from work and she's (oh, so kindly) tidied it up a bit. Then I kind of freak out and can't find anything, and am thinking, "Woman! I can't find myyyy stufffffff!". But, in the grand scheme of things, she does it to keep her house clean.

God does the same things in our hearts. Mine, especially. I drag out all these things to keep it cluttered and busy. There's just not enough space for God in it. Then, like my mommy does to my room, God comes and cleans it up. He might take things away that we dearly loved, move things around so that sitting in the middle of this figurative heart-room, is only Him. Most likely giggling to Him self while we scramble around that room looking for things and feeling like the sky is falling, when we come around, all that matters is to focus on us God. We can sit down and talk to Him, learn from Him and grow in Him. The rest of the stuff in the room loses it's meaning.

Everyone likes to have something to do, having something entertaining them. Music, friends, video games, sports, television. All of those are awesome things, but sometimes God de-clutters our lives, puts those things to the side so we can have the spiritual main dish- Him.

The Start.

This is the start, of something new, it feels so right, to be here with youuu.

Hopefully that High School Musical song is stuck in your head for days. You're welcome. To the point, though.

God has been putting a lot of things on my heart lately, this new blog is one of them. I'll try to keep it updated as often as possible. Recently, there's been a ton of changes in my life. Some of them don't complety make sense to me, but they're part of God's plans, and that's all I've got to go with. Whatever those plans may be, they're going to be good. Why? Well, because they're God's! He doesn't make bad things.

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper and not to harm you, plans for a hope and a future.
-Jeremiah 29:11

For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose.
-Philippians 2:11

So, even when my life seems upside down, things are good. 'Cause when I'm upside down, God can shake the lint out of my head and give me a clearer view of Him. It's cleaning out the spiderwebs, it's refinement.

For anyone who reads this, thank you. Please keep up, cause there might be some cool stuff on here sometimes. :)

-Hannah.