Brittany Maynard Response from NEW Lutheran

This is a video that the high school I graduated from put together. I am so proud of the fact that they have developed a class that is learning so much about current issues and how to shine their light into the world.


The story about Brittany Maynard is heartbreaking. Cancer is heartbreaking.

No one wants to deal with the pain and suffering it brings. Thankfully, many have found the comfort they need in their most awful hours from a God who loves us unconditionally.
I pray that Brittany hears the message that so many Christians are lifting up to God.

I hope that she may feel the love that so many Christians are praying upon her.

We are not looking at this situation with judgment in mind, but with the view of God's plan and timing. He is the one who is in control, that is not our choice to make.


Brittany Maynard said she will take her life November 1, 2014.

That's tomorrow.

Send up those prayers.

Aspirations

Goals. Aspirations. Dreams.

Whatever you wish to call them, you should have them.

Have a purpose in life.

A reason to do what you do.

Personally, my ultimate and overlying goal in life is to be a light for Christ and to be a true example of what His servant should look like.

Right now I am not doing so well at that. 

So I am working on changing the necessary things in my life to get back on track. 

It's hard, but it's possible.

I have other goals, all of which support this overlying goal.

Some of my others are:

• marry the man of my dreams
• graduate college
• become a Lutheran classroom teacher (hopefully a preschool or kindergarten classroom!)
• gain better control over my anxiety and handle my stress better
• start a family
• find a church that fits my family's needs in the best way possible.

Obviously some of these goals are quite a ways off yet. Some have more flexibility in when they may occur.

Regardless of what I have in mind for timing, I need to keep in mind that God has the timing worked out already. It isn't going to always go how I have planned.

Matthew 6 offers a reminder about how to handle these unplanned events and timings:

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Wise Wednesday

Overwhelmed

Do you ever reach the point where you feel like you are going to break?

I got closer to that today.

I have been trying really hard not to begin cutting again, but damn, it's hard.

I am beginning to fall behind on homework because of work.

I also overthink everything. It is so hard planning a wedding when Trevor offers no opinions, while I am working 15ish hours a week, and taking 17 credits this semester.

I'm scared my breaking point is so close within reach that I will be there in no time at all.

Gosh, this is scary.

Even last night, it took me forever to fall asleep because of all of the thoughts racing through my mind.

I hate going to bed mad, and last night I did.

I really am scared.