The Things God Taught Me and The Trials Around The Bend

A Bailey vacation in the beautiful Rhode Island! 

So, there is the place I found peace. Where I found the well overdue silence my soul needed. This is where I met with my Father every morning when my eyes first opened and every night before they closed. I gave God everything. I renewed a relationship and had wonderful Godly conversations with some amazing adults. I got to pour into the lives of 4 beautiful girls. Every conversation I had with Matt and Stacy the night before God also gave me the next morning in my devotionals. God worked in my life so much. I am so thankful for a God who loves me so much and says I am already enough. Some of the things he worked on me about were learning to fully depend on God with everything in me. Learning to have full confidence in my identity in Christ and see the true depth of how much God loves me. I guess God has really surfaced a lot of emotional scars He wants and needs to heal in order to finish his work in me.I am learning to be silent and listen. I am so thankful for the feeling of the love of God. I also prayed over Elijah and I's relationship the whole time I was gone. God listened. He heard and rearranged my world. I came home to a new boyfriend. He is taking initiative in our walk with God. He is putting God first in our relationship. And he isn't going to Evangel with me. He is enlisting into the Marine Corps. And in the craziness of shock I feel time apart will help strengthen us in our walks with God individually to prepare us for what our lives will be like. This will take work but it will be worth it. He loves me and I love him. This might sound crazy but I feel in my heart God is telling me he is the one. But I will pray, trust God, and let him steady my heart. Please be praying with upcoming life decisions that God and the Holy Spirit will direct me. Maybe a proposal in my future...? I just want to keep my eyes fixed on God. Also, God brought back to me a vision he gave me awhile ago during prayer a couple years ago I dismissed. I was praying about Elijah liking me when I didn't even know my feelings for him and I saw Elijah at the top of the aisle waiting for me. I feel just so much peace in everything right now in the midst of this topsy turves. I am just thankful to be dating a man who will put God's plans for him (the Marines) above his own wants( to come with me).
~love you all Sierra