Imperfections...

Imperfections make something amazing & unique. The other night at dinner, I went home to eat with my family. As we were talking, my brother pointed out an imperfection in his glass. It was right in the center and after he pointed it out stood out like a sore thumb. It was the only thing that you could see when you looked at the glass for the next couple of times. In that brief moment, I realized how people and life are like the imperfections in the glass. Every glass in on our shelves and on the table were the same. They all were used for the same purpose, had the same idea and were intended to be used for the something more. What separated each glass was the imperfections that was stamped on each one. Each glass had it's own chip, scratch and dent. While at first glance it looked awkward and kinda crazy, it actually made the glass unique and it's own. That's how we are. We are all human and put on this earth for the same purpose-to glorify God. We, like the glasses, each have our own scratches, chips and dents. No one has the same imperfections but each imperfection makes us amazing and fabulous. Those flaws help create us who we are and in fact define us. They make us stand out in a world of attempted perfection. It's my prayer that my imperfections can be stepping stones for others, that they can grow, use and take my testimony to heart.

be fabulous.
-K

Little Moments...

I love the little moments in life. The moments where you realize how amazing God is in the smallest, most random times. These past few years haven't been the easiest. I've been in a constant struggle why God would let me go through what I had. Hadn't I done what I needed to be doing--didn't he see that I loved him?! I felt like just when I would begin to settle in he would lead me in another direction aka: another college. For some reason these past few weeks he had been laying on my heart that I needed an attitude change. I had been so stressed, frustrated and basically mad that I had changed colleges 3 times. I begin to believe the thoughts that it was crazy that I had changed, that I wasn't as good or smart as kids who had stayed at one college and that because I didn't attend a "Big 12" school that I was in some was less that others. I failed to see that maybe my being in back in Houston attending college, had given me amazing oppertunities that I would have never have had being elsewhere. As I was jogging in Memorial Park, I had an ah-ha moment (thanks Oprah!). It dawned on me that there was a scripture that said if people didn't praise God then nature would cry out. I realized that my attitude these past weeks had been completely wrong. It was like I had a complete 18o. In that little moment, I realized that my attitude was so crummy because my vision and hearing were so limited. I had allowed the opinions and thoughts of others get to me. I was so busy worrying about staying with the norm that I failed to see God's bigger (& might I say more fabulous) plan. Rather than seeing that going to college was this wonderful gift that not everyone was able to receive & there is no "set plan" or "right way" to go to or graduate college. I was letting all the junk of this world mold my attitude instead of giving it to someone so much bigger. One of my absolute favorite songs is In Christ Alone. I could listen to the last two verses pretty much all day--"No pow'r of hell, no scheme of man can ever pluck me from his hand...". It gives me the reminder that I need that no matter what I do, however many colleges and times I moves, that I'm always his.

be fabulous.

-K