23 Randomness for 23 Years!

Hello My Friends!

Well in celebration of my 23rd birthday I had to do a blog post!  God has given me 23 years of beautiful memories that I know will continue to get better and better. I have been given a family who loves me, friends who have been there for me through thick and thin, and of course the beautiful Lover of my Soul who continues to change, shape, and renew me every day! 

So the point, yes, so here we go!

1. I will and forever always be in love with the Lord. This has to be my number 1 for He is the reason I live where I live, I love what and who I love, and I do the work that I do. He is my Jehovah Jireh. 

2. I still love Texas with all my heart. I love two-steppin, I love country music, I love BBQ, I love the beauty of wide open spaces! 

3. I have the most amazing friends. I have taken the liberty of finding the last two of my birthday celebrations. I am grateful for those times on this birthday more than ever because I am away from most of the ones I love and cherish the most. So lesson learned, cherish the ones in your life! Time flies and then its gone! 

4. I still love sunsets, stars, and most of all laughing

5. I believe 23 will be one of the best years of my life...well until 24 ;) 

6. I love my mother more than she will ever know!

7. I believe that I will be speaking in front of an audience this year proclaiming how the Gospel is all you need!

8. I sponsor a Compassion child, Blenda, who I love and adore and havn't even met

9. I pray everyday for my future husband and family and cannot wait for the day to be a wife and a mother

10. I still struggle with understanding how God could love me, but I am still grateful in spite of that

11. I love really silly random jokes 

12. I am one of those girls in the movie that is either crying or laughing the loudest ;)

13. I believe love can change anything, solve anything, and conquer anything! 

14. I know my sister will do amazing things in this world and I love her more than she could imagine! 

15. I pray that I am able to be apart of the mission to end sex-trafficking 

16. I cannot wait to go back to the Holy Land

17. I still to this day have not been to either Disneyland or world! 

18. I can't wait to sky dive!

19. I believe that I will meet most of you one day! ;) 

20. God is love! 

21. I pray for most of you even though I don't know your name. 

22. I dedicate this one to thanking those in my life in the past year. This has been a beautiful, hard, and wonderful year of change, restoration, healing, and reconciliation. I thank you for my best friends, my family, my church, and all the wonderful people who make up my life! 

23. I dedicate this one to the Lord, for only He knows what the next 365 days of my life will be like until we add one more to this list. I pray that I grow in Him more and more and that I continue to thank Him for the 22 things above and so much more! (Oh yeah, and for letting me see Jason Boland last night for my birthday present ;) ) 

I love you all and I pray that you are blessed, moved, and restored on this wonderful day of October 27, 2011. For this is a very special day, well to me ;) 

Peace <3

"Letting Go Takes Love"

Hello My Beautiful Friends,

I hope you are all doing AMAZING!

Well, tomorrow is a very important day in the life of Jessica Pittman. The age where I believe God is going to change, transform, and continue to restore new beginnings. An age where I will continue to be thankful for what I have been given and thankful for the 22 years before. The age where God will bring me out of what was and into what could be. The age where there is no goodbye, just letting go of the original plan of my flesh. The age where God becomes the center and core of my existence.

God has taught me a lot of things while on this adventure in the Big Apple, but none so precious as that of love. Love is a hard thing to hold onto and an even harder thing to let go of. Its a word that can captivate you and destroy you all in one day. A word that holds so much power and authority in the Kingdom. I posted earlier on Twitter that Love conquers all, and my friends it does. It can help you let go of the past and move onto the future without even realizing you are doing it. It can lead you to put yourself last and others before you (Which we know in our world is very rare). I post this today because I came across this poem and its the perfect words for anyone. Read them and know that love is all you need, and the love of Christ will lead you to a fruitful life of joy, peace, and satisfaction in the true Romancer of our hearts.

To let go does not mean to stop caring,
   it means I can't do it for someone else.
To let go is not to cut myself off,
   it's the realization I can't control another.
To let go is not to enable,
   but allow learning from natural consequences.
To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means
   the outcome is not in my hands.
To let go is not to try to change or blame another,
   it's to make the most of myself.
To let go is not to care for,
   but to care about.
To let go is not to fix,
   but to be supportive.
To let go is not to judge,
   but to allow another to be a human being.
To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes,
   but to allow others to affect their destinies.
To let go is not to be protective,
   it's to permit another to face reality.
To let go is not to deny,
   but to accept.
To let go is not to nag, scold or argue,
   but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.
To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires,
   but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it.
To let go is not to criticize or regulate anybody,
   but to try to become what I dream I can be.
To let go is not to regret the past,
   but to grow and live for the future.

To let go is to fear less and love more        and
To let go and to let God, is to find peace!

The Passion of Persistance & Two-Steppin

Hello All,

God gave me each of you, whether I haven't met you yet or known you for years, God gave me you! I know that all of you don't read all I write, maybe the first paragraph or even first sentence, so I wanted that to be the first thing you read :) 

Passion is a feeling deep within. I can honestly say I have a passion for two-steppin! I love to two-step, half-step, triple step, anything step really. I love country music and I am not afraid to admit it. Is this from the Lord, most would disagree! I love the rhythm and most of all I love that it takes me back to home! It's home to me, to dance, to hear the country twang in the artist voice, and even for the cheesy lyrics! Its a wonderful feeling! Yes, now you know why I got your attention at the beginning, because I just lost most of you! :) 

I write about this for a reason. I remember a time when I first started dancing and I couldn't two-step worth nothin. I couldn't do it. So you know what I did, well one of my best friends and I, we kept trying. We would practice and practice. I know this is crazy and probably not the best to admit, but who cares, I wanted to dance better because I loved it so much! I continued to be persistant because of my passion!

Passion leads to the persistant nature of our hearts to try and try and try harder. We continue to dig deep within to find that rhythm of our hearts to find a way to make the next spin or get over the next dip. Many won't get the analyogy there, but you see the point. Life takes us for a spin and throws us in dips every now and again and if we are not persistant we won't have the strength nor the faith to continue to persevere! 

God has given you a dance! A chance to do your best whether spinning or dipping is your style or not or even country music, God gave you a chance to dance throughout the spins and dips of life and persevevere through it all! To try and try and try harder once again. I don't promise that you will ever be the professional dancer that Christ was, but I do promise that God will reward you through the spins and dips and lead you to an even better last song! 

So again, God gave me you! I pray that you are encourged, uplifted, and a little humored!

P.s. It's okay, you can love me despite my love for country music! <3 

Blessings to you and may His face shine upon you whatever dance move you are on at this time! 

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers (& sisters) whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4

Worth It...

Good Brunch Time,

I hope you all are doing amazing. I just finished a visit back home this weekend and it was wonderful, amazing, and considerably perspective changing.

"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed." 

Romans 8:18-19

It's been quite awhile since I had been in Denton, Texas (well 2 months) and it was the longest I had been away from there in over 3 years. Although this may not seem like a lot for the older generation, its a very crazy and weird feeling to return to a place that had such an impact on who you are today. I believe that many things in life shape you for the calling that Christ has on your life. Whether you are aware of that calling at age 16 or 60, God has been shaping all of us to bring glory and honor to Him and Him alone. This is worth it. There are many things that I have finally realized that are worth it.

I believe that finally letting go of my plans and letting God do what He does best is finally worth it. 

I believe that clinging to Him is worth it. 

I believe in trusting in His plan for my life and not my own is worth it. 

I believe in waiting for who God has for me rather than trying to find him on my own is worth it. 

And I know that loving Christ more than anything else in this life is more than worth it, its all or nothing for me. 

This whole blog came from, you guessed it, a song. I know that many times in life God uses certain lyrics to penetrate our hearts in a way to wake us up and realize what He has been trying to tell us for some time. I don't know what tomorrow will bring or even this afternoon; but I do know that giving my life daily for Christ and picking up the cross and following Him will be more than worth it on that final day...

Blessings to you today and always.

50 Days of Grace, Restoration, and Beautiful Romance

Hello beautiful people!!

Isn't God just beautiful, amazing, spectacular, lovely, gorgeous, wonderful, breathtaking, satsifying, wonderful, and on and on and on. I know that there are times in life when the going is tough and the tough doesn't seem to stop coming; but that is when you look at the beautiful attributes of God to remind you of the love and amazing grace of God! He saved US! You and ME! One day we will see Him face to face and I eagerly await the coming of that day!

Today I just celebrate the beautiful days ahead and look back and thank God for the ups and downs! I can understand that sometimes its hard to see the good in the bad, so that is why when the bad has passed you look back and thank Him for His love and blessings during that time that you might have missed because of the stormy weather passing through.

50 Days, so many things to be thankful for, but all in all I am so blessed that my God took me across the nation to bless me with some "me" time with just Him! Something He has been trying to do for a long time. I see the fruit in a beautiful intimate relationship with Him. I have no idea what is ahead in this life, when the weather might change or the storms may come, but all I know is that God alone is enough; Now and Then!

So today, I just encourage you, whatever day you might be having, marking a landmark in an important adventure as I or having a stormy day; just know that you are not alone and God loves you and desires for you to fall on your face before Him! I remember times when my strength was weak on my own and the only word I could muster was JESUS! That is enough, because He is enough!

I pray beautiful blessings on you today and more than these pray that God would shine His face upon you and your heart in a new way today and you find a new way to fall madly in love with our Savior.

God is Good!

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways! Declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for hte sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in JOY and be LED forth in PEACE; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the 

field will clap their hands." 

Isaiah 55:8-12

Can you imagine, the fields clapping? After the storm always comes a blooming season!

<3