So, every year I decide I should do daily devotions :) It lasts for about a week... a month at most. I was actually laughing about it today because I'm always so into it until I just straight up forget for the rest of the year. It's also funny that it's a yearly thing. All that to say I have once again decided it's time for daily devotions and yesterdays has stuck with me for quite awhile. So... I want to share it. I hope you enjoy.
It's from "My Utmost for His Highest."

"That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us."
        John 17:21

         "If you are going through a solitary way, read John 17, it will explain exactly why you are where you are--Jesus has prayed that you may be one with the Father as He is. Are you helping God to answer that prayer, or have you some other end for your life? Since you became a disciple you cannot be as independent as you used to be.
           The purpose of God is not to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mid of God, and must answer, and that is the prayer of Jesus-- "that they may be one, even as We are One." Are we as close to Jesus Christ as that?
            God is not concerned about our plans; He does say-- Do you want to go through this beravement; this upset? He allows these things for His own purpose. The things we are going through are either makings us sweeter, better, nobler men and women; or they are making us more captious and fault-finding, more insistant upon our own way. The things that happen either make us fiends, or they make us saints; it depends entirely upon the relationship we in to God. If we say-- "Thy will be done," we get the consolation of John 17, the consolation of knowing that our Father is working according to His own kingdom. When we understand what God is after we will not get mean and cynical. Jesus has prayed nothing less for us than absolute oneness with Himself as He was one with the Father. Some of us are far off it, and yet God will not leave us alone until we are one with Him, because Jesus prayed that we may be.

It was good talking to you.
Halie
 

Today I am Thankful.

Thankful that God has had enough grace to bring me to this point and that the Holy Spirit continues to work and open my eyes to things.

For so long I have fought to call my self a christian and yet fought even harder to live another way. Trying and trying to make my god conform to me. Trying to find myself in this world yet avoiding the fact that Christ says we find ourselves in Him and also to lay down our old self and take up His cross. 

I have more to say but I need to go to work so maybe later...

me