a new year.

well i figured i would be like everyone else and blog about the new year but first lets look back on 2009. What a great year, one i never want to forget.... its cool to look back on it and see what all God did and see the prayers he answered. i remember that i "prayed in the year 2009" meaning that at 11:55 in 2008 i started praying and i didn't stop until it was 2009 (if that makes sense) i remember praying for big things to happen, life changing experiences, and of course personal (and a few selfish things) and i see now that a lot of them were answered. my brother got married which meant i finally got a sister, i graduated, dollywood with my sisters, las vegas camp was incredible, Jesus let me help him lead this precious middle school girl to His heart, i got my nose periced, took a road trip to Ohio and watched my precious lamb and fitz get married, went to VA with my fabulous cousin and met an incredible family, spent my 18th birthday in the city that has captured my heart, tried to get a tattoo, got my first boyfriend, first real job, started aesthetics school, got a lot better at my photography, got charlie, and so many more. two thousand nine, thank you for being so great, but I'm ready to move on to two thousand ten. but don't worry ill never forget you.

I have no idea what two thousand ten has in store for me but I'm excited to find out. I know that God is going to teach me brand new, exciting, things. I'm expecting him to and i have the assurance that God is faithful and he keeps his promises. Yay! I'm liking twenty ten so far. Ive got a great boyfriend (http://breakfastwithalex.blogspot.com/), awesome family, beautiful best friends, Ive already been hiking to one of my favorite places, God has given us a little gift of snow meaning getting out of school :). So.... i may be a week late but....welcome two thousand ten. I'm glad your here.

And of course now to talk about something spiritual :)...... Lately my quite times have been kinda short compared to normal. not that that's a bad thing or anything because I'm still learning and stuff but in my prayer journal instead of writing 7 pages i write like 5. which is very unusual for me. So today i was like why is that? Is something wrong between me and God? And i came to a conclusion...and discovered that no, nothing at all is wrong with me and my Father, in fact, he is blessing me so much right now. Life is simply just good and i am so thankful for that. He is still even blessing me more. I just finished the book of Luke and man did Jesus have a lot of story's to tell or what?! ha ha I enjoyed it and am now moving on to Joshua...I'm excited! God is good and weird, and beautiful and we are tweaked, blessed, and loved.

Last but not least i want to write the lyrics to a song i heard this past Sunday at church and have kinda fallen in love with it... "Follow You" " You lived among the least of these the weary and the weak and it would be a tragedy for me to turn away. All my needs you have supplied. When i was dead you gave me life. How could i not give it away so freely? And ill follow you into the homes of the broken. Follow you into the world. Meet the needs for the poor and the needy God. Follow you into the world. Use my hands, use my feet to make your kingdom come. Through the coroners of the earth until your work is done. Cause faith with out works is dead and on the cross your blood was shed. So how could i not give it away so freely? I give all my self. I give all my self to you God."

I don't really know why i like that song so much. I like to think that its because He has something big in store for me, something so big i cant even imagine. And this song is just one way he is preparing my heart. ....Well that's all i got. I'm out. have a wonderful night my beloved friends.

-jordan katlin.