More To My Bucket List!

23. Eat snail
24. Backpack around Europe
25. Spend a week to a month in France
26. Travel the world
27. Go to a country that I know nothing about....and survive!
28. Drive a slug bug
29. See the Great  Wall of China
30. Ride a motorcycle
31. Go a day with out saying the word the!!!
32. Tell all the people I love that i love them
33. (I don't know if I have this but) Jump out of a plane and soon man!!!!

That is all my updates for now!!!! I better get going on doing some of these!!! I need the adventure anyway!!

What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stranger!

I am going to bet that you have most likely heard someone say, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Recently I had a friend add to the very end a lovely addition which was, "or just kills you." That is pretty encouraging don't you think?! Well I was thinking, God will never give us more then we ca handle right?! Ummm does He not see me almost bending down at a 90 degree angle? I can't lie, with stress and the pressures of life I don't think I could take anymore....but wait...right when you think you are good and it seems that the sun is starting to shine through the clouds...something new comes up!!! Right smack in the face! Not very encouraging I know, trust me. But here is the encouraging part!! God wants us to give Him the things that are burdening us, the things that have us bent over at a 90 degree angle. Our daddy wants to take that stuff that is weighing you down away for you! Great news right!? The answer is right! Now if you are like me you have to work on that note. I am learning that I need to give God the things that are weighing me down, the stuff that seems to be breaking me. I need to give it to Him. In the past that has not been the easiest thing to do. I think that it is easier to keep that heavy load for my self to carry and well I think it may be starting to show. Which I can not lie, its not a good thing.

So my challenge is for you to try and start laying your burdens, and the stuff that is weighing you down, at the thrown of our Heavenly Father. I myself am going to hold myself accountable to this challenge because only God knows just how badly I need to.

Love and Blessings

Nicole