I don't have a clever title for this post. :)

I didn't put a title because I have so many topics I want to talk about since it's been awhile. So here we go!...

Lately, I've been working a lot, a whole lot. Or maybe it seems that way because it's my only obligation right now...I pretty much work and then hang out with people of all kinds...all the time.

My job is great. I am so grateful to be a labor and delivery nurse...what a privilege. I mean who doesn't want to be at the first birthday ever? :) I don't really know how people used to give birth without a nurse around...gotta have a great husband I guess. ha. I'm about to transition to the "high risk" labor and delivery unit and I am scared outta my mind considering the dangerousness of the drugs I will be administering. But I will learn and it will be alright.

So I hang out with people a lot as I mentioned before, it has almost taken the place of how much I read but I'm trying to get back there because I learn so much from books. Which brings me to my next point. I'm reading this book by K.P. Yohannan called "The Road to Reality," and I won't give a book review right now but there are two sweet sentences that have jumped out at me as the Lord has used this book already to convict me and challenge me to die to myself and my fleshly desires.

This first quote is the author defending the truth about what Christianity in the western world is like today and a response to a believer who would say something like, "Christians aren't perfect, they're just forgiven" or "lets be careful not to put people on guilt trips or teach legalism." Now I am guilty as charged with thinking that sometimes, because I am prone to get grace confused with tolerance very easily. But Yohannan's response was this...and its good...

"We have to question a Christianity that has so distorted the gospel of grace that a simple call to obedience is mistaken for legalism."

How 'bout them apples?

I always appreciate new insight on issues such as grace and legalism like I said before because I swing to both extremes from time to time. Anyway, I feel like I have indulged in hedonism lately, finding pleasure in pleasure itself rather than Christ. Whether it be fun or food or internet, or people, nothing is more satisfying than Christ and the peace He floods my heart with. May I keep learning how to die to my flesh and take up my Cross and follow Christ, however rocky or smooth the road may be.

I'll stop here before I wanna tell the story about how someone offended me the other day and it was all I could do to not feel immediately judged when I said what college I went to...random, I know. But it happened...k that's all. :)