Happy Thanksgiving!!

TOP TEN THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR...

1)JESUS CHRIST, MY SAVIOR.
2)MY FAMILY
-NO PLACE LIKE HOME
3)SOUTHERN FOOD!!
-CASSEROLES!, PIES!
4)DOGS
-GOOD MEDICINE
5)EDUCATION
-WELL ROUNDED PERSPECTIVE
6)GOD'S WORD
-MY SWORD
7)FORGIVENESS
-FOR ALL THE TIMES I'VE MESSED UP
8)FREEDOM
-WHERE OTHERS ONLY DREAM OF IT, I GET TO LIVE IT.
9)MUSIC
-SO I CAN HEAR PEOPLE LIKE JIMMY NEEDHAM, WARREN BARFIELD, MARC BROUSSARD..
10)FRIENDS
-WHO MAY COME AND GO BUT LEAVE THEIR MARK.


HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL AND SAFE THANKSGIVING..


"GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD, HIS LOVE ENDURES FOREVER." -Psalm 118:1



BE BLESSED!!

Tomorrow's Election Day...

Please pray for our country and the new President,for him to allow God to guide his steps in every decison. This world desperately needs to seek God in order to survive and with taht said, we need a Christian President to help make that happen.

May God Bless America!

Happy "Dress Up" Day!!

Simple Pleasures in Life...

Man.. reading my previous blogs.. sounds so drab.. so to turn things up a bit instead of down.. I wanted to share with you some simple pleasures in life I've found....
1) farmers markets!!
2)pumpkin pie!
3) running!
4)family phone calls
5)hot tamales cinnamon candy! ( my dentist wouldn't approve)


What about you .. what are your simple pleasures?

No place like Home..

Quotes you've heard before, .. " there's no place like home", ... " Home is where the heart is"...these words couldn't be truer!(is that a word?). Today was a tough day... I haven't been myself lately and been struggilng to figure out why. I thought I had thyroid issues (and maybe still do), but while I called my doctor asking questions about my symptoms of sleepiness (even after long hours of rest) and why the lack of appetite... I without knowing was being questioned over other symtoms, while saying yes to many of them, the nurse proceeds to tell me that I just showed several symptoms of not tyroid problems but depression. Needless to say, I didn't take it very well. Me, Heather Morris?... depressed... yeah right! The girls who is (or was) always smiling and laughing?! It's been tough to admit it all to myself. To be frank, I felt like I was in an AA program going through my first step!( NOt that I've had experience first hand wtih that). So,I'm not writing this blog to shout my mentally ill state of mind persay but just to hope for some sort of normalcy. I'd like to say I'm normal (for the most part;)).. I've always been a little different, hehe. One thing is for sure, I want to old fun, carefree Heather back. I never unerstood how someone could be depressed, I thought to myself, " just snap out of it", but now going through it I now understand. My entire world in a way has been turned upside down (positively or negatively), it's not the same at all anymore. I'm not close to my old friends, my family, my roots, my anything.. for the past 2 years I've created my life to what it is today. When I came to Southwestern, it was my first trip ever to Texas. With my youthful spirit, I thought I could do anything. I still believe that just now with a little more thought behind my steps. Don't get me wrong, coming here was defintiely in God's plan and I fully feel like I'm suppose to be here (at least for now), I jsut never thought about the adjustments once I got here. Hopefully, my past and present can start to unwind as I talk my way out of my problems with a stranger. Maybe I should just go to NYC and take the subway, it may save me a little dough talking to a stranger that way;).. jk. My insurance believe it or not actually covers it. So, with free visits, mine as well jump on the bandwagon, right? Maybe thanksgiving dinner will be the remedy too to getting back to me, whoever and whatever that is.

Everyday we change, never knowing what we become until we look back on our lives. Hopefully, one day I'll look back and not cover my eyes in shame but in excitement for His names sake!

I have a few prayer requests tonight:

Manning family- lots of changes and sicknesses

Dad-closeness with Christ, his job, his role as a father and husband.

Friend-blood work

Other Friend- testing for graduation

Nick-marathon this saturday (not to be sore, pace,endurance, strength mentally and physically)

Friend-to come back to Christ and get His life straightened out for God's glory, not his own.

Lindsey Jo-MIssion work, orphans

My roomie-youth, classes, balance, rest

Robert- mother

ALl the Soldiers... thank you for your bravery, strength and love for your country.

I Want My Eyes To Shine..

Have you ever met a person and just thought, wow their eyes shine!, you know what I"m talking about, the person full of excitement and you think to yourself, what's he/she on?! I want some of that! ;).. well, some things I've read this week have really got me thinking, .. you see in Psalm 63:1, it says,( verse 1), "Oh God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my body longs for you; in a dry and weary land where there is no water." Also, in Matthew 6:22-23 it says,
"The eye is the lamp of your body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. (23)But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" SO, what that means to me is if we SEEK Him earnestly and if our body longs for you in a dry and weary land and if we seek to the point and finding peace through HIs assurance then how can we not start to have sparkling eyes for him?;)...

Well, that's my prayer.. I've not been myself for about 5 months or so and I'm beginning to wonder if I'll ever be back to my old self again. The person who was free spirited, spontatneous and always smiling. My prayer is for my eyes to shine more for Him and to get past this "feeling" i have.

Thanks for "listening" and praying..

His,

A few big events have now come and gone...

Well since I last blogged, I started classes, passed my written exam for national certification and coordinated the Southwestern Savvy women's event so needless to say I've been just a LITTLE busy but no sweat, life is grand and I'm thankful for getting those things accomplished and behind me.. well for the most part. More than just those things have got myself busy, I've now moved in and decorated the house to look "homey", well my roommate, Skye, and I did. We recently had a back to school party at our place and had over 40 of out friends come, it was a lot of fun:). I'm attending a bilingual church (spanish/english) and helping out with the youth. I'm nervous but looking forward to seeing what God has in store.