Becoming a Texas Resident...

Seriously??... a sweet Carolina girl like myself..becoming a Texan? Can it be?!Yes.. I'm afraid so. At least through paperwork ( aka license and registration) Okay okay.. so the state really isn't that bad. If my family was here, I'm sure I wouldn't mind it quite so much but then again there nothing like the Carolinas! One good thing to being a registered driver in the state of Texas.. I now get an ILY ( I Love You) handshape/sign on my license plate! YIPPEE!!.. I remember wanting that before I ever came out here but I wasn't able to being a "first in flight" NC gal. One last thing to do.. Driver's License. How was I suppose to know they needed every stitch of information about me including my ss card ( not just the number) and my birth certificate! Geez.. why don't they just trust the NC drivers license! I mean it only has my face right there on it! Oh well.. gotta go back another day since time ran short. I'm now at work after midnight with an hour left to go. Tomorrow or rather "today" is Saturday and I'm off:). My off days are always my catch up days however meaning, "laundry day" or something else.. but at least I have time to do it and a great job to work at. My job is great ( most of the time). Occasionally I get rude customers or hard to deal with calls but that's just life. We all can't get what we want. Going back to the Texas residency thing.. maybe after I officially see my name on something that says Texas, maybe then I won't feel so "out of place" here and accept that I am in Texas in the here and now and that God is using me here whether I realize it or not. So many times I think ahead and at times worry myself to death over the future. If I don't learn how to stop worrying over the future now.. man I never will stop. There's always going to be something to worry over.

(Matthew 6:34).

As I live my life.. I am learning..

I've been searching for a place to call "home" for quite sometime, wondering if I'll ever feel at home and what home even is to me anymore now that I'm half way across the nation away from my family "home". Life has had it's ups and downs as most people's lives do however 2008 was definitely one of the toughest years for me. Leaving all of that to be short and sweet in order to rejoice in the new year of 2009, I find myself understanding more of the importance to count my blessings. I am a busy woman who honestly feels at times, if only I could make a little more, maybe then I could have more control over my circumstances and life but the truth is whatever I think about the most will hold me captive, good or bad. The more I look to what my needs are instead of so many times to others, not saying that I don't have selfish moments, I most definitely do, but all the while realizing I desperately need time to rest and grow in Him. So if I must be held in bondage or enslaved, I choose to be a slave of Christ. To count it all joy when hard times come as James says. I want to smile in the hardest times knowing my Father has the whole world in His hands and that my small feeble self is right where it needs to be, in His hands. I am starting to learn how to commit my life to the unknown knowing my Father knows best and He knows my steps. So many times I worry and stress over things like finances, relationships, inner peace and forgetting how He is so much bigger than anything I could ever face and how he loves me so much more than I could ever understand.

I am beginning to grow into womanhood I feel like. Going from the "I'm not a teenager anymore" , to "I'm not married, or dating" stage to now, I'm a daughter of the King and whatever His plans are for me are just fine, is where I'm beginning to plant myself. I tell my Dad what I would like in my ilfe but over and over again he shows me that my plan is just not good enough and I'm learning how to submit to that idea. Being a woman of the 21st Century and out on my own (aka independent), it's hard applying submission to anything in my life. Not too long ago I heard a person say taht if they are unable to submit to their father in Heaven, how can they submit to their husband? It gave me something to think about. My heavenly father is perfect and knows me better than I know myself. Yet I over and over put my God away thinking I know what's best for me when I'm only able to see the present. No part of the future, not even a second is in my hands,it's all in His.

My prayer is to have faith the size of a mustard seed so I can move mountains!(Matthew 17:20)

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.