Fall Festivities

I can hardly believe we are approaching the end of October! It always feels like the Autumn season goes by so quickly. I'm sure it's partially due to our never-ending-summer-temps we have down South. We normally don't do a whole lot of festive things during the fall besides going to a few festivals. However, we decided to tag along with some of our friends to a pumpkin patch a few weeks ago. (Of course, it was blazing hot that day! Ha!) The pumpkin picking was alright (It kind of takes the fun out of it when you pre-cut the pumpkins! Oh well!), but they had the prettiest sunflower field. You could pick for free too! That is my kind of fun! Now that mine have all died, I may have to go back and get some more! I've tried to bring along my camera a little bit more lately, and I'm glad I brought it this day!

I hope you all had a great weekend! Things are pretty good over here, besides me getting poison ivy. I think I may have picked it up somewhere in the sunflower field. Fun, I know! Now I'm just catching up on some beautiful weddings! I cannot wait to share soon!

You can't hurt a dead person

Not everyone is going to like me. It's a hard fact of life. I still remember being rejected from "the cool kid's table" in preschool. Somehow I think we all assume that it's something we grow out of and that we'll be so much stronger and confident as adults. Not so. A few weeks ago I read a quote from Beth Redman that stated, "There is a huge amount of freedom that comes when you take nothing personally." I don't know about you, but I can be a fairly confident person until I receive a little criticism or feel rejection. Then, I melt into a puddle of insecurity. It's hard not to take things personally.

Lately the Lord has convicted me that it's just my pride being crushed and my ego being wounded. It's selfishness through and through. I recently heard a pastor say, "You can't hurt a dead person." If I'm really completely surrendered to Christ, dead to myself, then I won't be so affected by those things. I have to look at my heart every time I get offended or hurt by something and ask, "Am I surrendered or selfish here?" In truth it's not self-confidence that I need, it's Christ-confidence. It's not who I am but who He is that matters anyway! Sometimes it's very hard to understand why people don't like or accept you. Trust me, I struggle with it too. Every day I'm trying to remind myself that I am accepted and loved by God. My life, my confidence, my identity is in Him. His life alone is worth living, and mine can stay in the grave. After all, you can't hurt a dead person.

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