Fleetwood...

attention ladies and gents.. i am SO excited to announce that i am now the proud owner of a new macbook!! i named it fleetwood.. i'm hoping you are clever enough to guess for yourself why i named it that... i'm a big fan of cheesy puns.. (cheesy puns? sounds like some sort of a grossly unhealthy snackfood) anyway.. i've wanted a mac for a long time... so let me tell you for a second how faithful God is. God has really been showing me lately that he genuinely does care about the little things in our lives.. and he really does consider everything we do.. 

the Lord promises us in Matthew 7 that when we ask for something.. it will be given to us.. i feel like it's important that i emphasize the fact that we really can ask him for ANYTHING.. and if it's in his will.. he really does give it to us.. because he's got the heart of a Father... and fathers.. dads.. really desire to provide for their children.. it's natural to them.. dad's are providers... and one step further... dad's love to bless their children... the bible says "your father knows what you need before you ask him..." he also knows what we want before we ask him... and i believe it's his desire to give us those things.. scripture says that God gives good gifts to those who ask..  but rest assured... he will do it in his own way.. and in his own timing... 

this year all i wanted for Christmas was a mac computer... i mainly wanted it because i was going to be going to australia at the beginning of the year and i wanted to be able to ichat with my friends from the other side of the world.. so i asked God if he'd get me a mac.. in fact.. i made a list of everything i would need to go to australia and began to pray that God would provide.. and the list was really long and a lot of the things on it were unnecessary (like sperrys and stella perfume.. thanks erin)... anyway.. the point is... i asked God for both things that i needed.. and things that i simply wanted... and today.. 4 months later.. i crossed the last thing off of the list.. this mac...  and the cool thing is i didn't have to pursue obtaining any of it.. it was all given to me as a gift.. or as a part of my new job.. like this mac.. so.. while i am not currently in australia, nor do i have a clue what the future holds... its just amazing to me how God blesses my heart by taking care of the little details of my life... it just proves that he's SO faithful.. and he really is a God who considers everything we do... 

Psalm 33:13-15 (New International Version)

 ¹³ From heaven the LORD looks down 
       and sees all mankind;

 ¹⁴ from his dwelling place he watches 
       all who live on earth-

 ¹⁵ he who forms the hearts of all, 
       who considers everything they do.

AND.. just for the record... the word 'consider' means to think about something deliberately or carefully; to reflect... the Lord thinks deliberately and carefully about everything we do... he's not too busy.. he doesn't have better things to do... He's God.. so there's no sense in wasting time trying to wrap our minds around whether or not it's possible for God to care about the small details of our lives.. we can just take it as truth and stand on it :)

MEANWHILE, on a less serious note.. today i made a video blog because i wanted to play with my new computer.. SO.. this is a semi-boring glimpse into what my day looks like as the Office Coordinator at New Life Church GLR... except for today was sort of a slow day.. i recorded this in the late afternoon when there wasn't much to do.. so it's not actually a very accurate depiction of what my day is like... nevertheless.. here ya go!