Spirit! Spirit!

So much craziness and chaos in my life lately, but things are starting to go back to normal and I am more than thankful. At the first of the month, Dana and I moved into our own home together...we are both still living so this is a good sign. It's been tough realizing I can't go to my mom every time Dana and I are arguing. She just tells me to go home and duke it out with the kid. So I'm learning to have patience and to stop treating Dana as if she is my child. She's my sister and roommate and that's how she should be treated. So all of that said, we are growing into adults. Oh and I also welcomed in my 21st birthday and all the alcohol comments I could ever want to hear. Since when does every person who turns 21 expected to get shwasted? I'm not a drinker and don't plan to be. I have a bottle of wine in my fridge. I also went out with a group of friends, had a margarita, a shot, and I asked Dana to take me home while my friends celebrated my birthday without me. I got a buzz and I was done. I didn't find it that exciting to be honest.

So as I learn more about myself and my roles and position in Dana's life, I am learning I am a pretty awesome person! And that's not to be cocky or toot my own horn, but my mentor tells me that ALL the time and I'm finally believing it.

Last night, at Hosea 2 Sisters we took a spiritual gifts quiz and my top 3 were: encouragement, faith, and pastoring; which should come to no surprise to myself or anyone else who knows me very well. Kim asked me lat night how I am currently using pastoring, and all I could think about is I know that's what I want to do in my future but I don't think I am currently using it. And she said that I was wrong. The girls that I am investing my time in...I am pastoring them. So I'm sitting here giving Brooke, Taylor, Amanda, and a few other girls advise in the most Biblical, Christian way I can think of I am pastoring them and leading them to a better relationship with Christ. My heart began to smile!

I am blessed with an amazing mentor and now I am mentoring girls as well and not even really realizing it. I am so thankful all that has been placed before me. As I learn more and more about myself, and continue to grow as a woman of Christ, my relationships look a lot differently to me as well.