Catch up. . .

I haven't really actually written in quite some time, Life, ya know, it happens :)

So now I am going to attempt to do catch up on all that has been going on. It may be a little scattered..so bear with me.

Work-

I am still working at the call center, but, happy news...tomorrow is my last day! I will be so glad to not have a Mon-Fri, 8-5 job anymore, and just in time for the Christmas season! But it will be somewhat bittersweet, I will miss the relationships that I have built with my co-workers, and my heart is so burdened for each of them. They need Jesus so much, as we all do, right? I honestly cannot explain the the love that I have for them outside of the fact that Jesus has placed it there. I know, I know, how cliche right? "Jesus has given me a love for them". And while I am sure that many of the people that use that phrase really do mean it...it has become so common that it hardly means anything to us anymore. But for the first time in my life I have known what it is like to love people that I barely even know.

People go on mission trips and come back having fallen in love with the "people" that they served there. Well, I have been on my own sort of mission trip over the past three months. And yes, I have fallen in love with my "people group". I have ached for them, cried for them, and prayed for them. Prayed that God would be able to use me, that they would come to know Him and His Saving Grace. I have had multiple conversations with some of the people that I am closest with at work, discussions like, why I believe there is a God. How I make big decisions in my life. Why I don't drink, cuss, smoke, listen to the same music or watch the same movies as them. It has been good for me to have to actually formulate into words what I believe, and then think "why do I believe that?" when they ask questions.

Maybe some of you are thinking that this is a little extreme. I mean after all, this is just work and lots of people, Christians even, do this every day. But what a waste. To just, "go to work" day in day out, with no bigger purpose. I am so grateful for the tool that the Lord has given me to witness to new people. It would have been a total waste of three months to just have gone to work each day, just for the paycheck.

So, pray for me, and for my co-workers, as I spend the last day there at work with them. I am also very excited because one of my co-workers, his name is Andrew, is coming to church with my family on Sunday. He has been the one that had been the most receptive, and I really think that the Lord has been working in his heart. So please, please, pray!


Other odds and ends-

I am looking forward to all of my mom's side of the family being here for Thanksgiving next month. My Aunt, Uncle, and cousins from San Fransisco will be here for the whole week, I can't wait to see them!! I will be taking family pictures for them while they are here and then I will also be taking family pictures of the whole family. There will be 16 of us total, it should be interesting to see how they turn out. I will make sure and post them sometime next week, for you all to see.

It is finally getting a little chilly here, the high tomorrow is supposed to be 57 degrees. I love the Holiday season and I cannot wait to start putting up all the christmas stuff around here.

God has been working in my life in so many different areas lately, opening new doors, and giving direction. But the last few months have also had their share of dark places. I am still proccessing so much of what has been happening, but hopefully sometime soon I will be able to share some of it with you all. Right now I think it is time for me to close, this has been quite long enough.


God bless each and every one of you my readers...
Rejoice in Him, who is Lord of All.

~Jessica Shae