The Biggest Fattest Miracle Ever!!!

That's right folks! The biggest and the fattest!

So Thursday morning started out pretty normal. Woke up early, had two tests, and then as I'm leaving school, I get in my car, and my phone rings. By the ring I knew it was my mother. I answered and she greets me with, "You owe me 400 dollars for your car insurance, and I need it asap."

O.K.

When she hangs up, I start crying. I don't have $400, I don't have a job, and the money I do have has been going into my gas tank. So I do the only thing you can do in these situations. Cry out to God.

I won't bother you with the details of my prayer, but you can imagine it was desperate, and I was crying out for a miracle. I knew, and God knew, (and I reminded Him too) there was no way I was going to be able to pay this bill without a miracle.

The day goes on, I intensify my job hunt, even though I know it won't help, but I'm trying not to think about it, because the more I do, the more upset I get. All I know is it's in God's hands. There's absolutely NOTHING I can do.

It's 7pm, and I'm walking into GC, and my phone rings. It's my mother again.

I head outside and answer. I am now greeted with, "Jael, we sold your car. I need the title. Where is it?"

I can't talk, I can't breath. This is the car I've had since high school. The one that's been sitting in my front yard with a for sale sign since last July. No one's shown any interest in this car for almost a year.

"What?" I stammer.

"We sold the car. The guy wants it tonight."

By the end of the day, some 19 year old kid has come to my house, given my parents $1100 in cash, and taken my car away.

Not only did God give me the $400 I needed, but He gave me above and beyond! And how perfect is His timing? I've been wanting that car out of my yard and out of my life for such a long time, but God needed me to hold on just a little bit longer so that His great mercy could prevail in my life, and He proved Himself once again; God: My Provider (among His many other great attributes.)

Not only was this a miraculous event, but it was the MOST miraculous, the biggest, fattest miracle I have ever experienced in my own life! How would I survive if I wasn't saved? And the best part is I get to experience even more and even greater miracles until my last breath, because I have a God who's so big, and so amazing, and so powerful, (I mean He's the creator of the whole stinken universe for goodness sakes) and He loves me! Why?

Who even knows???

An Over-Due Story For You!

Hello Friends,

Yesterday I read through every single post that I've ever written on my blog, and realized, I really used to write stuff. The purity of this blog has slowly dimisnished as of December when I got a digital camera and everything became about pictures. I used to tell stories, mostly about "Bugs" and "Dennys." So I've decided, in an attempt to bring back the essence of "And I Am Gone" I must write a story, and after reading my posts, my favorites were the ones that had something to do with what God was doing in my life. So, here goes...


(Before I do, can I just say that yesterday I was in the computer lab at school, and everytime I turned around, there was this short, dark skinned woman with beedy little eyes staring me down. Even when I left, her eyes followed me, like she was angry at me, or couldn't believe something about me and was disgusted. Well, it's the next day, and I've been sitting here, in the same chair for an hour working on homework, and I get that feeling. You know the one. SOMEONE is watching you. You just know it. I turn my head ever so slightly to the left, and there, in the same chair, is the SAME WOMAN!!! And she's staring, with that same look. I whip my head back around. Too creepy.)

O.K, now here we go...

There's a verse in the Bible that says, "A man without a vision perishes." That has been the verse of my life since interns was over. As an intern, I knew exactly what I wanted to do... EVERYTHING! Seriously, and I thought I could too. Who knows, maybe I still can, but I was told over and over, "pick one thing, pursue it." And I know it's wise, but you have to understand, those words to me are like telling your 5 year old he could never be a fireman, or even Superman if he so chooses. I'm a dreamer, I dream of great things, and I really wanted to do everything, go everywhere, and do something SO big, I'd go down in history like Billy Grahm and Oral Roberts. I could make you a list, but it'd be too long.

Since interns has ended, and school has started, it's all become too much a reality. I really can't just hop on a plane and go be the great evangilist/actress/writter/youth pastor/ect... It's not that it's not possible, maybe, it's that it's innefective. How can I build something if I keep starting a new project???

So, I began to seek wisdom. (Mostly from P. Tami) "What am I going to do?" "I told you a million times Jael, you're a teacher!" (Can you imagine what this did to me?) A teacher!!!??? Not that I have anything against them, but when did a teacher go deep into the amazon and get all those people in cloth saved? When did a teacher star in a great movie? Ect. (this of course was my mindset, not necessarily reality) I could feel a confirmation in my spirit, but it just felt so... stuck. The only things I liked being stuck with are the City Chruch, my best friends, and my family. I have this desperate need for new things. From new jobs, to knew classes, to meeting knew people to this and that and I'm everywhere. But not stuck in a classroom, teaching kids their ABC's EVERY STINKING DAY!!!! How could anyone call me a teacher???

So I've been fighting this notion for almost a year now, going to school aimlessly, knowing that it'll have to lead to something, somewhere, someday.

And then RT 56 happened. Every few Sundays, I am sitting with a bunch of 5th and 6th graders, teaching them the Bible. Hanging out with them during the week, listening to their problems, counciling and pastoring them. Loving them and praying for them. And it hit me, there's nothing I love doing more than just that. Everything I'd been running from is exactly what I'd been doing all along. With the 3-4th grades all year, and then I finally got moved into my niche. I love 5th and 6th grade. Looking back, 6th grade was the most influential time in my life, and my teacher was a huge part of the direction I chose to walk in Jr. High. She was a part of building my character because she saw me as more than just a 6th grader. She saw me as someone who could make a difference. She believed in me. She loved me. She was there for me when my dad died, and to this day she is still the best teacher I've ever had. I could be that woman.

Teaching is not a small thing if you don't treat it that way. And it has so many open doors. I could be a missionary teacher, I could teach at a Christian school, I could homeschool my kids, I could teach in the church. I can do anything with it.

And then the best part. Words of wisdom from Jackie Owens. "Pursue one thing, the gift that God has placed inside of you. Honor it, be faithful with it, and he'll give you the desires of your heart. Maybe one day you'll get to be an extra in a movie. Maybe on the side you'll write. A man plans his ways, the Lord directs his steps."

It's so true. God knows I have big dreams, and I know he has BIG plan for my life. I've felt it since I was a child. But he's given me certain gifts for a reason, and I have to be a good steward of those gifts. And trust him! He knows what's best for me. He knows the plans he has for me. Plans to prosper me, give me a future and a hope. And they're good plans, filled with joy, and life, and a job, a ministry, a husband, children. All those amazing things that we can't just always choose for ourselves, because we would most likely settle. I have to trust that I'm in the right place, that through the Holy Spirits leading, I'm making the right decisions, and Boaz' Field isn't too far away. Who knows, maybe I'm in it now, laboring, and one day God's plan for my life will notice me, and my whole life will change in the most amazing, unbelievable, out of this world, bigger than me possible way. Because every thing God does is just that; amazing, unbelievable, out of this world, bigger than me!

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Mean Old Folks

This post is dedicated to one of my best friends, Joy Veale! For those of you who don't know, she is one of the most amazing people that ever walked the planet!!!!!! On spring break we spent almost every day together going on adventures, drives twirling in the grass, watching movies and anything anyone could ever want! I promised her forever ago that I would post these pictures, and I haven't yet, so here you go!

My Week With Joy!!!!!!



Our favorite lunch spot, Rubio's!

Making faces in the grass!

Joy being cute, and me pretending to be a photographer.

Joy twirling. (I twirled too, but she just looks way cuter doing it than me!)

Once again, me pretending to be a photographer and making Joy pose infront of a wall.

After Memoirs of a Geisha.


There's so much more I could write about her, but my mom's kicking me off.

Anyway, I love you Joy, thank you for the great, refreshing week!

When Life is Funny

I bought Chronicles of Narnia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I've watched it twice already.)

So, funny story about my brother, Jordan.



There was a fight in Ramona the other day, (when is there not a fight in Ramona?) and my brother drives up in his little mint green truck



to check it out, curious boy that he is, and see's a cop. So he begins to make a U-Turn. As he's driving away, two random kids who had been in the fight crowd ran and jumped the cab of my brother's truck. He looks at them shocked, unable to move.

"Go!" They urge him. As he panics, unable to comprehend the situation and what to do, he starts driving away.

Then, he hears the siren.

In a matter of minutes, he's been pulled over, and given a ticket for reckless driving and carrying passangers who arn't wearing seatbelts.

A minute later another cop shows up. (Back up)

My brother is in very big trouble for a crime that he did not initiate, but that was thrust upon him by the cruel forces of nature! (Actually, I'm just being dramatic there, but if anyone has any ideas of how to fight this, and get him out of this ticket, please share. If not, feel free to laugh. We did!)


P.S: Joy, I promise one day I will get those pictures up!