Wonderful, Merciful, Savior

Wonderful, merciful Savior
Precious Redeemer and Friend
Who would have thought that a Lamb
Could rescue the souls of men
Oh you rescue the souls of men
Counselor, Comforter, Keeper
Spirit we long to embrace
You offer hope when our hearts have
Hopelessly lost the way
Oh, we hopelessly lost the way
You are the One that we praise
You are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace
Our hearts always hunger for
Oh, our hearts always hunger for
Almighty, infinite Father
Faithfully loving Your own
Here in our weakness You find us
Falling before Your throne
Oh, we're falling before Your throne

Pressing Forward

Ok, so I asked my mom tonight if she remember where my wedding ring is. I know that when my ex and I seperated she kept the ring for me. So we looked and looked for it and we cannot find it. It is not like I have any value to it except that it was mine. It is just one more thing to make me realize how over things really are. I am praying everyday that God will help me get through the pain. I do know that we were designed to be filled with God and sometimes we try to put everything into the space and it just does not work.

I am going to have a funeral service (to symbolize that I am leaving the past behind and not looking back) when I am finished with divorce care please pray for me while I continue on my journey of love and loss. I know if I keep my focus on God he will give me the desires of my heart and in his time I will have someone.

It is hard right now because I am praying and seeking God with all my heart right now and the devil does not like that so he is fighting me every step of the way.

Philippians 3:13-14
Brother, I do not consider myslef yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do; Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on towards the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

This, That and the other....

It has been a while since I have posted on my blog.
Since I have canceled my space account
I thought that now is a great time to get back at this. Well, I have had a rough week. Only through my own noseness. God has brought it to my attention that
I am not over my past and I need to get help in order to move on.
I made several steps already...
1. Canceled my my space account( that was getting me in trouble)
2. I started reading my book again, "Do You Think I'm Beautiful?" by Angela Thomas (very smart and wise counsel)
3. I joined Gathsemane Baptist Church (now I have a home)

Those are the first steps I am going to go to counseling. This is the year that
I get back with God and get straight. No more pain....

Let me share with you some things from Angela's book that has helped me:

"Maybe the painful scars of our past should doom us to a life of limping. Maybe the consequences of sin should label us outcasts and relegate us to the damaged bin. Maybe you deserve ashes. They are your cross to bear. Your thorn to endure. But God delights in giving out mercy. His mercy is not just for someone else. It's for you and for me. He wants to come into your darkest night and hold back the storm that threatens to take your life. He wants to be strength where you have none. He wants to make life turn out differently than it should have for a woman who's been marred by great pain."

Wow!!! Unbelievable!!! God delights in giving out mercy.... He trades beauty for ashes... I never understood what that meant but now I am beginning to see that He makes all things new. It gets really tiresome and heavy carrying baggages around. Leave that behind at the cross where the blood is shed to set us free. I say this to you to say the same to me.

Count it all joy

James 1:2-4 (New American Standard Bible)
2(A)Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter (B)various trials,
3knowing that (C)the testing of your (D)faith produces (E)endurance.
4And let (F)endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be (G)perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

I like this passage.... I think I will keep it in mind this week when I am undergoing surgery....

friends

Brittney and me... I really need to get new pics...

self- evaluation

EVALUATION: The act or result of judging the worth or value of something or someone: appraisal, appraisement, assessment, estimate, estimation, judgment, valuation.

Well, I decided that last night I would do a self elvauation on myself and then be brave enough to post it on my blog......

My name is Kristin Denise Burris. I life in Garland, Texas. I was born in Baylor University Medical Center 26 years agao. I have 2 brothers and a sister and 2 wonderful parents. I am shy. I am quite. I am self consiouss most of the time. I worry about small things and I sweat about the large thngs. I work. I play. I laugh and I cry. I am sensitive. I am an individual. I am a Christian. I always look for the good things in other people. I have felt pain. I can be a pain. I am a student, I am an employee. I have witnessed death. I have witness life. I have a cat.
I have a dog. I am a sister. I am a daughter. I am a granddaughter. I am nosey. Sometimes i find out things I don't want to know. I do not unerstand how someone cannot love or give love. I believe that there is still some good in the world. I want someone to love and to be loved by someone. I believe that God is faithful. I believe that Gos is real. I believe in the FATHER, the SON and the HOLY SPIRIT. I believe in life after death. I believe that God sees and knows the deisres of my heart.

God is Bigger than....

I just wanted to mention how big God really is. When we run from God we always run right into him. This weekend of course as everyone know was Easter. I was raised in a Baptist Church. I was one of the fortunate ones that have been blessed with wonderful Christian parents who love and cared for me. But you see God is not religion God is a relationship. Since, my brother died last March my life had sort of driffted into this stage of not wanting to do the right thing. I have the head knowledge and I would even say I have the heart knowledge of His presense. So here I was doing my own thing, talking my own way and going down a road that needed not to be traveled. Sunday Morning I went to church at LakePointe Church(just a little side plug there) and the message was surprised by Jesus..... I had made it through the whole service still continuing to say to myself I am fine I can do what I want and still go to church. At the end of the service Pastor Steve showed a lady who had been incarcerated and had attended Lake Pointe while in jail. She made a statement, "the moment I was arrested was the moment I started to live." The next thing there was various people holding up signs one said "I was lonely, but Jesus filled the void" and " I let me abuse me but GOD healed my wounds." I began to cry and at that moment all of the frustration, pain and suffering I had felt I gave to Jesus. There was one thing that I had been doing that I knew I had to stop but I told God I CANNOT do this on my own you will have to do it and sure enough through His power I did what He had called me to do.... Do you know what the responce I had was unexpected and it was an answer to prayer that I had needed to hear for nearly 5 years. Jesus set me free and gave me the peace and guidance that I needed. I want him to take my life and Him make it His. What is in the darkness will always be exposed in the light..... I know all of this sounds like a bunch of jumble but Jesus touched me in a way that I have not known in a long time. check out the link on my blog to Lake Point