Ta Da a New Blog!!!

So my birthday has come and gone. And boy has the weeks since my last blog got me thinking. My birthday was ok. I had a couple friends really come through to try to make it special. My roommate went out of her way to decorate our house with streamers and balloons. She bought me my favorite beer and gave me a balloon bouqet ( I am allergic to flowers), and we went out the weekend before and just found beauty in God's creations. But for some reason every year I put some expectations on my birthday, and I find out who my true friends really are.

This year was different though. I found it hard to enjoy the time as there are so many other things going on in my life. I am asking for prayers as I have been feeling pretty sick. The doctor's have ran a lot of tests and are fairly certain I have Crohn's Disease. But the most important test that will determine this for sure and rule out cancer is on August 22.

I am very anxious to find out for sure what it is so the Doctors (I have 3 of them now) can finally tell me how to treat it, and I can get out of the constant pain I am in. With all this I find myself really low energy. I have been laying low and for the most part trying to get some rest. This is not incredibly possible as my job is very active, but I have been doing my best. However If I haven't talked to any of you for a while, or you haven't seen me around, please understand I am most likely just under the weather.

In all this, of course, I have spent much time in prayer.... and confusion.... and laughter at God's sense of humor. Sometimes I feel like I am Job the sequal. But I find hope in the latter part of the book.... I have pasted the last chapter below (it is a free online bible, cause I am too lazy to type it all out.Not sure which Version, I believe it is the NIV) I find the most hope in the final words of the chapter where Job was blessed in the latter part of his years and grew old and saw family grow old.... I just wonder what constitutes the "latter part" I am pretty sure 28 is feeling real old.

So here it is. Have a great Day!!!

Job Chapter 42
Job 1 Then Job replied to the LORD :
2 "I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, 'Who is this that obscures my counsel without knowledge?'Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
4 "You said, 'Listen now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you shall answer me.'
5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."
Epilogue

7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has."

9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before.

11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver [a] and a gold ring.
12 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys.

13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch.

15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers.
16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation