The Apostle Paul and Luke Bryan

"Hey I'm a little drunk on You and high on summertime." -Luke Bryan "Drunk on You"

"Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything." -Ephesians 5:18-20

This blog may be taken as a bit blasphemous, but I promise that I mean no disrespect. Even though I am almost positive that neither Paul nor Luke Bryan had the other in mind when they wrote these two things above, I found a neat connection.

In the song above Luke Bryan is referring to a girl and he talks about drinking and talks about taking clothes off, but the point of the song is that the girl is the "best buzz [he's] ever gonna find." That her love is more addicting than any alcohol. I kinda thought about that and, through a long stretch, made it relate to my relationship with God. (I have a tendency to try to do this with almost every song I ever hear.) Again, it is a long stretch for some people, but I honestly find myself feeling "drunk" with the Holy Spirit sometimes. Above, you can see where the apostle Paul urges the church at Ephesus (and ultimately us) to be filled with the Spirit and to be thankful for everything.  I believe that this song encompasses a small part of that. God's love is the best buzz I can ever find. I desire to be filled with Him and to go 'bottoms up' with His word until I know if from cover to cover. I want to be drunk on Him so much that His glory spills out of my mouth like a stream of incomprehensible babble may flow from the mouth of an alcoholic.

As I sit here staring out at the beach at in Edisto Beach, SC I am drunk on Him and high on summertime. I challenge you to be filled with Him, take Him in and be drunk on His love. 

10 OT Lessons

I have spent the last 8 weeks working in an adult outpatient rehab setting to get the majority of my hours for graduate school for occupational therapy. I have LOVED every minute of it. Here some of the life lessons and just some funny things I have learned in the last 8 weeks.

1. A good attitude can work wonders for the healing process.
2. Most people will work really hard to get back to doing the things they love most (playing golf, crocheting, making paper dolls) :)
3. I get really angry when I see a kid who has an unfortunate condition, and it is their parents fault that they are that way.
4. Both in therapy and life, discomfort is okay, but don't push it until its painful.
5. You can find a common interest with anyone.
6. The government and insurance agencies are really good at keeping people from the best possible treatments. (Drs. and therapists know what they are doing, insurance agencies don't.)
7. Some of the worst possible injuries have a story behind them that starts with "Well, I was just walking..." Walking is very dangerous! haha
8. Patients give good gifts (i.e. cards, homemade tissue boxes, muffins, recipes) :)
9.  A sense of humor can lighten even the worst of situations.
10. Graduation day (the day he or she is discharged) can be the best or worst day of that person's life depending on how they felt about their therapist.


*I cannot wait to be an OT! :)

Blessed Beyond Comparison

♪You're rich in love and you're slow to anger. Your name is great and your heart is kind. For all your goodness I will keep on singing, ten thousand reasons for my heart to find.♫ -Matt Redman "10,000 Reasons"

This song has been on repeat for a while in my iTunes. I wish it would have been out a year and a half ago. If it had been, my very first blog post would have been based off of it. It is a perfect example of why I began my blog and is an archetypal example of the title of my blog, Blessed Beyond Comparison. I began this blog almost as a form of worship. I wanted nothing more than to talk about my God and how great He is and how wonderfully he has blessed me. I have had posts here and there that had no religious affiliation and I have had a few that were just venting or ranting, but for the most part I feel like I have continued to boast about God in most of the posts.


My favorite lyrics in the whole song are posted above. We serve a loving and kind God and for that and thousands of other reasons, we can rejoice and praise Him. Even on my worst days, I come realize that those days are not so bad. I live in America, I have a wonderful family, I have my health, and literally ten thousand more reasons as to why my God is AWESOME! But if all that were to be taken from me, I would still have my God, and because of His goodness there will be no cease to my praises.


I challenge you to realize you have so many reasons to live and so many reasons to praise God for His goodness.


Blessed Beyond Comparison

Sit Down, Shut Up

"Be still and know that I am God." -Psalm 46:10

Layman's translation:  Sit down, shut up, quit worrying, I'm God, and I will handle this for you. More often than not, I need God to slap me in the face with that. A reminder that I am not in control and a reality check that I serve an awesomely powerful God who is capable of all things. I often overvalue my existence. My very first blog post said something about approaching the question "What would God do without me?" I came to the same conclusion then that I still come to now, a year and a half later. Without me, God would still be God. He would continue despite my absence and not a single bit of his power or control would be drained. It is here that the author of the psalm points out this very fact; that God is God, despite who we are. He is all powerful despite what we try to do about it. He is in control despite how much we try to pretend that we fill that role.

I challenge you to be sit down, shut up, and quit worrying. God is in control.