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Romans 8:18

"They [Christians] came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years." -Revelation 20:4b Here, and many other places in the Bible, God talks about 1000 years. This number is important to Him. So, we're going to use it as an example. The average American lives 78.6 years. If you take 78.6 years out of 1000 years and mathematically compute that ratio into a 24 hour day, the average American will be alive for 1 hour and 52 minutes of that day. Now, let's say our WHOLE life was full of nothing but struggles and hardships. If you're an American, this obviously is not true. But let's just say you never have one moment of happiness in your entire life and you are ALWAYS facing hardship. If we can make it through less than two hours of pain and suffering, we get spend the rest of our 22 hour day in PARADISE . Puts things into perspective, right? But it gets better! Because we're not in Heaven for only 1000 years, we're there for eternity !!!! Two h...

The sky is bigger in Texas

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  (This post is a wee bit delayed. Sorry!) Maggie, Bonnie and I went to Houston last weekend to watch the Final Four! It was pretty last minute. We decided less than 48 hours before we were planning on leaving. And it was great! Even though UK lost, we made it to the Final Four for the first time in 13 years! And I was there to watch it! And even though we didn't make it to the championship, it was still cool to be there. How many people can say they've been to the NCAA National Championship? We also got to go to the beach, hang out in downtown Houston, go to a free Kenny Chesney concert, and eat goooood food. It was a fun little vacation. But the drive was long . But beautiful. I've decided want to live in Louisiana, it's gorgeous. At the beginning of the trip, we all expressed that we had this feeling that God was calling us to go on this trip. Let me tell you, I did not want to go. I have no money and could not afford to skip class. But, like, I felt this nudg...