Come up here...

It's been quite a while since, I last wrote on here. A little update. I am a few months well into my schooling. I am enjoying it a lot. Have learned a lot about graphic design and how to use Adobe photoshop and Illustrator to my advantage. It's funny to me when people ask me what I am studying and then want to spend majority of the conversation talking about web design and development. To which I am glad to do. However, for me what I am going to school for is just a means to an end. I enjoy design and creating new things. But, deep down I have come to realize that my desire is to see people come to know the Truth. To be apart of someones heart turning from darkness to light is the most fulfilling thing I have ever had the honor to be apart of. I have come to realize that my desire is to not only have God meet me where I am, but to bring me up to where He is. Like Moses in Exodus 24 when God told him to come up to Him on Mount Sinai and God revealed His heart to His people or John in Revelation 4 when God told him to come up to him and He would show Him what will happen after this. I believe it is when God meets us that He tends to our deepest needs, but it is when we go up to Him that He reveals His heart.

This week, I want to make a point to go up and meet Him, to hear His heart.

I hope you will do the same and find that your relationship with Him has only gotten closer.  And hopefully like this ridiculous picture, you will be able to take the escalator. ;-)

Blessings,
Nikki

1/365 Project

A few friends and I are participating in the 365 Project, which is where I will attempting to post a photo a day. Now, my friends are all very photography savy with there cool Canon and Nikon high tech camera. I however will proudly be sporting a Blackberry Tour. Maybe, sometime during the year I will advance to an IPhone or Android, but for now it will be my faithful Blackberry.

The reason is because I never take pictures and wish I had when all is said and done. This will allow me to look back on this year with fond memories and committing to something for a year is always a good discpline. I might not always get to post my pictures on my blog, but you can always check them out on my facebook.

1/365

It was my friend Carol Huston's birthday yesterday!

love.
Nikki

my God box

Last night I just so happen to be thinking about God. I was thinking about I have put God in this box called my perception. As a young one I am sure I thought God could do anything, but as I hit puberty and my sense of everything in the world is wonderful quickly faded I started putting God in this box. It started as a small box and then as I grew up year after year I would think "I am getting rid of my box!!" and I will from now on see God as a mystery (to which He is), but I wasn't getting rid of my box, I was just making a bigger box. my box contains silly little things that I use to take as absolute. One that I was thinking of specificly is that kissing for longer than 3 seconds is bad, or voting democrat is bad, or cursing is bad etc. etc. and because of my wonderful little co-dependant brain I believed every word of it was true.

We all grow up with these boxes and they are formed in the beginning by our parents and whatever they say is truth. But as we grow older, we break away from some of those truths and have our own. But of course, this doesn't happen until we are angry and bitter at our parents for being so closed-minded for a short period of time or maybe forever (everyone is different). I still put God in my box sometimes and every once in a while I get a burst of revelation that God is bigger than my perception.

He is a mystery.

2011 Blog update

If you have visited my site before you will notice that it has changed. You are used to seeing updates about my "acting career" to which I am at this moment in my life no longer pursuing. Only God knows what the future holds and I am fine with keeping it that way. Today, I am going to be attending school at Full Sail University Online getting a BA in Web Design & Developement. Please don't ask me why, but, if you must know then email me. I start Jan 31st. I will be updating this whenever I feel like it, which will hopefully happen at least once a month. If you would like to hear how I am doing with school or my perception on God, politics and entertainment feel free to tune in.

Rock on!

Nikki