I was in the car with my mom on Sunday and she was telling my aunt I was leaving in two weeks. Wow two weeks! I knew I would be departing on July 2nd, but hearing "two weeks" seems so different.

During my prayer this morning God laid on my heart James chapter 3 and Philippians 4:8-9. It is amazing how powerful our words and thoughts can be. Paul tells us in Philippians "whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put into practice. And the God of peace will be with you." Then in James we are told to tame our tongues. The tongue can bring the greatest joys and the greatest pains. Today before I left my house I chose to make today a day of positive thoughts and words! What a great day I had! I shouldn't be surprised...God seems to know what he is talking about! You should try it! Focus on what is good, noble, true, unselfish, admirable and focus your words on the things which will bring joy to people and you will see! As you can imagine I have had a lot to do over the past of couple of weeks and these next two weeks will be even crazier. I noticed today I had so much more energy at the end of the day and I truly believe it is from living a James chapter 3 and Philippians chapter 4 day!