Happy day after Thanksgiving! 

I hope you had such a wonderful time celebrating.

I had a great Thanksgiving.. The pastor of a local church invited a group of us over to enjoy dinner with his family :).

We ate a huge meal, played a game, had dessert and to finish it off we all worshiped together! It was by far one of the best Thanksgivings yet! 
a few things I am so thankful for.. 
-My mom. She is AMAZING. I love her soo much, she takes care of me so well and is always there for me.
-my sister Jessica and her hubby Shaun.. they are so wise and I learn from them everyday. I'm amazed by their lives and walk with God.
- My incredible boyfriend. he's so sweet to me and shows me Gods pure love. I'm super happy to be with him. :) 
-My dog Lucy. Dogs are the best ever.
-Friends! I love friends! They are so fun
-annddd a lot of other things. but these are on my brain right now. 

Thank you, Lord. 

So I wanted to share some pictures and let you know that if you would like to contact me you can email me at M_Wilson797@yahoo.com.

 I'd give you my phone number on here too but I'm not sure how safe that is haha.

 Anyway I'd love to chat with anyone that wants to! I dont have Facebook so it would be awesome to hear what you all think of the blog, and if you have any questions about what I'm doing email or phone works :)

Have an amazing weekend!

Thanksgiving dinner :)

Jessica and I at Starbucks taking a picture for our dad :)

Worship time-- to thank God for everything he has done

Just a little something about me-- I love sweet things and coffee. So put them together and you have the best drink in the world!  :). 

Happy Wednesday everybody! 

I hope you are having a great day so far and that the beginning of your week is wonderful! 

So last week in CSBS (Chronological School of Biblical Studies) we studied two books.. Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes. They were incredible! A few things that I learned from Song of Solomon were-

- That God really loves romantic relationships. He is so for them and so created them!

- Purity is beautiful. 

- From the relationship of the man and woman in the book, I saw how strongly God desires intimacy. He desires it among his people with one another, especially in a marriage relationship. While I was reading it I saw the progression of how the couples love grew for each other. They desired each other so strongly... even just to be in one another's presence was satisfying
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 Also, from this I understood Gods heart better. Something that is so important to Him is intimacy with his people, in chapter 8 verse 6 & 7 it reads: "Set me as a seal upon your heart as a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a raging flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If one offered for love all the wealth of one’s house, it would be utterly scorned."
WOW!! How cool is that?
 If you dont understand it, let me give you a tad insight of what I learned when I read it.. its an exclamation of love! Imagine you are sitting with your special someone and they were to tell you that nothing could quench their love for you..  its beautiful. But really I just thought of how God was saying that to all of His children.. that His love is as fierce as the grave and that nothing could stop it.. which reminds me of another verse in Romans 8.38-39 "For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God."

And from Ecclesiastes I learned A LOT too... here are a few of the things :)-

-Solomon could have written it when he was a grumpy old man after seeing the mistakes he had made in life and realizing that the things he poured himself into were pointless. 

-Its a pretty pessimistic book but there are such amazing things that you can see while reading it. Solomon knew that life with God was greater than all riches, relationships, and enjoyments of life. While I was reading, I kept thinking of how it says in

Hebrews 12.27- "This means that the things on earth will be shaken, so that only eternal things will be left."

Solomon knew that relationship with God was ultimately the most fulfilling and lasting thing ever, despite the fact that he turned away from God.  

TRUE THAT SOLOMON! way to get it. 

Ecclesiastes 12.13 "The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for that is the whole duty of everyone."

      This week we are studying the book of Job.. it is such a great book. I'm not finished with my homework from it yet but when I am done I will tell you all about it!

Final thoughts:

God loves us! 

He wants intimate relationship with us! 

No earthly thing will satisfy our eternal needs!

Happy Thanksgiving Week! 

Love love love, Meredith

sleepy Lucy

Awkward family photo number 1.

Awkward family photo number 2.

Awkward family photo number 3. (The winner.)

New tattoo. Africa has stolen my heart. 

Jesse Evans teaching on Ecclesiastes. 

my first blog!!

Hello everybody! Welcome to my new blog!!

     I've been thinking for a while about how I can share what I'm doing in life with everyone that I love.. I dont have Facebook so that makes connecting with people a bit challenging but seeing how popular blogging is... I've decided this is the way to go!

                My vision for this blog is to allow people 
   to join me in all my adventures with God.

 As some of you may know, I have been a part of YWAM- a non profit, non denomination Christian organization called Youth with a  Mission for the past 4 years. 

   Youth With A Mission is an international volunteer movement of Christians from many backgrounds, cultures and Christian traditions, dedicated to serving Jesus throughout the world. Also known as YWAM (pronounced "WHY-wham"), our purpose is simply to know God and to make Him known.

When YWAM began in 1960, our main focus was giving young people opportunities to demonstrate the love of Jesus to the whole world, according to His command in Mark 16:15. Today, we still focus on youth, but we have members (known as “YWAMers”) of almost every age and many of our short-term efforts have grown into long-term endeavors that have impacted lives and nations.

YWAM has a decentralized structure that encourages new vision and the exploration of new ways to change lives through training, convey the message of the gospel and care for those in need. We are currently operating in more than 1000 locations in over 180 countries, with a staff of over 18,000.

               Over the past four years I have been 

     able to do so many incredible things and go to soo

              many amazing countries with YWAM.

Here is a small recap of my life with YWAM over the past four years:

    - In the fall of 2008 I attended a 6 month Discipleship Training School with YWAM LA

    - During the spring of 2009; following my DTS, I did a 3 School of Ministry Development in LA.

   - In the fall of 2009 I was a part of staff for a Transformation DTS and co lead a team of 21 young people to Thailand for 2 1/2 months.

  -  During the summer of 2010 I staffed a summer program with YWAM called Mission Adventures.. where we spent time pouring into middle school aged youth and taking them on local outreach in the city of Los Angeles.

 - In the fall of 2010 I was again a part of staff for a DTS and lead a team to South Africa for 2 1/2 months

 - in May of 2011 I left YWAM for a time, I was working as a waitress and then in a local pet shop near the YWAM campus. I spent the year seeking God and asking what He would have me do in the years to come. Which lead me to where I am TODAY!...

 - In September of this year I started a 9 month long Bible school with YWAM LA called Chronological school of Biblical Studies 

  CSBS is a school where-- 

     students survey each book in the Bible (all 66 books)  and discover the big picture, while also digging into the details, paragraph by paragraph. We place an emphasis on understanding the cultural and historic background of each author and original reader of each book. In C-SBS we also consider where each book fits into the big picture of the Gospel story. Then, the student can interpret Scripture with the mindset of the original reader. Finally, that student can take those truths that transcend time and culture, and apply them to their own lives.

     So that is a bit of where I've been and what I'm doing now...

     The CSBS started in September and will graduate on June 22 of 2013, 

so I have some time to plan my next steps of action in life. 

I know that I am called to missions for the long haul and 

that I want to use the Bible to reach people all over the world. 

Studying God's Word has been an awesome experience so far.
I will be sure to share what I am learning with you in the coming months! 


Thank you for following this blog! 
Your love is a gift to my life 
& I am super excited to be connected with you again! 
I hope you are having a wonderful November! 
God bless you! 

These are pictures from recent happenings in my life...
                  1. Lucy sleeping.. Cutest dog ever

                                         

                                  2. Studying Song of Songs at Starbucks

                        3. Jessica and me spending a cold, fall day together

                            4-5. My birthday dinner with great friends

6. Jessica, Shaun, me, David (my boyfriend!) and David's parents :)