Portland --> Seattle --> Missoula

I felt like I should blog whilst I'm in an airport. Sounds so adventurous. I am currently in the Seattle airport - Gate B3 to be exact, awaiting my next flight to Missoula, MT. Yep, that's right folks, I'm travelling.

Blessing of the day so far:

*My wonderful fiance getting up super early so he could pick me up at 6:30 to take me to the airport

*I was actually ready on time!

*Checked my bag and made it through security with no problems

*Found my gate really easily

*There was a Starbucks right next to my gate, which was perfect. Got my morning iced americano (I still wanted to snooze on the plane though :p )

*Flight to Seattle was on time

*Talked with a nice girl while waiting for our flight to Seattle, then talked a little more as we walked to our connecting flights - both wanting to make sure we didn't accidentally go out the wrong way, causing us to have to go through security again

*Reading more of Future Grace (making me consciously not only be thankful for these blessings, but trust that God will provide the rest of the journey) :)

*Finding a bathroom right by my gate to leave for MT :)

That's all for now, I'll try and keep this slightly updated with my adventures, not sure what my internet access will look like, but I think I'll be able to get on at some point during my trip!

Future Grace

I have just begun to read Future Grace by John Piper. Really, just begun - like I've only read the 2 forwards and Chapter 1 (out of 31!) - but I'm already extremely excited about what I'm reading. It was interesting glancing back at my blurb about "remembering" in my blog about graduation (yes...I just linked to my own blog...it's ok, I promise. I've seen other bloggers do it). John Piper makes the point that a lot of Christian's today base their faith on past grace - the graces of God shown to them in the past - through practices like remembering, and thankfulness. Piper says that these things aren't bad to do - remembering the cross of Christ is the foundation of our faith! Rather, his claim is that a persevering faith, is a faith that is also based upon future grace - trusting that the God who has shown us grace in the past (in so many vastly different ways) will continue to do so in the future. This is why, he claims, so many people become Christians, are "on fire", and then it "fizzles" out - because they only base their faith on past grace, and don't have faith in future grace. (now...this is entirely my own paraphrase, and what I got out of what he said, so if I'm off base, it's not necessarily due to what Piper has written). I'm really interested to keep reading and hopefully grow my faith in future grace!

:)