I'm So Excited!

I got home today to find Blogger has announced you can now Create Pages in Blogger. This is so awesome! I was thinking the other day that I felt this was the feature that was on the top of my wishlist. This is a huge step forward for Blogger.

Now, to update my posts and make them pages...

Need to Talk?

Today's post is a repost that I found in the archives and thought you might like...

Have you ever needed to just talk to someone? Did you know God is always listening? Some people might say, "God already knows everything going on in my life so why should I tell him? Won't He get tired of hearing me?"

Take a moment and imagine this: your best friend just won a cool award or broke up with her boyfriend but before you hear it from her, the whole school knows. You end up hearing the entire story from a friend of a friend of a friend who knows this info.

When your friend comes to talk to you about the award or the breakup, are you going to say "Nope, not interested. Already heard about this from Jenny."

Chances are you want to hear the whole story from her. While there are a lot of people who know the story, your friend is going to add emotions and details. She's going to share with you not just what happened but how it affected her too.

It's the same way with God - He already knows what's going on in our lives ("For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether." - Psalms 139:4 KJV). But He wants to hear the details and emotions. He wants you to talk to Him the same way you would your friend.

So if you need to talk, pour out your heart to God!

New Look

I'm so excited to announce the new look of DebraWeiss.net. I'm still tweaking the design a little bit as I go along. Any feedback you have is appreciated. Just comment below and let me know what you think!

Quietly Praying

I haven't been around much lately. This is partly due to illness but also because I've been quietly praying. I've felt God nudging my heart in the past few weeks. He's been nudging me to focus on the audience I really want to minister to - teen girls.

I want my life - everything I do and say - to minister to those around me. Sometimes that's tough. It means going outside my comfort zone to reach out to others It's certainly not comfortable, but I'm not called to be comfortable. I'm called to reach out and love-really love-others.

In the coming days and weeks, I have some exciting new I'll be announcing. But for now, my blog format might be changing as I learn how to better serve my audience. Please be patient with me in the meantime. :)