10.16.2011 | By: Morgan

My "Strengths"

Hmmm.

So I got this out from the library i.e. can't take the test because I don't have the code.

But of the 34 I'm supposed to have 5 top strengths and I'm leaning towards:

Achiever
Belief
Command
Communication
Competition
Realtor
GAH! That's 6!

I'm curious about
Arranger, Connectedness, Context, Deliberative, Futuristic, Restorative, Self-Assurance, Significance, Strategic, and Woo.

I don't have to rush through this. I want to pray about it and have God reveal it to me. So I guess I'll stop here for now. :)

Live with Nathan (visit with Todd and Jess)

Yesterday we had dinner with Todd and Jess it it was so wonderful! It did us so much good. Usually I have to drag Nathan to social events and then he's very "meh" about it when we leave, but we were both so happy we went.

On the way up, Nate told me that he felt that I've changed him to become more family oriented. More of a focus on being a dad, doing what's best for us, not going out and running around like craZy and thinking about how I would feel about things before doing them. Seriously, I haven't harped on this stuff to much, but I have prayed about it. And I think that's exactly where this is coming from. O God, You are so good to us!

1st of all, I love that family. The kids are so amazing and watching the way Todd and Jess interact with them makes me want a family SO bad. There's just so much love in that house. You can see it in the kids. I know that they have to work for it: discipling, sacrifice, investing, consistancy but it's nice to see that their obeidence to God in rasing their family is paying off like it is. And same with their marriage. It's like looking at Nate and I 14 years into the future and allows me to totally dismiss that whole "O you'll get used to him. Just wait, in a few years you guys'll be sick of each other" mess that I hear from even other Christians. Grr.

Anyway, in short here were Todd and Jess' questions and our answers:
1. What is the biggest lesson that you learned this year?
Nate: How to be a leader and how to be a leader that follows God. - Learning to step out and have authority even if it might upset Morgan. Not something he would naturally do, so the entire time he's relying on God for both how to lead and which direction.
Morgan: 1. That Nate needs his reading time like I need my social time. 2. that Nathan's spirituality can look different from mine: he has so much fruit!!

2. How has your partner most influenced you?
Nate: Again, the family thing. Planning for kids in the future, and having a desire for them and being a good dad.
Morgan: a ton of practical ways but he also calms me down and helps me to see the truth and genuineness behind my faith. It's not a list of rules, of do's and don't's, but a real, breathing communication with God.

3. What expectaions were met, which ones werent?
Nate: (we're still waiting.)
Morgan: Everyone kinda gave off the feeling like I might get sick of Nate because I only saw him on the weekends while we were dating, but that's so not the case! I'm still on him like white on rice. Other than that, yeah, I think everything is how I imagined it or way way better. I feel unbelieveably blessed.


I can't begin to express to God how happy I am that He brought Todd and Jess to us. Such a blessing. I love how they're just a go with flow couple. That house had so much movement and life to it and she wasn't freaking out or trying to control or "entertain" and Todd was engaging and hilarious and it was ok that Nate sat on the floor and the kids kept falling and crying and that dinner wasn't made on time. I mean, it was just FREEING. There is so much I hope to take away from our relationship with them. Talking about God was the best part of last night. Nate and I both walked away feeling like, while they're still great mentors, they're becoming friends. So heart-warming! It seriously did my heart so much good!

Gosh it made me want kids so bad. But Jess reminded me to enjoy each season that I'm in. I really love my life now with Nate and I do think we should wait until we both can't handle waiting for kiddos any longer haha <3

Aside from that I asked Nathan today how glad it was that "it was me" and he said: gladder than a bazillion rainbows. <3

That's my man.

Morgan