Catch up with the Wrights!

I have been such a blogging slacker! Here's a quick catch up with what's been going on with the Wrights!

- We are now the proud owners of a basketball goal! :) Just a side note, I beat Steve at a friendly game of PIG

- I am working basically full time & have started back with classes! Only 3 classes, practicum, & 2 internships left to go! There is a light shining at the end of the tunnel!

- Steve & I have found a church in Troy we are really enjoying visiting! It's Covenant Grace Baptist Church. It just started up this past January. The people have been so welcoming and the church seems to have a lot of great things going on. Here's a link to their website if you want to check it out! http://www.covenantgrace.info/

- We have a  new show that has caught our attention...The Voice! It's similar to American Idol, but I gotta say so far I'm liking it more! Idol fans, don't worry, we are still watching and cheering on Scotty & Lauren. I was a bit more of a Haley fan, but they have both been favorites of our's the whole season, so I suppose we'll be happy with whoever wins! :)

- This past Saturday, Steve, his step-dad, & his brother put together a "home" for Steve's lawn mower! Such hard working guys!

- Last but not least, we are still loving married life and God is continuing to grow us closer to Him & each other through it! 

What a week...

So I definitely have been slacking on the blog the past couple weeks. I figured that might happen once I started working everyday. Don't worry, you haven't missed much, our lives are still pretty much the same. We are still getting settled in to our lives here in Troy and loving married life! :)


This past weekend we got to go to Birmingham for our friends Jessica & Wes's wedding. Jessica is one of those friends that are 1 in a million. She really is like a sister to me and God has used our friendship to grow both of us closer to Him. It's not often you find a friend who will openly speak Truth into your life. I cannot wait to see how God uses Jess & Wes's marriage for His glory! 


It was so much fun and such a Christ centered wedding. It made me want to get married again, to Steve of course! He didn't like this idea as much as I did, needless to say. I don't think guys are as into the wedding scene as girls. haha I just love the picture and reminder weddings give us of Christ's love for the church. I've blogged about this before with my own wedding so I won't go on & on about it. But it really is just a beautiful thing. This wedding in particular was such a good reminder in the midst of a week that came with a lot of devastation and tragedy from the tornadoes that swept through the south. I hope we will all be in prayer for those affected and willing to help where God leads us to. For me, the tornadoes were huge reminder of how temporary this world and everything in it really is. In an instant, lives can be lost and possessions can be gone. It really blows me away to think about how finite this world really is. I almost can't help but have an "ok, what am I doing with my life" moment. 


There are some verses that always seem to a) give me comfort, b) give me perspective, and c) direct me to seek the Lord. I want to share it on here in hopes that it can provide the same for others...


But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you....Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. - 2 Corinthians 4:7-12;  16-18