Wed. @ 11:15

Every week at this time my phone goes off to remind me to pray for Turkey. A lot of times it makes me remember sweet friends and times. Sometimes I’m in the middle of something silence my phone and go on. Today, I’m remembering a year ago I lived there, I saw people that I love more than I can say on a regular basis. I prayed for those people like I have never prayed before.
Why was there such an urgency in my prayers everyday there, and here I struggle to get that same urgency. Do I really need to be faced everyday with the call to prayer and seeing all those people to know and really pray like I should. No. I still love my sweet Turkish friends more than I can even imagine explaining. I still want with all of my heart to share with them the reason that I live everyday. I want with all of my heart for them to celebrate Jesus coming to earth with me.
Father bring me to my knees for them. Grip my heart with your Truth, and a passion for Your name to be known.

What's in a name...

For the last few months I have been in the process of changing my last name from Price to Wilhite. I never realized how many things you actually have to change. I also didn’t realize the emotions that come with it. Some people might think I’m weird, or just really incredibly emotional, but it has been an interesting experience for me.
I am very excited to be Allyson Wilhite. I have chosen to stake my name and in a sense my identity (although above all my identity is in Christ) in my husband Shawn. He is a wonderful, amazing man, that loves, and honors the Lord incredibly. I am more thankful for the man God has given me than I can explain. I am very proud to be his wife and to become Mrs. Shawn Wilhite. I am very excited and thankful to see what the Lord will bring with our new family.
I have loved every second of being a Price, my family is a group of incredible people that love the Lord more than anything, and love me more than I can even imagine. They have always been a rock of support, encouragement, and challenge to love and serve the Lord and love His Word more than anything. I know that I will always be a part of the family, and they will always love me as family. It’s just an interesting feeling when someone says, “You are not a Price anymore” not a bad feeling it’s just something that is hard to explain.
I love my husband more than I know how to say, and I am happy, and excited to say I am Mrs. Shawn Wilhite. I am also incredibly thankful to have been Allyson Price for 25 years. I love you all. Thank you for all that you all mean to me, and have been to me. I just wanted you to know I am thankful for my Price family, and I am very thankful for my new Wilhite family. I love family.

Do Not Be Afraid...

I was reading the story of when the angel told Mary she was going to have a baby. That is what he said. Have you ever stopped to think about what might have been going through Mary’s head? Why is that what he said?
Will Joseph still love and trust me? Will my family disown me? Will everyone in my community look on me with disgust? What will happen?
That is not what she did, she said, “Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word.”
Would I say that? Whatever it means Lord, let it be done according to Your word. I pray I do everyday.