60 degrees and warm rain to end the day :) Beautiful and fun :) Yes it's February and 60 degrees is crazy but I'm not complaining! One of my favorite kind of days are the warm spring rain and the slight  chill in the air :)

Hold My Heart

Tenth Avenue North - Hold My Heart

How long must I pray, must I pray to You?
How long must I wait, must I wait for You?
How long 'til I see Your face, see You shining through?
I'm on my knees, begging You to notice me.
I'm on my knees, Father will you turn to me?

One tear in the driving rain,
One voice in a sea of pain
Could the maker of the stars
Hear the sound of my breakin' heart?
One light, that's all I am
Right now I can barely stand
If You're everything You say You are
Won't You come close and hold my heart

I've been so afraid, afraid to close my eyes
So much can slip away before I say goodbye.
But if there's no other way, I'm done asking why.
Cuz I'm on my knees, begging You to turn to me
I'm on my knees, Father will you run to me?

One tear in the driving rain,
One voice in a sea of pain
Could the maker of the stars
Hear the sound of my breakin' heart?
One light, that's all I am
Right now I can barely stand
If You're everything You say You are
Won't You come close and hold my heart.

So many questions without answers, Your promises remain
I can't sleep but I'll take my chances to hear You call my name
To hear You call my name

One tear in the driving rain,
One voice in a sea of pain
Could the maker of the stars
Hear the sound of my breakin' heart?
One light, that's all I am
Right now I can barely stand
If You're everything You say You are
Won't You come close and hold my heart.

Hold my heart, could you hold my heart?
Hold my heart.

Have you ever felt out of place? Like you didn't belong? Or maybe you just can't do anything right? I understand how you feel :( I woke up today, and I was going to have a great day and not worry about drama and school social stuff, yet what happens? Yup, drama, well i guess that's the life of a high school junior, oh wells :p If anyone reading this thinks about i would love some prayer right now :) Getting through the rest of this week is going to be interesting, painful, and hard just to name a few.

Then I remembered I have Jesus on my side :) He is my strength and portion forever. I know that this does not get rid of the pain and if you're feeling like me does not change the fact that the drama is still there, however, it does give us hope and joy :) God loves us and is our stronghold in times of distress and danger :) Our rock and our shield and someone whom we can rely on no matter what :)

Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?

Remember this as a kid? I sure do :) Everyday playing it on the computer, trying to figure out where she was and what crime she had committed lol :p I miss my childhood.

Imago Dei

In my theology class we are going through a book entitled: Bible Doctrine, by Wayne Grudem. As we delve into the creation of man, my teacher had us consider these questions based on the creation of man:
~How does is make you feel to think that you, as a human being, are more like God than any other creature in the universe? How does that knowledge make you want to act? Do you think that God has made us so that we become happier or less happy when we grow to become more like Him?

 I was thinking and pondering the fact that God created us to bring him glory as I was reading the Bible Doctrine book. Our purpose in life: to glorify God and enjoy him forever. Christ lived a perfect life, and we are made in His likeness and image, how should that direct our actions. If we are made to glorify Him and represent Him then shouldn't we strive to live a perfect life? - one that we are incapable of. God calls us to be perfect just as our heavenly father is perfect.

Mail...mail...and more mail

For the past week i have gotten soo many college letters :p all saying the same thing: We want to show you the right college for you, let us send you fill in the blank. Haha guess that's what i get for signing up for scholarships and my PSAT scores and the like :) The life of college letters and finding scholarships had begun :)

Urgent doesn't equal Important

Today our senior pastor, Don Sharpe was preaching from Proverbs 26 on Wisdom at Work. Something he said really hit me that i think we as teens or even as adults don't think about a lot. He said that most of the time the urgent things in life, the things that beep, buzz, alarm, and push at us to answer them and answer them now are not the important things in life. The important things in life sit back and wait they don't push at us and pull and get us to answer them now. Pastor Don used cell phones and computers as an example of the incessant beeping and buzzing to answer now, when things like homework, or the job you keep pushing off, and most important God's word don't beep and buzz at all telling us do them now! Rather they wait as the big important things of life. It really hit me today and just helped me to understand a lot better how the important things in our life work. When we don't do them, there is consequence; sometimes not immediate, but the consequence is there. So remember that the urgent things in life are not the things that are most important :)

(if you want to listen to the message it's online at gracecommunity.org under sermons and 1/27 - Wisdom at Work)

Chocolate :) my favorite bedtime snack....just a little something to help you go to sleep without all the stress within your day. Tomorrow is a brand new day, full of joy and laughter :) So rejoice in the Lord and be glad in it (Philippians 4:4)