Every time I listen to this song, I just get sad for all my friends who are not currently following Christ! So much of me wants just everyone I see to follow Christ and see how amazing he truly is!! It’s so hard to live in a world that mainly rejects Christ!! Here is the lyrics to “Prayer for a Friend” by Casting Crowns….
Lord I lift my friend to You.
I’ve done all that I know to do.
I lift my friend, to You.
Complicated circumstances
have clouded his view.
Lord I lift my friend up to You.
I fear that I won’t have the words
that he needs to hear.
I pray for Your wisdom , oh God.
And a heart that’s sincere.
And Lord I lift my friend up
to You.
Lord I lift my friend to You.
My best friend in the
world, I know he means much
more to You.
I want so much to help him, but
this is something he has to do.
Lord I lift my friend up to You.
There’s a way that seems so right to him.
But You know where that leads.
He’s becoming a puppet of the world.
Too blind to see the strings.
And Lord I lift my friend up to You.
Lord I lift my friend to You.
I’ve done all that I know to do.
I lift my friend, to You.
Sooo, today is Wednesday…usually not my favorite day of the week because its sooo far from friday the start to the weekend and not Monday where you have a fresh new week to start off with! I’ve had some blessings in my life more recently! I am happy again! Now, when I write that, it sounds really weird. “Happy, again? Weren’t you already happy?,” you ask. Yes, I was happy, I had the joy of the Lord. But my body made me tired, anxious, unrealistically upset, moody, and depressed for some reason. So I went to the lovely Dr. Jones and she fixed me!! =) Today, I have felt happier than I have for months! For the longest time, I felt out of my body, out of my MIND!! Things that used to upset me, don’t! The unexplainable anxiety I was feeling, subsided! I am tired because I didn’t get much sleep, but I’m not tired and unable to do my homework even when I got 13 hours of sleep the night before! Today has been a wonderful day! And there is nothing to explain that other than a blessing from God! I’m glad I figured out that I wasn’t crazy and I would encourage anyone to just go see your Dr. and ask, and don’t feel embarrassed, but go, ask, and find happiness again! Just because you are depressed or unhappy doesn’t mean you’re crazy! It’s as simple as “A…B…C…. as easy as 1…..2…..3….” =)
James 1:16 & 17 (ESV)
“Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers (and sisters=). Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
To Be Continued… =)
…the weekend only got better! I had a lovely day at church and at home. I went to pick up Drew at 7:20 and we went to Subway for dinner. He decided to give me my birthday gift early! I had no clue what it was going to be but he told me to close my eyes and put my hands out and he had gotten a camera for me! I had been saving for this camera for MONTHS with no success whatsoever! Even today, I looked at my bank account and was pretty bummed that it was not working out like I had planned! All I can say is, I AM BLESSED! It meant more to me then he knows! Hopefully, in the next month or so, I will use it enough to learn how to take good pictures of my trip in May. I’ll be posting pictures of all my exciting adventures with my new camera! And the fun begins… (Man, I’m so excited, this post is all over the place! Holy moly!)
I love Drew!! =) Definitely not because he bought me a camera, but because he loves giving. To his family, his church, his friends, to me, to his school work and classes, to his professors, to the homeless people in San Fransisco, to the homeless people here…to everyone!! Everything about him has nothing to do with him. He is so selfless! His life is defined by those around him and their needs. He has such a willingness to serve others! I am forever grateful for this guy! He is a man of God!
To Be Continued… =)
With any break, comes a great time to catch up with my best friends from High School. My best friend Emily was back from school and I got to go on a lovely adventure to the beach with her! It was great! I will post picture of that day after she emails me the pictures. After I got home, I got to hang out with the small group that meets at my parents house and just have a fun game night instead of their normal study. It was a blast!
This morning, my mom woke me up quite early to go on a hike. We didn’t end up really hiking up the hill we wanted to go to, but we went on a long walk up the hill that our house sits on instead. It was wonderful to just walk with my family (minus bekah =( ) and our crazy, shadow chasing dog, Ollie!
Then later this morning, I got to spend time with my mom and do a Mary Kay facial and get our pictures taken by Amber Richmond!
Here are some pictures from this morning’s hike:
I will never appear to be this tall again in my life! 😉
We found this beautiful TREE! This was a tree!!
And then we found this cute little church! I’m not sure if it’s still in use, but I love it! 
Man, I need more of this sometimes!!
We always need a reminder of the cross in our lives!
I will have more to talk about tomorrow, I’m sure! This weekend has been so wonderful! Tomorrow can only be good; I get to go to church, spend time with my family, and Drew comes home! =)
I have officially decided that spring is my favorite season! It is so wonderful! Green hills, rain, the cheerful chirping of the birds, LOVE!!!! (God has blessed me with a wonderful boyfriend, hasn’t He?!),
poppies and other wonderful flowers, the weather is wonderful with rain or without, it’s my birthday season, Easter is around the same time which means the celebration of Christ’s death and resurrection(!!!), and so many other reasons. Summer is wonderful, but spring is just so amazing! =)
Tonight’s blessings….Yes, there are more than one…. The wonderful Snuggie my boyfriend got for me “just because,” a cup of peach tea in the pink “kiss me” mug that I love, my comfy, brown zebra print pillow to lean on, and the company of my mother after a long day of work for the both of us! It definitely is the wrong weather for this lovely combination with the high today being 82 degrees (It was such a beautiful day and I had to be stuck inside while my brother was at the beach all day!!), but I felt like being bundled up with my Snuggie and tea, so I did! =)
I hope you all get the opportunity to relax tonight after a hard day’s work and get to enjoy some of life’s many blessings!
To Be Continued… =)
Spring break! Two words that you look forward to from the day you come back from Christmas break… and what better way to start spring break then to go to Disneyland with my boyfriend and celebrate our 6 months together. =)
The morning started with these amazingly cool but beautiful flowers! Such beautiful red roses! =) Thank you Drew!!!
Then we went through our days and then finally drove off to Disneyland!
We get to go out on dates about every month on the 12th usually.. haha so it was really nice to just get away from school and work and friends and just be by ourselves (without counting all the Disneyland goers). We started at california adventure just wandering around because I am apparently horrible at knowing where that bear trail was and then we eventually got to the little finding nemo show thing. After that, we went on tower of terror and for some reason I was scared to death?! I forgot the first initial drop happens, so drew was teasing me that it was going to drop and it did…so incidentally I screamed my head off! Here’s the (Lovely =/ ) picture:
I’m screaming, laughing, and basically crying, and Drew is mocking me and laughing…like always! lovely! =)
Then we went over to Disneyland for the night. It was a ton of fun! We went on all the important rides, ate some tasty food and churros, and headed home! =)
I don’t know if Drew knows how appreciative I am for that time we get to spend together. Those of you who actually read this and know both of us, you know that we are both really busy, so time together that isn’t already planned weekly (i.e. youth group, small groups, church, and other events like these) is once in a blue moon. I love this time together! I love times we get to go off campus and just have fun!
I don’t know if Drew knows how appreciative I am about all the work he puts into our relationship. It takes a lot of work to be friends with someone, much less to date them! He doesn’t have all the time in the world, but he still sets aside time for me and I so appreciate that!
I don’t know if Drew knows how appreciative I am about his will power and discipline in our relationship! It’s not easy to stay pure in a relationship, but Drew has been the foundation and leader (well, Christ really is, but Drew has followed Jesus with all his heart in this area:) ) to keep us pure in our thoughts, actions, speech, and example to other couples. I adore this! (GIRLS: Find a guy like this! If he’s not willing to lead now, who’s to say he will lead later on in the relationship when a ton of other difficult factors are added into the mix!!)
Anyways, all this is to say how thankful I am to God for bringing Drew into my life! My life would be so different without him and I know God has used our relationship to teach me (and Drew) some very valuable lessons and things about myself! Thank you God for days to forget about school and work and to just spend a day of fun with my boyfriend! =)
And finally, a link to lyrics to such a wonderful song… Must Have Done Something Right- Relient K
(Lordwilling!!) To Be Continued… =)
Life can be so draining can’t it? From school, work, friendships, my boyfriend, roommates, youth group, family, then extracurricular activities, homework, my church family and all the fun nights spent with them, to simply the travel time from place to place, and last, but certainly not least…SLEEP!!! Each activity requires a new burst of energy and a certain-defined focus. Without the right amount of motivation or discipline, one will certainly slip through your fingers, and either you will come to class unprepared, sleep right through all of it, or lose a friend in the crazy mess called life!
I blogged a while ago about intentionality and that certainly has defined itself in the last week with many of the things listed above…I have been really thinking on this subject of being intentional. A verse that popped into my head when thinking about this was 1 Corinthians 10:31, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
So without further interuptions:
To Be Continued… =)
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