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woo hoo! finally an update...oh wait..of course in ll's room, where else? my computer=gay. anyway, SO much has been going on lately. i dont even remember what the last thing i wrote about was. i think it was right after i quit younglife. since then, it has been really awesome. just last weekend i went to good ole americus, ga (you have to say that with an extreme southern accent) for a retreat with prince ave baptist(the southern ga hub in athens haha). it was tons of fun with lots of bugs. no im jk, but really i was excited to meet people, even though we wore name tags all weekend and now i feel like no one knows my name (its like "hey...you..." haha whatever), and i met some cool girls that i really want to be friends with. boys, whatev. and honestly, the coolest part was God showing up and being all over that place. saturday night was amazing and i found myself wanting to run out of the chapel we were in to this big field and just be sitting with Him. so i did. anyway, it was cool. the whole weekend was about being a revolutionary v. being regular. i am convinced that there is more to this "christian life" that we havent even tapped into. i mean, do we do things one way because it is the only way or because that is the way we have been doing it our entire lives? not to say its all bad and im bashing traditional christianity, because im not. but my friend kim and i always are talking about it, and its like, come on there has to be more. a fuller life that we arent living, and i think its because we dont ask, or because we sometimes dont want it. we just want to be comfortable and liked and accepted. i am included in that. but anyway, it is a question that i am wondering about so let me know what you think. also, the hot topic right now is predestination...you know, whether predestined to be Christians or whatnot. so if you have an opinion on that too i would be interested. im not going to start a debate, and i dont have enough info to give a solid answer.. all i know is that the bible says we are chosen (Eph. 1:4) and that only by his grace that we have been saved (eph 2:8) but also says he wants everyone to come to a knowledge of him in 1 tim 2:4. but anyway. that is just a few things that i have been learning and talking about lately.
i know all i do is talk about God in this thing, but it is hard for me not to. i think that, for me, it is honestly the only thing worth writing about since i want that to consume all parts of my life. this includes fun too! aka living with mandy, lori leigh and charmaine. welcome to our lives: watching boy meets world and full house (to learn our "lesson" of the day) all the time, taco nights, your mama jokes, triple-mooning charmaine because she hates it, taking stupid pictures with our disposable camera, leg warmers, running every, err..every other, er..sometimes, breaking out into disney/oldies/any song while cooking or really while doing anything, me and ll being late a lot and charmaine, well charmaine is always early haha.. and it goes on and on. so excited that we all get along and have TONS of fun. it makes my life good.
i also am SO psyched about the 2 small groups im in with prince and campus outreach, and the fact that the prayer hub for athens is coming up on nov. 1...God is so good and i know he will bring people to pray for our campus. i was at north campus field where the gathering will be, and this verse jumped out
the plans of the lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations
ps 33:11
how cool is that? the purposes of HIS heart through ALL generations...i really want him to be sovereign on this campus. i really want people to pray, because prayer is powerful (because HE is powerful) and it changes things. it changes people. ok, enough plugging the prayer hub. not like anyone who reads this even goes to uga. haha. but really it is always on my heart so pray for your campus no matter where you go.
speaking of other places, i miss lville and my family and those who might as well be my family like kr and jack and aaron and kimberly and their kids of course. i am comin home soon. maybe next weekend i will skip tenn/ga game...i miss it that bad! and if you leave me a comment please leave me more than a short one to this paragraph..tell me about how you are doing, if i can pray for you in any specific way, whatever. please. that would be awesome. ok it is late, and i have to wake up at like 645..get excited! yayuh.
peace out
i know all i do is talk about God in this thing, but it is hard for me not to. i think that, for me, it is honestly the only thing worth writing about since i want that to consume all parts of my life. this includes fun too! aka living with mandy, lori leigh and charmaine. welcome to our lives: watching boy meets world and full house (to learn our "lesson" of the day) all the time, taco nights, your mama jokes, triple-mooning charmaine because she hates it, taking stupid pictures with our disposable camera, leg warmers, running every, err..every other, er..sometimes, breaking out into disney/oldies/any song while cooking or really while doing anything, me and ll being late a lot and charmaine, well charmaine is always early haha.. and it goes on and on. so excited that we all get along and have TONS of fun. it makes my life good.
i also am SO psyched about the 2 small groups im in with prince and campus outreach, and the fact that the prayer hub for athens is coming up on nov. 1...God is so good and i know he will bring people to pray for our campus. i was at north campus field where the gathering will be, and this verse jumped out
the plans of the lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations
ps 33:11
how cool is that? the purposes of HIS heart through ALL generations...i really want him to be sovereign on this campus. i really want people to pray, because prayer is powerful (because HE is powerful) and it changes things. it changes people. ok, enough plugging the prayer hub. not like anyone who reads this even goes to uga. haha. but really it is always on my heart so pray for your campus no matter where you go.
speaking of other places, i miss lville and my family and those who might as well be my family like kr and jack and aaron and kimberly and their kids of course. i am comin home soon. maybe next weekend i will skip tenn/ga game...i miss it that bad! and if you leave me a comment please leave me more than a short one to this paragraph..tell me about how you are doing, if i can pray for you in any specific way, whatever. please. that would be awesome. ok it is late, and i have to wake up at like 645..get excited! yayuh.
peace out