Childhood Friends

So, one of my best friends in the whole wide world, Teresa, I met in Kindergarten. We grew up together. Always had the same friends. Chilled at each other's houses all the time. My kindred spirit. Well, since I spent so much time at her house, I knew her family really well, including her sister who babysat us all them time, whose name is Jessica. Well, today I was leaving a message for her on her facebook and I decide to look her sister Jessica up. So, the picture of her facebook is her in a wedding gown and a guy in a tux. My first thought was Congrats Jess. My second thought was, "MY BEST FRIEND FORGOT TO TELL ME THAT HER SISTER GOT MARRIED???!!!" Yeah, it was great.

University Life

So, today is my first day at Central Washington University and I am already getting kind of used to it. The campus is beautiful and my room is way bigger than I thought. I got a bunch of my stuff put away and I was thinking I should have brought more stuff. Lol. I am ready to get to school though. I'm actually kind of excited to start classes. Man, books are expensive! My used Geography book is over $100, but my dad says he's got it all under control so I'm not worrying about it. Or trying not to anyway. My roommate is really nice. She's a music major and she has great taste in jazz. The kids on my floor are very welcoming. I was having a rough time when my dad left and they invited me over for some hot chocolate. Well, I update you more later.

Guilty of Gloomy

So, I've been realizing lately that sometimes I confuse emotion with the Holy Spirit. Let me backtrack a little. So, Daniel and I made the observation that we were starting to act less like friends and more like we were going out again. We got that all fixed up and what not. So, the next day, I was a mess and I had myself convinced that I had no reason to be sad. After all, it wasn't like we were going out or anything. I was sure I was feeling convicted of something and I just could not figure out what. So, after what seemed like an eternity of crying in the back office at work, I really thought and prayed about it. I also thought about what my boss had said that sometimes we think we are being convicted of something and it's our own emotion or even Satan trying to distract me. I finally realized that I had cut out all the things that I was used to with Daniel and that it really was almost like breaking up all over again. And then I realized I hadn't even mourned the first time really. I had put my own grieving on the back burner because I thought that's what everyone expected of me, when it was really only what I expected of myself.

Gustav

First of all, I would like to start out by saying, that is a great name for a hurricane. Anyways, so this last Sunday in church, somebody brought up the need to pray for the people in New Orleans because of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Gustav. So Mr. Wells asked one of the nice old men in our church to pray for those people. This nice old man stood up and prayed for a safe evacuation and that the damage wouldn't be too bad. The whole time I was supposed to be agreeing in prayer I was thinking, "Wait a second! We are praying to the God of the Universe, why don't we just pray that the hurricane miss New Orleans. He can do it you know!" So, I turned to Kenny and Daniel after service and brought this up and they said I should pray for that so I did. The next morning, my dad turned on the news and it said that Gustav had missed New Orleans and even though flooding was still a concern, it was down to a Category 1 storm. Now, even if the storm had hit, isn't it good to know that God could stop it or reroute it if he chose. Or that God knows each person that will be personally effected by a store like this. God is Good all the time.

The Thessalonians

So, in Matthew we are commissioned to cut off our hand and pluck out our eye if they cause us to sin. Sin is what keeps up from progressing in our walk with God. Sin causes us to wallow in our spiritual infancy. We, as a church often view it as acceptable to remain a spiritual baby for longer than we should. We don't see a problem with seeing a lack of wisdom in people who have been a Christian for 6 month, a year, or even years. When Paul went to see the church at Thessalonika, he was with them for 3 sabbath days, that is equal to about two weeks. Now, within this two weeks, people accepted Christ and were being taught about the second coming of Christ. That is a pretty deep subject for someone so young in the faith. Many people would ask how the church would be ready to receive this. It's simple, they cut away their sin. Instantly. Whenever God convicted them of having an idol, they cast it down. Whenever they were made aware of the sin their hand our eye caused them, they removed it. How radically changed would our lives be if we reacted the same way to our sin rather than bargaining, arguing, or excusing ourselves?

Bondservant

So, I've been having this huge dilemma in my life over my various issues. I'm working on not airing my dirty laundry, so we'll just say that what the issues are doesn't really matter. Anyways, so I was struggling the other night and I went to God's Word like we should when we struggle. I read 1 Cor. 6:20 which says that we are not our own, but we are bought at a price. That's what the term bondservant means, bought at a price. So, that just really got me thinking. I do have a question for all you blogging geniuses, how do I add your blogs to my favorites on my profile so that I can get onto them without having to track you down or remember url's?

I fail

I know I fail because I haven't posted in so long. So I thought I would talk about something challenging. You know me, I'm deep when you can't see my face. Lol! Anyways, go to a Sunday night bible study with some peeps and we have been studying Hebrews for about two months now. One thing that has really challenged me is that our leader told us that in our spirits we know if we are ready for Jesus to come back. I remember telling Ron one time in about February 2007 that if Jesus came back, I would be ready, but I don't know if that's true anymore. How do you feel? Think about it and pray about it. Are you prepared for Jesus to come back like a thief in the night?