It Has Started Again

So, school has started up again! I just finished my first week back with classes and practice and it was pretty tough! I'm already stressing out and running around doing all these things and somehow already getting behind! I don't know how I am going to catch up with classes...each one requires a research paper of at least 10 pages! But I guess it's part of it! But it sure does get stressful! But it's great to be back on the hill and have so many people that need to just hear the love of Christ and feel the grace of God! I recently shared my heart and read some scripture at our BCM meeting this week and my heart broke at how simple it was to love people and how so often we refuse to do so. I read of how Christ sat with the woman at the well and how she drank of the living water and how her life was forever changed. My prayer is that I will have the strength and power to love people as Christ did and to show them how great a life of following Him really is!

New Layout

New layout...hope everyone likes it!

Neon?

So...I was looking at my blog page and I realized that it was all bright neon colors. It looks weird and goofy but I think I like it! Anyway, I've been home resting from YEC this weekend! I came home and slept for 13 hours and 10 hours the next night...I think I was a little tired! But YEC was a blast and God worked in some awesome ways! David Platt spoke all weekend and God worked through him to reach youth! His messages were based only on scripture and God was in everyone! Matt Papa led worship and as usual he did such a great job of providing a time for youth to reach God one on one! Third Day and Barlow Girl played the concerts at night and they were pretty good! I worked the stage all weekend and it was pretty stressful and tiring. But it was really fun to meet everybody and talk with them about all the things that God is doing in so many lives. It was such a blessing and encouragement. But it was really cool to see God working in the lives of people but it also opened my eyes to the fact that so many people do not have a clue what it means to have a personal relationship with God through Christ! So many kids seemed oblivious to the fact of their need for salvation! It was good to hear Platt speak about how God is seeking to make is name great and because of that He sent Jesus to live and die! It is as simple as that! But so many people have been distracted and taught so many wrong things that they do not understand that and it broke my heart! So I am beginning to pray for God to reveal himself to people who so much need to meet Him face to face! I am praying that people will come to the point that they realize the greatness of God and his love through Christ! That is my prayer!

Aware?

Is everyone aware? Is anyone aware?
Aware of the death and pain
Felt by so many
Do they know the hurt and grief
Held by so many
The world in which we live
To busy to slow down and see
See the violence and hatred
Tearing people apart
Words and bullets fired without care
Care for whoever they may strike down

Is everyone aware? Is anyone aware?
Aware of the sick and blind
Left alone to die
Do they know the horror that
Grips the people now
The world in which we live
Self-absorbed and self-conscious to
Notice the ones dead and gone
Taken by careless acts
Of others that have no care for
For the innocent lives that live

Is anyone aware...

Bored

...and waiting.

The World Should Slow Down

The world should slow down...very much it should slow down. It seems that we are always running around and trying to get to the next place we have to be or get the next thing done. And I do not like it, I do not like the fact that friends are too busy with school, life, work, and whatever else to just hang out! And I really wish that somebody would invent a teleporter so that I could teleport myself to go hang out with friends that live far away! But regardless...the world should slow down and give us a chance to breathe! That's what I want for Christmas! A chance to breathe and spend time with family and friends! So world...slow down! But slow enough that we lose gravity and start floating off the earth!

Bass Cat

Here at Shorter, there are lots of stray cats wondering around. Up on the Hill there are a couple of cats that roam around campus. And down at Bass, where I live, there is this one cat that has caught my affection. Earlier this year, a very small and unhealthy cat started showing up around the Bass apartments. A few of us started feeding the cat and taking care of it, and soon it was healthy and a very happy cat! I didn't think about it much, but it soon started to get really cold and the cat had nowhere warm to stay! But for some reason I didn't think that the cat would mind the cold. But one night, me and Kate were coming back after going somewhere and it was FREEZING! And I felt awful and I had to do something for the cat. So I went and got a big box that I had some stuff in when I moved in and I put a few towels in it and made the cat a nice little warm bed. And as soon as I put the box down, the cat went straight into it and went right to sleep! It made me really happy! And every night when I walk up to the door, the cat is waiting in his box! It's really cool! And the other afternoon it was pretty cold and wet outside and the cat was sitting by the door and just meowing at me! I swear that the cat was yelling at me to take it inside! So I took it inside and let it in my room. I laid down on the couch and started watching TV and the cat jumped right up on my chest and took a nap! It was SO cool! So, that's my story about Bass Cat...that's what we've all decided to name it! So yeah, that's it! Sorry the picture is upside down...I couldn't figure out how to do it...so sorry!