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RPBenton
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Name: Ryan
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 1/20/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: playing and listening to music, Lasting Factor, shooting and editing video, spending time at Pocono Plateau, playing with my Apple Powerbook
Message: message me
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AIM:  RPBenton
Member Since:
12/11/2002
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| i don't know what to type. I have so many wonderful people in my life that i talk to online every day, that i don't really feel the need to update this right now. God is good, life is crazy busy, but it's fun and i'd love to talk to you, but just IM me, i don't feel like typing to a blank screen. | | |
| So...so much has been going on, that I haven't even known where to begin writing. Basically, God is good. He's amazing, and every day I grow even more in awe of what he's doing in my life. The more i seem to let go and trust Him, the more satisfying my life seems to become.
I counseled for a week at the Plateau. I was supposed to have Jen as my co-counselor, but for some reason they didn't put us in the same group. That kinda sucked, but it turned out ok because Amanda, my co-counselor, was really cool and we worked together well. Still would have prefered being with Jen though. It was great to be able to spend a full week with her before we go to college and don't see each other for a while. Somebody asked me if we "rekindled a romance". Nope, our relationship is over. But I thank God so much for her support and amazing friendship and her role in my life! I don't think I could keep pressing on in God's love without her prayers and encouragment.
I agreed to be liturgist in church next sunday. Meh. Don't really want to do it, but I can suck it up and get it done. I said yes because I knew God wanted me to do it, and to say no when I was able would be very selfish.
Currently I am worried about my friend Sara. She's the one who I met through Ashley - Ashley's best friend. We had 2 great nights a few weeks ago where we went out to dinner and then hung out playing guitar and talking about our spiritual lives. I ended up being over there until 4 am one night just talking about how God is moving in us. She's a horse person too, and sacraficed going to her camp this summer, and a lot of her time (like all of it), to train for her "B" rating in the US Pony Club. It's a big deal, and not that easy to get. I found out from Ashley that she didn't get it. The reason I'm worried though is because Ashley found out from another friend who was at the rating test, and when Ashley called Sara, she wouldn't answer the phone to talk. Her dad picked up and said she couldn't talk right now. I've called her twice and texted her twice and she hasn't called me either. I think God put me in her life this summer for this time right now. I've been reading this book and right when I heard she didn't make it, I came to a part about perserverence. I know it will help her, if i could only get through to her. Prayers would be appreciated. | | |
| "The word has gotten around. Your lives are echoing the Master's Word, not only in the provinces but all over the place. The news of your faith in God is out. We don't even have to say anything anymore--you're the message! People come up and tell us how you received us with open arms, how you deserted the dead idols of your old life so you could embrace and serve God, the true God. They marvel at how expectantly you await the arrival of his Son, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who rescued us from certain doom."
~1 Thessolonians 1:8-10
This is how i want to live my life. This is how I've always tried to whitness, but I kinda missed the part about deserting the dead idols of my old life. I pray that God gives me and everyone else the strength to get alway from those old idols and live like we were meant to. | | |
| So soon
Wow. My best friend Ashley just called and told me she is moving MONDAY. We thought she was gonna be around for another week, but she got accepted to train with a Gold Medal horseback rider in Virginia, and she has to leave immediately. That's so soon! 3 days and she'll be GONE. So much for the party me and her other best friend were gonna have for her... I'm going over there tonight and saying goodbye is going to be the saddest I've ever felt. I've based all last week on being happy in the Lord and giving every bit of pain in life to Him. And I know that this is just another thing I have to give to Him, but I'm going to miss her too much to be able to do that. Sigh...
**I just got back from Ash's house. It wasn't as sad as I thought it would be. It might hit me more later, but we'll still be close and I have a feeling I'm still gonna see her fairly frequently. Plus I kinda already said goodbye to her a few weeks ago, so this was kinda just a bonus to see her one last time. | | |
| Gently encourage the stragglers, and reach out for the exhausted, pulling them to their feet. Be patient with each person, attentive to individual needs. And be careful that when you get on each other's nerves you don't snap at each other. Look for the best in each other, and always do your best to bring it out.
Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.
~1 Thessalonians 5:14-22 | | |
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