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Interests: Above everything else, my first love is Jesus! My passion is writing. I love to read for hours and hours and never stop until I finish the whole book! I absolutly love hanging out with my amazingly awesome friends!!!! I like camping and doing anything outdoors. Wicked, Les Miserables, and Phantom of the Opera are my favorite musicals...esp. Wicked!!! Winterfest is a blast! Shout out to all my friends.... I love you all!!!!!
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10/22/2005
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| The concert was pretty good.
The highlight of it all: Mr. Landis singing the solo!!!! Aw, man, that was the best ever!!! That was sooooo funny! He just popped out from behind us, and nobody in the audience was expecting Mr Landis, a high school science teacher, to being singing the gospel-style solo! Ha! He has a really good voice too! I never knew Mr. Landis could sing! After the concert I told him that now he will have to sing every lesson. He said no, so I told him to try it for 1 day and see if it works. He was like, "yeah, but I might get tired." So I said, "Well, you could only sing it for our class period, since we're so special!" hehe.....and he was like maybe, but of course today in class he didn't sing. It's so funny b/c now everyone is asking him to sing.
But the whole choir (every choral division) had only 10 songs! Normally every division has around 5, 6, or 7 songs. We practiced a lot for the spring concert...like 5 songs now. Anyway...
NFL Saturday...ahhh, I'm excited but nervous.I think during the day we have to do it about 4 or 5 times, each time w/ a different judge.
Cara coming home this Friday!!!!! I can't wait!!!!! | | |
| I have a lot to do this weekend.
1. I'm going to try to memorize as much as I can for the NFL stuff. I have the poem picked out, now I have to find prose. Then, I think I'm going to do the intro to LOTR! Wow, that would be so funny....I hope I wouldn't crack up when I'm saying it lol!!!! Because I normally recite it when I'm very, very emberpengy (wow, I haven't used that word in a long time lol! If you don't know what it means, it means happy and hyper.....it's not a real word....I made it up).
2. I have to read over the Bible story so that I can tell it sometime next week (I don't know when I'm going)
3. Study for science test Monday
4. Read Count of Monte Cristo and answer questions ( I have to read extra pages than what we have to do because next week when the next ones after this are due, I'll be away to Powerhouse...youth group thingy!!!!!!)
5. Write Englih paper for Count of Monte Cristo....maybe, if I have enough time, but I would like to get one of them done. Btw...I LOVE Count of Monte Cristo. I loved it at the first page...seriously!!! The minute the word "Monsieur" was used I was like "I love this book!" lol! And look at this. Les Miserables and Count of Monte Cristo start out almost exactly the same....
Les Miserables's 1st sentence: In 1815 M. Charles Franois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D____.
Count of Monte Cristo's 1st sentence: On February 24, 1815, the wathtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-mater Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples.
6. Study for vocab/do vocab work
7. History reading and questions
8. Few math problems
Oh and wow, I just remembered that I have to bring Cara's dress to church with me for Lor. lol! Sorry, random moment.....continuing....
And now for what I want to do which I probably won't get to do....
9. Call Cara and talk to her for hours and hours and crack up lol! I LOVE YOU CARA!!!!!!
10. Finish the next chapter in Love Never Fails
11. Read more of Les Miserables (get past the history part and get to where Jean Valjean goes and gets Cosset!!!!)
12. Read more of Captivating! Because the book Captivating is just so captivating lol! (You know....I almost never "laugh out loud" when I type lol ....lol<this one I actually did laugh though) =) But I really, really, really love this book...Cara you were right!
13. Email Sean Dunn for the thingy and figure out all that stuff
14. Show Mrs. Fowler the Everything Skit so we could do it
Ok, that's it. haha....now, I'm going to go to bed and wake up Saturday with a bunch of stuff to do and hopefully I won't have work for Sunday, but that's basically not possible. I was going to do work today, but I fell asleep right when I got home and woke up at 11: 30 PM.....and now I'm typing this, very, very tired. But it's good I got sleep because I'm still a little sick, and after gym today my throat felt worse...oh no.
But besides that depressing news lol...yes, as Anne of Green Gables would say it...."I'm in the depths of despair" .....actually, I'm not in the depths of despair, but I just had to sat that because Anne of Green Gables makes me smile =). Anyway....
I'm in love with Jesus, and with who He is and what He does and just how amazing and awesome He is!!!!!!!!!! (Wow that sentence had a lot of "and's" lol!) Jesus has captivated my heart. You know what I thought of yesterday....
God is romancing me with His love, and more specifically....
...with the wind, with my mom's roses that smell absolutely beautiful, with the river behind my church that sparkles like thousands of stars, with that gorgeous sunset....His creation!!! It swarms around me like some kind of magic beauty....filling me with life! It's like whenever I see that stuff, my heart just sings and peace comes over me. It's like God is romancing me with these things, when a boyfriend would romance his girlfriend with jewelry, a ring, kisses, soft whispers of love, flowers, and so on. God whispers soft messages of love to me when I'm reading His Word, He gives me flowers everyday, and instead of jewels, He gives me something way more beautiful....nature to enjoy! These are His gifts to romance us with! I just thought that was so cool! | | |
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Ok, first Autumn Blaze was amazing!!!!!!!!! Toby Mac... loved it! I knew Toby Mac before and stuff, but I really didn't know his stuff too much, now I love it!!! His encore lasted like 40 min! It as crazy, but sooo good!!!
Barlow Girl...of course they were good...I love them anyway! They had the best testimony, and Toby Ma had the best music! AND THEY DID THE EVERYTHING SKIT!!!!!!!! It was a little different from the original, but it was still good. Even before the music started up and the actors came on stage, I knew it was The Everything skit....I have no clue how lol! And for worship they sang The Stand by Hillsong...love it!
I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!! Stephanie J. Block is the new Elphabah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE TO GO SEE IT NOW LOL!!!! But the sad thing is that the AMAZING guy who played Jean Valjean in Les Miserables left Oct 7 ( or was it 8th?). He had an AMAZING voice, and my mom and sister can second that. I was soooo sad that he left....I still haven't checked to see who the new Jean Valjean is though...I hope he's good.
Ok, so I'm still sick...yuck! I was absent Tues and Wed. Today I was thinking about not going because in the morning my throat REALLY hurt. I had tea though and it felt better....for a little while. I thought I could get through the whole day, but as it went on, I felt worse. So I went to the nurse for my mom to pick me up. The thing I don't get about school is that they expect you to (when you come back) have the homework you missed (at least in hs). Or, do it over the weekend, which they think I have time (which I don't). And if I want to get better I need to SLEEP, not do more homework....that will only make me sick for a longer time. Oh, our world is messed up. LOL! Sometimes schools in America (and elsewhere) don't get it.....only homeschoolers understand. WE NEED TIME FOR LIFE! To live, learn, observe, have time to work on our hobbies, and. People accept busyness as a way of life, but IT DOESN'T have to be that way...I know....I've done it before. In order for people( us being human beings), we need time to relax and take a break, but I don't think the world understands that very, very simple concept. It's common sense, but as I look around, our world is losing "common sense" and starting to be like the people in F 451. (Never Saw it Coming lol.... that's from a sermon). I was listening to a book on tape called Making Room For Life, and at the end the author said that our world is so messed up with rushing around everywhere, that the BEST way of living a life with time for LIFE is to homeschool, and I happen to agree. And you know all the homework we get? How people think that MORE will make people more intelligent and smarter....sorry...nope...doesn't work that way. Statistics show that kids are learning absolutely NOTHING when homework/ level of intensity increases. WHY? Too much....cramming...never taking time to process information...rush, rush, rush. More homework means less learning, and this is so true....if every teacher gives tons of homework, then that leave you to cram all the information in your head without really learning it. And it's also unhealthy....physically. Not enough rest, only one side of your brain being used, no break, overload of everything until a person crashes and gets sick. Then, when the/she is sick, they are not aloud to sleep b/c of h/w...hmmmm....sounds strange right? Ok, I better stop...I could write a paper on this.....really, I've stuffed this paper into my brain for like 4 years....lol!!! I could go on and on with making valid points, but I won't because I'd rather do something else lol!
Oh, one more topic that in a way relates to this. It's soooo obvious. I was just talking about this to my mom yesterday. America (maybe in 10 or 15 years) will probably have a economic downfall. Just with the way America places importance on non-important things while forgetting about the IMPORTANT problems. And how much money is used for new McDonalds, and Walgreens and Wal-Marts while there are like 5 of them on the same block. And then a Children's Hospital is nowhere, and you could find thousands of unimportant stores. Or what about this: with abortion being "ok" we are killing our next generation. come on, think logically. Where does our next generation come from???? the new-born babies, and if thousands are killing babies—no more next generation. And just think, now, if let's say a Fifteen-year-old is going to have a baby, they an abort that baby without their parents knowing.....ummm.....let's think that over. THE ARE STILL KIDS! And they an kill someone when they can't even drive yet by law???? Yes, and there's an argument that they are not even a person yet, but ok....FORGET ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND! Yes, in my opinion, a person would be killing another human being. But let's say if you don't believe that. They are just tissue at the moment, a fetus or whatever you want to say. Well, eventually that fetus WILL BECOME a cute, adorable child. If you kill that, you kill the next child who would have entered the world. If you believe in abortion, go watch the movie Tilly, or read the book Gianna.
And if you believe in abortion, how would you feel if the baby you tried to abort lived through the abortion, and grew up to be an amazing person? How could you face YOUR daughter, face to face, at the age of 12, and say, "When I was pregnant with you, I aborted you...I didn't want you. You were only tissue to me, and it wouldn't have mattered if you died because you were not human."?????? How muh would that hurt an innocent, little girl' feelings???? Well, this HAS happened to people in history. One is Gianna Jensen, an amazing singer and professional runner....she's alive today...famous. Her mother aborted her...Gianna suffered...but she lived through it all, and now she is very famous, giving her testimony around America, singing at places and touching people's lives with her beautiful voice, and competing in track races. This type of thing (someone aborting a child, and then the child live through it) happens a lot....I've read up on it. Gianna is just one child. Would you want to kill her now? She's a grown women now....what about when she was just a tiny piece of tissue.....??? If you knew that "tissue" would become your best friend, would you abort her/him? Or maybe someone who would became an actress on Broadway? You don't know what special gift that child will bring into your life...why kill it? Why kill our next generation? Why kill people who will inspire our world, and contribute in some way or another? Just why? Give me a GOOD reason why? I can't think of any.....unless you're thinking only of yourself, and not even a tiny pinch of your child......
Woooh...sorry, I had to get a lot out....it took a little bit. I just had a lot to say. I was going to make this post a short one lol!!!! Well, I guess I had some things I just could not stop from typing haha!
But the good thing is that Jon's home, and Cara's coming home tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited...it's our family fall trip time! Ahhhh, woods, cider donuts, cider (and hot cider), pumpkins, fresh-picked apples, the smell of fall!!!! Once that place comes into view, it will officially be fall for me lol!
btw.....I love life, I love Jesus, I love my family, I love my friends, I love my school, I love how amazing God is and how He created us to love and to not act like robots.
And I don't love how my keyboard is messed up and it won't type the letter C until I press it like a thousand times lol! But it's all good lol!
Bottom line: God is good, and He is love...that's all that matters!
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| WOW!! The best chapel ever!!!!!!!!! Man, I was like crying and everything. My heart just went out to God and I was like soooooooooooo amazed by Him!!!!
Man, it was soooooooooooooooooooo cool how many people God spoke to today in chapel....I was praying about that this morning. And the worship was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It just kept getting louder and louder and people sang out to God!
People kept going up to pray with the teachers and splitting into prayer groups and crying. What an emotional outpour!
I also went up to pray with one of the teachers and it was sooo encouraging! I hope that this PASSION will not go away now that Spiritual Emphasis Week is over....I pray that we (together as a school and body of Christ) will show a love for God like no other!!! Anybody at my school reading this, I challenge you to not lose that passion that we experienced in chapel today, and keep it throughout the whole year!!!! Don't let go of it! Don't ever let go of it!!!! God's gonna do amazing this in our school....I've really been praying about it and I can feel God answering!!! God is going to do amazing things in our school. OPEN YOUR HEARTS AND LET GOD WORK THROUGH YOU THIS YEAR!!!!!! I love you all!!!!!!!!! <3
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| Spiritual Life Conference is really good this year!!!!!!!!!!! Sean Dun (sp) is the speaker...he's really, really good!!!!!! I like him! He's talking about PASSION for God and how we get that and what happens if we don't have it. These past two weeks God has REALLY been working through me and I have this AMAZING passion for HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!! God is totally amazing and awesome and powerful and wonderful and worthy!!!!!!!!!!! MY WHOLE LIFE (not just part of it) IS ABOUT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worship is also really good this week! And I'm falling in love with that song that we sang....ummm...what's it call? lol! One Passion One Heart???? Something like that. The guitarist and drummer were really on fire today! And Becky was singing her heart out!!!! And also today the guy from star 99.1 and (pastor?) of Zarapath (sp) lead some of the worship!
I'm TIRED of complacency....I'm ready to give it all to God...with all that I am...with everything in me....my heart belongs to Him....I LOVE HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO LONG THE STATUS QUO! NO MORE BEING ALL RIGHT WITH THE NORMAL.
PASSION.PASSION.PASSION. JESUS IS MY LOVE! IT'S ALL ABOUT JESUS. JESUS. JESUS. JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL I WANT IS HIM....ALL I NEED IS HIM!
"SO I'LL STAND
WITH ARMS HIGH AND HEART ABANDONED
IN AWE OF THE ONE WHO GAVE IT ALL
SO I'LL STAND
MY SOUL LORD TO YOU SURRENDERED
ALL I AM IS YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I WILL LIFE MY HANDS TO MY FAITHER IN HEAVEN!!!!!!! PRAISE HIM!!!!!!!!! | | |
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