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today i applied at comfort inn for a job. i don't know if i'm going to get it, though, and it kinda sounded like i would be working A LOT (like every night and weekend)...not that that's bad. i need the money!! this flyer said i could do my homework while i worked, which is awesome, except i know i will have a lot of papers next semester. i'm praying about it and i know that God has His hand in this, though. let me tell you how reassuring that is!

this saturday, i'm helping with a high school outreach event. i'm psyched cause there's gonna be a live band and my job is to MINGLE!! all i am supposed to do is build relationships with kids...SWEET! i'm excited, but i'm also nervous. in my youth group at home, i'm never nervous to talk to new people, but that's because i'm comfortable. i'm afraid these kids will think i'm a FREAK or something...i dunno, i hope they like me. i'm excited, though, because i LOVE this age group! God has given me a passion unlike anything i've ever known to be a Christian example and help lead them to Christ. it's amazing!

oh my goodness, i hate the end of the semester! i have so much work to do! it's hard to believe that i've found time for everything else leading up to this point. since i know i have done alright so far, i know i can get through this. but still, it's kinda stressing me out.

have a wonderful day!  

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Hey kids! Everyone says the week before thanksgiving is insane...and it is; i have so much work to do! i'm doing ok though. oh, next semester i think i'm taking 18 hours, plus hopefully a job. i know it's going to be crazy, but i'm totally thinking God's gonna pull me through. if everything goes as planned, i'll have all my gen eds out of the way before next spring! so hopefully i can start on my major requirements next year! then maybe i'll be able to graduate early...knock on wood. the sooner the better. i don't want to get more into debt than i have to.

so i read psalm 119;14 the other day and i thought i'd share. it says " i rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches"...uh...hmmm...i don't believe i do that! i felt so terrible when i read that! what the heck is wrong with me?? i thought it was really cool, though, because that's how we're supposed to be! we're supposed to be as happy about God's laws for us as we would be if someone walked up to us and handed us a check for a billion dollars! wow, it's kinda tough. i encourage all of you to praise God for his guidelines to protect us from the world! it's amazing that He loves us so much! i read in hebrews 12 the other day that God punishes anyone He accepts as a son (or daughter :)). The reason He gives us commands is because He loves us and wants to protect us as our own parents do. how awesome!     

Today was a lazy LAZY day! i didn't do ANYTHING at all! it was nice. i have a lot to do this week, though, so i'm kinda digging a hole. it'll all work out though.

last night, i prayed a lot about my future and i am soooooooo excited to see what God has planned for me!! think about it...the GOD OF THE UNIVERSE has a plan for ME and he's going to guide me through life! if that doesn't get someone excited, i don't know what will! my God is so awesome!

I am so sick of americans! american "christians" that is. who the heck do we think we are?! we've taken everything we have for granted, especially our freedom to worship God! we don't care that the only reason we live on this earth is to live for Him, we only care about ourselves and what we're going to do to entertain us for the next 24 hours! it sickens me to think that people half-way around the world have to meet in private in order to worship God, each time putting their lives on the line, and we choose to sleep in on sunday instead of spending the small 2 hours at church in worship....SICK. we don't take our walk with God seriously, we don't take our christian witness seriously...i'm just really frustrated right now. i'm guilty of all of this too! i just hate it that we've become a body of stagnant believers, for the most part. i don't even know why we call ourselves believers anymore...what the heck do we believe??? obviously not much more than our fellow non-believers. we are just like them, we're not even different from them anymore. UGHHHH!!! i'm ticked

yesterday, i had a meeting with CMVF (christian ministries vocation fellowship) and there was a guy that spoke who was in the pentagon on 9/11. it was pretty interesting, but he made some really good points about the ministry. he was a chaplain in the service for quite some time and he believed he was supposed to do something different...not any sort of ministry. But he "just so happened" to be in the pentagon when the plane hit and he was able to go around and pray and council people who needed it. he said that he realized that ministry does not just happen on our timing or when we think it should...it's God's. i thought that was a very nice reminder. I have been reminded of that a lot lately. you know, it isn't my life(or yours) i'm living, it's God's. once you've decided to give your life to Him, that doesn't mean just parts of it, that means all of it. He calls us to ministry no matter where we go in our careers. this one speaker i heard a couple weeks ago said that he almost wished no one was called to "the ministry" because secular jobs are a wonderful ministry. i just thought that was a great reminder.

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Well, today started off rather crappy! I went to art appreciation and found out that we had a test! DOH! the tests aren't easy either...it's mostly fill in the blanks and i have to memorize everything. needless to say, i left many blanks empty and guessed on the ones i did not leave empty...sucky! it's alright though. i was getting an A and there's a term paper due in a couple weeks so i think i can bring it back up, HOPEFULLY.

alright, i miss my family. it's so strange, because i didn't think i'd miss them very much, but i do! i miss nic so much! the last couple of times i went home, i didn't see him very much because he was so dang busy! i can't wait for thanksgiving to see him. he's so funny, i can't stay mad at him because he cracks me up! i also miss my dad, another person i didn't think i was going to miss very much. it's so weird how he can make me so ticked, but i miss him when i don't see him for a while. haha, just wait till i go home for thanksgiving...trust me, i'll be ready to come back here.

it's thursday already. this week feels like it has gone by so fast! i can't believe the weekend is almost here. there isn't a lot to do here in the city that always sleeps, especially in the winter. the tourist season is over and downtown is basically dead! we have to find our own form of fun and we all hate that. haha, it's just like groveland! only there's no where to strip here... all you groveland kids know what i mean--holla to my girl big c!

i hope you have a wonderful day! i love you!