Thought of the day

This comment was made in class this morning in reference to James 2:14-26: Faith without deeds is dead:

"You may be rejected when sharing your faith with someone, but if you share your faith by your actions through service, you will not be rejected."

A good weekend

So it turns out that dressing as the game pieces from "The Game of Life" was not a unique idea at all. Next year's grub...i'm going all out...I will have a unique costume, and it will be awesome. I definitely enjoyed the hour of grub I attended: running around, getting all of the necessary pictures taken, sprinting across a very crowded room to grab one of the first pizzas so Justin and I can eat and run; all very fun. And eat and run we did, I was basically stuffing my second slice of pizza in my mouth while I was driving to the orchestra concert, it was awesome. After a quick costume change in the car, there was the orchestra concert. It actually went quite well, definitely one of the best orchestra concerts since I've been here. Then there was the return home, Toy Story 2, the sticky bat incident (which, by the way, is still thouroughly stuck to the ceiling), some spilled water, and bed.

Saturday was good. After skipping out on our club activity a little early, got to watch the miniscule McMurray band perform Veggie Tales at UIL. As for our performance later that day, I think it went well. There was absolutely no wind, which is always a miraculous occurence in west Texas, and it made life as a guard member much easier.

Ah, IW. So there may not be a consistent definition of "independent" anymore, we are still independent women. We can still eat lots of food...whether it is Yummy Mexican food, or even yummier junkfood; we can discover that attempting to wax your legs really isn't worth it at all; we can watch the two girliest movies of the year (Mean Girls and 13 Going on 30) and laugh and cry and never feel awkward about it; we can feel victorious in the fact that the girls of RELM are fabulous pranksters; we can giggle with glee that Katrina is finally engaged to Mark; and it is all a beautiful thing.


Hypothesis: it is a great idea to go to early service, come home and take a nap, then have the rest of the afternoon to actually accomplish something.
Conclusion: It's Sunday afternoon, no matter what, I will not accomplish anything of any value whatsoever, I should really just learn to accept that.

Wow. That's about the only way I can describe this week:

I found out Tuesday that my little sis' decided to depledge. I am glad that I got the chance to know her better during pledging, and I hope that doesn't change. I am sad that she is gone, but I respect her decision.

Tuesday night was hard after finding out that Dr. Trevathan passed away. I only met him one time at the Sullivan's, but I was blessed by that experience. I have heard so many wonderful things about him, and I had planned on taking his sociology class this spring. I know that his family and his students will celebrate his life in his passing.

Lisa is back! She got back at about 12:30 last night. I missed her a lot.

Mark and Katrina are engaged! It really was the biggest Bean Sprout night ever. I am so excited for them.

And a quick note...

I have decided that I am removing the word "busy" from my daily vocabulary. I am not too busy to finish tomorrow's assignment, and I am definitely not too busy to spend time with God.

Tut, Tut, it looks like rain

I love our girl's Bible study. It makes for a wonderful Spirit-filled start every week, and I have already seen God do some amazing things in this group.

Tonight, a little quote stuck out to me:

"If you're going to pray for rain, you'd better carry your umbrella."


God is fabulous.

Grumpiness, junkfood, and a sore nose

My definition of grumpy: the kind of bad mood you might have when you are tired, hot, hungry, and overall just annoyed with mankind. You feel this way, and you know it's silly, but you refuse to be in a better mood, because a bad mood just seems like a much better option at the time.
And after a 10:00 guard sectional, followed by a hard-core pre-game rehearsel with sprinting across the field and hot sweatiness; and of course getting chocolate smeared all over my arm, it's only natural right?
So once the football game started, I got over the grumpiness pretty quick, and actually enjoyed the game quite a bit. I had food in my belly (a hot dog and cheetos), I found out that OU beat UT (go OU!), and after a pretty pitiful first half, ACU pulled out a win over an 0-6 team. Of course that doesn't include our halftime performance. It actually went pretty well, I felt pretty good about MOST of my personal performance, minus the double toss that i dropped on my face at the end of our second song. (I hate West Texas wind) OW, that one hurt a whole lot, and I sure did have to just keep marching. Luckily, the bleeding was minor enough that I didn't even notice it until I got off the field, but my nose sure is tender still. It makes for a good story tho, I think that's the first time I've actually hurt myself during a performance.
Today was the type of day that being a Nutrition major isn't much fun, cuz I just feel horribly guilty about everything I ate today. Okay, so I had my typical ceral bar breakfast...not too bad...but then there was the hot dog and cheetos for lunch, various other snacks throughout the game, pizza for dinner, heavily buttered popcorn and cookies and a brownie. If it wasn't for my two glasses of milk, I think I might feel like a complete failure. Oh well, such is life.

Rain

So I'm starting to think that God must be bored with normal weather, so He's having some fun mixin things up a bit. Seriously...it's raining, two hours later it's 85 degrees, two more hours, raining again...for four days straight. And back in Colorado, 11 tornados touched down between Greeley and Denver. (including one right down the street from my aunt and uncle) Tornados in Colorado in October, that's just weird. But hey, as long as God is keepin up safe, I'm cool with a little creative weather.
It's kinda like our lives. Sometimes God just has to mix things up a little bit. It keeps us on our toes, maybe sometimes drives us a little crazy, but overall it makes us stronger, keeps us faithful.

So....here's to craziness...yeah.

He makes all things new

Dear Father,

I need you,

Your strength, my heart to mend,

I want to fly higher

Every New Day again

....

Man versus himself

man versus machine

man versus the world

mankind versus me

the struggles go on

the wisdom i lack

the burdens keep piling

up on my back

so hard to breathe

to take the step

the mountain is high

i wait in the depths

yearning for grace

and hoping for peace

Dear God increase

--Five Iron Frenzy

"Every New Day"

Get me off this roller coaster

Well, the internet is still being retarded on my computer, so here I am using my roomie's while she's at home this weekend.

Emotions have been running on overload this week. Overall, it was a good one, I didn't really have any tests, so the school part of it was fairly unstressful. I've been generally happy this week, there have been many happy moments, such as going to see Napoleon Dynamite for the second time. I try not to think about the fact that I have already spent $14.50 on that movie....cuz wow that's a lot of money.
When it comes to the events of the rest of the week, they have ranged from personal stresses and general over-reactions, to being on both sides of a rough situation that does not need to be talked about, to overwhelming empathy for the greving of friends. All I can say right now is that GREAT GREAT prayer is needed in all of these situations; satan is attacking our lives. In these prayers, always remember that God is in control no matter what, and he can do great things with our lives if we let him.

--- Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perserverance. Perserverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:2,3 ---