A Good Week but A Stressful Weekend....

A good week...

I had the most amazing week last week! A ministry, MinuteMen Ministries, was at church. Here is a little bit of what I was able to participate in...There was a lot more that the high school was involved with

Monday: school, recruiting, dinner, hanging out with Amanda

Tuesday: school, recruiting, dinner,
Wednesday:school, relax for a little, dinner, then the war began between the Marine Recon, Navy Seals, and Army Rangers. (but i was in Jrs. for part of it)

Thursday: school, relax, dinner, the war continues

Friday: school, relax, dinner, the war's final night (My team did not win...but i have the cheer stuck in my head still....it will not go away!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Seth...)

While they were here, the teachers and I saw such revival in the hearts of our high school students! I personally got to lead one girl to the Lord on Wednesday night of the revival! It was so much fun to have them here and to get to know them!

A stressful weekend

I do not know what has been going on with me this weekend...I cried for three days straight...just for random stupid things...I have been under so much stress in the past three weeks that I think it finally caught up with me.

It started on Friday at school...we had a very hard day of work with some problems that went on and then in stemmed into an e-mail I got....it was really hard because i had to be around people all night long and that was the last thing I wanted!

Saturday Morning was great! I had the privilege to go to the beach and watch the sunrise for the first time with my friends! Amanda, Seth, Jeremy, Jordan, and I had awesome time just walking on the beach. But later that afternoon I got REALLY grumpy at my friends and decided I needed to go back to bed...I ended up crying myself to sleep.... Then I headed to a friends house to play some games and that did not turn out so well either...By the end of the night I was crying again.

Sunday was good...Church was awesome.... I did not really cry until after church that night. After church I went and hung out with Amanda, Jordan, and Jeremy at Taco Bell..

Monday was good and bad....I went to the chiropractor and my back felt AMAZING after I left. Then I headed off to revival meetings with The Parkers. I cried pretty much through the entire service...I went straight home after and got a phone call from Amanda and then made a fool of myself on the phone with her cause I could not stop crying!

Tuesday was so much better!!! I did not cry at all...though I wanted to many times! But got to talk to some people and that made me smile...then I was made fun of for it.. LOL Revival services were great again last night!

Can't wait till Thursday night revival services! Also can't wait till Saturday!! :-)

Hang On To Your Fork....

THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!

As we enter into 2011, we tend to think that things will be so different from last year. Which is not entirely true! Everything we went through in 2010 was leading up to what will go on in 2011. We will still face trials, hardship, pain, and even death! Just because a new year has started does not mean that we are free from worry.

What we need to do is remember that the best is yet to come! The Lord may have blessed us in 2010, but just wait! In 2011, He has something bigger and better planned! So hold on to your fork...the best is yet to come! Don't think 2010 is over lets get rid of all that happened last year...think what did I learn in 2010 that will help me in 2011.

My verse for this year.....

Ps 91:1 ~~ HE that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Amazing grace

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That sav’d a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev’d;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ’d!

Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.

When we've been here ten thousand years...
bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise...
then when we've first begun

---John Newton.

Have you ever sung a song and wondered where we go the song from? Well, i do...I had to tell a story for my Teaching History and Geography class and decided to tell this one! Enjoy!

Born in London on July 24, 1725 my father was a shipmaster and my mother taught me all of my religion. When I was just six years old my mother passed away from tuberculosis. I then became very bitter towards God. At the age of eleven, I went to work with my father on the ships. I was forced to joined the naval service in 1943, which I soon tried to desert but was caught. By request, I was a sent to be servant to a slave trader who abused me. One day a friend of my fathers rescued me, in 1748. A few months later, I was awaken in the middle of a storm, and it was that night that I found the Lord. I wrote the first stanza of the song “Amazing Grace” about my own life! The third stanza was written late one night. It was the night of my “conversion”. I awoke from my sleep to realize there was a violent storm and my men were being washed overboard ad others were tying themselves to the ship so as not to get taken with the current. Though I was converted, I did not stop slave trading until almost 40 years later.