I'm Still Alive!

I fail at blogging.

This is my attempt at starting to blog again so I guess we'll see how it goes. No promises.


And on that note, I'm going to bed so my next post will actually make sense and be gramatically correct tomorrow morning when I write it.

Good night fellow bloggers!

Love God, Love Others

Why is it so hard for us to love a perfect, holy, loving, wise, strong, forgiving, faithful God? I even find it hard sometimes to really feeeeeel like I LOVE God. Now, don't get me wrong, I've loved my God since the day I came to know him and I will continue to love him for eternity, but sometimes it's hard for me to feel like I love God. I'm hoping that makes sense...I'm not too sure how to explain it like it is in my head. But anyways, if it is so hard for us to love a God that great, why does it often seem easier to love those who lie, cheat, steal, those who are weak, unforgiving, an unfaithful? It seriously does not make sense to me. It seems like it would be so much easier to passionately love someone as awesome as God instead of a repetitive sinner like you or me.

God calls us to love others. But he also tells us to love HIM. He actually even tells us to live him FIRST, and THEN our neighbor. Without loving God, how are we suppose to love others? There is no reason for us not to love him while there are plenty of reasons for us to find it hard loving others. Our love for God is reflected by how we love others. Once you begin to love God with all your heart and to follow him passionalty, there will be a change in your life. A change in how you treat people and a change in the way you think about them. Strive to love God first, and the rest will follow.

Eyes That See

In today's culture, it seems like everyone is constantly on the move to get everything they can crammed into a 24-hour day. With everyone always on the go and always looking out for their best interests, who has time to stop and talk to people? (oh wait, i forgot about cell phones, and facebook, and twitter, and skype...) But seriously! There are people who feel unnoticed simply because no one has the time to stop and talk to them. I go to Penn, a school with over 3,000 kids in attendence. It is so easy to go through an entire school day unnoticed. Going unnoticed may cause one to feel unloved, not good enough, ect. Imagine Jesus at Penn. Do you think he would just keep walking through the halls, sitting in his classes, acting like nothing is wrong? I sure dont. I think that he would be doing something about it! He DID do something about it, two thousand years ago. Jesus saw people. He didn't just see them on the surface, he saw them on the inside. He saw who they were. He took the time to stop and talk to them. He got to know them. Now, take that back to today, at Penn, or wherever you are. See that girl at lunch sitting by herself? She deserves to know God's love. She deserves to be seen. See that guy without a partner in Spanish? He is a child of God. He deserves to be seen. Talk to them. Call them by name. Get to know them. Ask them about their day. It may not seem like a big deal to me or you, but to them, it could make all the difference. It could make their day, just to be noticed for once. We don't know what other people are going through until we get to know them.

Jesus was on a mission to save the world. He chose to die on the cross. We are on the same mission. We must choose to die to ourselves.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Marianne Williamson

No Reason To Be Ashamed

I have no reason to be ashamed of Jesus. He lived a perfect, sinless life and then chose to die for my sin. He has every right to be ashamed of me, a repetitive sinner, though. But he's not. He loves me continually and unconditionally.


so why is it so hard for Christians, including me, to tell people about their perfect Savior?

Chicago 2011...it's coming!!!

Can I just start out by saying AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED FOR THE CHICAGO MISSION TRIP THIS YEAR!!!! you don't even know. (well, unless your going on the trip too, then you probably do know and you can join me when I once again say, AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!)
We had our first meeting tonight along with the Nicaragua and Move teams! And it got me PUMPED UPPPP. there are 56 people going to Chicago this year. 56 woah buddy, woah. Not even everyone was at the meeting tonight, but I can already tell that this is going to be an AMAZING trip. There are amazing leaders, amazing students, amazing this, amazing that. I am really excited to get to know every one of the memebers of the team! New friendships are bound to be made and previous friendships will for sure be strengthened. And I'm really excited to see how God works through each one of us and how he reveals himself to us through our preperation for the trip and on the trip. I.AM.REALLY.EXCITED.

Please pray with me as we prepare for this trip. We need your prayers! and they will make a great impact!! Crazy, awesome, amazing things are going to happen on this trip! I know it! i'm just gonna say it one more time...I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

High.School.

I have a very strong love/hate relationship with high school right now.

more hate then love.

but I'm tryin to keep it positive, ya know?

the end.

A Love Song From God