God Stuff
I haven't written in a really long time! Sorry about that! I guess life has just been too busy so I haven't had time! Summer is almost over, I can't believe how fast time flies!! So yeah I'll be starting school within the next couple of weeks. I'm definately not looking forward to it, but at the same time I'm not totally dreading it either. I guess I've just come to terms with the fact that I have to do school, and whinning about it isn't going to do anyone any good. The good news is that Erika is coming over for the whole week next week. That should be really fun, and a good way to end the summer! Her parents are going camping for a week, and well let's just say Erika isn't exactly the camping kind of girl. One look at her and you would know that! But that's ok, because I'm not either so she's just gonna come live with us. I'm excited. Ok, now onto some God stuff. So we went to Costa Rica last month and it was amazing. And then we got back and I really was worried that I would lose part of my thrill and excitment for God. Well I was determined not to let that happen, and so far so good. I mean yeah I don't do worship as much as I should, but it's just different. I don't really know how to explain it. It's like my relationship with Him is so much more real now. And where before there were times I'd be in worship and couldn't feel His presence at all, now I can always feel Him. Like the other day I was sitting at the computer and I was upset about something and I just prayed this quick little prayer to Him and I could immediatly feel Him with me. It's so cool. I think it's because I truely want a close relationship with Him now, and I'm thristy for what He has for me. I know I could go deeper with Him, everyone always can, but I'm just really excited about where we're going, and really happy that our relationship is so much more intimate. I don't have to try so hard anymore, it's so much more free flowing now. I love it. And another thing that's really cool is that I've been wanting for a while to beable to get alot out of the bible, like everytime I open it to have something really stand out to me. Like before I would always try to read it and nothing would ever jump out at me. Well I asked God to help with that about a week ago and I got alot out of it that night during devos. Then I kinda forgot about it, I was doing my Revelation study with Erika but I wasn't reading other parts of it. Then last night I picked up my bible and just opened it and the first page I opened was a Psalm and I got so much out of it. So then I flipped a few pages and opened to 1 Timothy (more then a few pages I know) and I got so much out of the chapter that I read there. So then I was getting pretty excited and thought that that was really cool, so I flipped over to Ephesians and you guessed it all this really cool stuff jumped out at me. It was sooo fun! And really neat to see how God's word can really apply to what I'm going through, and help me and comfort me. And God was just really speaking to me through His word and that hardly ever happens. It was just cool, and Pastor Rick has talked about asking God for something and then sitting back and watching it happen. And that's exactly what happened in this situation. So yeah it's really filled me with a hunger for God's word that I've never known before. I suppose I'm just continuing to grow in God. And my life isn't perfect so it's cool to see that I can still grow with God dispite my fleshy problems. So yeah all is good on this end. Erika and I are still doing keys at worship, but my uncle just donated another keyboard so we are gonna both be playing every week! It'll be just like in Costa Rica! I'm really excited about it!!! God is just growing our worship team all the time. Just when you think it can't get better and that you're totally where God wants you to be, He'll take you farther, and that's just what's He's doing for our group. Also Michael is preaching tomorrow, and he was telling me that God is showing him all this cool stuff about worship and how it's totally changed how he views it. That's what he's preaching on and he thinks it's gonna take our group to a new level in worship. I'm really excited to hear what he has to say about it! I guess that's about it! I'm just so excited about our youth ministry!~