!!!!!

the making of my christmas wishlist will be the death of me.
i need to study!!!! but there are so many pretty things to look at!




slaskladfjsdlfkjsflskdjf LUCY TRAN!!!

BAH! just gotta conquer a practical (TOMORROW!!!!!! omg), some quizzes, a [fun!] paper, a few more tests, a couple of finals and i'm fuhreeeeeeee!


Lord Jesus, please help me. there is no way
i'll be able to do any of this without You backin' me up!


--
a few upcoming prayer requests (mostly school-oriented):

1. Please pray for me as I take my biology practical tomorrow!
2. I also have a paper due Thursday. I think I'll actually have some fun writing the paper because it doesn't require research or anything. Please pray I just find inspiration for it :)
3. I have a psychology test Friday! Ahh!
4. Also, please pray I continue to keep myself spiritually disciplined by memorizing Scripture. It's so important that I keep my mind filled with the Lord's word so that I do not become distracted by people and everything else in the world.
5. Please pray I keep humbling myself. James' game plan for pride!! :) -- Submit to God and resist the devil; draw near to God; humble yourself. James 4!! gotta keep remembering it :)
6. Please pray for me as I continue to learn what it means to love people as Christ loves them. Please pray for me to constantly lean on the Lord for strength to carry out His love as selflessly as possible.

O-KAY!! I think I'm feeling pretty un-distracted now :) Praise the Lord! Let's just hope I don't feel the need to go off on a cleaning binge. Good grief. If I feel one coming on, I gotta do my best to RESIST! Lord help me :)

I love you all! Hope you have a wonderful, magnificent, BLESSED, CHRIST-FILLED MONDAY! My golly I'm using a lot of exclamation points. Sorry!! :)

reminders

I've been reflecting back on the last two years of my life. It's amazing to see how God has woven Himself so intricately into everything.. I've been looking back at the roads I thought were worthy driving down, the roads I came to find were all dead-ends.


Thank You.

I would drive down these roads I paved for myself without bothering to ask for directions, a map, a GPS, something. Something or Someone to guide me. I thought I had it all figured out; everything was in my control.


Thank You.

For letting me hit dead-ends. I would hit a wall and cry out, not understanding why everything I worked so hard for kept falling apart. But You. You worked Your magic and every road I've taken has always led me back to You.


Thank You.

For always loving me through everything. For loving me and wanting me when I didn't want You, when I wanted someone else or something else I thought would fulfill me and make me happy.

How could I forget that when You give, You take away? And when You take away, You always give? I'm sorry I didn't trust You enough, trust that You would provide for me a thousand times better than I could possibly hope for. How could I be so forgetful? You know the deepest parts of my heart; of course You will provide. Thank You for reminding me I cannot hold on to things too tightly because You could take it away in an instant. You have shown me this rings true. And though painful it was, I was reminded of such a great truth:

Nothing is forever except You.

Thank You for taking my life and everything I surrender to You and making it into something that brings You glory.

Thank You for taking control of the roads in my life.
I cannot wait to see what road You have planned out for me next :)

feelin good, feelin great :)

this morning i woke up feeling extremely thankful.
i've been blessed with another day of being alive,
another day filled with opportunities to be salt and light of the earth,
another day to live out God's love and just revel in it, but most of all,
i've been blessed with another day of praising God and experiencing His gloriousness.

WHOO! that's a lot of things to be thankful for :)



anyway, i heard this song a few months ago, and this morning felt like a great morning to play it repeatedly. embedding was disabled so i'll give you the link. hope you enjoy it :)


BE BLESSED!

Tobymac - City on Our Knees

complete :)

i can't explain this kind of love
i'm humbled and amazed
that You'd come down from heaven's heights
and greet me face to face

dang.

this hercules - go the distance song is gooooood.

shh.

I'm finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it's okay
The last thing I need is to be heard
But to hear what You would say

Word of God speak
Would You pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see
Your majesty
To be still and know
That You're in this place
Please let me stay and rest
In Your holiness
Word of God speak

I'm finding myself in the midst of You
Beyond the music, beyond the noise
All that I need is to be with You
And in the quiet hear Your voice

Word of God speak
Would You pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see
Your majesty
To be still and know
That You're in this place
Please let me stay and rest
In Your holiness
Word of God speak

Word of God speak
Would You pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see
Your majesty
To be still and know
That You're in this place
Please let me stay and rest
In Your holiness
Word of God speak



I'm finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it's okay

"There is no fear in love.

But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."

1 John 4:18



Why am I so afraid?


God has already given me His perfect love by sending Jesus..


so why am i so afraid?




Father, please give me a heart that is courageous. I need to be strong and brave enough to stand up and fight for You and what You stand for.

taylor swift - jump then fall

to know that You love me enough
to plan my day down to every little detail
because You know exactly what i'd love?


it makes my heart sing :)

grace.

but the harder i try the more clearly can i feel
the depth of our fall and the weight of it all
and so this might could be the most impossible thing
Your grandness in me making me clean

wholly.

i am full of earth
You are heaven's worth
i am stained with dirt, prone to depravity
You are everything that is bright and clean
the antonym of me
You are divinity
but a certain sign of grace is this
from the broken earth flowers come up
pushing through the dirt

You are holy, holy, holy
all heaven cries "Holy, holy God"
You are holy, holy, holy
i want to be holy like You are

You are everything that is bright and clean
and You're covering me with Your majesty
and the truest sign of grace was this
from wounded hands redemption fell down
liberating man
but the harder i try the more clearly can i feel
the depth of our fall and the weight of it all
and so this might could be the most impossible thing
Your grandness in me making me clean

glory, hallelujah
glory, glory, hallelujah
so here i am, all of me
finally everything
wholly, wholly, wholly
i am wholly, wholly
i am wholly, wholly, wholly
Yours

i am full of earth and dirt and You