About Me

My life is not my own, for I belong to Christ.

It is because of God's grace and for His glory that I "live and move and have my being."

I am currently back in Indiana, studying English Education at Purdue University, far from the home I've come to know and love in Victoria, Australia

My family means the world to me.

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    Sunday, January 09, 2005


      *sigh* Well...we tried. In an attempt to get back at those who so cruely treated us on Tuesday, Mary and I failed miserably! Lets just say we started out with shaving cream and silly string in our hands and ended up with most of it on ourselves...along with a lot of snow. (I have yet to try to wash that stuff our of my hair! I am NOT looking forward to it!) :'( Fortunantly, I think the only person who left a little "upset" was Patrick Hart. But I'm sure he'll live and I will 99.99% gaurentee that the shaving cream will come out of your coat! If not, then I'll have a lot more stains on mine than you will! ;-) (Not that he's gonna read this, but oh well.) Also, the "clean-up" wasn't hard and Mrs. Ray also gave us gi'rls a little hope for 'next time' cuz at least I was feeling pretty stupid at the time. Ahhh well. I'll live.

      On to bigger and brighter things...we watched "Ransom" with Mel Gibson last night. I actually watched it twice (once with Allen and Zachary and once with the rest of the family). It's a good movie. A little depressing maybe, but overall really good.

      Also, I am reading a book I got from Winter Conference called "When God Writes Your Love Story". It is incredibly helpful and I would definitely reccomend it to any guy or gi'rl. I'm not done with it yet so I won't give a full "review" right now. ;-) But I have to say one thing I've learned so far is to not try to fit God into your life. Even just a short quiet time at the beginning or end of the day isn't enough. You (speaking mostly to myself here!) have to let Him be the very CENTER of your life!! Just something to think about...

      Let's see...what else to post...ohh yeah! The other day I was really hit pretty hard with something Pastor York said at Winter Conference. He gave us a list of ten things we could do to be "against the world" (By the way, has anyone seen my notes from that?? I lost them somehow!). One of them was "If it doesn't bring glory to God, it won't bring joy to you." At first I thought, well there are sinful things I do that I enjoy! (sadly...don't take that the wrong way, it's true of everyone, I know.) Well, even though I kinda knew it already, it struck me that he wasn't talking about happiness for a short time. He was talking about true, lasting joy. That will never come from things that don't please God. I know, as I'm sure you all do, from experience. It's so easy to say, but hard to really strive to glorify Him in ALL I do. I get so easily frusterated with myself, but I know that God is a forgiving God and by His grace, I can truely glorify Him with my life.

      Well that's enough rambling from me for now. My family is watching "King Author" right now. I guess it's not really my 'type' of movie. Don't ask me what is. Hehe.
      Oh and thanks for all the comments on my last post! :-D

      Song of the post~This is Your Life by Switchfoot

    Charity | 12:40 pm

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