Spring Break : 2011

Spring Break.......it has been so wonderful and blessed. There have been many happy, pleasant, events that have occurred during the break. It has been great to be with my family again....to be home again. I celebrated my birthday with my family and friends last Sunday. Monday afternoon I went to a party a friend of mine (Joe) was having. That was a fun time, spent with those whom I haven't seen in a while. Tuesday was a nice lazy day at home with the family. Wednesday was a busy, long, day. I had to get up at 7 IN THE MORNING ( sooo early, people. It was awful....) to go to my doctor appointment with mom. I was tested for food allergies....the results were all negative. Then I had to go get blood work done for testing. All of this was time consuming though, and after it we went to Walmart.....where I bought some clothes that were on clearance. That part was nice. After dinner, I also went to AWANA with the kids, so I could say hi to all my friends from AWANA. Thursday was another nice, lazy day spent chilling with the family, with Karate in the evening, followed by Shamrock Shakes from McDonald's, with Danny, Nick, Samantha, and Joey. Today was....an interesting day. I went grocery shopping with Mom and Joey. While they were shopping, I went to get a hair cut. I had a plan. I had a hair length in mind. I had a picture of the general idea for my hair cut. I showed said picture to hair dresser, discussed it with her and sat down. The hair dresser ripped out her scissors and butchered me or rather, my hair, in a mad frenzy!!!!!!! Okay, so she didn't 'rip ' out her scissors, and she didn't 'butcher' my hair in a 'mad frenzy'. However.....my hair is not what I wanted...and let me just say that it is not at all like the picture I showed this lady, either. She must not have had her glasses on or something. Sigh. My hair is very short. I look like a cross between a butchered lamb, Justin Bieber, and a hedgehog. Not exactly the best combination. Ahem. But....I reckon it could be worst. At the very least, it reminded me why I don't get my hair cut at hair salons. My Aunty Lynn will be the only one touching my hair with scissors from now on. My mom says my hair looks like Dorothy Hamill. I guess there are hairstyles worse than hers.

Right now, snow is falling outside my living room window. The entire week so far has been overcast and at times, rainy....but now we have snow. This probably cancels the plans I had for tomorrow. But it's alright, because God's in control of the whether and has everything under control. He knows what's going on. I fly back to college on Sunday. Not looking forward to the flight back....it's a bitter-sweet time.....more bitter than sweet, especially since I get air sick and just walking into an airport makes me feel queasy.

As my previous post stated, I am refocusing my life on Christ. It's something that needs to be done. I've been veering off track and been distracted by the things of this world and that needs to come to an end. One can not grow in to a deeper relationship with God, or anyone for that matter, without investing into it and spending time with Him. I can't expect to be joy-filled, peaceful, content, and completely satisfied when I'm not spending time with the only One who can give true joy, peace, and satisfaction.

To sum this long, somewhat disconnected blog post up, Spring Break has been wonderful, God is good, I have the best family ever, and I love life. Even at it's worst, life is better than death (and that is why I choose life....eternal life, through Christ Jesus).

(Pictures of my haircut gone wrong will be up eventually, I"m sure...........as soon as I am over the humiliating sight of it and have learned to rock the do. Be warned.....vanity may end up backfiring).

To Know My Savior...

To Know You by Casting Crowns

To know You is to never worry for my life
To know You is to never give into compromise and
To know You is to want to tell the world about You
‘Cause I can’t live without You

To know You is to hear Your voice when You are calling
To know You is to catch my brother when he is falling
To know You is to feel the pain of the brokenhearted
‘Cause they can’t live without You

More than my next breath
More than life or death
All I’m reaching for, I live my life to know You more
I leave it all behind, You’re all that satisfies
To know You is to want to know You more

To know You is to ache for more than ordinary
To know You is to look beyond the temporary
To know You is believing that You’ll be enough
‘Cause there’s no life without You

All this life could offer me
Could not compare to You, compare to You
And I count it all as loss
Compared to knowing You, knowing You


"Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me." ~Philippians 3:8-12~

Refocusing my life, my view, my eye's upon Christ....because knowing Him is the most important thing.