how GREAT is our God.

Discipleship. A group of senior girls sitting around a table talking about God, life and COLLEGE. Talking about God, who is the same yesterday, today and forever. FOREVER. Now, I think that we often forget how marvelous and wonderful our creator is. This God, this unchanging God created everything. He created the vast oceans, the innumerable stars in the sky, every single grain of sand, the unknown areas of space. He created all of that. Now. We got talking about how worried everyone was about getting into this or that college, and our plans for this coming year. In the Bible, God tells us not to worry. "Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" {Matthew 6:26}Wow.

two months

It's been two months. Two months we picked up our lives and started a new chapter in the beautiful country of Guatemala. Two months since my last Dunkin' Donuts coffee. Two months since I've my best friend. Two months since I last sat around with my baby cousin, snuggling on her chubby face. Two months since... Well, I think you get the picture. I love life here, and in these last two months God has grown me so much. He's blessed me with incredible friends, my awesome family, a house, breath...and so on and so forth.We've made so many new friends and have experienced things we never imagined we would. Living in Guatemala makes every day an adventure, but it's an adventure that I'm ready and willing to embark on.

graduating class of 2011!

that's right people...I'm almost to the finish line!

*life*

have you ever just stopped and thought about how amazing it is that we are alive?
I was listening to my dad speak last night at my youth group and he was talking about a book called crazy love by Francis Chan. He spoke about how absolutely amazing it is that we live on this earth, this round ball of dirt and whatnot that spins incredibly fast and we go through each day like its no big deal.We go through each day like its completely normal and safe for something to be turning at a extremely fast speed with other objects (like that huge ball in the sky we like to call the sun). Have you ever stopped and marveled that in the middle of every single rain drop is a tiny speck of dust and that is why it forms the shape it does? Have you ever stopped and compared two snowflakes? No snowflake has a replica. There is only one kind of that one snowflake. Amazing, huh? and just stop and think. there is absolutely no way that this stuff, everything could have come from no where. God is such an amazing creator!

its summer...in approximately 11 school days, i will be considered a senior. late nights, mornings and days spent at the beach. burns.friends. summer. right? maybe for a little bit, but this summer---this summer i'll be getting for a large move, anticipating my venture to portland maine in july praying that no more accidents will occur and that

just thinking

have you ever stopped and wondered why is it that in the winter when we have temperatures that dip down into the negatives we wish for the heat of the summer. yet when we find the degrees climbing higher and higher in the summer we wish for the coolness of winter. why is that? why is it that in the soft springy-ness and freshness of spring we don't wish for the cool wind and bright clear skies of fall? or just where God stores all that rain and snow? why does an airplane stay in the sky, because it doesn't seem like it should. where does all the water in the ocean come from? have you ever stopped and marveled at the fact that God loves you--no matter what you've done and that he created us for his glory? just thinking.
{job 38}