let the waters rise

let the waters rise, if you want them to. I will follow you, I will follow you!

How often do we face things in life and complain about the problem instead of going to God and saying, "no matter what God, I know you're in control and I give the situation to you."? I know that I don't do that often enough. This song {Let the Waters Rise-by Mikeschair} has become a favorite of mine throughout my move to Guatemala, and has reminded me that God is in control. No matter if it feels like my world is caving in, I'll let God raise the waters if he wants to, because he's in control and he won't give me anything that I can't handle. Even when I can't keep my own fear under control in my life, and it feels like my life is spinning out of order, I can find comfort in knowing that I'm not the one who is controlling my life. I'm not the one who makes the plans. God has a future for me, even when the present looks so jumbled up. {Jeremiah 29:11}God, I will follow you wherever you lead me in my life, I will follow you!

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