Wednesday. Christmas. In/Out.

I love Wednesdays!!! They are crazy busy but I get to have lunch with Brandy, direct the Christmas musical and see the awesome kids at Grandview. Brandy is always such an encouragement to me. She always has good advice and keeps me down to earth. lol Church, well that's good but nerve-racking but I know that the Christmas musical is going to be great but we have a lot to do between now and December 5th. If you need to take a break from studying for finals, you should come join us. I think it will be a cute performance. Besides that, I love the kids at Grandview, they are great and we help each other a lot! :) Random, but I can't believe this semester is almost over. It has flown by.I have a little over a month until Christmas break! I'm excited about break, I get to see my South Carolina Family and my Minnesota family. My goals over break are to practice guitar a lot, go to Pigeon Forge to do the ZORB attraction, and go snowboarding. Two of those things (ZORB abd snowboarding) are on my bucketlist!!! haha I should post that. Let's see.. Oh, I have to write a paper on my Atlanta trip. I learned so much on that trip. Ok, so really I have to do homework.
Wait, one more thing, if you guys ever read The Clique series you remember the In/Out lists. I think I'm gonna start doing that.

IN:
1)Baked Chicken Tenders
2)Skinny Jeans (still)
3)Getting homework done early
4)Naps!!!

OUT:
1)Fried Chicken Tenders
2) Jeggings (I hate them)
3) Procrastination (even though I still do it on occasion)

Homework. Mrs Jackson. Serve.

I've had all weekend to do homework but guess what I waited until 9:00 to start? Yup, you guessed it.. Homework. So here I sit, after a crazy busy day, doing none other than Jesus in the Gospels. I don't really have anything clever to say today. It was a pretty decent day. I did some community service at Asbury Place today. I met a great woman named Mrs. Jackson. I will be visiting her on a regular basis. She asked me to read Revelation because Jesus is coming soon. While we don't know the day or the hour, we are supposed to be "Dressed Ready". It was a very good reminder that Jesus wants us to be ready but not necessarily wait. Tonight I got to go with my Grandview small group to feed the homeless at "The Master's Table". It was a very humbling experience. I have taken food to the homeless before but I have never served them like we did today. After that I got to go see all my Calvary youth group. We had fun! We always have fun! It was good to see them :) So now that I've procrastinated a little more, I will go back to listening to my Disney Showtunes and reading "Four Portraits, One Jesus"
-love

life, worry, Jesus.

hmm.. Life.. It's fall, we're halfway done with this semester, the Christmas musical I am directing is in 6 weeks (AHH!), working at Wallabies is fun. So that's just a little about my life. Some other things have been on my mind lately:

1) DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING; PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING. Wednesday I was worn-out. Physically, spiritually and emotionally exhausted but I had no idea why. I felt like I was on a never-ending treadmill. Except for everything was running smoothly, class was fine, church was great, the kids were wonderful. So, why was I feeling like this. For once this semester, I decided to go to the Well and man am I glad I did. James preached on worry. Ding-ding, that is why I felt exhausted. I was worrying about everything: What if I make a C and loose my scholarship? What if I can't find a job when I graduate? What will I do whis summer? What if I don't get an internship next summer? Worry happens when we ask "What if?" and if we have already done everything we can, then what is the point of worry. If we have tried our hardest and given it 110% then stop worrying. If I have tried my hardest in a class on every paper, every test then I don't need to worry about my grade. Luke 21:14 basically tells us that we need to decide before hand not to worry. John 14:27 says Jesus leaves us his peace and last time I checked worry didn't equal peace.

2) WHATEVER YOU DO FOR THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU DO FOR ME (-Jesus). This weekend I had the oppurtunity to go to Atlanta with my Psych class. Besides being ans awesome class bonding experience, we got to hang out with homeless people. We were encouraged to call them 'friends' not homeless people so I will refer to them as friends from now on. One of the friends that I met with Jojo was this man named Clay. He had gone to seminary and just from a series of unfortunate events, he didn't have a home anymore. He was honestly one of the smartest men I have ever met. He knew the Bible backwards and forwards. The thing that confused me is, I thought I was supposed to go minister to them. True, but he ministered to me in ways I could have never expected. I have a different outlook on life now which I should have known all along. It is never about what you have, it is all about who you know and in this case, the WHO is JESUS. We have to know him for our lives to have any significance.

So those are two things that I have been thinking a lot about lately. This week has been crazy but it's almost over :) Weekend=great fun!
Love!