College group - wed july 19th

WOW!

Last night at college group was AMAZING again! God just really opened up to us last night! My friend, Davin (who just got back from Lebanon 5 days before all of this started) said that the service reminded her of the Acts 2 church. It started off with us praying over each other, then we had an amazing lesson that lead to God breaking people and us praying for them. We also annointed someone and laid on of hands, then seriously it was AMAZING! God was speaking through people giving words to them...people that they didn't even know! It was really the first time in a while that I have seen prophesy so openly practiced, and CONFIRMED! It was amazing to see God just moving in that place. It was so.... liberating!!! It was amazing to see God even just giving us a GLIMPSE of His awesome power! Please continue to pray for our group and for our church. Pray that God will continue to do even MORE amazing things through us as we continue to seek after Him.

So, about my friend Davin. WOW, it's so amazing to have her back in my life. We got to spend like 3 whole days with each other before she left (and then I left) for our trips and it was SO great to have such an amazing Christian girl in my life to encourage me and continue to challenge me to grow closer to God. WELL, yesterday we went to Starbucks and then to church and it was just SOOOO amazing to again be with her and be encouraged by her. I'm so glad that God is developing our friendship again. She has come SUCH a long way in her life and God has such an amazing call on her life. Pray for her, too, because she is heavy hearted for her friends that she made that are in Beruit.

God is blessing me SOOO much right now! Thank you all for being such amazing friends... I LOVE Y'ALL!

I need to vent...

OK, so I did some My Space surfing of my own (see Jason's blog entry called "rant") and I have to say that I feel the same way about a specific friend of mine. AND to be honest, I don't feel like showing them grace and love right now. I feel like just ignoring them and wishing almost vengence on them which is TOTALLY not the kind of person that I am. I've never been quite this...well, I guess I feel betrayed by this person. Not that they did anything to me PERSONALLY, at least not that I know of, but I feel betrayed in thinking that the friendship is fake, and was not based on who I was as a person, but on what they could get out of me. If I think of the friendship as just one counseling session after another, then I wouldn't be upset. BUT, when I see the friendship as just that, a FRIENDSHIP, I feel like crap. I feel like I don't want to be used anymore. I feel like NOT showing grace, not showing love, even though I KNOW that God has freely given this to us, when we DEFINANTLY don't deserve it. I want to desire to show love and grace to this person. But then why do I feel so...hurt?

ok, so, I just played the game that is on Jason's blog..and yeah, placing the states in their proper place was MUCH harder than I thought. Once you get past the first 15 or so, the rest just kind of becomes like a puzzle.... you really don't have to know where it exactly fits because you can kind of figure it out. BUT I didn't know where most of the eastern coast states where and most of them ended up being like several hundred miles off!!!! lol
So, here's my score
Average Error: 47 miles
Score: 78%
Time: 324 seconds

YEAH!! I passed!! hehehe

back from Africa

ok, so... I've been away for a while!
I made a B in my spanish class... I was really wanting an A, but I'm pleased with a B considering I took the final a week early which brings me to my next point..... I went to North Africa! For about a week and a half. It was definantly very different than what I expected. I learned so much about the Islamic faith and how it effects the lives of people, or rather, the lack of effect it has on people. There is so much corruption, so much abuse towards women, and oppression of women, and so much lack of peace. It made me see MY faith in Jesus in a whole new way. I realized the power of His love and grace through a whole new, or rather a better, pair of eyes.

After the trip I stayed with Jason and Rachel in Maryland for 5 days! It was SOOOO much fun!
I saw D.C., part of Pennsylvania (which was absolutely BEAUTIFUL!) , a little bit of Baltimore, and other amazing places around Carroll County! Me and Rach spent an afternoon at Morgan Run, an amazing hiking trail unlike anything I've really seen before. As I was splashing in a creek Rachel saw a snake in the water and it scared the mess out of me! That stupid snake ruined what was otherwise a perfect afternoon. Though, God did teach me a little lesson out of it. I also got to babysit the Burch girls one night, and that was SOOOOO much fun!

I had a great time and now I've gotta start getting ready for going back to college...
I'll keep ya posted!