this wknd

I'm about to leave for a mission trip in Houston for this weekend!!!! (Lord willing, of course...)
Please pray for us.
I love you all
Britt

a day of surprises

Today was a wonderfully marvelous day!!!

I stayed up until 3:00am and got my paper finished (praise God for keeping me up and alert that late!!!).

Then, this afternoon, Jeremy showed up at school just to surprise me! He was in Longview for a check-up, post-wisdom teeth being pulled last week and got done WAY early, so decided to come and see me (a mere hour out of his way!) and drive back just in time for his night class. He ended up being a little late for it, but I think it was well worth it! lol

Tonight I had a VERY SMALL induction ceremony for Alpha Chi (an honors society) and told my Mom about it. She also surprised me by showing up to it!

Today was just a great day. God really blessed me today, and the great thing is that I didn't even ask for any of it. Sometimes it's the blessings that you get from God without asking for that mean the most. It's like today was a gift from The One who truly loves me the most. He knows exactly what I need, even when I didn't know I needed it.

Thank you Lord for days like today with lots of sunshine, beautiful flowers, and special surprises in the form of some people that I love the most in this world. Help me to bless others in your name, and help me to show my love and affection back to You. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Research papers should be put to death...

Ok, so I'm writing a research paper for Specific Phobias right now and this is horrible! It's taking me forever to find the information that I need, and when I find it, the journals are SOOOO long and they go on and on about nothing! Are these psychologists getting paid by the word or what? I just want to know what research they did, what they found, and what it means. I don't need to read 4 pages (two-columned pages) of useless information, half of which I don't understand anyways, on how they decided to research this topic.
Get to the point man!

But sadly, my opinion won't change anything. Maybe one day, when I'm all grown up, I'll show them how it's REALLY done...ya...

Over and out.

Spring Break begins

Well, my Spring Break began with a "bang"! Jeremy and I worked a Disciple Now this weekend at Providence Baptist Church, here in Hudson. It was great. God really did move in some of the kids lives. For a lot of them it seemed like they just didn't know about some things. For the girls, we really focused on how God created them beautiful, the power of that beauty, and also modesty. Jeremy actually made them a video just expressing his heart on this, and also from a guy's point-of-view on the issue. The girls really responded to that! Most of the girls were shocked that some of the things they had been wearing, and some of the ways they had been acting were sending the wrong message and I guess they just finally came to an understanding of the power of their beauty.
The HS guys talked about pornography, alcohol, sex... Jeremy told me that a lot of them became aware of the fact that just because you don't get caught by the law or your parents doesn't mean that it's ok. They were basically living double lives and had to come face-to-face with it this weekend.
I know that for some of these students that these will only be weekend promises, but I really do feel like a few of them 'got it.' My hope is that there will be leaders that will step up in the youth group, because I really saw that missing in this group. They are just kind of letting each other be complacent, and it's time that some of them step up and lead out. They really need that.
Final note: God really laid it on my heart to give Brent's testimony, and so I did so on Saturday night. It was so hard. I knew it was what God wanted, but just having to relive some of those memories was difficult. I actually had a girl come up to me after it was over and talk to me about some things and I was so encouraged that Brent's testimony was able to help her out.

I love all of you guys and I hope to keep you updated on what's going on in my life.

- Brittany