Wednesday, August 20, 2008

With all of my heart I'm going to Love you

Ok, so i have gotten off track, i guess i have just been so busy feeling like things in my life are going good and managing it that yet again i have brushed my reading the bible aside. Starting a habit is seriously hard. I'm already behind. :-( I really wish that i could have said that i accomplished my 30 days without missing any, but i can't. I never thought it was going to be easy and it isn't. But why? Probably because being a christian isn't always easy either. We have trials and tribulations and we fall down but i also have a great father who will pick me up. Brush off the dirt for me and tell me to keep trying, never to give up, because he's going to always love me. So here again i will start another 30 days. So wish me good luck and if you happen to ever talk to me or see me, don't be afriad to ask me if i've read my bible consistently everyday. I'd appreciate if i had the help of others to keep me accountable.

Now on to the excitements in my life. I have been talking to this great christian guy that i happened to meet at super summer. I have built the greatest friendship with him over the last month and i really believe that our relationship is centered around christ which is really an encouraging thing. Well I am leaving tomorrow morning to go visit him for a few days, as well as spend some time with some family. I'm really excited about it. But, one thing i hope for all my readers is that you keep him in your prayers. See he was diagnosed with Epilepsy his Junior Year of high school. He's had brain surgery once to remove some tissue in the brain. Well, his seizure are still happening more often than the doctors would like, and tomorrow morning he has a meeting with them to discuss whether or not they would like to perform another surgery where they actually remove a part of his brain. So while i'm on my drive up he's meeting with them. He had a big seizure on Saturday and is kind of bummed because he went 3 months without having a "big" one and every time he has a big or "grandma" seizure he can't drive for 6 months. So if you'd keep that in your prayers i would be so greatful.

Thanks my friends!!
I love you all!

Friday, August 1, 2008

1 Day down and 29 more to go!

Ok so i am going to hold myself accountable, and hopefully those who read this will keep me accountable to this as well, I am going to strive to read my bible every day for the next 30 days. I have heard that it takes 30 days to make a habit, and I know of all people that it is so hard to be in the word once school starts up. So Here I am going to try. I'm not going to randomly read different parts. I have started in the past week to start reading about the life of David, a Man after God's own heart. I want to learn how to be that, how to be humble and passionate about God as David was. I know that David was not perfect, he was not Jesus. But I believe he's in the bible to teach us alot. So i'm reading through Samuel 1 and 2. And my dad recently told me he had a book that might help me, as well as a friend who said he'd go through it with me as well.

God is so amazing, and i find that i feel very guilty when i spend so much of my day doing other things and forgetting or not ever having time to seek him and learn about him. I mean i love spending quality time with my friends so why is it, that i don't find time to spend some quality time with my creator. So this is my goal for the next 30 days. I'm so excited for school to start and i believe that this is a great way to kick off this next Semester.