Once In A Life Time

I thought I'd take a chance to write. Not from my computer, not from home or at starbucks, but straight out of the Apple Store itself! My computer died on my two days ago and I haven't been able to turn it back on. Well that leads me to today, Friday. At 10 o'clock I came into the store when it opened and sat at the genius bar to hear to promising news. I MIGHT be able to get some of my files off my computer. So they set me up for another appointment. Today, Friday, 12:15. Well let's just say it is now 3:00 o'clock and I'm starting to think that I'll be sitting here till Saturday. The guy that was assisting me said we'd be able to get files off my computer as long as they weren't on the bad part of the hard drive. I obviously had a lot of files that needed to be transferred because I've been here this whole day practically. It's kind of a once in a life time opportunity to blog at the Apple store. Unless of course you do that type of stuff on a normal basis! I'm tired. I don't want to be here anymore. I have so much homework to do. I am emotionally exhausted. I am physically burned out. And I have been trying so hard to have a good attitude. I am totally taking a nap when I get home. Much needed!

I give everything over to You Lord

In Our Neighborhood

I love all different cultures. It inspires me to learn how intricate God was when making each of us. All unique individuals, all filled with different journeys, challenges, destinations, opinions, and ethnicities. Our world is made up of wonderful individuals that I wish we could all stop and appreciate just a bit more! 

I give everything over to You Lord 

Fleeing Ideas

A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS

Imagination can push you past all limitations into a world untouched, unspoken, unreal. Imagination can set you apart from the ordinary into a new world built only for the strong at heart. Imagination can cause a sense of insanity from the thoughts being strung together, but it can always cause a beautiful outlet for those who express themselves through creativity. Imagination has the ability to leave a mark on history. Imagination has built the most amazing monuments, the most extraordinary books, it has set people free, caused revivals, it has allowed satan to have a foothold in individuals lives, but it also has the ability to be used to its full potential and combined with the God given talents, a collision with imagination is a thought worth remembering. 

I give everything over to You Lord 

Blindly Living Life

Wow! I can't believe it's been exactly 1 month since I've blog last. Don't worry I am not going to try to fit all the highlights of this past month into one insanely overwhelming blog post! So I'll hit you with the most recent and probably the most rewarding highlight! 

Highlights! Highlights! Highlights! Destination Zero! Radial Youth ministry, where I've served at for about 4 years, does a serving event each year to help out areas in our community. This year at destination zero it brought new challenges and a set of beautiful blessings and life changing stories. Friday night was the kick off of the event and Dan, my boyfriend, another youth leader and myself took a group of kids around town to different challenges and community missions. At the end of the long night everyone grabbed their sleeping bags and the boys and girls split off and slept the whole night of the cement floor. We wanted to ingrain in the students that we are blessed and to take a selfless look on life and serve others for just a weekend straight. We wanted the students to sleep on the cold ground to also be able to relate to those who are houseless and don't have the privileges that we have on a regular day bases. A lot of the kids don't know what is in our world past their cell phones, facebook, and schools. It was a bite out of reality for a lot of our students. A good healthy bite that was much needed! Although there was a lot of serving opportunities one stuck out the most. It was the last mission on the last night and it was called, "Random Act of Kindness." All the kids brought 5 dollars and what we did was put all of it together and then brainstorm ideas of what act of kindness we could do for someone else. The kids thought for awhile and decided that they wanted to go to Walmart and buy a sleeping bag, pillow, Bananas, a sub sandwich, a gallon of water, Power aid, a Bible, chap-stick, hand sanitizer, and gum and give it to a houseless person that needed a boast out on the street. We all understood we couldn't fix them being houseless, but we wanted to lighten the burden as much as possible. It was wonderful that the students were able to understand how it was to sleep on the streets when it's cold and there isn't any resources other then the clothes on your back. We prayed that the Lord would send us the right person and we drove all the way down town. It seemed impossible to find someone who was houseless and everyone became a bit discouraged. Eventually after a long 45 minutes we found two men walking together with a shopping cart and we drove up next to them and Dan opened the door and asked if they needed any food or anything. To all of our surprise they responded, "No, no, no! We're okay!" After Dan insisted that we had gotten stuff for them they were shocked and began to say, "We could use some food, I guess." We handed them the food and pulled out the pillow and sleeping bag and they divided everything up! They repeated, "God bless you, God bless you, God bless you!" We were about to drive off and I stopped them for one more second and looked them both in their eyes and said, "Listen, there is a Bible with all the stuff we gave you and I want you both to read it. It has all the wisdom you need when your out here on the streets so please make sure you read it together!" One of the men replied, "Thank you so much!" And the other man jumped in said, "Without God we wouldn't be here, so we're really thankful for Him!" 

That night a beautiful picture was painted in front of my eyes and I was so bless to be apart of such a little gift that spoke volumes to the students and to the men we were honored to bless. And let me tell you... it was SUCH an honor!

I give everything over to You Lord