Papers

It is going to be a very busy weekend... I have to write 2 religion papers, both about 8 pages or more and finish up my capstone. I guess there is a reason why I am getting used to having no sleep and stuff, it is so I can stay up all weekend and work on these papers.

There is so much to write about, but most of it dosn't matter and wouldn't do any good here anyhow. One thing God was telling me yesterday was about living at a higher level. The illustration I saw was like this...

When you are a kid, you can get away with certain things and not get in as much trouble about them as if you were to do them as an adult. I feel that way in my walk with the Lord, I could get away with things when I was younger, but now I need to grow up in God and not settle for being a child anymore. I want to live my life set apart and completely consumed.

24 Hours Of Prayer was great. A lot of people participated and some of the artwork and log entries are fantastic. It is cool to see God move in something so simple as getting together to pray for 24 hours. Antonio and I were chatting about it and we both think we need to do more stuff like that!

I only have 10 more days after today until I graduate. Crazy...

Happy Thanksgiving

To all the blogger world, at least the part in the U.S., I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving today. I am currently on Vashon at my Mom's house, but I will be back at PLU tonight because I have stuff to do tomorrow.

Last night at Youth Group, I made this wonderful game in Powerpoint... it was Thanksgiving Jeorpardy. I was able to create links within the games main page to other powerpoint slides so it worked just like a game of Jeopardy. It was a blast!!! I was really happy with the game and the kids played it well. If you want to see it, let me know and I can show you how to make links within your powerpoint for all your future presentation needs.

Please pray for me today, I will need it...

Capstone

I present my senior research today at 2... (why am I writing this now?) It is on Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and I am excited to present...

Oh yeah!!! Afterwards I get to go to Rainier Hills and attend their Breakaway Conference with the youth (and Nate & Cori). It should be a good time.

I have some music and book reviews to post... 2 things in particular. 1 CD and 1 book that have completely rocked my world this week and have shown me such a picture of the Fathers heart troward me, His emotions, His passion and overall His beauty. It is awesome. It is really messing with me AND I LOVE IT!!!

I can truly say right now that I love Jesus more than anything! This is just where my heart is right now... look for the reviews coming soon on this blog.

I need to run and be all scientific.

Update

What a day. I woke up at 3:30 again today, I know I set my alarm for 3:30 at least, I didn't wake up until 3:40. This means that I must have grabbed my phone and snoozed it while still sleeping, weird... Work has been good, but I left today at 6 am because I was exhausted. I went back to bed for another 4 hours of disturbed sleep.

Last night at youth group was fantastic. Nate Boyt and I led worship together and it went so well. Nate is a great guitar player and worship leader so to co-lead with him was exciting. We also had the "big" church come in and join us, so it went well. It was fun, spontaneuos and God moved powerfully. I asked Nate and his wife Cori to pray for me before we started because my voice has been damaged from yelling at football and I haven't been able to sing very well. I can get really self-conscious about my singing voice, but God worked even in that and Nate and Cori commented about the prayer working because my voice was a lot better during the worship set than in practice. After worship, we watched a movie about the girl at Columbine High School who was challenged by the attackers, asking her if she believed in God and she said yes.

It was powerful and the kids were really touched by it, heck I was even tearing up a little bit! We broke up into small groups and talked about sharing our faith, I had a great group and we got to pray and talk very specially.

Afterwards, Nate, Cori, Nikki and I went to Applebee's and had Nacho's. The conversation quickly spiraled downwards fast, as we were all tired. It was fun though.

God is good, worshiping God is great and the future is exciting...