This happens too frequently.
The thing is...God has bigger plans.
Who am I to get in the way of them?
Joshua 3:5
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Recruiting...the College Kind
So I have completed my first "PR" weekend.
Let's just say, I have mixed reviews. There was a lot of drama involved, but when you take out the petty, stupid and unnecessary drama...it was great. I really enjoyed being out at a Christian music festival recruiting for my school.
I saw a lot of freaking awesome music groups. Skillet (for the first time ever. they melted off my face.), Family Force 5 (awesome as usual.), the new Newsboys (feat. Michael Tate as the lead singer), and many others. It was sooooo fun!
I leave tomorrow night for Gaylord, Michigan. I'll be at Big Ticket Festival. Interested in who will be there? http://www.bigticketfestival.com/
Well, until then...
Peace & Blessins',
College Girl
Let's just say, I have mixed reviews. There was a lot of drama involved, but when you take out the petty, stupid and unnecessary drama...it was great. I really enjoyed being out at a Christian music festival recruiting for my school.
I saw a lot of freaking awesome music groups. Skillet (for the first time ever. they melted off my face.), Family Force 5 (awesome as usual.), the new Newsboys (feat. Michael Tate as the lead singer), and many others. It was sooooo fun!
I leave tomorrow night for Gaylord, Michigan. I'll be at Big Ticket Festival. Interested in who will be there? http://www.bigticketfestival.com/
Well, until then...
Peace & Blessins',
College Girl
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Yeshua
"Savior"
There are so many names for God in the Bible. Reading through them, I am overwhelmed. Then again, I am overwhelmed by God in the first place.
Why would he make flies? That's something I was wondering as I ate my dinner at an outdoor reception at a beach wedding today. The answer? Cause he's God.
Why would he make a different laugh for everyone on the planet? Cause he's God and he can.
Why make so many different types of trees and plants and animals when in general, they are the same! CAUSE HE IS GOD. He is God and I am amazed by him.
I just started reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I'm not even 5 pages in and my mind has already been blown. If you don't have this book, get it. NOW. Luckily, I have a really great boyfriend that let me borrow his copy. All I can say now is that I am amazed by a God who made so many different things because he wanted to, because he can. All I want to do is make him smile.
That's literally all I can think of to say right now. My brain is going a million different directions and it's late. Well, early.
Peace & Blessins',
College Girl
There are so many names for God in the Bible. Reading through them, I am overwhelmed. Then again, I am overwhelmed by God in the first place.
Why would he make flies? That's something I was wondering as I ate my dinner at an outdoor reception at a beach wedding today. The answer? Cause he's God.
Why would he make a different laugh for everyone on the planet? Cause he's God and he can.
Why make so many different types of trees and plants and animals when in general, they are the same! CAUSE HE IS GOD. He is God and I am amazed by him.
I just started reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I'm not even 5 pages in and my mind has already been blown. If you don't have this book, get it. NOW. Luckily, I have a really great boyfriend that let me borrow his copy. All I can say now is that I am amazed by a God who made so many different things because he wanted to, because he can. All I want to do is make him smile.
That's literally all I can think of to say right now. My brain is going a million different directions and it's late. Well, early.
Peace & Blessins',
College Girl
Advice
Here's the thing. I'm no Doctor Phil. But when someone needs me, I listen.
So. When my friend needed me, and I'm telling you...he needed me...I listened, and I listen close. I can relate to having fights with the people in my family. I'm not talking light arguments about bathroom time. I'm talking some nasty fights. Fights that I regret. When my friend...we'll call him Vern...facebooked me needing me to lend an ear...I could NOT say no.
Vern went to Trevecca with me for a semester and a couple weeks. He became one of my really close friends. I did one of his favorite impressions. He moved to another Nazarene University a couple weeks into second semester, and that made it difficult to be able to bond. Doesn't mean I'm not there for him. SO. The other night Vern facebooked me. He had gotten in a HUGE and nasty fight with his mom a day or so before and things were not looking so great. He'd said some unnecessary things to his mom, she left upset, his dad went after her. His dad came home crying, his mom returned and didn't eat for a couple days, and Vern didn't sleep for a couple days. By the time he came to me for advice, he had gone I think, oh, 3 days without sleeping. We began to talk. Every bit of advice I gave him would be returned with an excuse for why it wouldn't work or why it hadn't worked because he had tried it already. I got VERY frustrated. I just wanted to grab his shoulders (by now we were on skype. I was talking, he was typing) and shake him and yell in his face. Why ask someone for advice when you aren't going to take it?
Then I realized. He never really came out and asked me for my advice. All he said was that he needed me. Vern just needed an ear. That ear belonged to me.
After a little while, we were on the subject of God. Of course he believes in him. That wasn't the point. He wanted me to help him answer a question that he has been wanting an answer for since he took theology last semester. "Is God responsible for all the good on Earth...?" Wow. How do I answer that? I am no theologian. I am no reverend, no minister, no one qualified (well, who really is qualified when it comes to knowing things about GOD?) enough to answer something like that. All I could tell him was to get the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I'm not even through the first chapter and I'm in awe of a God that I've been learning about since birth. (I'll leave that to another blog) I told Vern to read this book and to think about our God and let HIM handle things. That's the only way he was going to get through his trials. I told him not to worry about the bad things that were happening. I told him not to focus on things that were out of control. I told him to stop thinking and start worshiping the God that was capable of handling everything for him. That's all I could tell him.
I talked to Vern yesterday. You want to know what his reply was when I asked him how things were going?
"They are a lot better."
Peace & Blessins',
College Girl
So. When my friend needed me, and I'm telling you...he needed me...I listened, and I listen close. I can relate to having fights with the people in my family. I'm not talking light arguments about bathroom time. I'm talking some nasty fights. Fights that I regret. When my friend...we'll call him Vern...facebooked me needing me to lend an ear...I could NOT say no.
Vern went to Trevecca with me for a semester and a couple weeks. He became one of my really close friends. I did one of his favorite impressions. He moved to another Nazarene University a couple weeks into second semester, and that made it difficult to be able to bond. Doesn't mean I'm not there for him. SO. The other night Vern facebooked me. He had gotten in a HUGE and nasty fight with his mom a day or so before and things were not looking so great. He'd said some unnecessary things to his mom, she left upset, his dad went after her. His dad came home crying, his mom returned and didn't eat for a couple days, and Vern didn't sleep for a couple days. By the time he came to me for advice, he had gone I think, oh, 3 days without sleeping. We began to talk. Every bit of advice I gave him would be returned with an excuse for why it wouldn't work or why it hadn't worked because he had tried it already. I got VERY frustrated. I just wanted to grab his shoulders (by now we were on skype. I was talking, he was typing) and shake him and yell in his face. Why ask someone for advice when you aren't going to take it?
Then I realized. He never really came out and asked me for my advice. All he said was that he needed me. Vern just needed an ear. That ear belonged to me.
After a little while, we were on the subject of God. Of course he believes in him. That wasn't the point. He wanted me to help him answer a question that he has been wanting an answer for since he took theology last semester. "Is God responsible for all the good on Earth...?" Wow. How do I answer that? I am no theologian. I am no reverend, no minister, no one qualified (well, who really is qualified when it comes to knowing things about GOD?) enough to answer something like that. All I could tell him was to get the book Crazy Love by Francis Chan. I'm not even through the first chapter and I'm in awe of a God that I've been learning about since birth. (I'll leave that to another blog) I told Vern to read this book and to think about our God and let HIM handle things. That's the only way he was going to get through his trials. I told him not to worry about the bad things that were happening. I told him not to focus on things that were out of control. I told him to stop thinking and start worshiping the God that was capable of handling everything for him. That's all I could tell him.
I talked to Vern yesterday. You want to know what his reply was when I asked him how things were going?
"They are a lot better."
Peace & Blessins',
College Girl
Monday, June 7, 2010
Busy
Wow. Life. Busy.
I was told to update my blog, so here I am! Ever since school ended, I haven't necessarily been BUSY, but I haven't been just sitting around. I've been home, I've been back, I've been laying by the pool, and I've gotten a SWEET job. Never fear, I'm still an Abba Java employee, but we all don't work there during the summer.
So, about this new job. I'm working with TNU. Sound fun? Well, it should be! I'll be traveling with 3 other people (different each time) to different music festivals in the US. First (from June 16-20) I'll be at Atlantafest in Atlanta, GA. We'll set up a booth and tell thousands of kids about Trevecca. It should be really awesome! From June 24-27, I'll be in MICHIGAN at Big Ticket Festival. Then, June 28-July 3 I'll be in Bushnell, IL for Cornerstone Festival. WOW. That's a lot of stuff going on in a close period of time. I am going to a couple others, but those aren't until August and September.
Sure, I'll be making a lot of money doing this, but it's going to be SO FUN and SO WORTH the sweat and exhaustion!
Anyway, that's the main thing going on in my life. I'm nervous about it. We'll be traveling in a tour bus, really getting to know each other REAL well. YAYYY.
I'm so excited for this opportunity. It's a big deal. (I mean, the least amount of people at these festivals will be 15,000 people!) That's a whole lot! Just keep me in your prayers as I go out to recruit people to Trevecca, a place where everyone should be! :)
Peace & Blessin's,
College Girl
P.S. I have the best, most understanding, most caring boyfriend in the world and I like him a whole lot. :)
I was told to update my blog, so here I am! Ever since school ended, I haven't necessarily been BUSY, but I haven't been just sitting around. I've been home, I've been back, I've been laying by the pool, and I've gotten a SWEET job. Never fear, I'm still an Abba Java employee, but we all don't work there during the summer.
So, about this new job. I'm working with TNU. Sound fun? Well, it should be! I'll be traveling with 3 other people (different each time) to different music festivals in the US. First (from June 16-20) I'll be at Atlantafest in Atlanta, GA. We'll set up a booth and tell thousands of kids about Trevecca. It should be really awesome! From June 24-27, I'll be in MICHIGAN at Big Ticket Festival. Then, June 28-July 3 I'll be in Bushnell, IL for Cornerstone Festival. WOW. That's a lot of stuff going on in a close period of time. I am going to a couple others, but those aren't until August and September.
Sure, I'll be making a lot of money doing this, but it's going to be SO FUN and SO WORTH the sweat and exhaustion!
Anyway, that's the main thing going on in my life. I'm nervous about it. We'll be traveling in a tour bus, really getting to know each other REAL well. YAYYY.
I'm so excited for this opportunity. It's a big deal. (I mean, the least amount of people at these festivals will be 15,000 people!) That's a whole lot! Just keep me in your prayers as I go out to recruit people to Trevecca, a place where everyone should be! :)
Peace & Blessin's,
College Girl
P.S. I have the best, most understanding, most caring boyfriend in the world and I like him a whole lot. :)
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