Domingo Mañana

Oh my, it certainly has been quite a while since I've blogged, the schedule's been crazy lately. Well, today I decided to talk about the middle school girls small group that I teach on Sundays. (Oh, and by the way, the title of this post means "Sunday Morning" in Spanish-I really like randomly using Spanish sometimes.)
My middle school girls are wonderful. That time on Sunday mornings that I see them is my favorite time of the week. They're so sweet and I feel like they're ALLLLLLL my little sisters who look up to me. A part of me always wanted to have a little sister to look up at me, and now I have 8-10 every week! When my week is not going well and I feel like I'm not good at anything, I go see them on Sunday mornings and they listen to what I'm teaching them and I feel like I'm actually doing something right. (Not in a cocky way though.) I feel like God is really moving in them and I feel like they're really beginning to grow-and watching them grow is just so exciting to me!
I love spending time with these girls, and in all honesty, I don't like that my time with them is so short. So, my mom, adult leaders a my church, and I are planning a big sleepover at my house for all of them! I'm so excited!
God has truly blessed me with these girls. I'm so glad that I decided to take up one of the positions as small group leader. I might miss that time with them the most when I go away to college in the fall.

NYC is going to be MY city

It's been a while since I've blogged, life's been a tad in the way lately. Today I decided to share why I believe that NYC is where I need to be in my future. A few months ago I got a letter in the mail from the American Music and Dramatic Academy (in NYC) and I was offered the opportunity to apply for free (and if I get accepted-I automatically get a $1,000 scholarship!). College decisions have been making me stressed, insecure, and so on (all emotions I NEVER feel). About a month ago, just randomly while I was praying one day, I felt like I wasn't supposed to go to college-I was supposed to go into the mission field. I didn't tell anyone about it for quite sometime.

Then one day, I was praying again about AMDA and then I heard God tell me, "You were right-you are meant to go into the mission field, just not in a third world country. Your mission field is New York City." Then, later that week, one of my best friends Kyndall told me her dad was taking a mission trip to New York City for spring break. This trip was a trip he took almost yearly with students. My freshman and sophomore year I didn't feel called to go-so I didn't. When each team gets back, they do a service telling the community about their trip and my sophomore year after they got back, I felt God saying to me "You need to go next time". But, my junior year we got a new youth pastor and Daryl (Kyndall's dad) didn't do the trip that year. But now, I'm a senior and I have the opportunity to go-so I'm going. First the missions trip, then college-NYC is where I belong.

Avoiding Relationship Suicide.

I've never been one to really want to be in a relationship. Yeah, over the past few years I've liked a few people, but the whole idea of dating just didn't sound all that interesting to me. It's not because I have one of those "GAH! Dating is evil!" -type of attitudes, I just haven't found someone who I believe I could have an ideal relationship with. All the guys I know are either too much of a brother to me, too douchey, or they just didn't love Jesus (that needs to come before me to them).

So, just recently I've noticed that a good majority of my very dear friends are in relationships or they're about to be and almost every time I checked facebook, someone was in a new relationship, and I started to get a little frustrated about it. I didn't tell anyone that, but good ole' mother can read me like a book and could tell. So, this past Sunday we were in the car and I started talking about my best friend and her boyfriend (they celebrated their one year of dating last month-isn't that cute?!) And I started going on about how precious I think that they are together and about how I just love the two of them together, and basically just how perfect they are for each other. (People go on rants by complaining about things, I go on rants about how much I love people)

So, as I'm talking to my mother about my best friend she said to me, "You deserve that too, you know." (I hadn't even said anything about that, but like I said, mom can read me like a book). "I know you've been really frustrated lately that everyone around you is dating someone and you're not. But God's got a really wonderful man in store for you who will treat you like the princess you are." And I started to cry. My mother is wonderful.

People often ask me why I don't date, I'm avoiding relationship suicide by not just dating any ole' guy that comes my way. God's got someone better for me, no idea when it's going to come, but he'll come and he'll treat me like I'm a beautiful princess. Yeah, this whole waiting thing DOES get really annoying and it often makes me feel really upset, but like I said, I'm avoiding relationship suicide. :)

Love love love love love!

Hey there folks! It's been awhile since I've posted something, life's been pretty crazy lately. I've been checking the blogs I usually follow-then I realized I haven't posted on my own in quite some time. So-I'm back guys!

I've been thinking a lot about God's love lately, and just how BIG it is. I think about how blessed I am and gi-hugic His love for ME is, but then I thought about something-He's got the same amount of love for everyone. I mean, there's 6,964,860,174 people in the world as of September 27th at nighttime (I just googled it-try it-whe you find the page click F5, the number increases every few seconds) and just think about alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll that love He's got. It's like the concept of infinity- impossible to wrap my brain around. That's A LOT of love.

Optimism.

I'm such an optimist. Get Happy! It's a great day to be alive!

Concert time.

Last night I went to the Maroon 5/Train/Gavin Degraw concert. It. was. fan.tas.tic. I sang along with almost all of the songs (resulting in me not having a voice this morning), I got to spend the evening with some crazy amazing people (!), and Adam Levine is beautiful.
But, the concert itself is not why I'm making this post. (Even though it was AMAZING!) This post is about this song. My mom was talking about her being proud of me with my decision to not have sex until I'm married, and at the end of the concert, they did this song and it made me think of what my mom had said.
It may not be now, it may not even happen ten years from now, but one day, I will be loved. I'm already loved by God and by my friends and family, but one day I will be LOVED by THE ONE. And, since I'm a cryer, I got choked up during this song.
I will be loved. I will be loved by that someone special who I will one day give my full self to, because he's the only person I want to be with. I may not even know this man yet, but that's okay. I'm pretty patient :)

Amelia Island.

This post is going to be short and un-poetic/theological/etc like most of my posts are. But, however, I'M GOING TO AMELIA ISLAND ON FRIDAY! I'm so excited! We're celebrating my best friend's sweet 16! I've never been there before, but the pictures I've seen are beautiful and plus, it's "Amelia" Island. "Amelia" is my favourite name! My first daughter is going to be named Amelia Blair, so how could Amelia Island be anything but schmazing?