SCREAMING LIKE A GIRL
I'm watching "Home Alone" & the part where Kevin puts the tarantula on Marv's face was on...Marv screams like a girl. I laughed...A lot...
I'm trying to make myself get into the "Christmas spirit." I'll have to say it's not working very well this year. I have no desire to go Christmas shopping, I didn't want to decorate this year. I'm just kind of blah. I've been listening to a lot of Christmas music. It helps a little. I'm addicted to "O Holy Night" by Rebecca St. James & "A Mad Russian's Christmas" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Two songs that I play really loud when I'm driving. Otherwise, there isn't much of the Christmas spirit flowing through me. I still have a couple of weeks. Pray that I get there. I do love Christmas, I'm just not feelin' it...
I'm moving in about a month & a half. I'm excited to say the least. I'll be living w/two, possibly three of my good friends. I think we'll have a lot of fun together. I know people say that you shouldn't live w/your close friends, but I've done it before & I'm doin' it again. I'm really not worried about it.
I'm @ unrest about a few things in my life. Pray for peace. I'm more frustrated @ myself for being the way that I am. I need to allow the Lord to intervene. I just don't know how He's gonna do it & frankly that freaks me out. My life is beyond my control. I need to come to terms w/that. Does anyone else feel me?
HMMM...
"Waterfalls of caramel"...Wouldn't that be a caramelfall? Just a wonder from the Snickers commercial to my head...
It's so weird how life seems to "happen" for many people I know & I feel like I'm @ a stand-still. I know this seems to sound bad, like I'm questioning God's will. Know that I'm not. I'll be what I am, do what I do, whatever, until the Lord says so. This is just an observers view on the things going on around me.
Anyway, so many people that I know are either newly engaged, newly married, or newly parents. (Newly parents, I don't think that's grammatically correct, but I'm not fixing it!) And most of these people, mind you (most, not all) are my age or younger.
I'll be honest here. If you would've asked me ten years ago where I'd be when I was 26ish years old I would've probably said something like "married w/a family." Obviously that's not what God has in mind for me now. Thinking back on that I wonder what my life would've been like IF it would've gone that way. I thank & praise God for the circumstances in my life that He's saved me from b/c I'm not married w/children yet. I know it'll happen when it happens & I'm not doubting that it will. And I'm not bashing marriage! Don't worry! It's a good thing as long as it's the Lord's will...Continuing w/the praise to God...He's good, He's sovereign & His plans are perfect, even when life takes unexpected turns.
Okay, don't know why I went on about that. Something funny about the newly parenting thing. Everyone I know who is expecting is expecting in July. Go figure. I'll never forget what my friend said, "well, it's cold outside." You can figure out where that's going...
Peace in the Middle East my friends!
SUNDAYS
Sundays are always good days for me. I'm always ready & invigorated to go to church. I just love it. I'm blessed to go to a church that firmly stands behind the word of God & that is active in the community. I have many friends there & well, it's just an awesome place to be on Sunday mornings. A couple of my friends came to visit there & we had a lot of fun. We always sit on the second row in the front of the "gymnatorium" & we took up the whole row this morning. It was great fun! There was a baptism & that always makes me smile, for the obvious reasons, but also for the way our head pastor says the word baptize. You'd just have to come & find out. I always laugh. We had our worship ministry meeting today after church, but instead of having it @ church we had it @ Fazoli's. A place I usually don't choose to eat @, but it wasn't too bad. I started feeling sleepy after we all ate, so I was pretty out of it for the meeting, but we discussed what we needed to & now we don't meet again until February. Nice...
It's weird how I gauge time. Like I would figure things as "before my work trip" & "after my work trip." Now I'm doing it like "before Guatemala" & "after Guatemala." I just skipped right over Christmas there. Just b/c I'm not doing anything for Christmas that's too extraordinary. Just staying home. Anywho, I'm going to Guatemala! Definitely excited about that! Pray for our trip! It's w/Christian Campus House & we're working our butts off hard-core for Jesus! (Something we should do everyday anyway, whether manual labor is part of it or not.) I'm excited & a bit nervous. I don't know many of the people going @ all & of those many people that I don't know, the majority of them are college girls. Woah! For those of you who don't know me very well, it's a lot harder for me to get to know girls than guys. Don't know why, it's just the way the Lord wired me. Just pray that I don't flip out!
Okay, this is enough boring rambling...Who reads those anyhow?
