A Month in the Life

Today was really nice because I just chilled. I became a little kid again because my friend Christi and I decided to watch Robin Hood and Cinderella and then we had a couple of other people over and we had a craft night. We ended up making our youth pastor and his wife into sock puppets and then we went and left it at their house...we show our love to them in weird ways. It's either through toilet paper all over their house or by making them into sock puppets!!!
I got good news from my dad and his church tonight though. My dad was praying and God told him that how ever many chairs he sets up in the church God will fill every one of them. At first my dad just laughed but then God told him that again. So at first my dad was just going to set up all the chairs that are in the church but then he got some crazy faith and started calling people and told them to bring their lawn chairs. He's going to be doing this tomorrow and I know that God is going to fulfill His promise and I know that every single one of those chairs will be filled. I wish I could be there to see it but since I can't I told him to tell my mom to take pictures because I want to see this amazing thing that God is going to do!!!
~God Bless~

So today was a good day!!! In my first class I had a test, history, and it wasn't bad because it was all multiple choice and I like history so it wasn't so bad. THE BEST PART though was that my four hour spanish class was only 1 hour today...I was extatic!!! We had a quiz/test and it wasn't so bad but then my teacher surprised us by saying she had a personal thing and was going to let us out early!!! So that was the start.
THEN I got to see my brother today which made me excited too because I haven't seen him in a while and he actually went and ate with me at the good ole Mickey-Ds. I miss all of my family so being able to see him was really nice.
Now me and a couple of friends are just chillin' out at the house and eating pizza...Imos, the best ever!!!
Tomorrow will be even better because I get to sleep in and we're having some friends over again to just hang out.
So being a college student isn't so bad when I have days like this!!!

Hey ya'll!!! So today was a very LONG day but I was so glad to have church tonight. Our youth pastor, Bro. Binion, did really good. He taught on disciplining yourself to help yourself be the person that God wants you to be. It was good because I'm in that process of becoming who God wants me to be and learning more about how to be that person helped. Discipling is not an easy thing, spiritually, mentally, emotionally (emotionally especially for us girls...can I get an amen!!!...lol) Being in college you have to learn discipline even more because you have to study and do homework, get up in the mornings when you could easily skip, but you have to learn to be the better person and learn to be the person you need to be in order to be the person you want to be. Not an easy process and Lord knows that I can't wait til the process is over. I know that we will never truley figure out who we are but knowing that God is making me into the person He wants me to be is good enough for me. When you go out on your own finding out who you are becomes one of the top priorities of your life because you don't have mom or dad to follow any more, instead it's just you and following where God wants you to be.

But any ways, I'm going to try to put up some pictures tomorrow!!! Hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow and that you have been having a wonderful week!!!

God Bless,
~Amanda~

Hey guys!!! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I babysat all weekend but it was still a good weekend.
Being on my own and without my parents is very different. One thing that I had to learn while being away from them is how to rely totally on God and how to look to Him for the protection I needed and longed to feel. I ended up writing this just a few weeks of being here on my own:

Feeling alone, insecure, scared? I'm here to tell you a story about a girl who has been in that position for a while. This girl had lived with her parents her whole life. Feeling protected from everything and relyed on them for everything. She would still feel scared or alone sometimes but she always had mommy and daddy to embrace her and tell her everything would be ok. Until one one day she didn't have her parents by her side any more. They were a phone call away but they weren't right by her side. Suddenly she felt all alone, insecure of her surroundings, and scared because her parents weren't there to protect her anymore. The world became so much bigger and struggles became harder. She started to have to make choices on her own, take care of herself, rely on herself-something she never really had to do. She didn't understand why it seemed like her world was caving in. Feeling so miserable, hurt, unhappy she finally went to her room, shut the door, fell to her knees, and started craying. While doing so she started praying and talking to God about everything and while in His presence she suddenly felt a protection she hadn't felt in a long while. She felt as though God came and totally surrounded her and overwhelmed her. It seemed as though He was saying, "Just stay in my presence, stay right where I am and I'll be your protection, everything that you need, I am." Whith that she definently didn't want to get out or away from what God ahd for her. She realized that life is going to get hard but if she will just look to God and let Him surround her He'll take the place of what you feel is missing and keep you and take care of you. She also realized she didn't have to rely on herself when God was taking care of it all. Don't let the world and lifes struggles overwhelm you, let God take their place and surround you with His eternal protection. Psalm 61:1-8

I choose to share this with you all because I know that I am not the only one who has had to go out on her own and learn how to rely totally on God. Going out on your own isn't easy, I know, but to any one who is needing to feel the protection that they used to feel from their parents or some one else but you may not have them around any more I just wanted to tell you that God can be what ever you need Him to be.
~God Bless~