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So today we had team time, and we all shared some of our most embarrassing moments. Mine included a couple of marching band moments, a time in 3rd grade where I cried, a time after 7th grade where I threw up, and a couple of weeks ago, when I was getting out of Greg's car and my shoe caught the seat belt and I faceplanted on the ground! Some pretty embarrassing stories, but I'm glad to know that I can share these with my family in the last few weeks we have together and we can all laugh at each other. I'm really gonna miss you guys...let's cherish the time we have left all together.

So, today I kinda have a lot on my plate. Earlier I had to call some restaurants to find out some info on catering for graduation. Tonight I am acting the role of a Bible-time person, telling little preschoolers about Joshua and the Jordan River all by myself. It's a big part, but still not that big of a part. And I've had this Clouds project for a while now, and our goal is to have it done by graduation, but with all this traveling and graduation and VBS and other stuff to do, it's kinda hard to find time to get anything done! But it's alright, it will still get done somehow.

The surprising thing is, I'm not too stressed out right now. Yay!

So I've been thinking a lot lately about how a lot of my friends are walking away from God...and how I can't even understand it. Today in early morning prayer P. Nate talked about how a lot of people that walk away never fully understood the significance of the cross. They never really saw that God's big, passionate love could be their own. They just use Jesus and the cross as a lucky rabbit's foot and a crutch. Well, I'm not okay with this! My best friends from high school are...ruining their lives! I hate this! And I don't know what to do but pray, and even that is hard at times, but you gotta be persistent, right? In morning prayer today, God told me that a lot of people around me are going to start sitting down but I have to stay standing.

So yesterday I joined this thing and a few other people on the team joined it, it's called Twitter. It's pretty much the best thing ever. It's like facebook statuses 24/7. It's pretty fun because you can text what you are doing from anywhere (obviously) and it will text it to anyone who is subscribed to your updates. Plus you can reply  to people's updates and have some pretty fun conversations! Yeah, I love Twitter.

P.S. (You should join too!!)

So, I have like 7000 bucks in medical bills, that I have NO IDEA where some of them came from, most of it should've been covered by insurance, and my primary insurance says they won't cover some stuff because according to them I'm still covered by Bluecross Blueshield Medical of MINNESOTA! I've never lived in Minnesota! I haven't made any calls yet today but I'm going to when we go on our lunch break...I just...ugh. Hopefully most of this can get worked out if I call the insurance company and talk to them about how I don't have BCBS anymore anyway, and I never had Minnesota. Plus I have late charges on some other bill that I don't even know what it's for because they never even sent me the bill until now. Ugh.

This is gonna get worked out, it's just...a lot to get hit with ya know?

Because the price of gas at the Mustang Walmart is $3.67. Heck yes.

And Mustang has a Chicken Express, which pretty much has the best sweet tea ever.

And I was thinking about how I didn't get a yearbook last year, yeah, my senior year, so I posted a bulletin on myspace jokingly asking if anyone wanted to sell me their yearbook from last year and I'd pay them, and my friend has an extra one that she said she'd give me for free!

Today is just a good day to be home.

So yesterday in morning prayer God showed me that sometimes He breaks our bondages and breaks us free, but then we get caught up in stuff again, and we wonder why He didn't really break us free from it, because if He really broke us free we wouldn't get mixed up in it again, right? Well, at least that's how it is sometimes for me. But it's not that He didn't break us free "good enough" or whatever, but if we are going to stay in the environments, mindsets, and situations that helped us stay in bondage before, then God's breaking our chains doesn't matter much. If someone is an alcoholic, and then they go to rehab and get sober for 6 months, and as soon as they get out of rehab they start hanging out at bars all the time again, well, more than likely they will start drinking heavily again. So when God breaks you free from something, you need to evaluate and change some of the things you do, some of the places you go, some of the people you hang around, etc.

Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Chris Tomlin

Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed

My chains are gone, I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy rains
Unending love, Amazing grace

The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures

My chains are gone, I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy rains
Unending love, Amazing grace

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow
The sun forbid to shine
But God, Who called me here below
Will be forever mine
Will be forever mine
You are forever mine

So last night Sonya and I went over to Pastor Dan Mooney's to go swimming. Angie and Zach showed up later, and then a little bit after that Ashley and Jessica got there. It was a lot of fun! We ate salad and watermelon and played water basketball and Sonya tried to teach me how to swim (well, it didn't work very well...) Well, later Julie came out and was showing us some of the stuff she does in water aerobics. That was a lot of fun also, but it is definitely a workout!

After we got back from swimming, a few of us went to see the new Chronicles of Narnia movie. It was great!!!

So, the past 3 or 4 times that I have listened to the Praise and Worship playlist on my Zune on shuffle, the song Better Is One Day comes up pretty quick. I'm pretty sure God wants me to get what this song says, that one day in God's presence is better than a thousand days anywhere else.

How lovely is
Your dwelling place
Oh Lord Almighty,
For my soul longs
And even faints
For You
Oh, here my heart
Is satisfied (is satisfied)
Within Your presence
I sing beneath
The shadow of
Your wings

Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
(Than thousands elsewhere)

One thing I ask,
And I would seek,
To see Your beauty
To find You in
The place Your glory dwells
(One thing I ask)
One thing I ask
And I would seek,
To see Your beauty
To find You in
The place Your glory dwells

Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
(Better is one day)
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere
Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere

My heart and flesh cry out
For You, the Living God
Your Spirit's water for my soul
I've tasted, and I've seen
Come once again to me
I will draw near to You
I will draw near to You
To You

Well, we just got done having a class with Lori Plumley about glass blowing and how it is like Christianity. We are continually being remolded, reheated, stretched, and broken. It was a really good class. And then we spent a long time listening to a bunch of crazy stories from Lori and Jeremy about their master's years, and we shared a few stories from this year too. It was pretty awesome. Tomorrow we are working at Church of the Harvest from 8-5 helping them do things like paint the dorms and clean up the dorms to get ready for church camp...I think. Well, whatever we are doing I can't wait!