Busyness

Today I started to fill out my FAFSA. Next year, I super hope to go to John Brown University, but it costs like $25000 a year. What to do? I'm thinking about getting a job somewhere like TJ Maxx or something, but my mom keeps telling me that I don't have time for a job. I have FCA every Monday, Guitar Club on Tuesdays, Worship Team and Youth Group on Wednesdays, and Church on Sundays, not to mention the various activities for FCA and Youth Group that happen over the weekends...so yeah, my mom is pretty much right...as usual :)

Speaking of Youth Group stuff happening over the weekend...I'm super excited for the end of this month because the last weekend is WINTER RETREAT! Each and every year that I have been in Sr. High youth group I've gone on winter retreat. We travel to a camp in the middle of Iowa (aka in the middle of no where) and have fun fellowshipping and worshipping God for a weekend. It's one of my favorite, if not my most favorite, thing that the youth group does.

This year I'm leading worship with my friend Lauren. We're both a little hesitant at doing so because each and every year our youth group usually invites a special band or group to come in and lead worship for us. Lauren and I usually lead worship on Wednesday nights, but it's nice to get out of the norm sometimes. If we have the right heart in this though, it should be good.

This is sad....I'm currently watching the Patriots bomb it up against Baltimore. If you don't know, the Patriots have been my team since the 3rd grade. I used to go to Isaac Newton Christian Academy, and our mascot was the Patriot, so the team stuck with me. :) But yeah, it's 21-zippo right now, which makes me sad.. anyways..

I've been working my way through CS Lewis' Mere Christianity lately. It's a good book. It's really hard to read. His writing style is somewhat difficult to understand...for me anyways, but I can tell that he's a super intelligent man. I was reading it last night and a line stuck out to me.

"I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' tell I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot leaern to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God: and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey Him."
~CS Lewis

"Jesus answered and said to him, 'If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to himand make Our abode with him.'"
~John 14:23

This is what I've been learning about in my walk with God lately...that I need to have my heart in the right place. If I don't do everything for God, then I am doing everything for myself.

I have to go and do homework and housework now.
God loves you! Have a great day!