Thoughts. Thoughts. Thoughts.

Oh the past few days...

Last weeks teaching was ended very well.
-"God you are the God of knowledge. You know exactly what is the best thing to do. You are a God of wisdom. You know exactly how and when to bring forth the very best. You are a God of righteousness. You will do exactly the right thing. What you do will not be wrong. You are a God of faithfulness. You will not fail to do the right thing. You are a god of love. You are absolutely committed to bring forth the highest good. You are a God of loving kindness. You are desiring with all of Your Being to bring forth the best because of your loving kindness."
(This affected my thinking so much. These characteristics have seemed so vague about God to me before this week. Knowing these things and knowing that God wants the best for me puts me into perspective every time a situation happens.)
-God never gives you a burden to carry it on your own.
-True security is structuring your life around which is eternal and can't be destroyed or taken.
-Psalm 86:9-13:
9 All the nations you have made shall come
and worship before you, O Lord,
and shall glorify your name.
10 For you are great and do wondrous things;
you alone are God.
11 Teach me your way, O Lord,
that I may walk in your truth;
unite my heart to fear your name.
12 I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart,
and I will glorify your name forever.
13 For great is your steadfast love toward me;
you have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

-God cannot be manipulated. You can't get something out of God by emotionally trying to trick Him.
-If you end up single, God is a God of love, and that is the best thing for you, because He wants the highest good for you.(Hugest wake up call ever.)
-Jesus is like an envelope and we are the letter that goes inside. If we outside of the envelope, we have no protection. We are completely vulnerable. The envelope is our security when temptation comes. How we get in the envelope is by thanksgiving and worship when temptation comes. And immediately get in before emotions kick in.
-We don't need to have the victory for tomorrow, we're not there yet.
-Patience pursues a goal without regard of times, because the value of the goal is better then the time being spent pursuing it.
-No one who is abiding in Christ is continuously sinning.
-The Christian has determined to avoid sing and quickly responds in brokenness if they disobey God. Our response to sin shows if we are really a Christian. Christians immediately deal with the sin.

This weeks teaching is called the divine plumb line. It's only the first day and i'm already getting a little overwhelmed. God told me in the beginning of my dts areas that He would deal with me in. Let's just say ALL of those are going to be dealt with this week. Oh boy.

It's been a really good thing to fall in love with Jesus, which is something that's been happening lately. I'm realizing how much He needs to complete me before anyone else can. I can see my confidence already changing alot. When Jesus tells you that you're pretty every morning, you don't need anyone else to.

For more of my everyday stuff and whats happening...
On saturday during the day, I went and cut hair at a harvest carnvial at a local church. I absolutely adored it, which was awesome because it really increased my heart and compassion for cutting hair out of love not money. My favorite part was this little boy who was dressed up like the hulk. It was windy, and so his hair kept flying in his face like a beard. He decided his name was the bearded hulk and created a theme song for himself the entire rest of the time I was doing his hair.

On saturday night was the boo bash. I missed my friends so much. I was really crazily dressed up like a peacock, and I think alot of my school didn't know what to do with me. But that's alright. And I wanted a dance party, but no one was dancing and I felt awkward. So my friend Amy and I went behind this huge tree and did all of our craziest dance moves. We looked like idiots, but it reminded me of what I do with my sister Kristin. It was actually exactly like that.
Amy is probably the only person on my DTS who has seen that side of me. But since she has seen it now, probably it's going to come out more.

Today we were sitting at the table during lunch and Chan walked by. Chan is this three year old asian boy. Hannah thought we said John, but we said Chan, so Nathan went off on changing Chan and John in everything he could think off. My favorites were Long Chan Silvers, and Chanson and Chanson. The things he and Shelby come up with are always crazy.

Today we also had casting, where they choose what we're doing for outreach dramas and dances. It was really embarrassing, but I just went crazy anyways. I've always loved acting anyways.

Anyways.. time for a nap.