Jesus has new mercy for me everyday

                              " Amazing love how can it be?"   
  My life this past week has been completely crazy like no joke. I'm so busy working on my thesis, doing homework, doing the yearbook, now planning formal and working that I haven't had time for myself hardly. I feel like I don't have a life and it is really sad considering it is my senior year. Your senior year is supposed to be the greatest year of your high school career, but mine has not been. It's been mostly very stressful. When I get really stressed all I can do is ask God to help me through this period in my life because I know soon my life will be changing for the good and I might not be as stressful. 
     
     Psalm 150: 1-4
"Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and his strength ; seek his face always."


Today when doing my daily quiet time with God. I ran across this verse. It really is an awesome verse. I think everyday we should give praise to God not just when we feel good because even when we are having a bad day we can still praise Him and it will make our day better! 
   

   At the end of June I'm going to Honduras! I'm so excited to see what God is going to do there for the people. I will be there for 2 weeks. I will be going with a team from Trinity Chapel. It is going to be an amazing trip I can feel it in my bones. God has so much planned for the people in Honduras! He is going to set people free from their chains of bondage. 

 I know God has so much planned for me after I graduate and start a new life. I don't know where he will lead me, but I do know he will show me what to do and help me through all the tough times in college, work, and etc. A wise person once told me change is good. I never believe it till I looked at my life from the past nine years. I never saw that me moving away from my family to a new place was good till I saw how much I have grown spiritually, mentally and physically. This move was good for me I have made some really awesome friends, I started going to mission trips, I got closer to the Lord also! 

"There may be pain in the night, but joy comes in the morning"

My Obsession

 "Delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart"- Psalm 37:4


I can't describe of how much in love I am with the Lord. My love for Him is indescribable. He amazes me everyday with new challenges. And helping me through things in my life. With his help i can do anything! Lately I have gotten a lot closer to the Lord, I spend more time with Him and i listen to Christian music instead of non-Christian. But I always want more of Him no matter how much i get I always want more, What if everyone wanted more and more of God? You know how awesome that would be?  But then again the Lord asked us to spread the Gospel to people and to the nations. Even though it may be tough it's so worth getting that person to Heaven! 

 I don't know what i would do if I didn't have the Lord to help me in my life. I want to make the Lord my everything. I don't want some boy being my everything, or clothes, money, friends, I want God to come first in my life. I have a obsession...that obsession is you Lord.




There are so many decisions i have to make in the short time period i have till i graduate. They aren't very easy decisions either. I keep asking myself what do i do? Either i go to Pellissippi for 2 years and get my basics down or go to Youth with a Mission (YWAM). My heart is saying go to YWAM, but then its like no u need to go to college first. I'm so scared I'm going to make the wrong decision and regret it. But why would i regret missions when I'm absolutely in love with it? As Adam Lutts would say, "Go and Do". Easier said then done. I wish I could make the decision right now ,but i feel like i should pray on it a little more. 


Everyday I want to dance for my Jesus and sing for Him. I want to praise Him everyday for helping me through the tough times in my life. He is so worth it he is the best guy ever!
"Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days."- Psalm 90:14

New Day, New Adventure

It's so amazing how everyday you can start all over again. Have you ever thought of that? No matter how bad the day before was you can still start all over again the next day. I'm going to be honest I usually let things bother me a lot and probably a little too much. But i still try to make a good day out of it even if its really hard. But why is it when people get really mad they start cussing like crazy? I mean it isn't going to change anything. Its just going to make that person look really immature. So why do it? Why not act your age and talk it out instead of yelling and cussing? Now I'll admit I do yell when i get which i hate so much and I'm working on and i know it doesn't change anything, but yet I still do it sometimes, but you know it isn't worth it. Because something you say in 10 seconds can ruin the next 20 years. I'm going to tell you a story my dad told me.

There were two brothers, they started a restaurant together. For some reason they  disagreed about something. (We aren't sure what they disagreed on) But ever since that day. The brothers spilt up and the other brother made the same exact restaurant right behind the other brother. And they haven't talked in 50 years. 

You know when my dad told me that story I thought why would they not talk for that long thats crazy. They are brothers and i guarantee whatever they fought about is something little and they are just being silly about it. Now i would NEVER want that to happen with me and my sisters or even my friends. I would be loosing something great if that did happen and i would make sure that it didn't happen. 

I love my sisters!

My sisters are amazing. That is all i can say. And yes we have had silly fights haha. But you know we love each other no matter what! We have crazy stories that have happened while together and some we will take to the grave. There are some we will tell everyone we meet just to embarrass each other. And there are some that will make us laugh when we are by ourselves. 

I love these ladies!

My friends keep me in line and thats for sure. Usually when we hang out we just sit and talk about stuff which is great and i love. We don't get to have all three of us together a lot since Jessica is at college, but when she does get to visit its a awesome reunion! I'm so glad i have these girls as friends they are awesome. I love you guys!

When you wake up in the morning after a hard day and you can say new day, new adventure. Bring it!

Listen to 16_e_16s Playlist

Missions

Last night while laying in bed a lot was on my mind. I was thinking about my past mission trips. And i totally realized something while laying there and thinking about it. Us as americans and US citizens have so much and we take it for granted. Ok yea i know a lot of people say that and it probably gets super annoying hearing it, but it is true. When i was on my first trip to Chincha, Peru it was a totally new experience for me. Now when we went to Chincha they just went through a really bad earthquake and didn't have much at all and even without the earthquake they didn't have a lot. But im going to tell you a short story.I was at a pizza parol and let me tell you the bathrooms there were not nice at all the nicest ones i saw was at my hotel and i wasn't there much lol. So i walk in the bathroom and all i see is the bowl of the toilet there was no toilet seat and no toilet paper at all. I was like really? Oh man. So sometimes when i see a toilet with a seat im pretty happy that we are lucky enough to have that.

this was the view from my hotel room.

some people digging through trash.

Now I cant pick my favorite mission trip because i love them all for different reasons, but ill have to say my favorite with locations and settings would have to be Barranquilla, Colombia! It was such a beautiful place all over! This has to be one of the million places in Barranquilla that i loved it was so gorgeous and very peaceful.

Now where we lived was right in the city so when we left the hotel we were right on the street with busy cars coming from left to right, but everyday i would see homeless people laying outside of our hotel on the sidewalk or just sitting it was really sad.

When i went to Iquitos, Peru my favorite thing we did is we went on the Amazon river! it was so cool! We also went to a tribe while we were there and danced with them and spent time with them.

My favorite thing about mission trip is the kids. The kids really show how excited they are to see you and spend time with you. They are such sweet kids and sometimes if you give them a bracelet that we make for all the kids explaining salvation, they will come up to you at the crusade and give you a hug.

Things that have crossed my mind:

This is totally off topic, but today while i listened to Taylor Swift's song "The Way I Loved You". When I really listened to the lyrics and really paid attention to it and when it says, 

"But I've been screamin and fightin 

And Kissing in the rain

It's 2am and I am cursin your name

You're so in love that you act insane

And thats the way I loved you"

Why is it we can act that crazy for a boy? Why is it we can sit down right a billion songs about how guys are this and that and talk about how crazy in love you are with him. Why can't we be that crazy in love with Jesus? Why can't we sit down and write a couple songs about how much we love him and how crazy we are about him? Now if i was on the other side of the screen and reading this i would be like man i never thought of it that way. You know we get so busy with life and trying to find a boy that we don't realize what is really important. Now i know all the girls in the world want to find there prince charming, but we can't do it without Jesus. I mean we can date a couple guys here and there, but yet you still feel like it's not right. The right guy will come in Gods time not in our time and that is even hard for me to admit sometimes because im always saying i want a boyfriend, but right now i have the greatest guy ever and thats JESUS!

A Snowy time

Well it's been a awesome week. All the snow has been amazing and so beautiful. And its been nice for me because I was out of school for 3 days. :) But during this time that i've been out i have been thinking alot lately on how i dont make time for God in my life anymore. I've been so busy lately that i haven't stopped to slow down and take some time and have quiet time with God. So today i changed that i sat down for 15 minutes and journaled  and read my Bible. And i have to say after that it felt good that i made time! Im hoping to keep this up, but im going to ask God to help me through this and give me strength to keep on going. This one step is a start to something though!

Yesterday my Uncle Brad came back from China for a couple days to visit it was really good to see him! Jessica was pretty happy to see him too! Even though it was for a short time it was still alot of fun! We hope to see him again soon and Dana! We love you guys!

Benji my poodle had alot of fun too he absolutely loves the snow haha. he is a awesome dog and i wouldn't trade him for anything! He is a crazy thing but hey thats what dogs are for!

 This is our yard! It got completely covered! It was so awesome waking up on monday morning to this! I think everyone in Tennessee is ready for spring and summer now! :)