New Houses!

Today is such an exciting day! It's so exciting because today my roommates and I are going to look at a house! I'm sure we will end up looking at several, but the first one is just so exciting because it's so new to all of us and we are all in the same boat together. It will be fun to look at houses and decide together what we like and don't like. The house that we are looking at today is actually just right down the street from where we live now. Therefore, it's still close to the campus! From the outside it's a beautiful house and much better pricing than what we are paying now. We are trying not to get too attached to any house though because we don't want to get our hearts set on something if that is not what God has planned for us. I'm so excited to start this process with my roommates, and today is the first day =)

The Atonement Child

I just finished reading the Atonement Child, by Francine Rivers. It was a very, very good book and I enjoyed reading it very much. Francine Rivers wrote the book "Redeeming Love", which is my all time favorite book, so I decided to read another one by her. Although I didn't like The Atonement Child as much as Redeeming Love, Francine Rivers did not dissapoint me. I think the book is a very good representation of a woman's struggle when facing the issue of abortion. Not only thinking about abortion, but let's the reader hear both sides to the issue, and then ultimately says what God thinks about abortion. Each child is a gift from God, no matter how they were conceived, and there will always be a place for them in this world, I just wish everybody knew and understood that. I would definitely recommend this book to people, because I really enjoyed it. Redeeming Love is great too! =)

Tired...

I am tired of school already! And it's only the third week in! =( I don't know how I am going to make it the whole semester. I already have tests even, all in one week. Next week is going to be a very miserable week. And that makes me sad because it is Valentines Day next week. Oh well.

I can't wait to move out also. I have so much fun with 3 of my roommates and I cannot wait to live in a house with them where there is no unwelcoming feelings or any negative feelings when you walk into the house. I can't wait to decorate our new house with them however we want, and make it whatever type of house we want. It will be great and I can't wait to get out of here. I really hate coming home to my own home and having these negative feelings and feeling unwelcomed. And I really hate that myspace/facebook have to be a source for sharing our feelings with each other. We live in a house together, we should at least be able to talk to each other, and one of us isn't talking. It sucks. I just can't wait to get out of it all and live with Kathy, Emily and Casey (3 of my roommates now) who actually have enough roommate courtesy to try and live peacefully. So hopefully these next few months will go by really fast so we can get our new house!

No TV For Me!

Today's Ten for Tuesday is pretty easy for me! The list is, 10 things you can do instead of watching TV. And since my house does not get cable TV, I don't watch a lot of TV unless it is on dvd. So here is my list, in no particular order.

10 Things I Can Do Instead Of Watching TV:

1. Read

2. Homework
3. Play guitar hero

4. Sleep

5. Hang out with roommates

6. Facebook

7. Computer games/Activities

8. Cook/Eat

9. Shop

10. Call mom to bugher

Thank You, God!

I really don't feel much like blogging right now. But it is Monday, which means More of Him Monday, and I haven't done one in a while so why not. I will make this really really short. I prayed a week and a half ago that God would show himself to me since I was feeling kind of on my own these days, that God wasn't around much. And just in the past week God answered my prayer and has shown himself to me in so many different ways. The biggest one being my new bible study! It was a spare of the moment decision to join this bible study (Refresh), and I just absolutely love it, and the girls in it. It is an all girls bible study that meets every Wednesday night. We are reading the book called "Lady In Waiting" and the book is all about finding God's purpose for our life while we are waiting for "Mr. Right". It is exactly what I need right now! And it is so great that I get to meet and grow close with a whole new group of girls that I have never met before. We all come from such different places, and I am excited to see what God has in store for us this semester!

Exciting Hopes For Second Semester!

Right now, I feel God's presence all around me! It seems like God works with my heart and in my life right at the most perfect times. Lately I have been having doubts about whether or not I am suppose to be in the Navigators, which is the Christian group I have been involved in on campus for the past year and a half. Even though the group and people in it had such a big role in helping me reconnect with Christ, I have been wondering if this is really where God wants me. Lately, I have not really liked what I've been seeing at Navigators, and I won't go into detail but it mostly has to do with the leadership team on Navs. Along with the fact that if you are not on the leadership team, or are a freshmen, Navigators does not really have a lot for you to help you along and encourage you in your walk with Jesus. And I fall into this category.

But anyway, I decided I am not doing a Navs bible study this semester, which is a good decision on my part, but also bad at the same time because that is leaving me with no place to go and get connected in a small group setting. I was at The MILL last night which is a college/20 somethings group with over 1,000 people in it that meets every Friday night. I went last night, like usual, and they made an announcement saying that The MILL small groups were starting up Spring semester. So I grabbed a booklet and the ONLY group that caught my attention and was at the ONLY time I could go was an all girls bible study that meets every Wednesday night. I loved everything this lady had to say about her bible study, and what is even more weird to me is that the study is called "Refresh" and meets Wednesday nights. Navs is called "Refresh" and meets every Wednesday night. I just thought that it was kind of weird in a way. So I e-mailed the lady for more information and to see if I could come check it out!

One other thing that caught my attention in the booklet was Mentorship. All last semester I was looking for somebody to be my spiritual mentor, and everybody I asked either couldn't, didn't want to, or didn't feel like they could fill that role for me. I prayed and prayed about it but God didn't provide me with that person last semester. And in The MILL booklet, there was an ad saying that you could get connected with somebody who could love to meet with you and mentor you and give you spiritual wisdom. I e-mailed that person as well, so we will see what God has in store for me.

Just to make this blog a tiny bit longer, I ran into a somewhat old friend last night at The MILL. I met her last semester and had a few classes with her and she is a member of Campus Crusade at UCCS. I don't have any classes with her this semester, and haven't talked to her in a while. So I said hi last night and we started filling each other in a little bit on what's been going on in our lives. I told her a little bit about why I have been feeling uneasy about Navigators, and told her a little bit about some of the roommate trouble going on in my house. Natalie then asked if she could pray for me quickly with me. We stood there and she said a quick prayer and I can't even express how much that touched me. Nobody has ever asked me if they could pray with me like that, and I loved that Natalie did that for me.

Before we all left The MILL for the night, me and 3 of my other roommates decided to get together in a quiet corner and just pray together, and pray over the unsettled situation in our house. It felt good to just hand the whole situation over to God, and to do it together was a really cool feeling. I haven't had much experience praying in groups, and this felt so good and right doing it with 3 of my roommates that are striving for the same thing. I am so thankful and blessed to have them in my life!

So anyway, this all happened within one night, and I can't wait to see what God has planned for me this semester. I hope that He can put me in touch with a new group of friends, and a place to go and be myself and get fed spiritually with other people who want the same thing. Even if that isn't what He wants for me, it still felt really good to feel God's presence around me so powerful once again.

Weddings Galore!

So this past weekend was my friend, Trista's, wedding. I was a bridesmaid in the wedding and I am so happy that I was able to do that for her. It was a beautiful wedding, and everything went just perfect. I looked pretty good too =). It made me really excited for my other friend, Tiffany's, wedding which is this summer. I am the maid of honor in that wedding, and I am very much looking forward to all the festivities for her wedding! Both of these weddings are making me think about what I want and don't want in my own wedding. Which is good I guess, it seems like that's all that has been on my mind lately. So right now I pretty much have my picture perfect wedding in my head, and all I'm missing is a groom. Hopefully he will come some day. I know God is preparing both me and my future husband right now for each other, so it can be that much more special when we find each other.

Now that the wedding is done though, I have the rest of my break to just lay back and relax and enjoy Christmas, and spending time with friends and family. I have so many books that I am reading right now, and want to read in the next couple weeks. I am looking forward to reading them without having to worry about school, or textbooks on the side. That is all for now really, I don't have much going on in my life right now to blog about, which is a-ok by me!