Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you.

The title of this blog is something that Jesus commands us to do, but is a lot harder to do then it says. I think we need to remember first off is that love is an action. We can love our enemies by being kind to them, which is something we always here but something the majority of us probably don't do. We are angry at them, we tell others all about their faults, and when we see them at school we pass by them like we don't even know who they are. I know I am guilty of this and I am sure many of you are as well. Loving your enemy doesn't mean you have to call them every night and give them a Valentine's day card on Feb 14th. Loving them can be praying for them. I know sometimes you don't have anything nice to say about your enemy, so as my mom always said: "If you don't have anything nice to say about something (or someone) don't say it at all". We can simply remove the sin of gossiping if we just don't talk about the people we dislike and keep the negative thoughts about them out of our heads.   

Praying for those who persecute you is hard. Especially if you are in physical persecution. But for those of us who are pretty safe where we are, what about praying for the enemies of counties? Praying for our brothers and sisters in Christ who are being persecuted and killed overseas?

Pray for your enemies salvation. Christ will welcome them with open arms no matter what sin they have had in their life.

The calm before that dang ol storm

Heyy everyone! 

School is back in session....and this semester seems like it's going to pretty easy so far (fingers crossed!) I have tons of reading assignments this semester and only one presentation, so I hope all goes well and doesn't because overwhelming.

If I could ask for prayer for my summer plans, that would be great. I am not sure yet what I will be doing but I do know that this semester I have to find an internship for either the summer or the fall. I would love to do something with crisis work or working on a psych ward. We will just see what the Lord has planned!

Everyone keeps asking me how RA is going...so far it's been well! I haven't really had to do anything too much yet so it's been good. Yesterday I got to do my first curfew checks and today I went to my first RA class, both were good :) Tonight I get to do my first hall meeting and that hopefully will be a breeze.

I love my hall. I am so glad that God allowed me to be on this hall. I have made so many great friends and I just love being in the company of so many amazing girls. :)

My Life is Average

So today I was bored and decided to read some MLIA, I thought I would share some funny one's with you guys. The first one is funny to me because I have been there.

Today, I was riding in the car with my mom when we got to a stop light. I started reading the stuff on the back of a truck and saw something about Farmville, Virginia. I couldn't help but gasp and yell, "OH MY GOD, IT'S REAL!" MLIA 


Today my boyfriend came over to meet my family. It turns out my grandmother already knows him, she hit him with her car a few years ago. MLIA

A few weeks ago my son died in Iraq. He absolutely loved MLIA! It made him laugh whenever he was having bad day. he always wanted to get a story published, so heres to you Mark!  (Ummmmm yeah, talk about sad!)


Today I was sent to the principal by a substitute teacher for mimicking her Australian accent. I am Australian. MLIA

Today, halfway through my shower I realized there was a spider. I didn't really care for it seeing it was pretty close to the drain. But about 2 minutes later I felt something touch me and I jumped scream and almost fell over, only to learn that it was my sponge poof thing that I use to wash my body. I am a high school jr that's on the football team. I've never been more terrified in my life. MLIA 

and then there are the people who post stuff on MLIA and I am like....really people, you might want to get a life. Seriously, here are some posts that are just strange:

Today, like any other day, I sat next to my best friend in Math. And today, like any other day, I'm in love with her. I know she reads MLIA every night before she goes to bed, and I want to say this. Meika, you're amazing, I've known you forever, and I've loved you forever, will you please consider me to be more than your best friend? 
(loved you forever? O i bet.)

 Today, my dad walked in the room and looked at me, and blinked. i blinked. he blinked again, as did i. he started making faces, which i copied. then he raised his left eyebrow. i can not physically do that. Well played dad, well played.
(uhhhhhhh....)


Today, I ate another sandwich. MLIA
( actually this made me laugh really hard hahaha)



 

Sad days

Ever have those days when you just want to be sad? You want to cry, you want to wallow in your on self pity? Sometimes I do...especially when it comes to missing my friends who have died. I have moved on, I have have mourned, but some days I just want to sit and go through pictures of them and listen to sad music. I don't think there is anything wrong with it. I hope not anyways. I think it's good though, it really relieves stress to cry sometimes. I know men, it's not "manly" to cry hahaha....but sometimes I feel so much better :) I have a sad playlist on my Grooveshark account that I like to listen to sometimes. I am such a wimp. hahaha...I don't care though. I used to hate to cry in front of people, still don't like it, but I especially hated crying in a movie. The older I get, the less I care. Seriously, I will cry during a movie, commercial, tv show, book, song, you name it...I am a wimp. And you know what? I don't really care :)

Here are some of the songs on my playlist:

  Lay it Down by Jaci Velasquez
Held by Natalie Grant
Estrella by Brave Saint Saturn
Little House by Amanda Seyfried