HE LOVES YOU

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved (Ephesians 2:4-5).

The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing (Zephaniah 3:17).


As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on His children (Psalm 103:13).

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:38-39).

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love (Psalm 103:8).

...put your hope in the LORD, for with the LORD is unfailing love and with Him is full redemption (Psalm 130:7).

We love because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).

...and you know what? I love you too.

This afternoon I sat down at the kitchen table, and spent about an hour reading through my Bible and looking up verses and highlighting my favorites.

It felt amazing to just block out the world for an hour and focus on Him...

What a Dinner!!!

Oh my word dinner was GREAT tonight!!! Ok...I gotta remember all of this...

1. There was a stink bug buzzing and flying around our light above the kitchen table. We all looked up at it really annoyed and Mom was like, "Oh...that fan is DIRTY!!" and I reached behind me and flicked off the light so you couldn't see the dust and then Mom says, "Well...that takes care of that problem!" We then ate the rest of dinner in darkness.
2. We decided I'm invincible! After laughing a bunch about the dust/light off thing, Sanya goes, "This is a healthy dinner!" and we all kinda look at her and she explains "Cause we're all laughing!" and then Josh says, "Yeah...isn't it like everytime you laugh you get an extra year added onto your life?" and everyone was kinda like uh....and then I go, "WELL I GUESS I'M INVINCIBLE!!!" ;D
3. Mom cracked her knuckles and I told her that you shouldn't do that cause then you'll get Alzheimer's...oops...wrong word... :P
4. So this one is gonna be interesting to explain...ok. I had a meatball on my fork and with the fork in my hand, I suddenly raised both my arms up in the air with my other hand in a fist...paused, and then lowered my arms. After Sanya, Mom, and Josh finished laughing at how silly I looked I explained that I was gonna burp and it was gonna be awesome but then it went away...so I lowered my hands...haha.
5. We had spaghetti, meatballs, and buttered toast tonight. When I was eating my toast, I ripped it half and slowly ate the first part.  Well it took me so long to eat it that I forgot I had the second half on my plate. So when I was done eating I got really sad, but then I looked down and gasped, "I HAVE MORE TOAST! I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL GONE! BUT NO THERE'S MORE HERE ON MY PLATE! OH I'M SO HAPPY!!!"...then I commenced with the "Happy happy joy joy" dance... ;D
6. I got another meatball on my fork, and while talking to mom, I swooped my fork to the side and the meatball FLEW off my fork, klonked against the wall and then dropped to the floor.  I started laughing but calmed down after a bit...HOWEVER. MY MOTHER. My goodness...she was DYING! Like tears streaming down her face! Then she got up from the table and like hobbled with a hunchback over to the bathroom...SHE WAS ABOUT TO PEE HER PANTS!!! So she finally makes it to the bathroom...shuts the door...and then starts CRACKING UP ALL OVER AGAIN. Do you know how HYSTERICAL it is to listen to someone laughing while they're in a bathroom???
7. Once she recovered slightly, we all sang "On Top of Spaghetti"...when it got to the last line, "It rolled into the garden, and under a bush, and then my poor meatball...was nothing but MUSH!" I SLAMMED my hand down on the meatball that had flown off my fork...causing another eruption of hysterics.

IT WAS AN AWESOME DINNER. I love my family so much. :D

Procrastination...you goin' DOWN!!!

So you know how a lot of times people say, "Just live in the moment!!!" and stuff like that?

Well I realized something...living in the moment is absolutely perfect, because everything about it encourages procrastination.

Think about it! Why would you NOT procrastinate? So that you don't have as much work later and don't have to spend as much time on it so you divy (I KNOW I have heard that word but I'm just guessing that's how it's spelled? :P) up the work over time.

BUT. If you're living in the moment...you're not thinking about the future or the homework load the next day. You just wanna enjoy the NOW. And who WANTS to do homework in the "now"?

So uh yeah. Boo yah. ;D

Ridiculously AMAZING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIlkX87FolQ&feature=related

"Again" by Bruno Mars

Loving stuff by this guy!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wJXgqkvB9s&feature=related

Hands over my head thinking what else could go wrong?
Wouldve stayed in bed, how can a day be so long?
Never believed that things happen for a reason
But how this turned out, you moved all my doubts, oh believe
That for you Ill do it all over again
Do it all over again
All I went through, led me to you
So Id do it all over again
For you

I missed the first train, stood out in the rain, all day
Little did I know
When I caught the next train, there you were to sweep me away
Guess thats what I've waited for
Never believed that things happened for a reason
But how this turned out, you moved all my doubts, oh believe
That for you Ill do it all over again
Do it all over again
All I went through, led me to you
So Id do it all over again

(Ohh) Who ever thought a day gone so wrong, would turn out so lovely
Im so glad I found you
Even though the day went so wrong, I wouldnt change a thing (yeah, yeah, oh Ill do it)
Ill do it all over again
Do it all over again
All I went through, led me to you
So Ill do it all over again (yeah, yeah ohh)
Ill do it all over again (Id do it all over, Id do it all over)
Do it all over again (Id do it all over for you, for you)
all I went through, led me to you (all I went through, it led me to you)
so Id do it all over again (over again)

Who ever thought a day gone so wrong, could turn out so lovely ohh
Who ever thought a day gone so wrong, could turn out so lovely