Constant Reminders

As I sit here, (breathing very hard by the way) I watch as my sister executes an excruciating stair climb exercise. As I started volleyball practice for my USAV team this week I have begun my own at home conditioning training. As I ran my stairs my sister decided she was going to try doing it too. It is NOT easy folks, the longer you climb up and down the heavier you legs seem to get. That didn't stop Megan. She started up the stairs giving it all her energy, all her focus, and all her determination. As I watched it reminded me of how we should be doing this everyday. Not running up and down stairs, but giving all our energy, focus, and determination into having a life-changing relationship with Christ.
We usually don't give God all the attention He deserves from us. I fall short in that area quite often myself. That's definitely something I need to work at in 2008. I think sometimes we only half-heartedly seek a relationship with Christ. We decide we will work harder at it tomorrow. Oh, our personal God time can wait another day or two. I'm too hungry to wait and say a prayer or I'm too tired to say a prayer before I go to sleep. TODAY IS THE DAY! Don't wait until tomorrow. What if it doesn't come? What are you going to tell God? I'm sorry God, but those extra minutes of sleep were more important to me than spending time with You. That sports practice, or that shopping spree was just higher on my priority list. I don't think that's going to fly with God. He expects our best and that's the least that we can give Him. He gave His only to Son to die for US. We had a great debt in sin and God paid it in full.
As my sister completed her last climb up the stairs she shouted, "Victory is mine!" With Christ we can have a victory too. A victory so great its incomprehensible. When we finish our race we'll be able to stand at the finish line and shout, "Victory is ours!"

Some Quick Updates

Okay...since absolutely NOTHING else is coming to mind to write about I'm just going to post some quick updates on whats going on with Blogger_girl.

*Testing at school this week! UGH!! =(
*My aunt just had her triplets last week!!! They are so tiny!!! And soooo cute!!! hehe
*I just started volleyball practice with my new USAV team...I LOVE IT!!! All the girls are so nice!!
*I beat Guitar Hero III on the Medium Level!!! Now I'm working on Hard!
*I can barely move because I'm so sore from volleyball practice. I never knew I was this out of shape!! hehe...Time to head to the GYM!!!
*My sister is dancing randomly through the basement...strange...;)
*Went and ate lunch with my Grandma in the Nursing Home yesterday. She always looks so happy when we visit. Hope you enjoyed your turkey sandwich Grandma!! =)

Thats about it for now!! Talk to ya'll soon!!

In Honor of Barry Phegley

This past weekend, the father of one of my good friends passed away. He had been sick for a long time; he had been battling cancer. So if you all could remember his family in your prayers that would be great. I just wanted to make a post in honor of him.

Meadow Heights and the Ark

Well, as many of you all know, Meadow Heights is now officially 1 church in 2 locations. How stinkin' awesome is that? As I think about how everything has gone concerning the project and after I read a post on http://www.bucketology.com/ (if you aren't already reading this blog you definitely need to check it out!) I realized something. This whole event going on with Meadow Heights church reminds me of a very well known Bible story. It reminds me of Noah and the Ark. You're probably going, "What? We're not building a boat! There's no torrential downpours coming!" but that's not exactly what I mean. In Noah's story, God tells Noah to build this boat. We're not just talking your average sailing boat, we're talking an enormous boat! These are the dimensions from the book of Genesis, chapter 6 verses 15-16: "This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks." Now that's a pretty big boat, right? So in quick summary, God has told Noah to build a boat, this boat is to be BIG, and Noah really has no idea what is going on. In verse 22 its says: Noah did everything just as God commanded him. That's pretty amazing that Noah just completely trusted God and did everything He said, just the way He said to. Then God tells Noah to get into the boat with his family and 2 of every animal for He is going to flood the earth and wipe out every living creature He had made.

Now, I don't think with this new worship site in AV God is telling is to all get inside the church to escape from flood waters, but with this new worship site He is going to save so many people. See, just like when Noah was building the boat and everybody was coming up to him and mocking him saying, "You're crazy! You're never going to build that Ark! It's impossible!" people also said that about the AV church. They said we were crazy, they said it was impossible and that we would never be able to pull it off. But just like Noah, with the help of God, we've been able to complete the AV site. Something else so similar to the story of Noah is that it was all done by ordinary people. I'm pretty sure Noah was just an ordinary guy who loved God and was ready to serve him. With the new worship site God used just ordinary people, (no offense to any Meadow Heights people reading this, you guys are truly amazing to me and to God as well!)
He didn't use the President of the United States, or Albert Pujouls and He didn't use some well-known celebrity. Its so amazing what God has done through us, doing through us, and will do through us at Meadow Heights and I feel so blessed just to be a part of the church. I may not have been able to do much in the building process and everything and I may still not be able to really do anything right now but I will. I'm so ready to give back to the church, to do something that will help further the Kingdom of God and give Him the glory. For God deserves so much more than what we are able to give to Him. I'm sure that I will find my spot in this amazing church. I know that when the time is right God is going to show me what I need to be doing at Meadow Heights and I've decided that I'm going to be ready.

I am so thankful to everyone on the Meadow Heights staff and everyone who helped turn that AV site dream into a reality. You all are my heroes and I'm so thankful that the Meadow Heights church said YES to God and took that next right step. THANK YOU EVERYONE!! THANK YOU GOD FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IN US!

Happy New Year!!

Goodness...I almost forgot!!
H*~A*~P*~P*~Y*~ N*~E*~W*~ Y*~E*~A*~R*~!!!!

Branching Out

Alright, as you can probably tell I have many posts on music or lyrics. Since there are so many I decided to create another blog just for music called P.S. Turn it Up! Here's the link for anyone interested:
http://www.musicuploud.blogspot.com/

Thanks for all comments and support!!