Long overdue

So I haven't been on here in 10 days, I have been away at an amazing camp. However, this does not mean I had not been trying to keep up with my blogging. I just did it on paper. so for the next few days I will transfer them to here and thus continue on with my blogging. So here is the one from day 1 of camp.

Freedom is not easily won
Freedom requires great sacrifice
Freedom cost peoples lives
Freedom cost Christ love
Love and freedom
They are bound together
Laying down your life
Loving your country enough to fight
Giving it all just for freedom
Christ hung on a cross
He freely gave His life
So we can be spiritually free

Short but Sweet

so I've got to get up super early tomorrow (well super early to my standards) 6:30 am, so tonight I'm just going to have a short but sweet blog.

I am here tonight
Lost and broken
Lord hear my prayers
Lord don't forsake me
Help me through the quicksand
It's pulling me harder
I don't want to struggle
But I don't want to give in
Lord grab me and lift me high
Far above the destructive soil
Teach me Your word
Show me Your love
Let me not compromise
For anything less than You
Lord keep me safe tonight
Lord remember me as I sleep

On Being Humble

So today has been a huge spiritual opening eyes kind of day. I've learned that part of ministry work is truly about going out to peoples homes and actually visiting them, and praying for them and just making sure you are doing what you can to help them along in their spiritual journey. Then after deciding on buying a sub instead of cooking stuff that we already had at home we were driving back home to eat and we passed a homeless guy pushing his bike along the highway. so we turned around found out if he had eaten yet today or not and then proceeded to give him the sub we had just bought. Then I went to a church planting meeting with Bryan and heard a few different pastors speak on a part of Acts that they were given, and almost every message brought up the truth that everyone God chose had to be humbled and meek before he used them and it really got to me so tonight I am going to write about being humble.

Do not be boastful
When you are on a pedestal
Know that the Lord is watching
Do not be prideful
Around those who are crushed
The Lord will not use you
Tear yourself down
Humble yourself
Loose yourself til you have nothing left
Give and give generously
Humble yourself before the Lord
Make yourself a servant unto others
Be meek and timid
Humble yourself
And the Lord shall call upon you

Take Courage

SO today I had a wonderful day learning new things about Spiritual Warfare and about being a discerning Christian. I also learned all kind of hints and pieces of information that seemed so harmless before. Also today I started doing daily devotionals. I am hoping this really helps me get my life organized and gives me a real chance to spend time in the presence of the Lord. So tonight I am doing a poem about courage because the devotional I was looking into gave me all types of bible passages about courage and its been really inspiring, as has Bryan's grandniece being initially shy around me to being so comfortable around me that she loved me rocketshipping her. I even had the privilege of buckling her into her seat. She's four years old and a cute and joyous child and I love seeing children so free and happy as she was. So here is a poem of courage.

Take courage my friend
Do not fear this world
Take courage my friend
Put your trust in the Lord
Take courage my friend
When life seems bottomed out
Take courage my friend
When nothing seems to go your way
Take courage my friend
And trust in the Lord
Take courage my friend
Pray for peace of mind
Take courage my friend
Fear not the enemy
Take courage my friend
And see the splendors that lie ahead

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. - Isiaiah 41: 10

Drives

So today my pastor picked me up and we headed out to West Brownsville. The reason I write this is because it was a long ride, and it was a fun ride. Now I'm thinking back to when I was younger and life was simpler. My aunt and uncle used to come up from Virginia every summer and take me my sister and their two kids to different places. We've gone to DC, and Ohio, and a few other places. The best parts were often the rides there. Hours in a car in groups of two in the car. Adults up from the girls in the middle and the boys in the back. We'd play road games, or our gameboys. We laugh and tell jokes and have a good time. One year my cousin and I tried to freeze our legs with the air conditioning so that when we jumped out for the beach we'd not be super hot. Anyhow tonight I am going to try and write about drives.

Big black Suburban
Long endless highways
The world often flashing by
Trips not soon forgotten
Places not seen enough
Wonders waiting to be learned
Fun to be had
Childhood to be lived
The magic of drives
Weather they were far
Or they were near
There was always fun
I'll never forget
Even the trips where we got lost
No not even then
Life was easy when we drove
Life was fun

Beautiful

So when you think of the word beautiful what comes to mind? A person, A scene, an object, an animal? What about God does he come to mind, what about yourself? You know I was listening to a few songs that have the word beautiful in them, and it struck me that in God's eyes we are beautiful, and God is beauty. God created beauty, God created us. So why do we often forget about the beauty that is instilled in us from God? Tonight I want to express what beauty means to me.

Evil is surrounding me
Why do I see all the ugliness
Father touch my spirit again
Let me see the beauty
I know there is beauty
You created a beautiful world
Destroyed by the fall
Saved by grace
One day that beauty will shine again
Father I am down on my knees
Reach out and make me clean
I want to see the beauty
That which is hidden in me
Father You are beautiful
In your eyes so am I
Only through Your perfect son
The world is beautiful again
Thank you Father
Creator of all things
For the beauty I see
Is the beauty you see
And I am beautiful too

Snowy Dreams

So today we had a nasty storm that knocked out our power for a few hours. It took me back to earlier times when that used to happen. Usually it happened at night and during the winter so you had nothing better to do but go to bed. However I remember one time our power was out for three or four days, that was crazy. I had nothing better to do then go outside everyday and play in the snow, because inside smelled like kerosene heaters and lamps. So in light of the fact that its summer time, and we are just getting past a heat wave I am going to write a poem about winter and snow storms.

Early morning coldness
Settles around the house
Waking up to a cold bedroom
I don't want to get up
Can't I hide under the blankets
It's to cold for school
Look outside
It's a blurry white sheet
Turn on the t.v.
No school today
Jump for joy
Then back to bed
In a couple hours
We'll be outside
Making snowmen
Fighting snow monsters
How I loved those cold snowy days
At the end of the day
A hot bath was waiting
And a warm cup of Cocoa
With a few cookies on the side
Hope to do it again tomorrow