Reblogged from iamironman-deactivated20111229So if anyone was wondering where I’ve been all week and why I wasn’t posting anything, here is an explanation: I helped lead a missions trip to Washington D.C. for a group of 13 high schoolers and 6 other leaders. We worked in the neighborhood of Lincoln Heights. Lincoln Heights is a community that is usually talked about alongside of drugs, poverty, and crime. But it is a community that needs the hope of Jesus Christ just like everyone else. Our group worked with a organization called DayBreak Ministries. They own a duplex right in the very heart of Lincoln Heights. Their vision is to bring the love of Jesus Christ to the kids and teens of the community. And they are doing such an amazing job. Our group helped out with their summer camp where they have 30 kids from 5 to 10 years old all day (9am to 3pm). We also helped with various service projects around the community and also spent alot of time in prayer for the various churches and schools in the area. It was really an amazing week. This community is so rich in culture and heritage and for a long time it was forgotten. I was able to see the small coffee shop where Marvin Gaye began began and refined his music. It was unbeliavable. My heart was really touched in a way it never has before. God did such a number on my heart and I hope in the coming days and weeks I can fully share all of those things with ya’ll.
Snap, back to reality
Drama free couple of days!
I went camping in New Hampshire for a few days with an “epic set of people”. I went with my best friend Taylor and his family and Ned, Joe Mac and Joey Finn. It was nice to get away for a few days and just hang out and have fun. We did a lot of nothing we just sat around and talked and listened to Taylor Swift. It was a drama free two days and it was fun!
I also had some fun with the boys… I did their make-up. They got some eye liner, eye shadow, blush and some lip stick that was a brownish purple color. Then we went out into public with them like that! One guy looked like he was going to kill them but it was really funny.
Ned is now know as Natalie or Anita
Joe Mac is now know as Josephina
Taylor is not know as Tatiana
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I went to a Jonas Brothers concert on Friday with a few friends and Nick played A Little Bit Longer which is one of my favorite songs. I was watching the video on youtube because I liked the song. I know Nick has type 1 diabetes and the song was written about finding out about having it and how to just keeping living life. Then I found this video and watched it. I was thinking about what it said and how it does not just have to be about having diabetes. It would be about any illness or anything your going through in life thats tough.
Got the news today
Doctors said i had to stay
A little bit longer and I’ll be fine
When i thought it’d all be done
When I thought it’d all been said
A little bit longer and I’ll be fine.
But you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone
And you don’t know what it’s like to feel so low
And everytime you smile you laugh you glow
You don’t even know, know, know.
You don’t even know
All this time goes by
Still no reason why
A little bit longer and I’ll be fine.
Waitin’ on a cure
But none of them are sure
A little bit longer and I’ll be fine
But you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone
You don’t know what its like to feel so low.
And everytime you smile you laugh you glow
You don’t even know, know, know.
You don’t even know, know, know.
You don’t even know, no
And you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone.
Don’t know what it’s like to feel so low, yeah!
And everytime you smile you laugh you glow,
You don’t even know! yeah! woah!
So I’ll wait ‘til kingdom come.
All the highs and lows are gone.
A little bit longer and I’ll be fine.
I’ll be…fine
"I never needed you for pointing out my wrongs”
“I never needed you for judgements”
“I never needed your corrections on everything from how I act to what I say"
“I never needed you for judgements”
“I never needed your corrections on everything from how I act to what I say"
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I was listening to the radio on my way to my mom’s small group and the song Hush Hush but the Pussycat Dolls came on. I was listening to the lyrics of the song and I really liked them. These are some of the lyrics from the song that I liked and that stuck out to me.
:)
Emotion Overload
I am going on a mission’s trip with about 20 other people to Washington D.C for 9 days. I have been thinking about the trip a lot lately because it is in 10 day. We’ve been having 2 meetings a week for trainings and for preparation for the trip. I have been having mixed emotions and feelings about the trip. I am very excited for the trip because I have never been to Washington D.C and I love to go to places I have never been before. I am also a little scared because I am I don’t really know what to eexpect while I am there. I know we are going to be serving different people and helping people with different needs but I don’t know in what way… all I know is God has a plan and I just have to follow the plan he has for me. I am also kind of anxious to be away from my family and friends for 9 days. This will be the longest time I have been away from my family. I am nervous about this trip too. I will be with some people that I have known for a while and some that I have just met. Some of the people I get along with very well and others not so much. I am also thankful that I have the opportunity to be able to go on this trip because not many people I know do.
Even though I am having emotion overload about this trip I know God will make everything work out. I hope for God to use me during the 9 days I am there and I hope to bless many people while I am there.
:)
One night a man had a dream. He dreamed
he was walking along the beach with the Lord.
Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene he noticed two sets of
footprints in the sand: one belonging
to him, and the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of
his life there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happened at the very
lowest and saddest times in his life.
This really bothered him and he
questioned the Lord about it:
“Lord, you said that once I decided to follow
you, you’d walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most
troublesome times in my life,
there is only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why when
I needed you most you would leave me.
The Lord replied:
“My son, my precious child,
I love you and I would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you.”
Change
Change-make different; cause a transformation
Quotes
“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.”
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
There has been very much change in my life in the past few years. Four years ago my sister got married and moved out of the house. It was a hard change for me to handle because I loved my sister not that I couldn’t love her if she didn’t live home but it would be a lot different.
Then she had a baby, Ava Lynne and that changed the whole family. Everything for 3 years after she was born was about Ava. She got all the attention and everyone talked about Ava. After her the bad change started…
The youth pastor and his family from the Church I go to in North Reading moved to Maine. That was one of the hardest changes I have ever been through. The whole youth group changed and I have not yet figured out for myself if it was for the good or the bad not that it could have been controlled it was bound to happen… life goes on.
Then my other sister got engaged. Again not a bad change just change. I don’t handle change very well. She is not just focused on her family now she is focused on him too and his family. Its all about the wedding planing, buying a house and starting there own family.
Changes in friendships have seemed to increase also. Friends come in my life and walk out like it is their job. They don’t seem to care about how badly it hurts me. My relationship with the one person I know who will always be there for me no matter what, Jesus Christ has also changed. Through all the changes in my life, family, church and relationships I have growned closer to him. I have realized that so much changed but his love for me didn’t. He will always love me more that I could ever imagine.
I guess what I am trying to say in this blog is that change is going to happen. Some change is good. Some change is bad. Some change we know and understand completely why it happens. Some change we will never understand why it happens.
We just have to be thankful for life and the changes that happen in it.
I cant spell. I don’t use correct grammar. Sorry.
This is my first time blogging so it probably is not good. I hope to get better at it.
:)
