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Laura_Lou88
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Name: Laura
Birthday: 6/2/1988
Interests: Jesus!, reading, rafting, snowboarding, any sports, exploring nature! I really really love the winter and everything that comes along with it: crunching of the leaves, cold mornings, perfect driving weather, the coolest skies.. for some reason they always look the coolest when its cold
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AIM:  batcountry33
Member Since:
2/7/2006
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| It seems like everything is changing, that time is moving too fast. High school is done. As happy as i am to take on the next thing that comes my way, aTm, i cant help but feel sad. In the final weeks at Klein, i found myself trying to stop time or slow it down... somehow. It was going to fast.
In the last weeks of high school, I also found myself resorting back to my old way of living, before Christ came into my life. I wasn't doing anything wrong in the eyes of our society, but i wasn't living for him. I was living for myself and my goal was to have as much fun as i could - very similar to the way i lived before my junior year.
But i realized the more i tried to slow down time, the more i tried to live for myself, the more i failed. God is in control. He is outside of time. Living for God is so much more satisiying than living for yourself. | | |
| Ok so this is gunna be a short entry but the best one ever!
MY MOM ACCEPTED CHRIST TONIGHT!
How awesome is that! Praise Jesus! This joy is amazing... And the cool thing is that this was all God's work. I have been praying about this.. and i actually prayed about it today with ms. rhonda and ... God totally gave me an opportunity to talk w/ my mom and he completely guided the conversation!
So if yall would pray for my mom, that would be awesome. Pray that God would reveal himself to her and that she would follow after him! | | |
| Well hello there to all of you who will one day read my xanga. This is dedicated to my love, the Lord Jesus Christ.
I guess i will start from the beginning. I first became a Christian the summer before my junior year. I always considered myself a Christian until that day. I was at the MET with my friend Emily and a guy was speaking on the Purpose Driven Life book. During his speech he invited anyone to accept Jesus into their hearts and to give their life to him. I prayed and asked Jesus to take over my life and raised my hand when he asked us who had just accepted Christ. Then to my horror, he made us come up on stage and then go and talk with someone. I always thought i was a Christian, but i never really accepted Christ. So that day i did and i couldn't stop crying about it.
Well i didnt really start to grow until that fall when my two friends, shannon and kenna, invited me to a bible study at Faithbridge. Well i was pumped because i hadnt really taken any steps towards God since that summer and i had been asking God to bring me a youth ministry because i saw what my sister had at her church. That fall winter and spring, God blew my mind. I got plugged in at Faithbridge and he brought so many friends into my life who love God. Most importantly i grew closer and closer to him. But there were also times that i didnt know what i was doing, times that i doubted God even existed and times that were hard. But i would not trade them for anything. It was a little more than a year ago that God brought me to faithbridge and looking back on that year, brings tears to my eyes, seriously, i would be lost without God.
My encouragement to people who want to know what God is all about or Christians young in their faith, is keep seeking God. There will be hard times, but God is faithful: You will seek me adn find me when you seek me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13).
Well here we are in present time. Dnow was this past weekend and i could go on and on. The fellowship with my house was indescribeable. We grew so close in such a short amount of time. The message was awesome. It was about waking up. If you have time read Romans 6 and Ephesians 4: 22-24. They talk about renewing yourself and being made new. Only God can do it but put yourself in a position that God can renew you.
One thing God has been showing lately is if you put God first, everything else falls into place. Yesterday i had a statistics test 2nd period but i had a FCA meeting before school, so i decided i would study in the library 1st period (i have late arrival) well after the meeting my friend Scott and i began to talk and it was one of those awesome get to know you better conversations totally centered around God. And then the next thing we know the bell rings to go to 2nd period. Although i didnt get to study i wouldnt have traded that time for anything. And even though i was totally unprepared i got a 90 on the test. It sounds really cliche.. but that was totally God. So what i am saying is put God first and trust him with your time and he will be faithful.
"He trust in the Lord; let the Lord rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him." Psalm 22:8 | | |
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