Wednesday, May 6, 2009
It started with a prayer, and ended with an answer...
As you may or may not know, both our vans have broken down. The first was like last summer our green 8 passenger van broke down. (originally a 7 passenger but we added a seat :o) Next our blue aerostar van that's as old as me (maybe just a little bit older :o) broke down not too long ago.
We've been praying and praying. I'm proud of both my parents because this is a crisis, no matter how small it still is one and they didn't complain once (from my eye witness) they didn't get frustrated and rebel against God. No, our home was at peace knowing God will provide one way or another or not at all if He wishes.
I just got done praying while I was vacuuming upstairs, for lots of things but I ended the prayer that we'd trust in God no matter if we had to go this whole year without a van, if it was His will that He'd provide us with the van.
Later on my Mom came down from talking on the phone with a few peeps, and asked us to guess the big news. "YOUR PREGNANT?!" (Is what I should've said cuz I usually do. COMMON WE NEED ANOTHER BROTHER TO MAKE IT EVEN AGAIN.--besides that's how the pattern goes anyways. Girl, girl, boy, boy. So far it's Girl, Girl, Boy, Boy, Girl, Girl...(TO BE CONTINUED!) But..I wasn't that brilliant in saying so--slipped me mind. She told us some awesome friends are giving us their van!! WOOT WOOT!
God does provide. This is like the second time this year and only within 2 mon. apart that God's answered my prayer so quickly; directly!! It's not always the case, but when it is all the praise, glory, and thanks is owed to Him. I'm going to end the post differently. I'll end it with the doxology cuz it's the perfect way to end this post!!
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise Him all creatures here below. Praise Him above ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen",
~L. D.
We've been praying and praying. I'm proud of both my parents because this is a crisis, no matter how small it still is one and they didn't complain once (from my eye witness) they didn't get frustrated and rebel against God. No, our home was at peace knowing God will provide one way or another or not at all if He wishes.
I just got done praying while I was vacuuming upstairs, for lots of things but I ended the prayer that we'd trust in God no matter if we had to go this whole year without a van, if it was His will that He'd provide us with the van.
Later on my Mom came down from talking on the phone with a few peeps, and asked us to guess the big news. "YOUR PREGNANT?!" (Is what I should've said cuz I usually do. COMMON WE NEED ANOTHER BROTHER TO MAKE IT EVEN AGAIN.--besides that's how the pattern goes anyways. Girl, girl, boy, boy. So far it's Girl, Girl, Boy, Boy, Girl, Girl...(TO BE CONTINUED!) But..I wasn't that brilliant in saying so--slipped me mind. She told us some awesome friends are giving us their van!! WOOT WOOT!
God does provide. This is like the second time this year and only within 2 mon. apart that God's answered my prayer so quickly; directly!! It's not always the case, but when it is all the praise, glory, and thanks is owed to Him. I'm going to end the post differently. I'll end it with the doxology cuz it's the perfect way to end this post!!
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow; praise Him all creatures here below. Praise Him above ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen",
~L. D.
Scripture of the day
Proverbs 6:6-11 Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man.
I chose this particular verse from today's Proverbs because I thought it was really funny. This morning it was my turn to get up before my Dad left for work and take Sophie out to go to the bathroom. We don't have grass in either of our yards yet so we have to walk to the park; that's why we must do it before my Dad leaves for work, so we aren't alone. Anyhow I did NOT want to wake up. I was like AGH THAT DOG! But, this verse called me a Sluggard 2 times. Isn't it funny how even the smallest parts of the day there's a verse for even the "little" moments that we so over look? I mean seriously!! Hahaha. It was funny.
Psalms 50:12-15 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and preform your vows to the Most High, and call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you and you shall glorify me."
And....
Verses 22-23 "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver! The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!"
I didn't choose this Psalm for any other reason other then I've been going through Psalms and this is the Psalms I left off at. I did however, choose those particular verses for a reason. If you notice God is reminding us whom thanks is owed to. I know how often I forget. I know God was talking about sacrifices but this verse still applies today only by prayer and living the life we are called to live. So I ask, have you thanked God today? For anything...the beautiful sunrise you saw on the way to work, the fresh air you were able to breathe due to your working lungs, the meal you just ate, the verse you just read that you really needed, the day God is letting you live, the gift card someone blessed you with, the time you spent with your husband or wife, the friends you have, the list goes on.......
I know I haven't thanked God today. So I must bid you all "GOOOOOD MORRRNNIIINNNG!!" and be off to thank my God!
In Christ alone my hope is found,
~L. D.
PS. **Copy right on the closing above** (JK) it's from a great hymn which I'm sure you all know about 8-D
I chose this particular verse from today's Proverbs because I thought it was really funny. This morning it was my turn to get up before my Dad left for work and take Sophie out to go to the bathroom. We don't have grass in either of our yards yet so we have to walk to the park; that's why we must do it before my Dad leaves for work, so we aren't alone. Anyhow I did NOT want to wake up. I was like AGH THAT DOG! But, this verse called me a Sluggard 2 times. Isn't it funny how even the smallest parts of the day there's a verse for even the "little" moments that we so over look? I mean seriously!! Hahaha. It was funny.
Psalms 50:12-15 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and preform your vows to the Most High, and call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you and you shall glorify me."
And....
Verses 22-23 "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart and there be none to deliver! The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!"
I didn't choose this Psalm for any other reason other then I've been going through Psalms and this is the Psalms I left off at. I did however, choose those particular verses for a reason. If you notice God is reminding us whom thanks is owed to. I know how often I forget. I know God was talking about sacrifices but this verse still applies today only by prayer and living the life we are called to live. So I ask, have you thanked God today? For anything...the beautiful sunrise you saw on the way to work, the fresh air you were able to breathe due to your working lungs, the meal you just ate, the verse you just read that you really needed, the day God is letting you live, the gift card someone blessed you with, the time you spent with your husband or wife, the friends you have, the list goes on.......
I know I haven't thanked God today. So I must bid you all "GOOOOOD MORRRNNIIINNNG!!" and be off to thank my God!
In Christ alone my hope is found,
~L. D.
PS. **Copy right on the closing above** (JK) it's from a great hymn which I'm sure you all know about 8-D
Hymn of the week
The Love of Christ Is Rich and Free
The love of Christ is rich and free;
Fixed on His own eternally;
Nor earth, nor hell, can it remove;
Long as He lives, His own He’ll love.
His loving heart engaged to be
Their everlasting Surety;
’ Twas love that took their cause in hand,
And love maintains it to the end.
Chorus: Love cannot from its post withdraw;
Nor death, nor hell, nor sin, nor law,
can turn this Surety's heart away
He'll love his own to endless day.
Love has redeemed His sheep with blood;
And love will bring them safe to God;
Love calls them all from death to life;
And love will finish all their strife.
He loves through every changing scene,
Nor aught from Him can Zion wean;
Not all the wanderings of her heart
Can make His love for her depart.
(Repeat chorus)
At death, beyond the grave, He’ll love;
In endless bliss, His own shall prove
The blazing glory of that love
Which never could from them remove.~Indelible Grace
~L. D.
The love of Christ is rich and free;
Fixed on His own eternally;
Nor earth, nor hell, can it remove;
Long as He lives, His own He’ll love.
His loving heart engaged to be
Their everlasting Surety;
’ Twas love that took their cause in hand,
And love maintains it to the end.
Chorus: Love cannot from its post withdraw;
Nor death, nor hell, nor sin, nor law,
can turn this Surety's heart away
He'll love his own to endless day.
Love has redeemed His sheep with blood;
And love will bring them safe to God;
Love calls them all from death to life;
And love will finish all their strife.
He loves through every changing scene,
Nor aught from Him can Zion wean;
Not all the wanderings of her heart
Can make His love for her depart.
(Repeat chorus)
At death, beyond the grave, He’ll love;
In endless bliss, His own shall prove
The blazing glory of that love
Which never could from them remove.~Indelible Grace
~L. D.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
CALIFORNIA HERE I COME!!
Tuesday the 28th, I woke up at 3 a.m. after getting three hours of sleep the previous night so I could be ready when my Aunt Mariah came around 4 a.m. to pick me up as we head on out to California!!
Now dear readers you are dear to me for reading my blog, some of you are good friends I only just met last year!! **Cough Cough** But, when I say "California here I come" I mean DEAR DEAR DEAR FRIENDS HERE I COME!! Oh how wonderful it is to be here in my home town/state where I spent twelve wonderful years of my life with the good and bad and the really funny stupid memories to look back on. Brandon, and Tyler (for those who don't know--my cousins) came too. Brandon got to see his Mom and me MY FRIENDS! My beloved Church family.
Paul the Apostle loved his Church so much...I love my Church family so much. I like to think just as much as Paul did. OH OH OH OH!!!! I'M SOOOOO THANKFUL FOR THESE PEOPLE!! I COULD CRY BUT I'M TOO TIRED AND MY EYES HAVE BEEN BURNING THESE PAST FEW DAYS AND THEY PROBABLY ARE BLOOD-SHOT. DON'T WORRY CHURCH IS AT ELEVEN THIS TIME :d!
Tuesday I stayed with my Aunt "TT". WOOT WOOT! I love her a lot. She's like a fun older sister. I pray that she comes to know Christ. (And that she moves out here. Hey I told her she could so bunk with me in my room. We have fun talks and do funny stupid things. At least I do.) We had fun. Went swimming. Watched a movie. Etc. Slept for TWELVE HOURS!! (Hey gimmie a break I had three house of sleep the previous night so I don't wanna hear it!!)
Wednesday I went to the Ware's house. They are like my adopted family..but then again I adopt all my close sisters and brothers in Christ. Hahaha. They adopt me too. So it's cool. Seriously it's like I have two families; one in Idaho my really wonderful, awesome family and one in Cali! The Ware's have two kids Miles and Rachel. Miles is Rach's older brother. Both of them are my older brother and sister. (Rach only by a couple of months. Miles three yr. I beleive)
It was awesome!! I got to sneak in their college classes with them. And then we went to Jamba Juice. We talked, got sugar high, anddddddddd got cold becuz the air conditioner was right over us and plus we got these big ol' smoothies. THEY'S BIGGER THEN OBAMA'S MAMA! (NOPE WASN'T MOCKING OUR PRESIDENT..I...I...I..WAS JUST WELL HE WAS THE ONLY THING I COULD THINK OF TO RYHME WITH "MAMA" AT TWELVE-ALMOST ONE IN THE MORNING!?) Anyway's then I spent the night at their house that night. It was awesome. Rach and I stayed up til 2:30 in the morning. Their Mom (Whom I call Auntie Lynn) practically adopted me. SHE'S AWESOME!! I love her a lot!!
Thursday I went over to the Erickson's. My good partner in Crime (we're mischief makers 8-D) Nat and my good friend Katy's house. It was so much fun! I got to watch her in Karate class and these two and four year old girls were talking with me while they watched their sister. Yup I'm so desperate as to talk to a stranger's kids because I miss my own babies!! I missed having a baby always on my hip or lap. I can't wait til I'm a Mom. But then again I can because 1. I'm not ready 2. I'm still learning 3. POOPY DIPERS YUCK! jk. Anyways the Mom didn't mind. I was kinda keeping them quiet for her LOL! And Tim and Andrew came to Karate and Claire too. (Church friends!!)
And then Natalie, Katy and I watched this movie called The Ultimate Gift. We did that and eat candy. And then at eleven we went to bed and stayed up talking til 2:30 in the morning and then "five minutes later" the clock said 4 in the morning! LOLZZZZ! Nat and I wanted to attempt to stay up til 7 in the morning! lol and WE DID! Once it got down to 5 in the morning it took forever to get to seven. So we made a deal that we had to sit up til then and if either one of us laid our heads on our pillows we'd have to hit that person in the head with our pillow. LOL. We failed at that. We laid down. But, we didn't fall asleep. We stayed up til seven in the morning and got up from there. Oh and Katy was awesome! She woke up and was watching us say loopy things and make jokes that if we were to tell you them now you'd probably think we were retarded and not "funny" HAHAHA.
Friday Nat and I went to her Spanish class at Solono Fairfield college (Which my Dad informed me that it was weird I was there because he and my Mom were in jclass not paying attentinon while they were trying to come up with a name for me. LOL! baddd parents! badd!) and their computer class. It was awesome because their computer teacher was sooo cool! He was so nice. They snuck me in and he was like in the middle of getting ready to start and he's like OH..Oh, "Who's this?" And we started chuckling and then they explained and he was making random comments/questions to me during his class like "Where you from Jordyn?" (And yes he said it like that. ) It was awesome. At the end he's like "Come back any time Jordyn, come back anytime." I was laughing. I'm like OK! Sure! Lol And then we couldn't have park day because it was rainy so the Wares invited me and the Erickson's over to play games. Which we tried that but at one point (uh at several points) Natalie and I were so tired our eyes were moving faster then we could process so we couldn't read the words on the game cards. We tried for like five minutes and kept passing it to each other to see if the other could read it and we couldn't. Tim (Who btw, Tim, Claire, and Andrew are basically the kids of the people who started the house church we used to go to when we lived here. MAN I LOVE GRACE FELLOWSHIP! (The name of the church XP!) was looking at Natalie and I and was like "Um..do you guys want some coffee or anything? Because I can give you some coffee, some Dr. Pepper, etc" It was so funny. I was crying. (Or maybe it wasn't funny maybe this was the "Melt down" my parents were telling me I was going to have if I didn't take a nap. Hahaha. Course they didnt' say I had to take one they said I should. But, I can't nap! That'd defeat the purpose of staying up! It's also like this: I never see these beautiful people now. These people I still love so dearly. So I couldn't waste my time with them napping--no, I chose to stay up so I would suffer no matter how heavy my eyes were. Oh and the best thing is that now I love them dearly yes but they aren't/friends in general aren't an idol for me. Thought I should post that. It was a hard lesson God took me through--really hard. But, I learned it and am glad. I was putting friends/people I love in general (such as my parents :_J (that was my own smilie I made up!) higher then God. I know ouch. Big time.)
And then Nat, Kate, and I went to the Ware's again. They don't do sleep overs (unless it's the friend who's sleeping at their house :_J) so they came til like eleven or twelve and we hung out. Anyways it's awesome. We started this tradition where we walk up to the little store called "Oats" by the Ware's house and we buy a HUGE soda and by THE WHOLE BOX OF SOUR BELTS. Well, you know when they sell candy in stores they have a big box of them and normal people just take "A" candy? Well we bought the whole box!! Well, this year we bought the box, the soda, and added a new addition: the whole box of recesses (wow I can't spell that right now hahahah) peanut butter mini cups!! And last year the lady for some reason got mad at us and this year it was the same lady and she got really mad at me. I was going to count how many recesses there were because it's ten cents per recesses so the box of them were on the counter so if you were buying your stuff and you wanted to take one it's right there. So basically I pulled the box closer to me so I could reach it better and start counting and she SNATCHED the box out of my hand and said, "NO, THE BOX NEEDS TO STAY HERE WHERE IT CAN BE WATCHED!" and I was like...yeah ok. And it's funny the girls always make me order or they give me the money and I give it to the lady because the lady knows them so well they're like timid. IT'S HILARIOUS! It was like that again this time except the girls stood behind us so I guess it doesn't count :) And Miles always stays with me. Hahah. THANKS OLDER BROTHER! I don't know how to do math so I need someone! JK TOTALLY JK Anyways the lady looks at us and is like, "Well how many are you planning on buying!?" And me in my cheerful way (no seriously I was tired and exicted at the same time. Scawwwyyyyy) said, "Oh, we plan to buy the whole box." LOL SHE WAS SOO FRICKEN PISSED!! IT WAS HILARIOUS! And all of us are like, "What you don't want our money!? IT'S NOT COUNTERFIET! I PROMISE! IF IT WAS OBAMA HIMSELF WOULD PRINT HISSSS FACE ON THE FRONT! ok..i need to stop with those jokes :D) Anyways she sighs and goes in the back and gives us a whole new box. SO WE GOT SOUR BELTS SPLIT IT BETWEEN THE FIVE OF US AND THE RECESSES AND THE BIG SODAS! WE WERE SO HYPER! It felt good though after no sleep. And we played nerts, and pirate dice [Side Note: Pirate dice. If you've seen Pirates of the Carribean 3 you know ...oh wait..or is it two? you know what I'm talking about =)] and talked, and I can't remember what else. I'm slowly going brain dead. Then after Kate and Nat left Older brother, Rachey, and I played nerts until eleven. So technically I was up for a whole twenty-four hours!!!!! OH YEAH! And when I went to bed Rachey said I fell asleep sitting down hugging my pillow and she woke me up and told me to lay down so I didn't wake up with a really stiff sore back. Lol
Saturday I woke at 6:45 a.m. and we played nerts again and then went to the shooting range where they take shooting classes. (It's funny they have these targets and they always are like "Man I'm doing terrible" but I think it'd be fun and I might do well on it because my Dad said I'm a good shot. I have really good eyes site too. I saw the heads of three nails on a door railing thing like fifty feet away from it!! I'm so glad I don't have to wear glasses or contacts. Esp. Contacts becuz anything with eyes grosses me out. I can't even touch my eye to get an eye lash out. ) Anyways, it was fun. It was rainy and they were bbqing because it was only suppose to be 30% chance. And so it made a smoky smell like a fire and it was warm and toasty inside and so we all felt like we were camping. Nat, Kate, and I played nerts while they were waitin for there turn to go shooting. They do it in two rounds. Tim, nat, and I played Liar. It's like pirate dice except with cards. It's fun. And then we had a big lunch of hot dogs, chilli, chips, soda, brownies, cake, and cookies. I was SOO SUGAR HIGH and it woke me up. The smoky smell, and the warmth made me a bit sleepy. [well that and lack of sleep hahaha but i was actually better this morning then on Friday day. lol] It was awesome. And when we were done hanging out and eating everyone said bye and left. Then the Wares and I went back to their house hung out some more and got sugar high on our left over Jamba Juices (told you they were the big size) and played more nerts. And talked and laughed, and watched one of the x-men. Part of it at least. While Rach and I tried to build amazing card houses and failed well at least I did. And then I was dozing off during x-men. And then I had to say good bye to my adopted/second family and go to my Lola's. She cooked for me. MMMMMMMM mmmmm mmm! Ribs, and sour Filipino soup and I don't wanna say what it's called cuz I've never known how to spell it. And then TT came over again to hang out and talk and text and talk to my Mom both of us at the same time it was awesome except I think she was getting tired and I was talking too much. (That's usually the case. What you Can't tell with my long posts?) And now here I am TYPING THIS TO YOU!
OK one more thing. I planned on learning to play guitar because it's portable and we don't have a piano and our attempts at singing aquapella and well trying to harmonize when we have no clue how to read music SUCKS. Besides if I learn to play guitar I can learn Ruff style of hymns and we can sing them. And I can teach music to my parents/family. So SWEET. Only problem was we had to buy the guitar and well yeah. I knew nothing like if there were sizes or not. So I e-mailed Miles because he knows cuz he plays and he told me everything I needed to know and he offered to give me his old acousitc he grew out of. I was sooooooooooo happy! What a blessing now we don't have to pay $50 for a guitar that ends up being really cheaply made or something. (my fear =) Anyways so here in Cali he put new strings on it for me and then he offered me to take one of his electrics too!! I was shocked. But, then not really. He's my brother so why not give his sister his electric? WHY NOT GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY MILES AND RACHEL SERIOUSLY YOU'RE SELFISH! ok that was corny and stupuid. Never mind. Lol. So I said no. I didn't wanna take his electric...yet secretly I did. But, common! Anyways I ended up w/ the electric cuz the acoustic's strings wouldn't stay on and well it didn't like me **Waaa**. Anyways I WAS SO HAPPY!! I WAS LIKE YES! Becuz my plan was to learn acoustic but as soon as possible play the electric. So, THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH MILES!! I'M SO EXCITED!! I can't wait to start playing.
So yup. I'm so terribly sad. I'm leaving here Monday. It wasn't nearly long enough. I hate that I only see these wonderful people once a year now. That sucks. I want to see them waay more then that. I wish I could stay another week or two!! **deep sighs**. Man. I'm so sad. SO sad. I might even cry when I leave. I never cry. I'll try not to though. I'll try to be brave. Being brave is so hard though sometimes. Sometimes you don't want to smile anymore. Sometimes you want to cry. Sometimes you want to laugh hysterically in the back of Spanish class because it's the next best thing to crying after losing a whole night's worth of sleep. (Yes I almost did it. I did laugh but very, very, quietly. I almost bursted out like a crazy woman in class laughing for no reason because I couldn't lay my head down on th desk or I'd fall asleep and druel. Yes when I'm in a ddeeeeeeeeep deeeep sleep I druel. Nice to know eh? )
AHH, my dear friends. Thank you for having me over. Thank you for making my time here extra special. Thank you for taking away my sleep, thank you for the electric guitar, thank you for giving me all your money, thank you for the sour belts and recess I'M RICH IN CANDY!, thank you for the awesome Jamba Juice, trip to Ross, the awesome time today at the shooting range, the awesome converstaions, the awesome nerts games, the awesome laughs, the awesome laughing so hard that you cry, the awesome hugs hello **Cough cough natalie**, for letting me make a lady think we were...um. gay or seriously having issues. (It's not as bad as it sounds trust me. I just was hugging Natalie because she gave me a chocolate rose and i was like "OH you love me? I love you too" and I was huggin her and was like gimmie a big kiss thanks so much for the pweetty rose and this lady down the isle in wallgreens was looking at us like..."umm....righhhht..I'm just..yeah i never saw that." and it was sooo funny. oh well sugar does things to ya), for the awesome lunch at Taco bell, for the awesome IM conversations, for the awesome EVERYTHING.
Now do one favour for me....HIDE ME IN YOUR CLOSET SO I DON'T HAVE TO GO. DARN IT!
Well, I love ya Nat. I love you Claire, I love you Katy, I love you Rachey, I love you Auntie Lynn, I love ya Anna! I love you Allio's and I'm sad I won't see you Sunday!
The sweet blessings in life are the little tastes of what heaven is going to be like. Enjoy it while you can and go preach the word, read your Bible, pray to God, for this life is here today...and gone tomorrow. Never forget that. Live like you will never see these people in your life again. (Thank you DADDY FOR THE LETTER!! I LOVE YOU! I READ IT TUESDAY but wanted to thank you properly.)
Good night readers my eyes are now little slits part of the fun :-d,
Lissie
PS. It's sad. We're all growing up. If I keep doing this every year one time a year, eventually one day I'll be back and one of us will be married. Where does the time go!? Everyone's already driving. Next time I come up here I'll more then likely have my License. It's so sad.
Ps.s. I can't believe I get to go to my "old" (no Grace fellowship will never grow "old" just the people. Old friends.) church home. It's great to see everyone. G'NIGHT!!
Now dear readers you are dear to me for reading my blog, some of you are good friends I only just met last year!! **Cough Cough** But, when I say "California here I come" I mean DEAR DEAR DEAR FRIENDS HERE I COME!! Oh how wonderful it is to be here in my home town/state where I spent twelve wonderful years of my life with the good and bad and the really funny stupid memories to look back on. Brandon, and Tyler (for those who don't know--my cousins) came too. Brandon got to see his Mom and me MY FRIENDS! My beloved Church family.
Paul the Apostle loved his Church so much...I love my Church family so much. I like to think just as much as Paul did. OH OH OH OH!!!! I'M SOOOOO THANKFUL FOR THESE PEOPLE!! I COULD CRY BUT I'M TOO TIRED AND MY EYES HAVE BEEN BURNING THESE PAST FEW DAYS AND THEY PROBABLY ARE BLOOD-SHOT. DON'T WORRY CHURCH IS AT ELEVEN THIS TIME :d!
Tuesday I stayed with my Aunt "TT". WOOT WOOT! I love her a lot. She's like a fun older sister. I pray that she comes to know Christ. (And that she moves out here. Hey I told her she could so bunk with me in my room. We have fun talks and do funny stupid things. At least I do.) We had fun. Went swimming. Watched a movie. Etc. Slept for TWELVE HOURS!! (Hey gimmie a break I had three house of sleep the previous night so I don't wanna hear it!!)
Wednesday I went to the Ware's house. They are like my adopted family..but then again I adopt all my close sisters and brothers in Christ. Hahaha. They adopt me too. So it's cool. Seriously it's like I have two families; one in Idaho my really wonderful, awesome family and one in Cali! The Ware's have two kids Miles and Rachel. Miles is Rach's older brother. Both of them are my older brother and sister. (Rach only by a couple of months. Miles three yr. I beleive)
It was awesome!! I got to sneak in their college classes with them. And then we went to Jamba Juice. We talked, got sugar high, anddddddddd got cold becuz the air conditioner was right over us and plus we got these big ol' smoothies. THEY'S BIGGER THEN OBAMA'S MAMA! (NOPE WASN'T MOCKING OUR PRESIDENT..I...I...I..WAS JUST WELL HE WAS THE ONLY THING I COULD THINK OF TO RYHME WITH "MAMA" AT TWELVE-ALMOST ONE IN THE MORNING!?) Anyway's then I spent the night at their house that night. It was awesome. Rach and I stayed up til 2:30 in the morning. Their Mom (Whom I call Auntie Lynn) practically adopted me. SHE'S AWESOME!! I love her a lot!!
Thursday I went over to the Erickson's. My good partner in Crime (we're mischief makers 8-D) Nat and my good friend Katy's house. It was so much fun! I got to watch her in Karate class and these two and four year old girls were talking with me while they watched their sister. Yup I'm so desperate as to talk to a stranger's kids because I miss my own babies!! I missed having a baby always on my hip or lap. I can't wait til I'm a Mom. But then again I can because 1. I'm not ready 2. I'm still learning 3. POOPY DIPERS YUCK! jk. Anyways the Mom didn't mind. I was kinda keeping them quiet for her LOL! And Tim and Andrew came to Karate and Claire too. (Church friends!!)
And then Natalie, Katy and I watched this movie called The Ultimate Gift. We did that and eat candy. And then at eleven we went to bed and stayed up talking til 2:30 in the morning and then "five minutes later" the clock said 4 in the morning! LOLZZZZ! Nat and I wanted to attempt to stay up til 7 in the morning! lol and WE DID! Once it got down to 5 in the morning it took forever to get to seven. So we made a deal that we had to sit up til then and if either one of us laid our heads on our pillows we'd have to hit that person in the head with our pillow. LOL. We failed at that. We laid down. But, we didn't fall asleep. We stayed up til seven in the morning and got up from there. Oh and Katy was awesome! She woke up and was watching us say loopy things and make jokes that if we were to tell you them now you'd probably think we were retarded and not "funny" HAHAHA.
Friday Nat and I went to her Spanish class at Solono Fairfield college (Which my Dad informed me that it was weird I was there because he and my Mom were in jclass not paying attentinon while they were trying to come up with a name for me. LOL! baddd parents! badd!) and their computer class. It was awesome because their computer teacher was sooo cool! He was so nice. They snuck me in and he was like in the middle of getting ready to start and he's like OH..Oh, "Who's this?" And we started chuckling and then they explained and he was making random comments/questions to me during his class like "Where you from Jordyn?" (And yes he said it like that. ) It was awesome. At the end he's like "Come back any time Jordyn, come back anytime." I was laughing. I'm like OK! Sure! Lol And then we couldn't have park day because it was rainy so the Wares invited me and the Erickson's over to play games. Which we tried that but at one point (uh at several points) Natalie and I were so tired our eyes were moving faster then we could process so we couldn't read the words on the game cards. We tried for like five minutes and kept passing it to each other to see if the other could read it and we couldn't. Tim (Who btw, Tim, Claire, and Andrew are basically the kids of the people who started the house church we used to go to when we lived here. MAN I LOVE GRACE FELLOWSHIP! (The name of the church XP!) was looking at Natalie and I and was like "Um..do you guys want some coffee or anything? Because I can give you some coffee, some Dr. Pepper, etc" It was so funny. I was crying. (Or maybe it wasn't funny maybe this was the "Melt down" my parents were telling me I was going to have if I didn't take a nap. Hahaha. Course they didnt' say I had to take one they said I should. But, I can't nap! That'd defeat the purpose of staying up! It's also like this: I never see these beautiful people now. These people I still love so dearly. So I couldn't waste my time with them napping--no, I chose to stay up so I would suffer no matter how heavy my eyes were. Oh and the best thing is that now I love them dearly yes but they aren't/friends in general aren't an idol for me. Thought I should post that. It was a hard lesson God took me through--really hard. But, I learned it and am glad. I was putting friends/people I love in general (such as my parents :_J (that was my own smilie I made up!) higher then God. I know ouch. Big time.)
And then Nat, Kate, and I went to the Ware's again. They don't do sleep overs (unless it's the friend who's sleeping at their house :_J) so they came til like eleven or twelve and we hung out. Anyways it's awesome. We started this tradition where we walk up to the little store called "Oats" by the Ware's house and we buy a HUGE soda and by THE WHOLE BOX OF SOUR BELTS. Well, you know when they sell candy in stores they have a big box of them and normal people just take "A" candy? Well we bought the whole box!! Well, this year we bought the box, the soda, and added a new addition: the whole box of recesses (wow I can't spell that right now hahahah) peanut butter mini cups!! And last year the lady for some reason got mad at us and this year it was the same lady and she got really mad at me. I was going to count how many recesses there were because it's ten cents per recesses so the box of them were on the counter so if you were buying your stuff and you wanted to take one it's right there. So basically I pulled the box closer to me so I could reach it better and start counting and she SNATCHED the box out of my hand and said, "NO, THE BOX NEEDS TO STAY HERE WHERE IT CAN BE WATCHED!" and I was like...yeah ok. And it's funny the girls always make me order or they give me the money and I give it to the lady because the lady knows them so well they're like timid. IT'S HILARIOUS! It was like that again this time except the girls stood behind us so I guess it doesn't count :) And Miles always stays with me. Hahah. THANKS OLDER BROTHER! I don't know how to do math so I need someone! JK TOTALLY JK Anyways the lady looks at us and is like, "Well how many are you planning on buying!?" And me in my cheerful way (no seriously I was tired and exicted at the same time. Scawwwyyyyy) said, "Oh, we plan to buy the whole box." LOL SHE WAS SOO FRICKEN PISSED!! IT WAS HILARIOUS! And all of us are like, "What you don't want our money!? IT'S NOT COUNTERFIET! I PROMISE! IF IT WAS OBAMA HIMSELF WOULD PRINT HISSSS FACE ON THE FRONT! ok..i need to stop with those jokes :D) Anyways she sighs and goes in the back and gives us a whole new box. SO WE GOT SOUR BELTS SPLIT IT BETWEEN THE FIVE OF US AND THE RECESSES AND THE BIG SODAS! WE WERE SO HYPER! It felt good though after no sleep. And we played nerts, and pirate dice [Side Note: Pirate dice. If you've seen Pirates of the Carribean 3 you know ...oh wait..or is it two? you know what I'm talking about =)] and talked, and I can't remember what else. I'm slowly going brain dead. Then after Kate and Nat left Older brother, Rachey, and I played nerts until eleven. So technically I was up for a whole twenty-four hours!!!!! OH YEAH! And when I went to bed Rachey said I fell asleep sitting down hugging my pillow and she woke me up and told me to lay down so I didn't wake up with a really stiff sore back. Lol
Saturday I woke at 6:45 a.m. and we played nerts again and then went to the shooting range where they take shooting classes. (It's funny they have these targets and they always are like "Man I'm doing terrible" but I think it'd be fun and I might do well on it because my Dad said I'm a good shot. I have really good eyes site too. I saw the heads of three nails on a door railing thing like fifty feet away from it!! I'm so glad I don't have to wear glasses or contacts. Esp. Contacts becuz anything with eyes grosses me out. I can't even touch my eye to get an eye lash out. ) Anyways, it was fun. It was rainy and they were bbqing because it was only suppose to be 30% chance. And so it made a smoky smell like a fire and it was warm and toasty inside and so we all felt like we were camping. Nat, Kate, and I played nerts while they were waitin for there turn to go shooting. They do it in two rounds. Tim, nat, and I played Liar. It's like pirate dice except with cards. It's fun. And then we had a big lunch of hot dogs, chilli, chips, soda, brownies, cake, and cookies. I was SOO SUGAR HIGH and it woke me up. The smoky smell, and the warmth made me a bit sleepy. [well that and lack of sleep hahaha but i was actually better this morning then on Friday day. lol] It was awesome. And when we were done hanging out and eating everyone said bye and left. Then the Wares and I went back to their house hung out some more and got sugar high on our left over Jamba Juices (told you they were the big size) and played more nerts. And talked and laughed, and watched one of the x-men. Part of it at least. While Rach and I tried to build amazing card houses and failed well at least I did. And then I was dozing off during x-men. And then I had to say good bye to my adopted/second family and go to my Lola's. She cooked for me. MMMMMMMM mmmmm mmm! Ribs, and sour Filipino soup and I don't wanna say what it's called cuz I've never known how to spell it. And then TT came over again to hang out and talk and text and talk to my Mom both of us at the same time it was awesome except I think she was getting tired and I was talking too much. (That's usually the case. What you Can't tell with my long posts?) And now here I am TYPING THIS TO YOU!
OK one more thing. I planned on learning to play guitar because it's portable and we don't have a piano and our attempts at singing aquapella and well trying to harmonize when we have no clue how to read music SUCKS. Besides if I learn to play guitar I can learn Ruff style of hymns and we can sing them. And I can teach music to my parents/family. So SWEET. Only problem was we had to buy the guitar and well yeah. I knew nothing like if there were sizes or not. So I e-mailed Miles because he knows cuz he plays and he told me everything I needed to know and he offered to give me his old acousitc he grew out of. I was sooooooooooo happy! What a blessing now we don't have to pay $50 for a guitar that ends up being really cheaply made or something. (my fear =) Anyways so here in Cali he put new strings on it for me and then he offered me to take one of his electrics too!! I was shocked. But, then not really. He's my brother so why not give his sister his electric? WHY NOT GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY MILES AND RACHEL SERIOUSLY YOU'RE SELFISH! ok that was corny and stupuid. Never mind. Lol. So I said no. I didn't wanna take his electric...yet secretly I did. But, common! Anyways I ended up w/ the electric cuz the acoustic's strings wouldn't stay on and well it didn't like me **Waaa**. Anyways I WAS SO HAPPY!! I WAS LIKE YES! Becuz my plan was to learn acoustic but as soon as possible play the electric. So, THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH MILES!! I'M SO EXCITED!! I can't wait to start playing.
So yup. I'm so terribly sad. I'm leaving here Monday. It wasn't nearly long enough. I hate that I only see these wonderful people once a year now. That sucks. I want to see them waay more then that. I wish I could stay another week or two!! **deep sighs**. Man. I'm so sad. SO sad. I might even cry when I leave. I never cry. I'll try not to though. I'll try to be brave. Being brave is so hard though sometimes. Sometimes you don't want to smile anymore. Sometimes you want to cry. Sometimes you want to laugh hysterically in the back of Spanish class because it's the next best thing to crying after losing a whole night's worth of sleep. (Yes I almost did it. I did laugh but very, very, quietly. I almost bursted out like a crazy woman in class laughing for no reason because I couldn't lay my head down on th desk or I'd fall asleep and druel. Yes when I'm in a ddeeeeeeeeep deeeep sleep I druel. Nice to know eh? )
AHH, my dear friends. Thank you for having me over. Thank you for making my time here extra special. Thank you for taking away my sleep, thank you for the electric guitar, thank you for giving me all your money, thank you for the sour belts and recess I'M RICH IN CANDY!, thank you for the awesome Jamba Juice, trip to Ross, the awesome time today at the shooting range, the awesome converstaions, the awesome nerts games, the awesome laughs, the awesome laughing so hard that you cry, the awesome hugs hello **Cough cough natalie**, for letting me make a lady think we were...um. gay or seriously having issues. (It's not as bad as it sounds trust me. I just was hugging Natalie because she gave me a chocolate rose and i was like "OH you love me? I love you too" and I was huggin her and was like gimmie a big kiss thanks so much for the pweetty rose and this lady down the isle in wallgreens was looking at us like..."umm....righhhht..I'm just..yeah i never saw that." and it was sooo funny. oh well sugar does things to ya), for the awesome lunch at Taco bell, for the awesome IM conversations, for the awesome EVERYTHING.
Now do one favour for me....HIDE ME IN YOUR CLOSET SO I DON'T HAVE TO GO. DARN IT!
Well, I love ya Nat. I love you Claire, I love you Katy, I love you Rachey, I love you Auntie Lynn, I love ya Anna! I love you Allio's and I'm sad I won't see you Sunday!
The sweet blessings in life are the little tastes of what heaven is going to be like. Enjoy it while you can and go preach the word, read your Bible, pray to God, for this life is here today...and gone tomorrow. Never forget that. Live like you will never see these people in your life again. (Thank you DADDY FOR THE LETTER!! I LOVE YOU! I READ IT TUESDAY but wanted to thank you properly.)
Good night readers my eyes are now little slits part of the fun :-d,
Lissie
PS. It's sad. We're all growing up. If I keep doing this every year one time a year, eventually one day I'll be back and one of us will be married. Where does the time go!? Everyone's already driving. Next time I come up here I'll more then likely have my License. It's so sad.
Ps.s. I can't believe I get to go to my "old" (no Grace fellowship will never grow "old" just the people. Old friends.) church home. It's great to see everyone. G'NIGHT!!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Are you a reader?
Do you like to read? I LOVE to read. Wasted Text books is having another bloggie giveaway! If you like great books and beautiful illustrations then you better scurry on over to Laura's blog for a chance to enter to win the giveaway. She's giving a $25 giftcard to barefoot books. Check out their site.
Over 'N out Readers!,
~Lissie Darcy
Ps. I have Wasted Text books' blog button if you look on the side of my blog. After you enter for the giveway you should explore her blog! :D
Over 'N out Readers!,
~Lissie Darcy
Ps. I have Wasted Text books' blog button if you look on the side of my blog. After you enter for the giveway you should explore her blog! :D
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Have you loved your neighbor today?
I am on a role today, we all are on a role! Jules, Nana, and I went to Savers. I gave away 10 BIBLE TRACKS! If you aren't familiar with the term (Which I highly doubt you are..but just in case :D) Bible tracts are little pieces of paper that have the Gospel message in a nutshell!! Like there's this one track that is a circle piece of paper and on the front says tuit. It's "If you get a 'round tuit". Here's what the "Tuit" tracts says on the back: You have pacified your conscience by saying that you would find peace with God one day...when you get a round tuit. Well, now you have one. This is why you shouldn't wait any longer: if you have told one lie, you are a liar. If you have stolen anything (irrespective of value), you are a thief. If you have looked with lust, you have committed adultery in your heart. If you hate someone, you've committed murder in your heart. Your sin has angered God. The Bible teaches that you are His enemy. On Judgement day, you will end up in Hell. But there's good news: "god commended His love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." Jesus Christ took your punishment, then He rose from the dead and defeated the grave. If you repent and trust Him, God will grant you everlasting life. Read your Bible daily and obey it. God will never let you down.
COOL HUH!?!! We ordered three different kinda tracks. The "around tuit", the million dollar bill with our lovely President's face on the front of it, and the 101 world's funniest 1-liners. The million dollar bill has on the back "The million dollar question" on the back of it. The million dollar question: Will you go to heaven when you die? And then it runs you through the good person test. It's pretty cool! The 101 world's funniest 1-liners is what it is and then it has an editorial where they give you the Gospel message. It's pretty neat. I'd like to get some more kind of tracts.
Anyhow, back to my story. We were at Savers, and Jules and I had brought some tracts with us. I brought 4 101 world's funniest 1-liners, 3 million dollar bills, and 4 around tuits! [I don't know how many Jules brought Xp] We were inspired by my brother who while at Home Depot with my Dad gave out 5 tracts; my Dad who gave out (3?).
My Nana likes to use checks when she doesn't have cash on her so I was told to ask one of the clerks if they take checks. I thought WHAT A GREAT OPPORTUNITY! I asked her and I also asked if she ever got bored on her job. Clerk: Quite frankly yes. Me: Well, here's some jokes for you to read whenever you get bored. Clerk: OH! Thanks so much!
PAUSE
Before I go on I want to mention when you first witness to someone you are VERY nervous. I had witnessed I believe on Thursday to this girl on my street who I befriended for the purpose of witnessing to her. When I brought up the subject MAN WAS I NERVOUS. But, it's a test. What do you care more about? Living in your comfort zone knowing you are "safe", or that eternity is a long time especially an eternity in hell.
UN PAUSE
As we went along with our shopping, I found another opportunity to give a tract out. I pretended to be looking at some different shirts while I secretly watched the lady on the other side of the rack. She looked stern. [Author's note: She was very stern. It hurt too.] But, I took the plunge even though I knew the water was cold.
"Excuse me, have you gotten one of these yet? (Pulling out a million dollar tract.) On the back it has the million dollar question."
"Oh, uh-huh." As she examines it. I can tell she thought I was some kid playing a practical joke. Even though the sternness cut deep something deeper cut, what if years from today God uses that million dollar tract, or even reminds this lady of it and she gets to know Jesus Christ?
I was thrilled!!!!!!!!! There is a joy that LEAPS into your heart when you know you've just shared the Gospel with someone!! It's amazing, crazy, strange, wonderful, and makes you feel like skipping and leaping in meadows with pure green grass or filled with lots of flowers--ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Crazy I know.
It was so nice to go out with our Nana, have some conversations about the tracts, and get some really cute stuff! Jules got some great shirts, some new flip flops and I think a pair of Capri's; WOOT WOOT!
I was on FIRE! We are told by Jesus to go out into all the world and preach His word. HAVE YOU DONE THAT TODAY? Have you loved your neighbor? I heard this from an atheist who was preached to by a Christian sharing his faith. He said, "How much must you hate me to not share the Gospel with me?" Think about that the next time you are about to pass up a great opportunity. What if you see your annoying neighbor being casted into hell on Judgement day? You can't preach the good news in heaven, on judgement day, in the grave. Time is ticking! There goes another minute GONE forever! [Mr. Todd Friel, if you ever happen to come across this post yes I am sorry I stole your line. It's such a good line I had to share it with my readers. Besides that I'm a big fan!!!!!!!!! Oh, and Kirk I'm a BIG fan!!]
I kept running into this boy, so I went up to him and asked him if he liked jokes. He was like ...ok this gal is WEEEEIIIRRDD. He said he did so I gave him the 101 world's funniest 1-liners. It was kind of awkward because his Mom and sisters were right there so they're probably like ok..a girl coming up to my brother who we've never seen before. LEMME TELL YA IT'S WORTH IT FOLKS! That boy, MAYBE EVEN HIS WHOLE FAMILY might see me again in heaven! Of course it's GOD who does the work. But, he could use these tracts to stir people's hearts. All the glory goes to God. I'm just happy to be like Jesus going and telling everyone about Him!! Isn't funny when you think about it you ARE being just like Christ when you tell others about Him. He did open street preaching and why? To point the finger to Himself; showing others LOOK I AM THE CHRIST.
That's like three now right? (Trying to keep track here. lol.) I had to try some things on so I pretended I dropped the million dollar tract on the floor some feet way from the dressing room I was in. When I came out of the dressing room it was gone!! Someone had stooped down to pick it up! I also put an around tuit tract on this table. That one took FOREVER to be seen by someone, but finally it got picked up by someone! I did another million dollar tract on the floor and that one took a bit to be seen and picked up by someone too in the end someone got it!
I saw this girl sitting outside of the dressing rooms (probably waiting for someone) she looked soooo bored. I went up to her and here's our convo: Me: You look so bored! Here's for when you "get around tuit". If you flip it over there's a message on the back. Girl: OH THANK YOU! ME: You're welcome. :D By God's providence I had given this tract to the daughter of the stern lady who I gave the million dollar tract. Who knows, God has a plan for those people.
When we were checking out there was a girl behind us who looked bored and out of it. (rough shopping time?) Anyhow, I asked her if she liked jokes. She just stared at me and gave me a little shrug of the shoulders. She was trying to say something but no words came out of her mouth. [Author's Note: I was like ok I'm either weird for "chit-chatting" with her or this was just really random for her hahaha.] I told her: Well, you should read these they are really funny. Definitely read them. [Author's note: She was like oookkkkkkkkkkkk...]
Jules went to go put the cart away so I waited in a totally different check out line then the one we were at. I had a reason. (Can't you guess?) When it came to my turn I had nothing in my hands to buy. I looked at the clerk and said (in a really serious tone I don't think she knew what was coming hahah) I have shopped here before and you checked me out and you were one of the sweetest clerks I've met! It must be boring for you to come here day after day checking people out. This is for you whenever you get bored. (as i hand her the 101 funny 1-liners) She really appreciated it and gave me a hug. So, there's one way to do it. As we walked out of the store a dude held the door open for us so I asked: Hey Sir, have you gotten one of these yet? (handed an around tuit. the only one i had left) Dude: What is it? Me: Look on the back it has a message, have a good day!
I SHARED THE GOOD NEWS WITH TEN PEOPLE IN ONE STORE! TEEEEEEEEEEEN PEOPLE!
Later that day..........................................
We went for a walk with Sophie and some neighbors around the block were enjoying the sunny day when they saw Sohpie. We let them pet her and I said: Here, before I go I want to give you two something. (I handed them each an around tuit track because it was the first one I was able to grab out of my purse, and my pocket.) I left.
12 PEOPLE! Lemme leave you with a challenge, have you loved your neighbor today?
~Lissie Darcy
COOL HUH!?!! We ordered three different kinda tracks. The "around tuit", the million dollar bill with our lovely President's face on the front of it, and the 101 world's funniest 1-liners. The million dollar bill has on the back "The million dollar question" on the back of it. The million dollar question: Will you go to heaven when you die? And then it runs you through the good person test. It's pretty cool! The 101 world's funniest 1-liners is what it is and then it has an editorial where they give you the Gospel message. It's pretty neat. I'd like to get some more kind of tracts.
Anyhow, back to my story. We were at Savers, and Jules and I had brought some tracts with us. I brought 4 101 world's funniest 1-liners, 3 million dollar bills, and 4 around tuits! [I don't know how many Jules brought Xp] We were inspired by my brother who while at Home Depot with my Dad gave out 5 tracts; my Dad who gave out (3?).
My Nana likes to use checks when she doesn't have cash on her so I was told to ask one of the clerks if they take checks. I thought WHAT A GREAT OPPORTUNITY! I asked her and I also asked if she ever got bored on her job. Clerk: Quite frankly yes. Me: Well, here's some jokes for you to read whenever you get bored. Clerk: OH! Thanks so much!
PAUSE
Before I go on I want to mention when you first witness to someone you are VERY nervous. I had witnessed I believe on Thursday to this girl on my street who I befriended for the purpose of witnessing to her. When I brought up the subject MAN WAS I NERVOUS. But, it's a test. What do you care more about? Living in your comfort zone knowing you are "safe", or that eternity is a long time especially an eternity in hell.
UN PAUSE
As we went along with our shopping, I found another opportunity to give a tract out. I pretended to be looking at some different shirts while I secretly watched the lady on the other side of the rack. She looked stern. [Author's note: She was very stern. It hurt too.] But, I took the plunge even though I knew the water was cold.
"Excuse me, have you gotten one of these yet? (Pulling out a million dollar tract.) On the back it has the million dollar question."
"Oh, uh-huh." As she examines it. I can tell she thought I was some kid playing a practical joke. Even though the sternness cut deep something deeper cut, what if years from today God uses that million dollar tract, or even reminds this lady of it and she gets to know Jesus Christ?
I was thrilled!!!!!!!!! There is a joy that LEAPS into your heart when you know you've just shared the Gospel with someone!! It's amazing, crazy, strange, wonderful, and makes you feel like skipping and leaping in meadows with pure green grass or filled with lots of flowers--ALL AT THE SAME TIME! Crazy I know.
It was so nice to go out with our Nana, have some conversations about the tracts, and get some really cute stuff! Jules got some great shirts, some new flip flops and I think a pair of Capri's; WOOT WOOT!
I was on FIRE! We are told by Jesus to go out into all the world and preach His word. HAVE YOU DONE THAT TODAY? Have you loved your neighbor? I heard this from an atheist who was preached to by a Christian sharing his faith. He said, "How much must you hate me to not share the Gospel with me?" Think about that the next time you are about to pass up a great opportunity. What if you see your annoying neighbor being casted into hell on Judgement day? You can't preach the good news in heaven, on judgement day, in the grave. Time is ticking! There goes another minute GONE forever! [Mr. Todd Friel, if you ever happen to come across this post yes I am sorry I stole your line. It's such a good line I had to share it with my readers. Besides that I'm a big fan!!!!!!!!! Oh, and Kirk I'm a BIG fan!!]
I kept running into this boy, so I went up to him and asked him if he liked jokes. He was like ...ok this gal is WEEEEIIIRRDD. He said he did so I gave him the 101 world's funniest 1-liners. It was kind of awkward because his Mom and sisters were right there so they're probably like ok..a girl coming up to my brother who we've never seen before. LEMME TELL YA IT'S WORTH IT FOLKS! That boy, MAYBE EVEN HIS WHOLE FAMILY might see me again in heaven! Of course it's GOD who does the work. But, he could use these tracts to stir people's hearts. All the glory goes to God. I'm just happy to be like Jesus going and telling everyone about Him!! Isn't funny when you think about it you ARE being just like Christ when you tell others about Him. He did open street preaching and why? To point the finger to Himself; showing others LOOK I AM THE CHRIST.
That's like three now right? (Trying to keep track here. lol.) I had to try some things on so I pretended I dropped the million dollar tract on the floor some feet way from the dressing room I was in. When I came out of the dressing room it was gone!! Someone had stooped down to pick it up! I also put an around tuit tract on this table. That one took FOREVER to be seen by someone, but finally it got picked up by someone! I did another million dollar tract on the floor and that one took a bit to be seen and picked up by someone too in the end someone got it!
I saw this girl sitting outside of the dressing rooms (probably waiting for someone) she looked soooo bored. I went up to her and here's our convo: Me: You look so bored! Here's for when you "get around tuit". If you flip it over there's a message on the back. Girl: OH THANK YOU! ME: You're welcome. :D By God's providence I had given this tract to the daughter of the stern lady who I gave the million dollar tract. Who knows, God has a plan for those people.
When we were checking out there was a girl behind us who looked bored and out of it. (rough shopping time?) Anyhow, I asked her if she liked jokes. She just stared at me and gave me a little shrug of the shoulders. She was trying to say something but no words came out of her mouth. [Author's Note: I was like ok I'm either weird for "chit-chatting" with her or this was just really random for her hahaha.] I told her: Well, you should read these they are really funny. Definitely read them. [Author's note: She was like oookkkkkkkkkkkk...]
Jules went to go put the cart away so I waited in a totally different check out line then the one we were at. I had a reason. (Can't you guess?) When it came to my turn I had nothing in my hands to buy. I looked at the clerk and said (in a really serious tone I don't think she knew what was coming hahah) I have shopped here before and you checked me out and you were one of the sweetest clerks I've met! It must be boring for you to come here day after day checking people out. This is for you whenever you get bored. (as i hand her the 101 funny 1-liners) She really appreciated it and gave me a hug. So, there's one way to do it. As we walked out of the store a dude held the door open for us so I asked: Hey Sir, have you gotten one of these yet? (handed an around tuit. the only one i had left) Dude: What is it? Me: Look on the back it has a message, have a good day!
I SHARED THE GOOD NEWS WITH TEN PEOPLE IN ONE STORE! TEEEEEEEEEEEN PEOPLE!
Later that day..........................................
We went for a walk with Sophie and some neighbors around the block were enjoying the sunny day when they saw Sohpie. We let them pet her and I said: Here, before I go I want to give you two something. (I handed them each an around tuit track because it was the first one I was able to grab out of my purse, and my pocket.) I left.
12 PEOPLE! Lemme leave you with a challenge, have you loved your neighbor today?
~Lissie Darcy
Friday, April 24, 2009
What does a dying moose sound like? Anyone know?
Bedtime so I'm just going to give you a link to watch our awesome sister in Christ Deborah.
Enjoy!
~Lissie Darcy
CLICK HERE!!!!!
Ps. Mum is away with some girl friends for the weekend they do this once every year. ENJOY MUM!! Pray that she's safe and has a great time!
Ps.s. DADDY SOUNDS LIKE A DYING FROG WHO'S TRYING TO RIBBET BUT INSTEAD SOUNDS LIKE A DYING COW. INSTEAD OF A COW HE SOUNDS LIKE A DYING MOOSE. (Have you ever heard a dying moose? Me either :D)
Ps.s.s. I was showing you an example of honoring your parents. Jk. Pray for Daddy. He has the flu. Pray that I as the Mummy of the house/helper to my Dad will have enduring patience like our Savior has. Pray that Daddy gets better. Pray that we get a vehicle that can fits us Husseys! Some friends of mine just lost their grandma. Please pray for them that they'd have comfort and through her death they'd grow ever so closer to God and closer as a family. THANKS ALL!! Have a blessed week-end!
Enjoy!
~Lissie Darcy
CLICK HERE!!!!!
Ps. Mum is away with some girl friends for the weekend they do this once every year. ENJOY MUM!! Pray that she's safe and has a great time!
Ps.s. DADDY SOUNDS LIKE A DYING FROG WHO'S TRYING TO RIBBET BUT INSTEAD SOUNDS LIKE A DYING COW. INSTEAD OF A COW HE SOUNDS LIKE A DYING MOOSE. (Have you ever heard a dying moose? Me either :D)
Ps.s.s. I was showing you an example of honoring your parents. Jk. Pray for Daddy. He has the flu. Pray that I as the Mummy of the house/helper to my Dad will have enduring patience like our Savior has. Pray that Daddy gets better. Pray that we get a vehicle that can fits us Husseys! Some friends of mine just lost their grandma. Please pray for them that they'd have comfort and through her death they'd grow ever so closer to God and closer as a family. THANKS ALL!! Have a blessed week-end!
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