Hello all. This past week I had the amazing opportunity to skip school and attend a class. Confused? At this point you may be thinking something a long the lines of is this guy crazy? Skipping school to go to a class makes no sense, but bear with me. The class was one about Mother Teresa and servitude taught by Mrs. August. So not only did I get to learn about God, but I also got to hang out with the coolest family I know for a couple of hours. What really got to me at the class was not only what Mother Teresa gave up, but what she accomplished because of it. Everything she did was modeled after God and his will for her life. There is a verse in 1 Corinthians (I think in chapter 2 or 3) that says I have resolved to know nothing while i am among you except for Christ and him crucified. The whole time she thought only about how she was fulfilling God's plan right then. That's amazing! Even more then that though God was showing me stuff about my family. I love most of my family to death, but some of them.... I don't and it's a struggle, but God wants me to change that and I really have to work on that. A quote from the book went something like "How can you love God who you can not see, if you can not love your neighbor who you can see." That really hit me. So prayers would be much appreciated as I struggle to climb this mountain. Another thing that hit me real hard was an essay we talked about in class. A part of it talks about Jesus walking into a room filled with note cards detailing every moment of your life. He takes these cards on the top of which are written your name, he crosses them out and writes his name over yours. The character in the essay starts yelling NO! Anything but that! Your innocent! You don't deserve this, let me bear this by myself. Jesus took all of our shortcomings upon himself and thank God he did because if he didn't myself and a lot of other people would be in a very bad position when he comes back.
Seriousness aside. Like I said I got to hang out with the Augusts and Holly decided to cook while I was over there and well.... HOLY COW! She is an amazing cook! She made these really awesome scrambled eggs, the best mac and cheese I have ever had, and I seriously almost died from joy when I ate this banana cream pie type thing she made! Delicious! I love good food, and having a best friend that likes to cook is pretty awesome. I love cooking as well so it's a lot of fun being to help friends when they are trying to make stuff.
In other news Wednesday at youth group we talked a bit about sheep, and well since no one will understand it I wont go into detail, but the inside jokes from that night are probably some of the funniest things ever! Also I'm excited to be able to go see a concert next month that some awesome friends of mine are putting on. They have a band and while I have yet to hear them play i have no doubt they are awesome!
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