Spring Break '08!

so i just got back from an amazing week in Gatlinburg,TN with some of my favorite people in the world. I don't feel like talking about it right now, but you should check out the pictures on facebook!

I am so thankful for friends! :)

Consumed

I am so thankful for the situation I am in. I love my church, and I really feel like God put me there for a reason. We've been going through this Consumed series at Crossroads(along with a bunch of other churches), and from the beginning of it, I knew I was going to be challenged. It was pretty easy at first to go through this, because a lot of it had to do with stuff I don't really have a huge problem with.

I hadn't been to church for a couple weeks because of various reasons(dodgeball tourney, white death), so my mind wasn't too focused on this whole thing, even though I knew I should have been more. Today at church though, I felt like (as Evan would so graciously put it) I got pimp-slapped by God. The series is about how our culture tells us that we need stuff all of the time, and that things will make us happy and fulfill us (it's funny how the business world refers to us as "consumers", because it is so true). 

So I'm sitting there, and we get this challenge that deals with time/money, etc., and I am thinking about how I can be better about that. Then my mind automatically goes to this purchase that I was planning on making in the summer, and how I really don't need it at all, and how I am fine with what I have. God was like, "Seriously? You are worrying about paying for school and how that's going to work out, but you want to spend that much money on something you really don't need?" 

There's SO much I could do with that money, and I realized how freakin self-centered I can be. God is okay with us having stuff, we don't have to give everything we own and become poor. But when we start thinking that the money we have is our money because we worked for it, that's when it becomes a problem. Everything we own is God's, and once we realize that, we won't have to be bound by what we own anymore.

God is good. I am very fortunate to be where I am.

Oh America

So I had a very American moment the other day. I was driving to wendys for lunch during work(because I was lazy and didn't feel like packing that morning), and was faced with a dilemma. As I was nearing wendys, I saw subway out of the corner of my eye, and couldn't decide where I wanted to eat. After thinking for about 3 seconds, I said out loud, "Wendy's has a drive through," and then proceeded to wendys. Isn't our country great?

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