hey!
if you didn’t already know, i have an upcoming fundraiser june 22 at hope chapel from 5-7 pm! we will have barbecue plates for $12, and we are praying for a huge show out! if you are free, please come by!! you can order to go, or stay and hang for a while. i would love to talk , so swing by if you can:)
if you can come, please fill out this link so we know how much BBQ to buy:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeRAV1cI_OcEV-ctTAi8kMSpGypgt6IO7pvLEUthv6-VCZiMg/viewform
THANK YOU
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i graduated high school a week ago.. this whole journey just got a whole heck of a lot realer. the fundraising goal, the huge backpack, the saying goodbye part.. it’s so much closer now.
lately something God has hilighted in my life has been the power of the Holy Spirit entering into a life and completely transforming hearts and minds to bring glory to Jesus. this was first brought to light with seeing a really close friend of mine come to know the Lord recently(woot!!), and in reflection, Jesus is revealing how the Holy Spirit has completely changed me since He reentered my life 6 months ago.
i would love to go back 9 months ago and talk to myself, to see my condition before the race was brought into view, before Jesus entered in. i don’t think my old self would recognize myself today; she would wonder why that weird girl kept smiling at her.. she’d wonder who the stranger was. my old self had so many chains weighing her down, she could barely stand. she was caught in a hurricane of the world, surrounded by sin she knew she was committing, sin she didn’t care about. sin that was dragging her down.. until Jesus met her where she was.
He makes us new, He mends broken hearts, He heals the past, He saves, He Changes Everything. colossians 3:3 says for you have died, and your life is now hidden in Christ with God. my old self is dead(like the old taylor swift(lol sorry i couldn’t help it)).
the craziest thing is, i thought i knew who Jesus was. i thought i knew him, that i had experienced the whole being saved + relationship. but i had no idea what i was missing
2 Corinthians 5:16-17
from now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer see Him this way. therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
i thought i knew what love was.
now i know, at least i think i can comprehend. just when i think i can wrap my mind around His love, He shows me i can’t, and won’t ever understand the depth. (remember the song we all used to sing in sunday school that went Your love is deep, Your love is high, Your love is loooong, Your love is wide? like that, but more, then times a billion)
looking at my life now at this season i am in, i am so joyful. i am so thankful to get to know the Lord’s heart, to grow in Him. i am learning to chase after Him. Jesus has brought some close friends who speak so much life into me lately, who i am matching pace with. i am finding joy in the journey.
looking forward, i am so excited to meet sarah in a year, i am sure i’ll soon be a stranger in her past. i am ready to hear all my experiences, see my heart, know my relationship with the Lord, and to follow where the Lord is taking me next.
i think i am pretty cool now, can’t wait to see me next year hahaha
ezekiel 36:26
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
