Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statues, and you will keep My judgments and do them.

My birthday is four months from today. I can't believe how time seems to drag by and other times it goes by like a flash. S.A.T. is on saturday. Mom accidently signed me up to take it at the high school where I least wanted to go. Maybe I'll be able to find a kind familiar face amongst the crowd. :) S.H.W.B. and one of his friends came home this weekend. It was good to see them. It livens things up around here. Two weeks and I'll be off to Cedarville and in two months I'll be off to Aletheia. I'm so looking foward to this summer. Good night!

Have you ever been in the process of making cinnamon rolls and ran out of cinnamon? That's what happend to me last night. So I used the remainder of the cinnamon, some alspice, and nutmeg. They don't taste bad, but they probably wouldn't have won a prize or anything. Thank you uncle H. for commenting on my post a few posts ago. I love you lots!

Isaiah 40:28-31

Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings as eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

A Cradle Prayer
By Rebecca St. James


Jesus I love You my Lord my life
Where would I be without You
Here in the quiet, the still the night
I am in awe of You

Trials may come and friends they may go
What really matters is You, my Lord


Beautiful Savior my God, my friend
I am in awe of You

Trials may come and friends they may go
What really matters is You, my Lord

Jesus I love You my Lord my life
Where would I be without You
Here in the quiet, the still the night
I am in awe of You

Why would You, Creater and King,
Come as a baby for all, for me

Beautiful Savior my God, my friend
I am in awe of You
I am in awe of You

How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand... (Psalm 139:17-18a)

God is so amazing and awesome! First, I got excepted to Cedarville University for their summer studies program. I thought that that was good. Listen to this. A few hours later my mom called the school to see about their sch0lorships. The Lord has provided me with a scholorship that will cover more than half of the tuition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do I worry about tommorow and God already has it taken care of? So I will be leaving for Cedarville on the 13th of next month and coming home on the 1st of July. I should have a cell phone by then, so if anyone wants to contact me, leave a comment or send me an e-mail. Or you can call me at home, which only two people have been brave enough to do. :) Have a great night!

THEY ARE GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(1 Kings 19:11-13) Then He said "go and stand out on the mountain before the Lord." And behold, the Lord passed by and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind, an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire; and after the fire, a delicate whispering voice.

S.H.W.B. and two of his friends came home this weekend. It was so good to see them. There was actually activity going on at my house. :) And on top of that, they let me hang out with them! I think it's neat to see how God created men and women so uniquely diffirent, but in a lot of ways the same. So that was my highlight for the weekend. One more week of school and I will officially be a SENIOR!!!!! I'm very excited.

My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye. Bind then on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and call understanding your nearest kin. (Proverbs 7:1-4)

I scared my mailman today. I was waiting for mom to finish up a letter so I could run out to the mailbox. Well by the time I got outside, the mailman was already next door. So I ran over there and caught him reading an advertisement thing. So I said hello, but he was so intrigued with whatever he was reading that he didn't hear me come from behind. And so he jumped. Poor mailman. Guess what? Today is the first day in all my sixteen years of living, that my grits turned out pretty decent. They're usually not done or all clumpy. But today, they were perfect. My new bedspread arrived a few days ago. I like it very much! Now I'm thinking about getting new curtains. That probably won't happen for a few months though. A huge THANKS to M.I.W. who commented on my last blog.

SURPRISE, DEMOLISHED

Charm is deceitful beauty is passing, but the women who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. (Proverbs 31:30)

So S.H.W.B. and his friend weren't able to come home this morning. His car started acting up, so they had to churn back around and go "home." He and now three other guy's are going to try and come here this coming weekend. This will be lots of fun. I always liked hanging around with my brothers and their friends. I start my new job on tuesday! I now have four extra hours to work a week (thank you Lord!). And on top of that I get to work with women who are probably sixty and older. They're a hoot. Except they're not always pleasent to the patrons.

SURPRISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will never guess what! S.H.W.B. and a friend are suppossed to be coming home around 3:00 a.m. I'm so exctied. Mom doesn't know about it though, so this should be really something. So I'm trying to stay up as long as possible without looking too suspicious. The only possible way mom will find out is if she can't get any sleep and decides to come down and read my blog. I'm praying that everything will go smoothly and well. Happy mother's day to all you mother's out there! I'll tell you how this surprise goes soon. Laters!

Lord of Eternity
By Fernando Ortega and John Andrew Schreiner


Blessed is the man
Who walks in your favor
Who loves all your words
And hides them like treasure.
In the darkest place
Of his desperate heart,
They are a light
A strong, sure light.

Sometimes I call out
your name,
But I cannot find you.
I look for your face,
But you are not there.
By my sorrows, Lord,
Lift me to you,
Lift me up to your side.

Lord of eternity,
Father of mercy,
Look on my fainting soul.
Keeper of all the stars,
Friend of the poorest heart
Touch me
and make me whole.

Let us hear the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man's all. For God will bring every work into judgement, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)

You'll never guess what! About three minutes ago, I found a CD I had been looking for, for the past four years. I had decided to listen to classical hymns, and I openend the cover and something else was sitting in there, my long lost CD! So the month of May has arrived. It doesn't seem real. So many things are happening this month, birthdays, graduation, mother's day, and weddings. This weekend went really well. I had a piano competition yesterday and I was one of the finalist. That was so God working through me. I'm still in shock. So I left the competition early and went on a road ralley with my youthgroup and one of our sister churches youthgroup's. It started at 1:00 and I didn't get home till 11:00. My team got 5th place though and what's really exciting is that a team that has been getting 1st place for the past two years, came in second to last. God has been showing Himself in some amazing ways. Isn't wonderful when you've been praying about something and God answers? You could be praying for days, months, or even years, He is still in control. Need to run!