Amazing Race! (Cru Style)

So its finally here. The Amazing Race. One that will take you around the MUC and Library and back again! It is going to be so much fun. I am actually a little sad that I am helping plan it so that I am not able to participate. But that is okay I suppose. It will be fun to watch all the same. For those of you who don't know what the Amazing Race is, I'll explain.

Tonight at 8 pm we are having a game, mimicked by what CBS puts on on Sunday nights. But instead of racing around the world as a team, we will race around campus in the Library and the MUC. I would like to do this next year before the weather gets bad, so that we can have it outdoors, and around campus, make it two hours long and have people literally running around campus. But I digress. Last week everyone broke into teams of 5, and their first task was to double the size of their groups from 5 to 10. If they were successful in doing this, they receive one point towards the total of 8 points.

Each team will be dismissed and have one hour to complete the remaining 7 checkpoints. They must decipher the clues to know where to go, and then complete the task at hand. It should be a very fun night! I will post later tonight to tell you who won and how it went.

I also have other exciting news about another amazing upcoming Cru social event. It has not been approved by Dusty yet, but as soon as it is, I'll give you the scoop. Lets just say, its going to be a swingin' good time!

Excitement!

I am getting so excited about going to London. Only 84 more days! I was just researching a little bit about our weekend excursion options, so many to think about. Amsterdam, Milan, Rome, Tuscany, Paris, etc! I cannot wait until it is here and I am traveling around Europe. It will be so awesome to have my good friend Nici with me too! I can't imagine a better traveling companion! We will just have to narrow down our plan as to what we would like to do, because there are only so many days that we will be there!

I am finding it hard to focus on doing my homework. As Nici and I call it, we have Euroitis! Similar to Senioritis but in regards to going to Europe! We can finally use our passports again. I will be able to have some stamps in my new passport, as my other one expired. It is going to be so much fun! Nici and I are getting together tonight too, to talk about it, think about where we want to go, how we are going to get there, what to do when we get there! I'm stoked!

Anyone else want to come? :) James said he wanted to see the Eiffel tower. And so do I!

Praise the Lord

Oh I just wanted to say that God is so good! I have been praying for a few weeks that He will provide me with great roommates and a great place to live. Well yesterday Heather and I were looking for apartments and found an awesome, brand new 3 bedroom 3 bath apartment for $870 a month! Yay! And the landlords are an amazing Christian couple. Praise the Lord. He really does provide for all of our needs if we just trust that He will!

Oh and my Mom and Dad are talking about coming to Europe at the end of my London trip to spend a week or 10 days with me traveling around. And if Nici comes it will be so much fun to have the 4 of us traveling around Europe together! Yay! God is sooo good!

Home

So I'm home for the day. I have a bunch of homework and papers to get written this weekend, because I won't have time the rest of the week. So I came home, so that I could be productive, see how well its working? :) But I think I will still be able to get more done here than I would back in Verm. So 2 papers, 3 reports and 8 chapters to read. Hopefully I can get all that done today and tomorrow afternoon. Because tomorrow night I am going to a friends for Disney Movie Mania as I am calling it. 6 hours of pure Disney! Yay! I love Disney!

Have a wonderful day!

A Colossians Day

Colossians 3:1-2 "Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

Matthew 6:21 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

Where do I place the treasures in my life?

These are the verses that really stood out to me tonight. At Cru we were reading Col 3:1-11 and verses 1 and 2 really zoned in on how I think God is moving in my heart right now. I find myself focusing entirely too much on what is going on in the world around me, in my life, in my friends' lives, and not enough on what God wants and wills for my life.

He made this apparently clear last night, when a friend told me something that I did not want to hear. I knew that when she told me this, she had no idea what I was actually think about that specific topic of conversation but I felt God closing that door in my life for the time being. I have no doubt that someday He will give me the full desires of my heart, or adapt them to better fit His plan in my life. I do not doubt that someday it will happen for me and that it will be the best I have ever experienced, but in His timing. And right now, I am having a hard time being patient. I know this is a little like I am skirting around the issue, but hey, I don't want to go into too many details, or put in names.

Colossians 3:5-8 "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity. lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming."

Wow. That is quite a collection of verses. I like how Paul didn't write this in a gentle way saying 'oh just don't do those things as much' or 'well just try to change, if you can't its okay'. He said "put to death" that is quite a statement to make. Death is such a finality. Once something is dead, it cannot be brought back. I think this passage is fantastic! It poses so many questions, thoughts and convictions that I had never thought of before. Sometimes I think there is nothing more fascinating to read than the Bible.

One other passage I was reading today was in Genesis. Genesis 19 the story about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. I have heard that story before, Lot's wife turns to a pillar of salt, the city is destroyed etc but I never fully understood why the city had to be destroyed. After reading verses 19:4-8 I understand. The men of the city wanted to have sex with the angels of God. And while Lot said no, he offered to give his 2 virgin daughters over to the men. Then after fleeing the city his two daughters slept with their dad and got pregnant. Why did God not have wrath for Lot? Or his daughters? Lot offered to sacrifice his daughters to those evil men, and the girls weren't much better. I don't understand this passage at all.

So I know that this post was a little intense tonight. But I had a lot on my mind. I got some more London stuff taken care of today. So that means I have only 100 days until I leave! Oh my goodness. It is going to go so fast!

Au Revoir!

Caution: Long Week Ahead

Well God is definitely testing my patience and diligence this week. I feel more overloaded with activities, projects, tests, homework, and working than ever before. I know that there must be a plan for all of this hard work, but as of right now, I just can't see what that is. Here's a little glimpse of my schedule this week.

Monday:
Work.............10:00 - 3:00
Strategies mtg... 3:15 - 4:00
IDEA mtg......... 9:15 - 10:30

Tuesday:
Classes.......... 9:30 - 3:15
Presentation #1.11:00 - 12:00
Presentation #2. 2:00 - 2:15
Presentation #3. 3:00 - 3:15

Wednesday:
Work.............10:00 - 3:00
Psych Study...... 3:00 - 3:45
Prayer Group..... 4:00 - 5:00
Crosswalk........ 8:00 - 9:30

Thursday:
Classes.......... 9:30 - 3:15
Test............ 9:30 - 10:45
U.Envision....... 7:00 - 8:00
Cru.............. 8:00 - 9:30

Friday:
Work.............10:00 - 3:00
Appeals Court.... 3:00 - 4:00

Saturday:
Work.............10:00 - 4:00
Womens' Time..... 6:00 - 10:00

Sunday:
Church...........10:45 - 12:00
Super Bowl Party. 4:00 - 8:00

So that is my week. And in between all these events I have to be reading and doing homework and still finding time to hang out with Jesus, and my other friends too. I don't know how I am going to get all of this done. I know that God is above all but right now I just need prayer to make it through this week. Luckily next week looks a little bit calmer. And last week was a pretty calm week as well, but it was atypical of my normal weeks. Sometimes I wish it was the summer already. Then I would be on my way to London and not dealing with so many things monopolizing my time all at once.

Countdown to London: 103 days!