never let me go - hillsong

*in the storm in the raging sea
Love conquered the fear
& delivered me
& I know You'll never let me go
Love in the shadows
be the light who leads me on
Your love I will follow
be my guide, Your will be done

I have so much to be thankful for ...

• new job: I now work at the library, and I know what you're thinking...but it's the most ideal job ever! I sit at a help desk, basically helping old people print from their computer or help make copies...in the mean time [as told by my supervisors] I work on my homework! and it's perfect because it's quiet, I can get school work done and I am getting paid pretty decent...like almost three bucks more than I was making at my last job. and they just remodeled and it's one of the nicest libraries I've ever been in, with all brand new computers & such...it's a really nice place to work!
• oasis leader: as of this school year, I started helping out with my churches middle school ministry [called oasis] as a sixth grade girls leader. I love all the girls in my group, they bring me such joy, yet they are so innocent and it makes my heart hurt to think of this world they have to face, with all the pressures this world throws at young girls; looking a certain way, finding security in having a boyfriend, trying to make it to the top of the social latter....the list goes on...but when I look past that aspect, I see myself in some of the girls! I love it and God is really showing me how to love them - even though a lot of them I just met for the first time a couple weeks ago..

• the weather: so I guess because of the hurricanes down south [thank God we don't get hurricanes from lakes..] this past week and a half I want to say, has been the rainiest/cold/hot/humid/fall like weather ever [Michigan weather is very unpredictable], but this week has really cleared up...to blue sunny skies, and not to hot and not to cold - good sweat shirt or sweater weather, which I love!
• my health: So I have been running a lot lately, mostly because the weather is cooling down - making it more enjoyable to run outside & so I can stay in shape I guess..and me and some friends might run a 5k for the Thanksgiving day parade! anyway as I am running I always think about the fact that some people can't even walk let alone run, so I am pretty thankful I can get up in the morning and go on a good run..

back to the books

"Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me wanna buy schoolsupplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if Iknew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has itscharms."

- You've Got Mail

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OK. So today was my first OFFICIAL day of being free from the bondage known as school [k-12] - it sounds so cliché but it couldn't ring more truth...while most people, kids, children, ect. headed off to government or private school facilities I went to my college class, one class that started around nine and lasted about an hour and a half...so when I got home I had the rest of the day to do whatever I needed to or wanted to - it was trulyglorious! I did all of my laundry, met my mom for lunch during her break, ran some errands, got organized for the semester, went on a two mile run, folded laundry, sat & read in a book store, and filled out more job applications...that may not seem that fulfilling...but to me it felt so good to accomplish so much on a "school day".
*in other news, I went to barnes & nobles with my twin tonight, it was icing on the cake of my wonderful day let me tell you...so we were bumming around and I found the book entitled for young women only....they have one for just about every walk of life; men only, young men only, women only...you get the idea. so anyway last summer when I worked at camp a lot of the girls in hotel [the giant house full of 30 girls I stayed in all summer] had been passing it around and reading it & saying how good it was....so it was that good, I read like the first two chapters & skimmed the rest of it in the café and I was even going to make an honest person out of myself & purchase it, but times are tight being unemployed .. anyway, it was really insightful, even if you're dating, not dating or are thinking about dating.. it had all sorts of polls and interviews with anonymous guys, that were telling it like it is on things like ; how they want to be treated, what they are really thinking when girls act certain ways, why they what they do .... it was so good. it really got me thinking about how I treat the men in my life; my dad, my two brothers, friends and of course my future husband...

Romans 12:1 & 2

"Therefore,I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies asliving sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformedby the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approvewhat God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."