More Blessings Keep Coming... In the Form of Subway Cookies!

So yesterday I was on facebook and as I scrolled through my friend's status updates, I noticed that one friend in particular kept updating about nice things that random people had done for her throughout the day. She referred to them as angels sent by God. When I first saw this I thought, "Man! I wish cool stuff like that would happen to me!" My second thought was "Man! I should be that person for someone else!"

Today, I really wanted a cookie from Subway. So I decided to buy one for 49 cents. The lady at the register gave me two for the price of one because the first one was broken... it wasn't really broken. Thank you Subway Lady for being an angel in my life today! Now, I do believe I will pass it on!

'Tis the Season to be Blessed!

I had the greatest holiday break ever with my family! The more I am away from them, the more I realize how truly blessed I am. God has been so good to me! I like to hear about people's families and their traditions. I will tell you about ours. Thanksgiving on my mom's side of the family is celebrated at our house every year. We always eat lunch at 12. Family always gets there at 11. A few more things we always do: My grandmama always carves the turkey (that's right!). My dad, my sister Christina, or my grandad always play the guitar, most of the time all three of them do. I always make the pecan pie.

The whole family is always there (except this year and last year, on which my cousin Nikki had to work... sad day). Emily and her husband Scott are always there. We always have the same menu, if we do not, Uncle Greg will complain. In the past few years my sister Christina always preaches (its not what you think). We ALWAYS watch a movie after lunch and NEVER watch football. My sister Jessica always works the DVD player. My sister Rebekah and my cousin Rebecca are always attached at the hip.

My favorite tradition: we always, and I mean ALWAYS invite someone to Thanksgiving who has nowhere else to go. This has made for quite the interesting Thanksgivings. Two years ago, a pastor from Indiana and his wife broke down a few miles from our house. They came with the pumpkin pie. Last year Rebekah's boyfriend and his nine siblings and their mom came. It was a full house. This year, JJ came back, and my best friend Justin came too. It was fun.
I have already decided that when my mom is too old (or tired) to cook the turkey, I'm taking over. So, in about ohhhhh 20 years, you can come to my house. If you have no where to go next year, just drop on by, you are more than welcome to come and share in our blessings.

I'm Gonna Let Him Take Over Now...

I don't like my last few blog posts, just sayin'. I think they are starting to be depressing, and that is NOT the point of this blog. This blog is supposed to encourage the readers... and me! So here's what I'm going to do: instead of blogging about how stressed I am over school (2o-page paper anyone?) and about how I don't like the cold weather (dear sun, please come back out) I am going to share some encouraging news with you!

My mom asked me the other day why my stories about school and what God is doing in my life have changed so much from last year to this year, and the truth is, because God is doing totally different things this year than he did last year! Having said that, I am going to talk about my youth group here in Bowling Green again. I know I blog about them all the time, but let me tell you I LOVE these kids and, though many times I have walked away from Wednesday night services feeling really bummed and like I didn't do any good, I know God is working. I know He is.

Last week, one of the kids wrote on his card that he wanted to be baptized! That is huge! Also last week, I gave two of the kids a Bible because they didn't have one and this week their little brother came to church excited that he was going to be getting a Bible. You know what that tells me? It tells me that he saw they had Bibles and he wanted one. That is progress for kids who did not even want to be at church. Last night, we started a praise band for the youth. Kids were volunteering to sing. Whoa! Trust me, these kids have not cared about worship before... and somehow, someway, they have started caring and wanting to be involved. It makes me so stinking excited.

Are you feeling encouraged? I am! We should all talk about things that uplift the Lord more often!

Here is some more good news: Thanksgiving is next week. That is the best news I have ever heard. I mean, I will be doing homework the entire time (except for Thanksgiving day, on which I absolutely refuse to work) but it's okay! I get to be home with my family. Yay. As for my last post, I have decided it is okay to have Christmas decorations up. I love Christmas. I think I was just jealous. I want to have decorations up now too. And I want to go shopping for gifts. Man, this is a good time of year. Thank you Jesus!

It's not Christmas Yet...

Well, its that time of year. Daylight savings is over and it gets dark at five in the evening. Not cool. It depresses me. Also, I realized today that I have one and a half weeks before Thanksgiving break and enough homework (due before Thanksgiving) to last me well through next year. Not cool. It depresses me. Butttttt my neighbors have Christmas decorations up already. I'm still not sure if that is okay or not, but it does make me laugh. And I can always use a good laugh.