Good Things

I got back from Canoe Camp on Sunday. I had a wonderful time as always.

Some good news: Frank got a job! What an answer to prayer. We've been waiting and praying for this for over a year now and the Lord has blessed him with a job that he'll be starting on Wednesday.

In other news:

On Thursday I'll be finding out my roomate at Point Loma!

And my schedule and such. I'm so excited for that.

I'm just trusting in the Lord, I believe that everything is in his hands.

It's Summer.

This means the end of another school year. But this ending was different. Because unlike every year before this year, I will not be returning. The cycle has ended. I have graduated. How strange and abstract that statement is and will probably continue to be, maybe even until my first day of college classes. Is it strange that it hasn't hit me yet? I've been grasping for feeling anything but numb about this. Repeatedly telling myself that this is it, I'm going to college. For some reason I am not comprehending this. It's not bad. I'm not distraught, I'm just curious as to why it still seems so far away when literally I will be in San Diego 2 months from now. I just want there to be a resolve to high school and San Jose. Some sort of ending. I thought that ending would be graduation, but it still doesn't feel any different. Maybe it won't.

With summer comes exciting times, of course.
I have dedicated my summer to being basically a nanny (though I am not a fan of that word, it just fits) for a family with two children. I work Monday through Thursday, 8:20 to 5:30. It's been good and it's a wonderful way to earn money for college.
This upcoming week I will not be working. I will be going to Redding to canoe down the Sacramento river. I'm going to Canoe Camp! I thoroughly enjoy canoe camp and I'm excited.

On a final note, I really hope to actually start blogging on a regular basis now. I want to update on summer and college adventures. So hopefully I will be updating at least once a week. We'll see how that goes. :)

It's been awhile blogspot

A lot has been going on lately so I'm just kinda going to randomly throw this blog out here.

Point Loma has always been my number one choice. It's always been my dream school. But a couple weeks ago I was offered a $13,000 scholarship to Olivet.

I've been praying and really trying to figure out the route I want to go, or more so the route God wants me to take. Today Point Loma offered me a decent scholarship. I'm still a little unsure but I'm definitely still leaning towards Point Loma.

Basketball is over. We lost our CCS game on Tuesday night. That really sucked. I know we could have won. I'm super bummed that basketball is over but I'm hoping to get the opportunity to play in college.

I'm really trying with all of my heart to live my life in a way that pleases God. All I want is to do what He wants me to do. He's given me passions and goals but I really want to make sure that all I do is what He wants. That is such a difficult thing to do. It's so hard to decipher my selfishness from God's plans. I'm sort of in the midst of this crazy point in my life where I need some direction.

Well that's about all I have to say for now. So I will leave you with this picture:

This kid I was watching at church one time made this awesome creation of Mario out of Legos!

God is in this Song

It's long, but He's there.
"Words to Build a Life On"
Mike Crawford and His Secret Siblings

These are words to build a life on
These are Your words how can they be mine
These are words to build a life on
These are Your words I want them to be mine

Blessed are the poor
Blessed are the weak
Blessed are the ones
Who can barely speak

Blessed in your hurt
Blessed in your pain
Blessed when your teardrops
Are falling down like rain

Blessed when you’re broken
Blessed when you’re blind
Blessed when you’re fragile
When you have lost your mind

Blessed when you’re desperate
Blessed when you’re scared
Blessed when you’re lonely
Blessed when you’ve failed

Blessed when you’re beat up
Blessed when you’re bruised
Blessed when you’re tore down
Blessed when you’re used

These are words to build a life on
These are Your words how can they be mine
These are words to build a life on
These are Your words
I want them to be mine

Blessed when you’re heartbroke
Blessed when you’re fired
Blessed when you’re choked up
Blessed when you’re tired

Blessed when the plans
That you so carefully laid
End up in the junkyard
With all the trash you made

Blessed when you feel like
Giving up the ghost
Blessed when your loved ones
Are the ones who hurt you most

Blessed when you lose your
Own identity
Then blessed when you find it
And it has been redeemed

Blessed when you see what
Your friends can never be
Blessed with your eyes closed
Then blessed you see Me

These are words to build a life on
These are Your words how can they be mine
These are words to build a life on
These are Your words
I want them to be mine

Blessed when you’re hungry
Blessed when you thirst
Cause that’s when you will eat of
The bread that matters most

Blessed when you’re put down
Because of me you’re dissed
Because of me you’re kicked out
They take you off their list

You know you’re on the mark
You know you’ve got it right
You are to be my salt
You are to be my light

So bring out all the flavor
In the feast of this My world
And light up all the colors
Let the banner be unfurled

Shout it from the rooftops
Let the trumpets ring
Sing your freaking lungs out
Jesus Christ is King!

Jesus is my Savior
Jesus is divine
Jesus is my answer
Jesus is my life

These are words to build a life on
These are Your words how can they be mine
These are words to build a life on
These are Your words
I want them to be mine

Give us ears that we may hear them
voice that we may sing them
life that we may live them
hope that we may give them
hearts that we can feel them
eyes that we can see them
thoughts that we may think them
tongues that we may speak
Your words

You can hear it at http://www.myspace.com/mikecrawfordmusic

Point Loma Nazarene University

is the place for me. Most definitely. I had an amazing weekend at preview days. Even though it was my second time, I had a blast going to a class, chapel, and staying in dorms. That place feels like home to me. I absolutely cannot wait to see if I'm accepted.

Busy busy.

Open

We carved our pumpkins today with our next door neighbors. Mine is the one in the middle on the bottom row. It's a wave and a sun.

Yesterday I met my Best Buddy at school. Her name is Amy. She loves Elvis and Zac Efron. Her favorite Spongebob character is Gary, the snail.

This week some representatives from Invisible Children came to Branham. Something that I've always wanted to do was go to Africa. The people that came showed us a movie about the terrible child soldier issue that is happening there. We learned about Joseph Kony. We learned about the brokenness. We also learned about hope. I bought a DVD that came with a bracelet. The DVD is about a girl named Grace. She was a child soldier who was forced to be a sex-slave to one of the LRA commanders. She escaped at 13 years old with multiple bullet wounds and a baby in her. Grace has a beautiful smile. Although she has suffered so much, she named her baby Opoyo Rwot which means "thank God." Grace's bracelet is green. Green is for Grace. I will wear Grace's bracelet to always have a reminder of the suffering that is going on in Africa. These kids are no longer invisible to me.
Anyways, back to the fact that I've always wanted to go to Africa, this inspired me even more. I feel like my heart is being pulled to that place.


My heart and my eyes have been opened this week by Amy and by Grace.

1 John 3:18

I feel like I could sleep for the rest of my life. I'm so exhausted. The week has only just begun. I hate complaining like this. I'm just not in the happiest mood ever cuz I'm sleepy. I guess I'm kinda grumpy.

I feel like I have nothing of worth to say today. So I'll let the Bible and my photoshop art do the talking.