The Life of His Princess

Soooo... The snow I've been wishing for the last few months is happily on the ground where I wanted it... I do miss white winters in Arkansas... *sigh* I've been back in Minnesota for just over two weeks now, half way done with break! I can't express how excited I am to be going back to school... It's not that I don't love it here, I love getting to see my family and old friends, but I really, really, really miss school. I miss my amazing friends, and even homework, as weird as it is to say that... (I also miss my bed. :p) Every time I am able to push Arkansas into the corner of my mind, sometime comes up that reminds me of home and then I miss it again. :p 12 days! My fall semester went great! I finished with all A's and worked hard for them. Now, I'm all rested up and ready to take on the Spring semester where I will have to work even harder for those A's. :) God has been teaching me so much about who He is this semester. He continually works on te...

So, last spring when I was doing online classes with Moody Bible College, I wrote a speech for my Oral Communication class. At the time my mom said I should post it on my blog, or do something with it (she actually told me to submit it to Gen J,) but I never did anything with it... Well, it came to mind today, and so, here goes... Back in November of 2008 I was standing in a huge banquet hall with seventy some-odd other teenagers feeling slightly out of place among all the elegantly dressed important republicans of Minnesota. I had spent seven days of low sleep and lots of caffeine campaigning and was dead on my feet. The words I heard over the loudspeakers from the woman on stage made it all worth it, “…And I want to thank 70 great kids who came out this weekend. We often hear that there aren’t young people in the Republican Party. I’m here to tell you that couldn’t be further from the truth. We had 70 teenagers knock on our doors Friday afternoon, and by the time I got to Woodb...

So.... I have two rough drafts that each contain just a few sentences... Though one of them was last week... Anyways, I've been in Arkansas for 9 weeks now, and away from Minnesota for 10 weeks... Weird. Here's what I got written 5 weeks ago.... "Wow, Have I really been gone from home for almost 4 weeks? Part of me feels like I haven't been gone all that long, but for the majority I feel like I've been here a lot longer then 3 weeks." And here's how far I got last week... "I've been gone from home for 9 weeks now, and at school for 8 weeks.... Seems crazy. At the same time though, this semester is flying by so quickly!" Both very true... But I never got past that in writing. Partially because I don't know what to say, partially because I get distracted by friends, and partially because I feel guilty about now working on homework that's  due soon... I still feel like I haven't been gone from MN that long, yet at the same time...

" Finally,  be strong in the Lord and in  the strength of his might. Put on  the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against  the schemes of the devil. For  we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against  the rulers, against the authorities, against  the cosmic powers over  this present darkness, against  the spiritual forces of evil  in the heavenly places. Therefore  take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in  the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore,  having fastened on the belt of truth, and  having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and,  as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up  the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all  the flaming darts of  the evil one; and take  the helmet of salvation, and...

A very dear friend of mine, Amy Buchmeyer, has graciously allowed me to use her as a guest post today! Amy is a very passionate young woman, with a heart of gold, her energy concerning the elections this year are contagious! Here is her take on the VP pick that was announced on Friday. I n choosing Congressman Paul Ryan for his Vice President nominee, Governor Mitt Romney is doing more than making this election about the economy. He is taking a side. Over the last few months, Wisconsin has demonstrated that it is more than a battleground state. It is a testing ground. The people of Wisconsin elected officials who balanced the budget and cut spending, but at a cost. It was a cost many did not want to pay. The ensuing recall election mirrored the confusion and politics demonstrated around the United States, even up in Congress with the debt ceiling crisis. The decision to keep or impeach Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch promised a rippling effect acros...

Wednesday, June 27th  was the 3rd Annual Semi-formal for Youth Group. For the first time I was not attending it, but helping with it! It was so much fun to see my little bros and the rest of the youth group all dressed up. it may just be a church event, but everyone dresses up! (With the guys, the dressing up thing had to be pushed a little harder at first year... Our Youth Pastor is pretty persuasive though. ;) ) The kids had a blast, the food was delish, the awards were great/amusing depending on the award, and the room was beautiful. But this post isn't about that, it's about something I realized I was doing after I got home. See, I dressed up too. Kinda 'cause I could. :) Kinda because we wanted to get a pic of me and my handsome brothers. :D (Getting them to dress up this much is quite the feat (thank you Pastor Nate! :p)  A few people told me that I looked great, but the comments that I really cared about came from one person, my daddy. When I got home I went to s...

Patience, waiting , and open hands . These are the themes that have resounded in my life the last two years.You'd think I'd have the lesson all learned by now! Sadly, I am a slow learner and make the same mistakes, over, and over, and over again. Some of these themes I have talked about on here (or, maybe most of them...) Patience: waiting patiently for God to use you, and waiting patiently for colleges to get back to you. Waiting: waiting to see where God wants you, and waiting for your adviser to reply to your email you sent 2 weeks ago. Open hands: Hanging onto my own plans with open hands, because it is so much more painful for God to have to pry my hands open to remove a plan that is keeping me from His plans for my life. Giving things to God is so much easier in the long run, and it lets me see Him work in and through my life in ways I could never have foretold. One of those things is my plans for this fall. For those of you who don't know, this fall ...

For those of you who know me well (or are friends with me on Facebook), you know that I knit. If you know me really well, you know that I love knitting but have been slow in my progress with more advanced knitting. I've been knitting washclothes for years, last year I knit a dress, this last winter I knit many, many pairs of hats and mittens and one scarf, for Christmas presents, In January I knit a Circular sweater. Now these, are finished projects- behind the scenes I've been working on socks for around 3 years now. Yes, 3 years on a single pair of socks. See, I couldn't get it right,  every time I finished turning my heel (turning the heel means finishing the heel and preparing to knit the foot of the sock) it was wrong! I either would end up with a hole randomly in the middle of my heel, or I had lost so many stitches along the way that I went from an adult size sock to a infant sock. 3 years ago when I started this adventure in socks I tried turning the heel ar...

"What I don't understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can't be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God's command is necessary. But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time. It happens so regularly that it's predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God's commands, but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me ...

Funky title huh? Not living for Tomorrow, or today, goes against everything we're told by culture. This is what has been on my mind since last week- how to live for the forever and not for today. Francis Chan does a beautiful job explaining "living for forever" Where is our focus? What are we living for? It's so easy to forget that that little red taped off section is our entire life on earth, yet we spend most of our life worried and concerned about that section. We freak out about who's in office, who's running for GOP nomination, we debate it over and over to the point that no one is changing anyone else's mind since their mind is already made up. God will not be at all surprised with election results in November, this I know for sure. He already knows, He's not sitting up there going "Oh! Oops. Gotta change my plans since they didn't get a Christian guy into office." Nah, I think He's got it under control, we're in H...