Trusting in God & Friends plus having more paitence!

I have learned more than I can imagine so far in my senior year! Lately its been about trusting in god & your friends. Its been hard to trust in God & his timing on everything as its hard to be waiting for months at a time with hardly any babysitting jobs or anything else. Its been hard even to finally be able to share things with my friends. I know that God & my friends are there for me but sometimes its hard to trust.
I have also had issues with paitentce especially with certain people who can sometimes be hard to be around. I told myself the other day to take a deep breath & pray about it as it gets frustrating but I struggle with it & I am sure others do too.
Praying helps me! I prayed the other day for someting & then all was well after awhile. Dear God, Please help me to trust you & to help me with Paitence! Amen

Encouragement

So after sending a card out to a dear friend & her saying it made her day I feel as I should send more "surprise" encouragement cards. Whenever I get an email or sometimes a letter it makes my day instead of getting nothing & I am sure god wants me to grow more by encouraging & helping others.
Its going to be my personal goal to send a card or email to a random person whom I feel needs it each week & pray for them more often as I need to pray more, learn more, & grow more through reading the bible, praying, encouraging, & more!
Or as my church says reach up, Reach in, & Reach out!
To do this please pray for me in my daily goals & if you see me ask me if I am learning anything new! Leah

Serving for God

So everyday I am at the center I am reminded that I am doing it for God, well at youth group recently I was reminded of that fact that if we are serving we are doing it for God 1st then others! We gotta learn to make priority to serve others for his glory! I am learning more about God everyday, its a rollcoaster but well worth it in the end. I got reispired at the banquet recently of why I volunteer at the center, God called me to the center by helping with the donations & the nursery nook store.
Same reason I wake up to go to church on sunday mornings which is seeing those precious children of god spending my time holding them, giving them hugs, & loving on them. Serving is gift God has given to me & I want to use it to the best of my ability. Serving is not always easy as pie but in the end to see smiles on their faces & know that they are learning is well worth it. If it helps the whole family by going through heavy tasks such as going through clothes & matching outfits it is well worth seeing them be able to have the things they need for their baby that is nice shape & that they earned.

Gods calling

You know how God has a plan & time for everything well, this coming summer (yes, I know thinking ahead of time?) I am planning on going back to camp Barnabas to volunteer. I feel like this past summer God wanted me to try something new which I did & now he wants me to give back & trying something sorta new to me.Camp always brings back alot of spiritual times there especially since I got baptisted there 2 years ago. I am hoping to share my camp videos & personal testimony so that everyone will know my passion & love for camp plus share it with the world so I can get more people to go there. I have met so many friends there who have gone through the same stuff I go through with having a special needs sibling & have helped cared for me.
I miss camp everyday & hope that I can muster my strentgh to go.
I want my summer to be exciting full of adventure & new discoveries!
I am currently writing my experience with a sib with special needs & hope to one day soon make it into a book. Thanks!

crazy life

Okay so know how I wrote about lifes ups & downs well this weekend has been sorta crazy with some down times. It has also been filled with good times. The new series in youth is helping me alot by letting everything come out in the open.
Leah

lifes daily challenges

As I go through my rollcoaster ride of trying to complete my senior year & get ready for the ged test & on top of that getting more babysitting jobs I know its gonna be hard but some how god wants me to push through it. No matter where life takes you or who it brings God has a plan just for you. As I think about who I will marry & what kind of life I will have I know god has the right person out there somewhere waiting for me. I go through ups & downs everyday but no matter what I know I can count on God to help me & I have loving & caring friends to help support me no matter what.
I guess thats a start of what I want to write.

oh what a busy life!

Can't believe I have finally decided to start back on the blogging deal! I think I want to start writing again more as recent friends have inspired me. I won't write long cause I have a busy day tomorrow & need my sleep! Well, from June through now its been quite some busy yet fun months! I won't go into too many details but here is the highlights:
June-
went to sisters graduation
4 years of living here-praise god for those 4 years!
July-
hanging with friends
vbs
RockNWater camp with youth group-went rafting for first time!
2 Year anniversary of me getting baptisted at camp barnabas hooray!
August-
can't remember everything?
Beauty & the Beast audition-I play the narators, baker/flowerlady (small parts with few lines & flowerlady only in 1 song)
JBF Fall sale
September-
start of beauty & the beast play rehearsals
State Fair-was great!
I will write more soon!