…and not enough time to write it all down!!

there has been so much going on at covenant between ben entwistle’s memorial service, the hall, crazy homework, greek, and the weekend…

after church i am heading down to atlanta with some of my best friends to get away and enjoy some sweet worship with shane and shane

i’ll throw up some pictures from the past week and the crazy girls that are on my hall as well as some shane and shane stuff once i get 5 seconds…

miss you all and am looking forward to coming home in october!!

–livs

my life is flying. i have been so so busy that i find myself just trying to catch my breath and sit still for a few seconds before i go off running again.

ive realized i have a problem. well, okay i have a lot of ‘problems’ but the one i am referencing is the one in which i struggle with pacing myself. i can already feel a ‘burn out’ coming, if you know what i mean.

i am praying that the lord will calm my a.d.d. heart down and just give me more of Himself and less of me. i am praying that my hall doesn’t become MINE but only HIS. i am praying that the girls on my hall would be broken, and myself, only for the sheer glimpse of becoming who jesus created us to be in the Lord. i am praying that i come to a deeper and profound understanding that i am his and he is mine.

yes, and i have my first greek quiz today. and i begin my 1/2 marathon training today but more on that later

i start classes at covenant today! i’ve been going to my stats class @ the university of tennessee since last week so im ready to get things goin’ up here on the mountain.

I’m excited about this semester. i have some sweet classes–today i have outreach to contemporary culture and social diversity and inequality. tomorrow is greek! monday nights im taking ‘inklings’ so ill be studying lewis, tolkein, and some others. it’s gonne be sweet

my hall is lovely. i absolutely love the new freshmen and the upperclassmen. the lord is going to do amazing things in and through them..im convinced!

i cannot believe that i am in my final week of work as a summer intern at pcpc. where did it all go? Read the rest of this entry »

I think I mentioned to you before that I am reading Holiness By Grace by Bryan Chapell with the youth staff at Park Cities Presbyterian Church. This past week we had to read chapter 3 which talks about Repentance (cue title). In the beginning I wasn’t really getting into it as much as I would have liked but by the end of it I loved it. Chapell is so wise and has some great, great insights into what repentance looks like for the believer as well as the unbeliever.

He starts off with saying that, “true repentance starts with recognition of the holiness of our God” (p. 72). Our focus has to begin with this because we have to begin to comprehend the vastness of his goodness and how small and wicked we are in light of Him. This is where a truly repentant heart should begin… Read the rest of this entry »

Some of you may know that I am going to be a Resident Assistant (R.A.) this next year at Covenant. I can’t wait and am looking forward to Staff Training week here in about 2 weeks but there have been a lot of things on my mind about my hall. Namely that I want them to know me. I want to be honest with them and I don’t want the girls to place me on this pedestal of whatever as it is easy to do with people who are in positions of ‘authority’ or whatever over you. I figured I would start a little something called ‘growth emails.’ I sent the first 1 on July 9 and thought I would post it for ya’ll to check it out.

More on New York and life in Dallas coming soon…i promise Read the rest of this entry »

written about 3 weeks ago @ the crooked tree in uptown. if you haven’t been–GO! its amazing

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sometimes i feel like i should just blend in with the culture. that it would just be easier if i lived a complacent, comfortable lifestyle. not only living apathetically but really doing whatever i wanted. sometimes i just want to rebel against the ‘rules’ of christianity…the list of “do’s and don’ts.” Something that I have termed, List Christianity.

that frame of mind gets interrupted when i wake up and realize what i have done. that i have reduced God to little boxes in which i feel as though i have to put check marks in them to feel as though i have accomplished something. somewhere along the way christianity became a chore, a job…routine and boring.

how did i wind up here? where did i take a sharp left turn into the oblivion of confusion. when did this…my thoughts shoot off into a million different directions. i think list christianity begins to take root in my soul the moment i become fascinated with everything else besides jesus. the once quite whispers of lies become screams that i can’t drown out. they overtake my mind and i begin to fight but its just too hard. i can’t fight it alone. i sadly give up. Read the rest of this entry »

while i was on vacation in kansas city last week, i really slowed down and realized how badly i need to–more than i had been. my time in KC was such a sweet time to think and talk stuff through with one of my dearest friends, Jacky.

the following is taken from a journal entry I wrote on July 7…just a little glimpse into where my heart has been

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friends…beloved….crazy people who read this ridiculous thing for fun:

wow. my time in dallas is flying by faster than…well, its just going by fast ;o)

I feel like every time I talk with some of my old roomies or friends at Covenant I have to recap the last week of my life and it usually entails being out of town and driving all over the place and being with kids non stop. Read the rest of this entry »

As a youth ministry staff we are reading through Holiness by Grace by Bryan Chapell. We had to read the introduction and first chapter and write a 1 page response by today, Tuesday. In order to prepare and make sure I actually got it done, I went to a local coffee shop off of Cedar Springs–Buli.  I really love their chai and carmel latte’s and the atmosphere is so chill. To help you better understand why I am laughing right now even as I write this…picture this image… Read the rest of this entry »