Well, today I had an epic freak-out moment. Does anyone realize that it's almost August? Meaning that summer is less than a month from being over? Am I the only one who has noticed this? So, in a few weeks, I'll be starting my final year of high school. And here's all that I have to think about, the big, the small, and the insignificant for the future.
1. Senior overalls?! AHHHHH! I just took them out of my closet today to wash...I haven't touched them besides that. I'm just very overwhelmed and am thinking that Coppell is a little ridiculous with this whole senior spirit thing. I mean, they're so cool to look at and all but I never realized the stress that comes with decorating denim! Good heavens!
2. Homecoming angst...already. Here's the deal: I've had a homecoming date (okay, so it was my boyfriend) every year. And now that I am single (not a bad thing at all in normal life...just in situations like homecoming), I do not have my guarenteed security. I know that it is a pointless waste in money and overdone and stupid as all get-out. But this year when I'm in my classes and I'm the only one without a mum (as annoying as they are)...well, it should be a trying day. I'm not self-absorbed or anything. But I just hate the feeling of being left out.
3. Prom. Yes, I'm already slightly worried about that. Even though I shouldn't be. It'll be a great night of awesome but there's that whole issue of what group I'll be with, if I'll have a date, will someone else be wearing my dress...etc. It's just not good.
4. College applications. I'm taking a break to finish my OSU one right now. It's the only college I'm applying to with an application fee. It's also the only college right now that's open to the public because the Apply Texas schools don't open early application until August 1st...the day I leave for Pine Cove.
I just feel like senior year has suddenly snuck up on me and I am so not ready for it yet. It's a frightening feeling.
But here's the cool part. Senior year is going to start fast and get faster. Things are going to start changing soon. But God will worry about it for me. I don't need to. That's what I have to keep thinking about. "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.'" I have hope; I have a future. But only in God. All this senior madness is going to come at me like a fastball. But God will be my home-run hitter just like Josh Hamilton is to the Rangers; I can always count on Him.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Monday, July 5, 2010
Mind? Consider yourself BLOWN
I went to my cousins' lakehouse for the holiday this weekend. My uncle and cousin are both avid pyromaniacs, so they had us all go down to the dock while they shot off fireworks from the beach. There were about twenty of us, all watching the colors explode into the sky. But there was that lapse of time while Jim and Parker were setting up fireworks and when they were exploding. I took that time to look at the stars.
What I realized was that I'd be seeing those same stars from another continent in a few days. Heading to Kenya for a 17-day mission trip, I was blown away by the fact that the stars are the same everywhere in the world...you just see them from different positions. They're the same; you're different.
Like God. He's always the same. You're just different. I don't see God the same way I saw Him when I was eight years old, twelve years old, fifteen years old. It's like I've just been moving positions around the world, seeing Him in a different way every time. And that's not necessarily bad. They're just different perspectives.
The fact that I'll be in a foreign country for 15ish days (2 for travel time) where I don't know the language, will totally stick out, and have zero idea as to how things are actually going to work out scares the heck out of me. I like order and structure. I like for things to be planned out. Improvisation? Yeah right. But God, through me going to Kenya, is going to force me to change my ways. An inciting incident. No one wants to change. Everyone has to. All the fear I've got about being in a country so far from home, about not knowing if I'm going to actually be able to eat enough, about sharing my faith with people I probably won't ever see again is being used by God to show me that I can do it. The Bible says "do not fear" or some variation of it 365 times. That's the same number of days in the year. Meaning I shouldn't ever be afraid of anything
Because God saved Isaac. God saved Noah. God saved Moses. God saved me. The same God who reigned thousands of years ago is still around today. Like the same stars that are still out in space are thousands of years old.
But even stars will explode into nothingness or become black holes. God won't.
That's why I'm going to Kenya. Because I need to tell people that God is the same God who has been around since the beginning of time...and even before then. And He loves us. A lot. Regardless of the crap we make Him put up with. He's perfect. We're not. He's our star in the sky--a hopeful light in the middle of blackness.
Kenya, here we come.
What I realized was that I'd be seeing those same stars from another continent in a few days. Heading to Kenya for a 17-day mission trip, I was blown away by the fact that the stars are the same everywhere in the world...you just see them from different positions. They're the same; you're different.
Like God. He's always the same. You're just different. I don't see God the same way I saw Him when I was eight years old, twelve years old, fifteen years old. It's like I've just been moving positions around the world, seeing Him in a different way every time. And that's not necessarily bad. They're just different perspectives.
The fact that I'll be in a foreign country for 15ish days (2 for travel time) where I don't know the language, will totally stick out, and have zero idea as to how things are actually going to work out scares the heck out of me. I like order and structure. I like for things to be planned out. Improvisation? Yeah right. But God, through me going to Kenya, is going to force me to change my ways. An inciting incident. No one wants to change. Everyone has to. All the fear I've got about being in a country so far from home, about not knowing if I'm going to actually be able to eat enough, about sharing my faith with people I probably won't ever see again is being used by God to show me that I can do it. The Bible says "do not fear" or some variation of it 365 times. That's the same number of days in the year. Meaning I shouldn't ever be afraid of anything
Because God saved Isaac. God saved Noah. God saved Moses. God saved me. The same God who reigned thousands of years ago is still around today. Like the same stars that are still out in space are thousands of years old.
But even stars will explode into nothingness or become black holes. God won't.
That's why I'm going to Kenya. Because I need to tell people that God is the same God who has been around since the beginning of time...and even before then. And He loves us. A lot. Regardless of the crap we make Him put up with. He's perfect. We're not. He's our star in the sky--a hopeful light in the middle of blackness.
Kenya, here we come.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Color me WAY EXCITED
I have ranted about my love for several book series on this blog o' mine. This post will be much the same.
Everyone (or most people) have heard about Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I've talked about the books before. When the series ended with The Last Olympian, I was so far from ready to put those books down. I didn't want to leave the hilarious and action-packed world that was Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and their fellow demigod friends. I loved those characters like they were some of my real friends (which is horribly sad in a nerdy sort of way).
But I guess Rick Riordan (mastermind author) felt the same way. Because he's writing a spin-off series.
Can I just take a moment and FREAK OUT?! Please and thank you!
This new brilliant series will be told in 3rd person (instead of Percy's 1st person in the first series) and focus on a brand-new cast of characters. But fans would have Riordan's head if he didn't bring in the characters from the Percy Jackson series. So in his blog post about the new series, to be titled The Heros of Olympus, he said that all main players from the first series would also be main players in the second series, but it wouldn't focus on them as much. Which I am perfectly okay with! I'm a character person and as long as my favorites are in this new series, I am a-okay.
Anyway. The first book is called The Lost Hero and I already have a vague idea of who this said lost hero might be. But then again, I could be very, very wrong. Riordan likes to make us think it's one person when it totally isn't. After reading the released first two chapters of TLH, I'm a fine mixture of emotions. Panic, excitement, intense curiosity, fear, worry, wonderment, anxiety, eagerness. The list goes on. October 12th, the set date for release, cannot come soon enough.
I'm going to give you a minor spoiler on the first 2 chapters. Nothing huge, but just my personal analysis after reading the first couple of chapters. The main character, Jason (who, like Percy, has a very...historical name in Greek mythology), focused on is a son of...Zeus. GASP! If you've read the first series, you would know that this means that Zeus has broken the pact of not having demigod children not once but now twice. Way to go, buddy. Jason gets hit with a lightning bolt said to kill 20 men and survives and jumps off the Grand Canyon to save someone and is pushed up by air. You can't tell me that this is not clearly a son of the god of the sky. Jeepers. His friend, Leo, is very obviously a son of Hephastus, god of the forges. He's constantly putting things together and taking them apart, much like his father. And the afore mentioned person that Jason had to save...well, she's a girl. Named Piper. She and Jason have been dating. She's also a demigod. Her mom...well, I don't really know. I'm suspecting Athena but Piper doesn't have grey eyes. My fallback would be Artemis but she is a known maiden goddess...so I'm honestly at a loss. Hmm. I'll reread the chapters and keep you posted. The last weird thing that bothered me (I'm not going to tell you the epic cliff-hanger at the end of chapter 2) was that Jason remembered absolutely nothing. He didn't know that Piper was his girlfriend, he didn't know where he was, he didn't know who he was. It was weird and not anything like any of the first series. I'm just as curious to figure out who he is as Jason himself.
Call me empathetic.
So yes. October 12th needs to get here ASAP!! So I can know what happened to...
In other news, still no word from the writing contest. BYE! :)
Everyone (or most people) have heard about Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I've talked about the books before. When the series ended with The Last Olympian, I was so far from ready to put those books down. I didn't want to leave the hilarious and action-packed world that was Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and their fellow demigod friends. I loved those characters like they were some of my real friends (which is horribly sad in a nerdy sort of way).
But I guess Rick Riordan (mastermind author) felt the same way. Because he's writing a spin-off series.
Can I just take a moment and FREAK OUT?! Please and thank you!
This new brilliant series will be told in 3rd person (instead of Percy's 1st person in the first series) and focus on a brand-new cast of characters. But fans would have Riordan's head if he didn't bring in the characters from the Percy Jackson series. So in his blog post about the new series, to be titled The Heros of Olympus, he said that all main players from the first series would also be main players in the second series, but it wouldn't focus on them as much. Which I am perfectly okay with! I'm a character person and as long as my favorites are in this new series, I am a-okay.
Anyway. The first book is called The Lost Hero and I already have a vague idea of who this said lost hero might be. But then again, I could be very, very wrong. Riordan likes to make us think it's one person when it totally isn't. After reading the released first two chapters of TLH, I'm a fine mixture of emotions. Panic, excitement, intense curiosity, fear, worry, wonderment, anxiety, eagerness. The list goes on. October 12th, the set date for release, cannot come soon enough.
I'm going to give you a minor spoiler on the first 2 chapters. Nothing huge, but just my personal analysis after reading the first couple of chapters. The main character, Jason (who, like Percy, has a very...historical name in Greek mythology), focused on is a son of...Zeus. GASP! If you've read the first series, you would know that this means that Zeus has broken the pact of not having demigod children not once but now twice. Way to go, buddy. Jason gets hit with a lightning bolt said to kill 20 men and survives and jumps off the Grand Canyon to save someone and is pushed up by air. You can't tell me that this is not clearly a son of the god of the sky. Jeepers. His friend, Leo, is very obviously a son of Hephastus, god of the forges. He's constantly putting things together and taking them apart, much like his father. And the afore mentioned person that Jason had to save...well, she's a girl. Named Piper. She and Jason have been dating. She's also a demigod. Her mom...well, I don't really know. I'm suspecting Athena but Piper doesn't have grey eyes. My fallback would be Artemis but she is a known maiden goddess...so I'm honestly at a loss. Hmm. I'll reread the chapters and keep you posted. The last weird thing that bothered me (I'm not going to tell you the epic cliff-hanger at the end of chapter 2) was that Jason remembered absolutely nothing. He didn't know that Piper was his girlfriend, he didn't know where he was, he didn't know who he was. It was weird and not anything like any of the first series. I'm just as curious to figure out who he is as Jason himself.
Call me empathetic.
So yes. October 12th needs to get here ASAP!! So I can know what happened to...
In other news, still no word from the writing contest. BYE! :)
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