You know what? I think I may be the most selfish person I've ever met ( Read more... )

The past couple of sundays I've walked into youth group feeling kind of uncertain. Not because of our youth group or anything anyone did; I adore my youth pastor and the youth group I attend. It's just that many of my friends from youth group were older than me. The last of my closest friends in the youth group graduated last year, and so I find ( Read more... )

it's a nice day outside. I like how yesterday Bethany and I had to reschedule taking my senior pictures because it was raining, and then today it is just great outside ( Read more... )

I am thankful. For today. And this weekend. And what that involved ( Read more... )

Soccer has been off to an interesting start. I've been enjoying the team this year because I feel like we have a good one set up and I think we're going to have a great coach, but as far as interaction with the coach himself goes, it's not been so great. He's been playing me in mid field and forward so far, which isn't great with my asthma and I'm ( Read more... )

So basically soccer tryouts are in full swing and it has been quite an interesting week for me. I was pretty much dreading soccer tryouts because we have a new coach this year and had no idea what to expect from him, tryouts wise. But things have been alright. It's only wednesday and I'm fairly sore, but there are many girls in a worse situation ( Read more... )

This last week at Harlow was a high school camp, so I wasn't even counseling, I was on Work Crew. It was quite the change of pace. There wasn't much order to things, and it was a come-at-the-request sort of experience. Much of the time you were waiting to be given a task, and as soon as you were given some work to do, it was a "get it done, and ( Read more... )

I love how sometimes I just need to talk things out with friends to actually bring order to my thoughts. I was talking with my friend Kristin on the phone today while she was at the airport, and after me venting about a lot of things, I realized (once again) that I overanalyze so many things, and it keeps me from just enjoying life and allowing God ( Read more... )

I've almost gone a whole year without writing in this journal. I'm not going to apologize for it, either. I don't especially care. I just decided I'd start writing in it again ( Read more... )

I've been praying and planning on this whole mission-trip-after-high school thing for quite some time now. Two years down, two more to go until the actual trip takes place. Things are starting to come together and that's great, that's how it should be. BUT things are starting to be put into the hands of others. NOT COOL. What do I do when I'm ( Read more... )