happy day!

Well, am I a blog slacker or what?

Or what.

Anyway, I made a great decision last night. Which means that I gave up facebook for Lent. And I don't really know that I practice Lent (I don't really have a denomination, I am winging it basically and I have been told that this is acceptable), but I like the idea behind it. I can make time to flap around on facebook for hours, but not hang out with Jesus? Stupid.

Last night was a night of many good things. Which means that we had United! And it was SOOOOO GOOOOOD. We sang "How Can I Keep From Singing?" and that is one of my favorite Chris Tomlin songs. After United, Mesha and I went outside and then Drew Parks taught us how to longboard! A longboard is the same thing as a skateboard, except longer. Mesha is a CHAMP at this but I am SO BAD and it took me a long time to stay on that thing without holding onto Mesha. I am pathetic, I know. But then I got the hang of things, fear not. So now Mesha and I are going to go buy longboards and I am sooooo excited! I forgot to mention that I totally wiped out in the middle of the road. It is a good thing that I was only going about 2mph or I might have broken a bone. But that is why I am buying a helmet tomorrow. After that, Carol and I rocked out to some Ay Bay Bay while I wrote a Spanish paper. I am not very good at Spanish, but I try.

I am learning a whoooole lot of things. Mostly about being real. And about loving people. I just want to love people and talk to people and invest in people and then hang out with Jesus...all this other junk (like dumb school) is just in the way. And that is a bummer in the summer.

I am in the libarary (Estoy en la biblioteca, take that!) just flappin' around, so I think I am going to go back to my room and see what Carol is up to. I will leave you with a Max Lucado quote about how loved you are. :)

"Can anything make me stop loving you?" God asks. "Watch me speak your language, sleep on your earth, and feel your hurts." Behold the maker of sight and sound as He sneezes, coughs, and blows His nose. You wonder if I understand how you feel? Look into the dancing eyes of the kid in Nazareth; that's God walking to school. Ponder the toddler at Mary's table; that's God spilling His milk.

"You wonder how long my love will last? Find your answer on a splintered cross, on a craggy hill. That's me you see up there, your maker, your God, nail-stabbed and bleeding. Covered in spit and sin-soaked. That's your sin I'm feeling. That's your death I'm dying. That's your resurrection I'm living. That's how much I love you."

"Can anything come between you and me?" asks the firstborn Son.
Hear the answer and stake your future on the triumphant words of Paul: "I am sure that neither death, nor life, not angels, not ruling spirits, nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, nothing below us, nor anything else in the whole world will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39).