A date? No way.

Three weeks left at Moody. So many things to get done. My mind is lost in a whirl of thoughts about saying good-bye to friends, standing up at the last Monday Morning Meeting and addressing my peers that I love so much, packing up my room and moving it all to temporary housing, dealing with my family when they come for graduation, listening to my roommate and loving her, dealing with the hurts and pains from the floor, and the ever popular thought: GUYS.

Yeah. GUYS. I just wish that sometime a guy would cross my path and he would come over to me, like say, tomorrow, it is convenient after all, tomorrow is Friday, and he would say "Hey, doing anything tonight? Want to go out with me for ice cream?" Yeah, then I would of course agree because how could I turn down someone even making the attempt to ask me out?? Even if it was nothing but fun, I would love that. Tonight I just feel so badly to be valued by a guy and be more than just a friend who laughs and has fun or has conversations about the same things all the time. Who am I to these guys? I think they're amazing and have such Godly character! How do they see me? Am I not pretty enough, too tough, too much of a farm girl, too silly? These are the questions that fill my mind as I interact with guy after guy wondering what they think about when they talk to me. Are they dropping hints, but I don't pick up on any of it? Or am I to be more blatenly obvious with them and say "Why don't you just ask me out on a date before I graduate??" Are they scared? If so, of what? I'm gonna be gone in a few weeks, isn't that ok to risk it and hey, even if nothing 'serous' comes from it, at least we can deepen our friendship right? What's wrong with that?

Well here's the rants of a senior who has gone on 'dates' but has never been asked out by a guy who initiated it all.

Power of Jesus

Tonight I watched the movie "The Box" with some friends and although I was greatly disappointed and did not expect it to be the type of movie it was, I came away marveled by the spiritual power presented throughout the movie. Even if it was psychologically involved, and had some sort of aliens or something, it was very spiritual. Very powerful. The words of the song In Christ Alone rang through my mind as my friends & I prayed at the end of the movie. "No power of Hell, no scheme of man, shall ever pluck me from His hand, 'til He returns or calls me home,here in the power of Christ I’ll stand". My safety and security rests in Christ. I belong to HIM. HE Has won the VICTORY over the darkness of this world, HE has DEFEATED THE DEVIL AND THE POWER OF DEATH! That is what this not only what this thing called Easter is all about, but what my life is all about. My life has been bought and purchased by the blood of Christ and I belong to Him. HE is always with me, people fail me, things fail me, money fails me, the ONLY constant in my life, my only security is Him. Oh the peace He give, oh the Comfort I feel, even just knowing His Love makes each day worth getting out of bed. May I glory in my Redeemer, who's priceless blood was shed for me!