Day 4 - your most significant childhood memory

Learning how to swim...
Well so I have been in the water learning since I was a baby.
I just remember this one instance in the ocean.
I had a beach ball that had a globe print than the usual colors.
I enjoyed playing with my globe ball while snorkeling in the ocean.
It was time to go and my globe ball was floating away.
I couldn't reach it and I wanted my dad to get it for me, but he wouldn't.
He wanted me to swim to go get it. I was afraid and it was getting deeper.
He decided to throw me toward the ball to get it.
That cause the ball to go farther.
He did it again.
I remember what it looks like under water.
I remember seeing coral to my left, sand and blue water.
There were probably fish.
I eventually got my globe ball back and left the beach.
I remember sitting at the table at King's Buffet and thinking..I could have died..
or something like...that was scary.

This did not stop me from learning how to swim better.
I swam in the ocean again.
I took lessons at the military base.
And now I am a lifeguard.

What is the goal?

Getting married is not the goal.
It is CLEARLY a hope.
I do hope to get married one day.
I hope to have children.
I hope to be a missionary.

The goal is to follow Christ.
And through that being my focus I can follow Him in the goals that he has set before me.
I need to follow Him and do what he has called me to do right now.
I am serving God in my singleness.
That is something that has been on my heart and mind for several years.
Foolishly have I dated other guys and changed my plans for them when I should have been doing something else.
Christ is my passion and my focus.
When Christ is my passions, I can trust my passions.
I have a passion about the great commission and missions and people, God's children.
I hope to be a missionary. I believe that is where God has called me to be.
I do not know where or when.. but I know that is has begun now.
Right now my mission field is here.
As school in my classes and through my projects I can proclaim Christ in some way that He leads me to do a such. The way I speak and act will show, I hope will show Christ shining though me.
A goal that has come through this passion is to graduate from school in the next year.
I do not know what job I want exactly with this degree. To be a missionary in a foreign land is the idea. I hope to learn their culture, language, relationships, and what God is doing there with the people.
In the bible Paul was a tent maker as he did all his missions. With the degree I will receive, perhaps I will find my tent making job. And through that job I will be able to use the funds I earn for missions.

The goal is not to get married, not to have kids, or not to find a job.
They are hopes that I have placed at the foot of the Cross.
I am letting God orchestrate my love story, lead me to where he wants me to serve, and help me to follow him in whatever I do.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

So Be It.

Intriguing.

I like the way this video was made.
Its also for a good cause.




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Day 3 - your thoughts on religion

Perhaps I could write a really long paper on this one.
So I am giving myself less than ten minutes to write.

Religion.
It often seems to be the foundation of ones life.
The religion I would be under would be Christianity.
I see it as a relationship thought, not a religion.
It is a relationship with Jesus Christ.
He is God the son who conquered death for my behalf.
He did it out of love and grace.

He loves me so stinking much.
I love Him.
It is a beautiful romance.
God romances me when he lets the clouds break and lets the sun shine through while it sets.
It is so lovely and so magnificent.
My relationship with God is constantly growing. I learn more of his character and how he has created me to be. I try to read his word daily - that is one of the ways God speaks to me. I pray constantly. I trust in him.

I can say that God is enough in the midst of loss.
At least I hope I can. I have never been in the point of deep loss or hurt.
But I remember that it is well.
We live in a fallen world because of sin and Satan.
God is so much stronger than than and so much bigger.
He is my source of joy and light in my life.
God is always my remedy.

I just want to be closer to Him.
I am his and he can have all of me, anything, everything...

Day 2 - your thoughts on death

Death.
Death of others or myself?
I have had friends pass away.
It is not easy to grasp at all.

I just learn to trust God.
I know that Satan is a big jerk and rules this fallen world.
Trials come, and hopefully they will draw us closer to God.

I am not afraid of dying; however, I am sure in the given moments of dying I may be scared especially if I am dying in something catastrophic such as falling to an ice death or a car crash. If I am just sick, I think I will believe that God has bigger plans and that my time on earth is coming to a close.

I know that this life here on earth is for a time. After death there is life. And there is life after that life after death. I will be able to live in heaven after die and then live in a new place God will create after this world is no more.

I hope all who I know will join me to live for eternity.
With Christ in my heart, I have already began to live in eternity.
This time on earth is only a small part of the beginning.
Then there is forever. It is hard to imaging, but it will be so brilliant.
Heaven. I am so excited.
It is why I live.
Jesus. Oh it will be so amazing.
It brings a joy to my heart and excitement in my soul.

"I want to run on greener pastures
I want to dance on higher hills
I want to drink from sweeter waters
In the misty morning chill
And my soul is getting restless
For the place where I belong
I can't wait to join the angels and sing my heaven song"

Day 1 - favorite picture of me and some facts

Day 1 - your favorite picture of yourself and one interesting fact for every year you’ve been alive

I'd rather be the one taking the photos.
This is most current. My father and I by Photo Both on Mac.



Photographs I have taken. The last two will be published in this years Salmon Creek Journal.






I went to a club last evening.
I chose not to dance with anyone, it was a good workout.
I rather not watch so much television; I feel I watch too much.
I am a senior at WSUV; I will be done December 2011.
I collect rocks. [and bottle caps and sea shells and…]
I have been to Mexico and Haiti on mission trips.
Music about Jesus often becomes prayers.
Swing dancing is fun.
Be a missionary?
I wanted to go to the USNA.
I grew up in Guam for 6 years.
I was born in Washington.
I don’t wear make-up
I am a morning person and a night person; it will depend on the day.
I love sunshine.
Jesus is the ultimate joy of my heart.
I like to read books but I read slowly.
I enjoy swimming.
I am really sick of this world and everything in it.
I cannot wait until heaven, I know that God has a plan for me on this earth and I am just following him for now and forever.

A Challenge

To keep me from going insane with school and to keep me writing in some way, I am going to do this challenge. I have seen on a few friends blogs in Tumblr. I probably won't do it everyday, and I probably ought to be doing homework when I do them, but so be it. It shall be interesting.

Day 1 - your favorite picture of yourself and one interesting fact for every year you’ve been alive

Day 2 - your thoughts on death

Day 3 - your thoughts on religion

Day 4 - your most significant childhood memory

Day 5 - discuss your feelings on the word “love” and the way it’s used in today

Day 6 - your all time favorite movie

Day 7- talk about your idol and how they influence you

Day 8 - ten things you’d like to say to ten different people, without using names

Day 9 - your favorite blog

Day 10 - a picture of your favorite relative

Day 11 - your biggest fear

Day 12 - a picture of the place where you were born

Day 13 - discuss your first kiss

Day 14 - your thoughts on drugs and alcohol

Day 15 - your celebrity crush

Day 16 - ten things that make you smile and a picture of yourself smiling

Day 17 - discuss your greatest fear and your greatest dream

Day 18 - a picture of your best friend

Day 19 - a picture of yourself and someone you don’t actually like

Day 20 - talk about where you go/went to high school

Day 21 - a picture of your first boyfriend/girlfriend

Day 22 - a time you felt like ending your own life

Day 23 - your biggest regret

Day 24 - a picture of you when you were younger

Day 25 - a picture of your all time favorite band.