Sweet Tooth

Only 24 hours until Kate's pirate glow in the dark birthday bash at the skate park! Woo! I have never made so many cupcakes in my life. And last night, (while making cupcakes) it hit me.... CUP-CAKES. like CAKE in a CUP. It was amazing. 

So in my book I am reading (Being A Girl Who Loves) I read about the lepers in Jesus' time, and how they were forced out of their homes to go into a leper colony far away from town where they could never see their family or friends ever again. If you don't know what the disease is, it's when you get painful sores all over your body and everything on the inside and outside basically rots away and your limbs fall off. Pretty disgusting. But these people were never able to be touched because they were so incredibly contagious. And there was a story of one particular leper who walked into town, willing to be humiliated and unloved all to see Jesus in hopes that he would be healed. But the crazy thing is, that the leper said to Jesus "Lord, if you are WILLING to heal me..." so that made me think, how many times do we go to God demanding things from Him rather than going to Him humbly knowing that he doesn't HAVE to do anything, but he does it because he loves us. We take advantage of God so much. 

And another thing is, we don't look and notice God in our lives daily and thank him for EVERYTHING, whether or not we like it. For example, I don't LIKE having a broken leg, but I can already see how God is using my injury as a positive in my life rather than something to be angry about. So take time to notice God in the areas of your life where you usually let it brush right past you without acknowledging it.

I have to get back to decorating the pirate cup cakes :)

Broken

Well, all I can say about this summer as its coming to an end is that im SO ready for senior year. I'm not looking forward to starting it off on crutches with a giant pink cast, but I figure there must be some reason why God wanted it this way, so I just have to deal with it. This summer has just been the biggest 3 months of CHANGE I have ever had to deal with. But overall I'm really excited about the way things are going, the friends I have gotten a lot closer with, and all the new things God has been teaching me!! One of those things would be learning how to love, which I've been trying to figure out for a really long time and there are still a lot of things that I just dont understand about love, but I'm reading a book called "Being a girl who loves" (ha) and it's amazing. I recommend it to anyone, even guys! Also, last night I discovered that I have a new goal in life, and that is to hike the Milford Track in New Zealand, which seems to possibly be one of the greatest places on the planet and is known as "the finest walk in the world."

seriously, who WOULDN'T want to be there?

Without going on any missions this summer, I'm having serious traveling withdrawls. Colorado would have been nice, too bad for broken legs. :(

P.S. Bethany Hamilton is my inspiration.