another early morning...*yawn*
*sigh* another weekend at home. what a GREAT feeling. and it's ever better since tomorrow is monday and it's thanksgiving. so no school. an extra day at home. :) yay!!! anyway. so this weekend has been quite nice. didn't really do much. but it was nice and relaxing. just what i needed. time away from things. time away from people. just some alone time. chilling with myself. it's been great. lizzie came home this weekend too. which was a total surprise to me. my dad led me to my room when i came home saying that i need to clean it (which i need to do also) and then liz just kinda popped out from by bed covers. ahhaha. i screamed and started laughing my head off. that was the start of my weekend. it couldn't have started off any better. :) then we went to shoppers, got a few things, then went to blockbuster and rented 'the panic room' and 'changing lanes'. both movies weren't bad at all. although i found the endings lacking. but whatever. then saturday came around and i totally felt like being a bum. not going out. not doing anything. so, that's what i did. :) i must have practiced piano for minimum 2.5hrs - catching up on all the practicing i don't do while at school. :P and i really needed it. my hands felt really good afterwards. hopefully my piano teacher wil be extra happy with me this week. then i watched changing lanes then justin came over for a bit, and we watched enemy of the state which happened to be on tv. and that was good too. didn't get a chance to see him for like...almost three days. which is a lot considering i see him everyday at school. so it was nice seeing him again, after not seeing him for a while. which was probably a good thing too. because maybe we see each other too much? not that it's a bad thing. but it could turn into a bad thing, if the whole dependency issue becomes a factor. :/ then basically i watched trading spaces into the wee hours of the night until i went to bed and got up for church the next morning.
the sermon today was really good. tim preached on jonah's prayer in the big fish. while he was preaching i was reading the beginning of the book of jonah (his sermon started in the 2nd chapter), which is something i usually do, to get more context of the verse that is being focused on. it's really cool, the book of jonah. i never really paid much attention to it, but i appreciate it much more now. imagine that, God never giving up on someone. even when the someone has given up themselves. God places scenarios in our lives, for our benefit. even though it may seem that's not the case sometimes. but really, sometimes God needs to put HUGE obstacles and crazy events in our lives because we just don't get it. just like jonah didn't get it. why? because sometimes we cannot comprehend the great plans of God. because we sometimes we just aren't ready to fulfill the things we are meant to fulfill. so wait, why the obstacles again? so we can learn the lesson that God wants us to, and be better equipped to do what God has in store for us.
it's what we call 'tough love'...oh that God. i love Him, isn't He great? :)
help me long for You more and more, Lord. teach me more, and help me have the courage and strength to learn.
in the name of the One who died for me,
Amen.
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