in reference to the post below

So I got my financial aid 'report' from Berry in the mail ...yesterday evidently, but since mom wasn't home no one checked the mail.

Tuition is roughly 33 grand, right? well, I need 6Gs.

The picture in the previous post is one I entered in a scholarship contest on Brickfish. So if you guys don't mind, will you please oh please vote so I could win?




Right now, I'm holding to God's promise to me. He told me He'd provide me with an education and after a lot of prayer last year, this year, now, etc...I KNOW that Berry is where I'm supposed to be. I knew that when I got the acceptance letter in the mail last year, though I'd been accepted to other schools. Mom asked me if I was "settling" for Berry because I hadn't gotten early-admission acceptance from UGA. I told her, "No, mom. If I was settling, I'd pick UGA...Berry's too expensive to be a settlement school." And it's true. This place is expensive, but I know that God's got me there for a reason. There are people I am supposed to be ministering to for Him. I'm supposed to be growing there in Him.

I'd greatly appreciate your prayers that I could hold on to my faith tightly...and never let doubt enter my mind. Caleb waited 45 years for God to fulfill His promise. If it takes that long, I'll wait too. That's what kind of faith I want to have.

Psalm 1:3 says that we are like trees planted by the Living Water - firm and unmoving in Him, in our faith.
In Joshua 14:12, Caleb proclaims "GIVE ME THIS MOUNTAIN PROMISED BY GOD!" He knew God would fulfill His promise, regardless of how impossible it looked in human eyes.

school

I still haven't heard anything from financial aid and there are only five weeks until school starts back...less than that for GCSU. I'm putting all my eggs in one basket, here. I know God will pull through. This doubt in my mind just needs to go away...fast.


Bobby Long announced a lot of new shows for Oct-Dec. I'm pretty excited about it all. I'm hoping I can grab a bunch of kids to go from Berry...or at least a few so that I've got a ride from the middle of nowhere.

Tonight I'm going out with Joshua. :) I'm not sure which other kids are going and don't care. I'm excited about seeing this kid. I've missed him a lot. He's a counselor at a camp this summer and only gets to come home every few weekends. I do miss him terribly! So tonight we're going to Mexican and a movie at the dollar theater [that's really $1.99].

God is so good to me. :) He sings His endless love over me. He corrects me and chastens me, molding me into what I should be. He blesses me with friends that...wow. I don't even know what to say about them.

I'm so thankful that my God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He created us all and has healed so many in the past, but to know that His healing powers are still alive today gives me chills.

It's incredible to me how someone can say "you might have cancer" and yet when preliminary tests are done to make sure, there is nothing. Not one hint of anything wrong.

If you don't believe in the power of prayer, you are at a loss.


p.s. chapters 7 and 8 are both up

broken hearted

Chapter eight is proving to be difficult. I don't know quite what to write.

I don't want to let my heart take over because it would be a complete fairy tale and that rarely happens in life.
I don't want logic and my hand to truly take control either because there's no fun in that, and how often does logic take control?

So what is it that will dictate this chapter and the rest of this book?

I can't imagine writing heart break on my pages. To put such pain in words seems rash and not worth it. Is that why I have such disdain for the novels of Nicholas Sparks?

I've been hurt and had my heart in such pain that it felt unbearable, but never broken. I know pain, but to have your heart literally broken, bashed...not just battered...how do you come back from that? How can you write down something so life-destroying on a page?

I know these characters in real life and to bring pain to them would destroy my heart and mind. Even if they were created, they are mine...to cause them pain would hurt me more than them, I think.

wellll

I have lots of cupcakes on my kitchen table and not really very many people to share them with.

This I do not like.
It should change soon.

Chapter seven is up and chapter eight is currently in the mix.
You like?

oohh gurrl

Chapter Five's up.

I'm going to brainstorm on chapter six so I'm not behind tomorrow! hahaha

gosh, ya know, I love it. I love writing. Even if it's a story like this...which will probably never amount to anything to anyone sitting in a publisher's office.

just sayin'.

God's blessed me beyond my wild imagination.

wow

Jennifer Parr makes me laugh so much it should be illegal....but praise the Lord it's not.

If for no other reason, we will be friends forever because laughter is the best medicine.

But we are sisters in Christ, so nothing will separate us. :)


I'm so thankful to have such an incredible friend!

O.o

Chapter 4's up now too. :)


I'm getting a little wrapped up in this story. I wonder what it's like to write a big story - one that encompasses more than what mine does...like months and years and stuff..
It seems pretty hard to make sure all of the characters are there and active..ehhhh...we'll see. :)

I like it. Can I write for a living?