Revival, sweet revival...

First of all...

HAPPY EASTER!!!
He is risen!

On Thursday I had like the most amazing day ever... We went to school as we always do on Thursday mornings, and Lemons & I had study hall where we actually studied! Yeah, I know, big shock... While Lemons & I were in the study hall, the Bible class was watching the Asbury Revival video. By the time it was time for us to go to different classes, Mrs. Dumont came over and said that Bible wasn't over yet, and for us to go over. The whole class was in the downstairs room of Grace House, and even though it was hot and stuffy, I had the best time ever. Jonathan Kurcsak was playing the guitar and everybody was singing and praying and crying... It was so amazing... God was there, no doubt about it! When I got in there, we started singing what is now my favorite song (posted below). I started crying. I think I cried just about the whole time. It really convicted me, and really showed me God more clearly than I've ever seen him. It was totally awesome... It totally gave me the sense of His awesomeness, what He did, and just Himself. The COGA revival... God is so awesome!


To you I give my life, not just the parts I want to
To you I sacrifice these dreams that I hold on to

Your thoughts are higher than mine
Your words are deeper than mine
Your love is stronger than mine
This is no sacrifice
Here's my life

To you I give the gifts
Your love has given me
How can I hoard the treasures that you've designed for free?

Because
Your thoughts are higher than mine
Your words are deeper than mine
Your love is staronger than mine
This is no sacrifice
Here's my life

To you I give my future
As long as it may last
To you I give my present
To you I give my past

Because
Your thoughts are higher than mine
Your words are deeper than mine
Your love is stronger than mine
This is no sacrifice
Here's my life

My life goes on...

Well, my Xanga has been shut down for good... So, being the stupid person I am, I got another one. I hope it won't be shut down, too. I'm too lazy to say anything else, besides I'm on Spring Break (!!!) and it's the most beautiful day EVER outside! And I danced for 5 1/2 hours yesterday. And Androo got his cast off yesterday! Feel free to leave a comment... They always light up my day!

The picture doth beest me at the rifle range a couple weeks ago... 'Twas very fun!

I hate Xanga!!!!!

I HATE IT! I wonder if I should totally switch to BlogSpot... The reason being somebody must have changed my password, because I tried logging in a million times, and it wouldn't let me. Then this thing popped up saying that I cannot try logging in for another half hour because I kept entering the wrong password. So now there's this big thing on my Xanga that says "ShirePony's site has been shut down for violation of Xanga's eligibility requirements..." AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!! I hope it'll free up and quit being so stupid in half an hour... If not, I'll either switch to BlogSpot only, or get another freaking Xanga... *sigh*

A greater revelation

We've been going through the book Experiencing God in school for Bible class, and there was one part that stuck out to me... Mrs. Dumont reminded me of it this morning when she read it in front of church. So here goes...

"...Jesus loved Lazarus, Mary, and Martha. Having received word that Lazarus was sick unto death, Jesus delayed going to Lazarus's home until he had died. In other words, Mary and Martha asked Jesus to come help their brother, and there was silence. All the way through the final sickness and death of Lazarus, Jesus did not respond. The family went through the entire funeral process. They prepared Lazarus's body for burial, put him in the tomb, and covered the opening with a stone. Still they experienced silence from God. Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'Let's go.' When Jesus arrived, Lazarus had been dead four days. Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have died...' It seemed to me as if Jesus had said to Mary and Martha: 'You are exactly right. If I had come, your brother would not have died. You know I could have healed him because you have seen me heal many times. If I had come when you asked me to, I would have healed him. But you would never have known any more about Me than you already know. I knew you were ready for a greater revelation of Me than you have ever known. I wanted you to come to know that I am the resurrection and the life. My refusal and My silence were not rejection. They were opportunities to disclose more of Me to you.' "

God's silence is not rejection. Sometimes it's just an opportunity for God to show more of Him to you.

Never underestimate my Jesus

Gosh, I love this song so much, I just had to post it:

For the Moments I Feel Faint - Relient K

Am I at the point of no improvement?
What of the death I still dwell in?
I try to excel, but I feel no movement
Can I be free of this unreleasable sin?


Never underestimate my Jesus
You're telling me that there's no hope
I'm telling you your wrong

Never underestimate my Jesus
When the world around you crumbles
He will be strong, He will be strong


I throw up my hands
"Oh, the impossibilities"
Frustrated and tired
Where do I go from here?
Now I'm searching for the confidence I've lost so willingly
Overcoming these obstacles is overcoming my fear

I think I can't, I think I can't
But I think you can, I think you can
I think I can't, I think I can't
But I think you can, I think you can
Gather my insufficiencies and
Place them in your hands, place them in your hands, place them in your hands


When I heard that song for the first time in a while, it sort of impressed on me the "my Jesus." I never had really thought about it like that before - I always thought of it as I'm his, but he's also my Jesus. The Sunday after I heard the song again, we sang the song (I forget what it's called) with the lines "for I am his and he is mine." Mine. The other part that really got to me was "you're telling me that there's no hope, I'm telling you you're wrong." I recently saw The Passion. That movie was... amazing. It was so sad. It impressed the "Jesus did that for me" feeling pretty deeply. But what that has to do with the aforementioned lines is that there was no hope for this world until Jesus came and did that for us. For you. For me. We could never have had his Spirit, never know his presence. And we would have no hope. That's why Jesus came. Because he loved us. He made us, but we, his creatures, rebelled against him and turned our backs on him. But after all that, he still loved us so much to be beaten so severely that he didn't even look like the same person, and to be nailed to a cross, hanging there from iron nails, with a crown of sharp, hard, painful thorns driven into his head. And then everybody yelling at him, a man hardly able to stand, covered in blood, to crucify him and let a fierce murderer go free. And that was me. That was you. Demanding that Barabbas be handed over and Jesus be killed. But he did that because he loved us.

"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

LotR Quotes

Just felt like posting a bunch of my favorite quotes from LotR in no particular order...

#1 (TTT)

Sam: ...It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. They kept going because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?

Sam: There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.


#2 (RotK)

Aragorn: Sons of Gondor, of Rohan. My brothers. I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come, when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day! An hour of wolves and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you, stand, men of the West!


#3 (FotR)

Frodo: It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill Gollum when he had the chance!

Gandalf: Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death, and some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Even the very wise can not see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.

Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you also were meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.


#4 (FotR & RotK)

Gandalf: Fool of a Took!


#5 (TTT)

Sam: I wonder if people will ever say: "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring." And they'll say "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?" "Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot."

Frodo: You left out one of the chief characters - Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam. Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam.

Sam: Now, Mr. Frodo, you shouldn't make fun. I was being serious.

Frodo: So was I.

Sam: Samwise the Brave...


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Websites and Xanga

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I'm still working on my other ones... I don't have many pictures of my friends, but it's still pretty cool.

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