ok so maybe you guessed this from my title but my macbook just came i today. i am like totally stoked. it took a while to get everything loaded up and all, but now it’s all running and ready. Though i still don’t know how to just log onto the internet…i have to use the search tool to get online which i know theres got to be an easier way, i just don’t know how to do it. also it’s going to take a little while to get used to the spaced out keypad. i keep typing the wrong stuff…
so i’d put a picture of it on here but i also can’t figure out how to “right click” to copy the picture, so yeah, this is going to take a little getting used to…. 
ok so last night was my graduation and it was awesome… i had alot of good things happen to me and one bad. i’ll start off first by saying my parents are awesome…They came in the house as i was pealing potatoes for potatoe salad and said they had something in the trunk of their car. i was thinking no way they bought me a laptop, but when i walked outside, after digging in their trunk, i realized they bought me a new car. i totally didn’t even see it there. i was so focused on “trunk” that i didn’t see it. Well it’s a silver 2001 honda accord. the interior is really nice and the exterior needs alittle touch-up paint, but other than that it’s awesome. OH and it gets 34 miles to the gallon.!!!!Oh yeah… ok now for the only bad thing that happened to me last night. my new car, the one i’m so excited about. Well, the tire blew or something. long and short of it is i have a flat tire. it’s so messed up because the last new car i had my stepmom backed into it the next morning, now this one not 5 hours after having it blows a tire. i think i should just wait a day or two next time before i drive my new car.
Well, like i said, last night was graduation. God blessed me with being one of seven co-valedictorians. So i had/no was privelaged to give a speach. God showed me what an oppertunity He had blessed me with and encouraged me to take advantage of it. So i wrote my speach, they changed it alittle, but left the message the same. My message was that we try to find satisfaction by temporary earthly things that never satisfy. Well what they took out, i put back in during the speach . Boy but was i nervous. i thought the podium was shaking with me. The gym was packed. i mean i’ve never seen it so full. And i’m very very thankful for all the guys from church that came out to support me; it really means alot to me guys. Thanks…
So i don’t know how well it went or how well it was recieved, but i know that it never had anything to do with my words. the only way those people are going to change is by God’s Spirit. After alot of stress, that thought came to me and really gave me some peace.
well that’s it for now…peace out!!
oh and I’m offically out of high school… yay
So my mom gave me this really good book for easter call “a long way gone”. I’m not done yet, but basically it’s about this young boy who become displaced by the war in his country, sierra leonne. Like i said i’m not done yet, but already God is speaking to me. With reading this book and watching Invisible Children and Blood Diamond, God is really challenging me with Action. I mean like i went to the Displace me thing this past Saturday, but it doesn’t feel like enough. i want to do something. i want to go.
Tweeze said something last Wednesday about Charles Young. Charles said before he left to become a missionary that it “isn’t enough to just send money anymore.” I’m beginning to feel the same way, just not quite to that extent. LIke don’t get me wrong, i want to go over there and like NOW but i know that God wants me to stay here and do Elevate first. But it’s no longer enough for me to just talk about helping. I want to do something. God’s put it on my heart to support a missionary, possibly Charles and Kristen. I just feel like if i can’t go over there then i need to support those that are. i guess it kinda goes along that whole sowing and reaping principle.
I love my God. He’s so awesome. He’s been challenging me to take action. You know, “active compassion” is what i’ve kind of come to label it. It’s like the love we have for Christ has to flow out of us onto others. JUSTICE. I read these two scriptures today in my quiet time.
amos 5:21-24
5:21
“I hate, I despise your religious feasts; I cannot stand your assemblies.
5:22
Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Though you bring choice fellowship offerings, I will have no regard for them.
5:23
Away with the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
5:24
But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!
This speaks a lot to me. It shows me it’s more than just offering sacrifice for the sake of sacrifice. It’s about your heart.
And then amos 6:1-6
6:1
Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!
6:2
Go to Calneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?
6:3
You put off the evil day and bring near a reign of terror.
6:4
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.
6:5
You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.
6:6
You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
When i was reading this, i couldn’t help but think of how comfortable i get in my own little world. I don’t think of those that don’t have it as good as me. idk i just want to get out there and do something
