Wooo!

Ryan linked me! I feel so special! (no joke)

also, just want to let you know about a few recent linkages....

Chapter One is the new title of Sarah John's blog Such Great Heights
Deliberate Dialogue is Zman's new addition to the blogging world
Kitsch*nsync is Ken Curry's site. No, I don't understand that title.
God's Gal is Shaylee who is the coolest sophomore ever
Feels Like Home is by Laura, who is an amazing junior
Hot. Fresh. (actually Hot. Fresh. Just for you) is Rocky who is quite the writer

and I think that is all! Have a wonderful day folks!

and thanks Ryan! I feel so loved!


Wog maho,
sara

Today is a lazy sort of day....

All rainy and cloudy and coldish. I like days like today. I want to get some hot chocolate and a big blanket and curl up with a good book.

Well, today, it was cappucino (mmm) and a old long sleeve college shirt while cleaning my room. I went through a lot of old things. Letters, old stories, some poems, magazines, all that jazz. I had a lot of time to think and reflect on this summer (because most of the junk in my room has accumulated over the last two months or so).

I thought mostly about my conversation way long time ago with Nathan and Mr. Hooks. We talked about why there were so many more conversions to Christ in the early church. Not that the church today isn't growing, but sometimes, it does seem stagnant.

Mr. Hooks said that he thinks the reason they had so much courage in the early church, and why they were so outgoing about their faith, was how they looked at the return of Christ. They looked at it as imminent, it could happen at any moment. They felt that they were limited in their time that they had to share the love of Christ with others. It was like 'save as many as you can.'

I think that we look at the history of the church and go, he hasn't come for 2000 years, he sure isn't coming anytime soon. But that simply isn't true. He could come at any moment, he could even come before you finish reading this sentence. Well, so He didn't. But the thing is, you don't know when he is coming, and you don't know how much time you have. So use it all. Stop worrying about the things of today and tomorrow. I spend sooo much time thinking about my future, what am I going to name my kids? (I love the name Charlotte) where might I retire? (certainly not Littleton! lol). I need to focus on today, and who I can tell about God's love, right now.

Which is a scary thought, when you think about it. I don't want to go to school on Thursday and jump into to telling Becca and Kels about God. That's terrifying. But I need to stop putting it off. Afterall, if Jesus comes back on Friday, I missed my only chance to tell them about him.

He's coming, we just don't know when. And we can't waste a single minute. There are people out there that are dying for him, they have to be told before time runs out.

Save as many as you can.


Totsiens,
sara

All the cool kids are doing it:

Come see the softer side of Bibbster
I'd like to buy the world a Bibbster
Bring out the Bibbster
No-one does chicken like Bibbster (hah! I'm like a chef! wooo)

Bibbster born and bred

check it out check it out


Aw law law eh g'o i de,
Bibbster

I don't have friends....

Or so, I told Austin Curry tonight at Logan's. (Nathan! I can not believe you did not drag Connor to Castle Pines! What is up with that?)

He asked if I had friends at school, and the automatic response came something like this: Lord, no.

I have slowly been realizing this summer that that is really the truth. I mean, okay, I have Nathan, I guess, if he isn't tired of my nagging from this summer. You could say that I have Connor, but you know, that relationship is unpredictable. Hannah, maybe, I mean, we haven't talked all summer. But you know, we hang during the year, so long as Laura isn't around.

Laura, (different one), I would say that Laura and I are friends. So why hasn't she called me all summer?

So, basically, I have just begun to realize, that all my relationships are at church. Which Austin, with a laugh, said can be a good thing and a bad thing. But actually it really sucks overall. I mean, who the heck am I going to homecoming with? Oh wait! I guess I won't. And prom? I told Cam to keep his night open (haha) but what group would I go with? I don't know anyone that I want to spend that night with. I am for sure not going with Connor and Nathan. (No offense, but Nathan, if you take, who I am thinking of, I don't know her. And Connor, you would step on my feet and I would fly off, and then ruin it for both of us.)

I don't know what to do. I am just realizing that this year could be really crummy. And I don't have friends. I have hung out with people from school.... ONCE THIS ENTIRE SUMMER! and it was after registration! So that hardly even counts! I have just spent so much time with the kids from church this summer, I don't know waht I am going to do only seeing them twice a week.

And to top it all off, I think I like someone who I don't really want to like. Yeah, tonight pretty much sucks.

Moaz and Imed came for dinner

"I was offered a transfer, and I said no. There is no dust on my feet, why should I leave?"
-Moaz

It seems so plain on the screen, but if you could have heard him say those words, it would mean so much more. He was telling us about the school where he teaches, and how it is a dangerous area. He said he kisses his wife and children goodbye every morning, just in case he does not come back.

But he will not leave, because there is no dust on his feet. He was talking about that verse, 'if they do not accept you, shake the dust of their city from your sandals' or something like that.

And though there is danger, there is no dust on his feet.