My church held our annual D-now a few weekends ago and it was AMAZING! It was our best one yet. The band Nick Thurmond was awesome (look them up they are amazing) and our speaker Curt William of Youth Reach (http://www.youth-reach.org/HomeYRH.html) just ROCKED. He pointed out that so often we wonder what God's plan for our life is and we desperately search to figure that out, he told us something that REALLY hit me "God's plan for your life is NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS"! How true is that?! SO TRUE! It really took a burden off of my heart because I've been really looking and seeking out God's plan for my life, colleges, future job, etc. Another thing that struck me was when he streched this orange ribbon all around our gym and at the front of it were the words "Birth" and about a foot away from that it said "Death" the rest of the ribbon represented eternity. I wish I could show you on this blog the picture because it rocked my world. Our time on earth is so limited! What we do now is our ONLY chance to do it, so you know what that means? SHARE THE GOSPEL! Is it REALLY going to matter in 10 thousand years what that person thought of you? YOU might be the only person to ever share the Love of Christ with them!
The theme of our bible study times at the homes was Approved based on 2 Timothy 2:15 (Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.) It really encouraged me to begin having my quiet times in the morning again, since I had been slacking off in that area of life.
I always like to tell you about the people I meet along the way in my life journey, mostly because they mean something to me and I never want to forget them, I want to read my blog years down the road and say to myself "oh yeah, that person REALLY impacted my life big time" or "Oh that drama was so dumb" or "Yeah, he broke my heart, but look at where it got me :)" I made two very special friends at D-now, one I already knew and the other I knew who she was but never talked to her before. I found out that my sweet friend has gone through almost exactly what I'm going through now with my family I'm so thankful that God placed her in my life. My other sweet friend, who doesn't understand anything that is happening to me, still manages to encourage me and help me through the toughest time in my life. She snuggles with me and hugs me every time I see her and it always means a lot to me when she takes time out of her busy day to ask me how my week has been and listens to me share. They are both wonderful and I don't know where I would be without them or any of my sweet girl friends for that matter!
I love every single one of you who read my blog! It means the world that you guys would take time to read this!
PEACE.LOVE.BLESSINGS
Brittany Lauren
This is so awesome to read about how the Lord rocked your world during D-Now this year. That tape illustration is so powerful. The way you described it helped me to see it for myself :) That speaker sounds refreshingly different than what we're used to, which looks like it made a big impact on the youth group. Love you, sister! I'm so glad that God's so obviously taking you deeper and deeper into who He is. Endure with your quiet times- I'm proud of how you're doing! I heard one of my professors say that the habits I develop now will follow me for the rest of my life. So true. So your endurance will have LONG term affects.
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