Nothing's Impossible with God

Hey guys I was thinking... you know how we're growing up and maturing and stuff. Well it occurred to me that God has really been doing a lot of stuff in me and all that stuff I'm doing is forcing me to realize what I'm good at and what I'm not so good at. Part of it is I've realized that I have a passion for farming and farm work. I also to play isnstruments and I hope to get a band started with some of my friends soon. Its been quite an eventful summer this year so I was wondering...what about you? What did God do in you this summer? I was talking with my friends mom and she said to write down everything that God has done for you and to treasure it. Then when you need God you can look back on the other things and remember that nothing is impossible with God.

Writing Songs

Hey you guys. I just wanted to tell you that I wrote a song earlier this week and I think it turned out great! I can't wait to publish it in an album with my band! In case you don't know how to write a song and you want to, I read an article that said to start with the title and write it down on a piece of paper. Then think of things that remind you of that title it could be anything from policemen to gratitude. Next figure out what things really remind you of the title and circle those. then you write the lyrics keeping those things in mind. Afterwards you could change the title to something that means the same thing but sounds better. This method has worked out extremely well for me, I've wrote sevral songs by those guidelines and they turned out great.

Big Red Button

The Big Red Button... if you think about it is kinda like sin. We see it and our friends tell us that is sooo cool and so maybe we want to try it but the Holy Spirit sends up red flags all over the place. We can't resist doing it and we end up wasting part of our life and in real life sin against God. Just like the Big Red Button tempts us to push it satan makes sin look pretty cool by getting our friends to tell us its cool and stuff. While being tempted isn't sin giving in to temptation is so listen to the Holy Spirit. What sin is Satan tempting you to do?

Wait and See Part 2

Okay so its been a few days and I know I'm not going to the farm because I called them and left a message and they didn't call back. But I'm okay with it because I gave it to God and He has provided stuff for me to do to keep my mind off it. I seriously don't know what I would be doing without him. The last day of waiting I just bummed around and didn't do much other than the work that my mom needed me to get done around the house. I was really somber even though I should've been happy that I had a chance to go and help out on a farm for two days, but I wasn't it was almost as if I had a small case of depression. Now I'm enjoying myself, hanging with friends. God kinda' healed me in a way.

Wait and See

Wait and see. Thats what God's teaching me. Sure I can wait and see if my laundry will do itself or if my mom will unload the dishwasher for me, but waiting for an answer from my parents about something thats really important to me is something I can't wait for. When God started to teach me to wait and see was this past week when I particapated in an intermediate day camp at Roselawn Stables. Roselawn Stables is a 60 acre horse ranch with about 45 horses on it. Before then I had helped out as a farm hand during my brother's basic camp. I was invited to stay up there for the week after my camp. I was ecstatic I couldn't believe it that was sooo exciting. They have a son and daughter that are my friends too so I would get to hang out with them and help out on a farm. I don't know if any of you know this but I'd love to be a farmer someday. I was really excited and I couldn't wait 'til I could tell my parents about it! At two 'o clock when my mom picked me, my sister and my friend Jake from camp that day I could wait to tell her so I just burst out and said, "Mom I got invited to stay at Roselawn for all of next week!" I was extremely happy. My mom told me that my sister was having a bday party this week so it wouldn't work out for the whole week but maybe Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday would work out. I couldn't believe it was accually working out for the most part! I told my dad and kept hounding both my parents to try to get an answer frome them but the needed time to think.Then on Sunday morning we got up and went to church. I didn't have any more contacts and I didn't know where my glasses were so I went to the sermon instead of youth group. The pastor talked about how Jesus would've been the worst drive thru person saying that he would say something like can I take your order okay you can pull around to the next window and I'm gonna have to ask you to pull over and wait because the person behind you might need your meal more than you. He said that our culture is a busy drive thru one where we expect what we want when we want it. I thought maybe God was talking to me but I still kept hounding them about it until later in the afternoon my mom got mad and said that if I asked one more time I wouldn't go at all! She also said that it was probably a no anyways because of all my hounding. I really wanted to go but I knew better than to keep hounding so I just tried to tell her that I was sorry and try to excuse it. My mom got annoyed and told me to just leave it up to God and that He'd take care of it. I got kinda upset and so my mom prayed for me and then I went outside to help my dad with an outside project the entire time thinking about that verse in the Bible saying, "Let not your heart be troubled, trust in God, trust also in me." My parents ended up saying I could only go for one night but at least they said yes. I've been talking to my instructor and she told me she needed to wait and see now because she wasn't so sure that she had something for me to do so I'm back to more waiting... Although its still hard to wait for herto call back, it gets easier as I go along.

Thanks

Okay thanks for telling me what you struggle with now will you tell me what you think most teens that are not christian.