Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
People You Should be Friends with on Facebook. (add them while you can)
2. Someone you repeatedly talked to in the last month and hope to talk to them in the next month. Add them.
3. You work with them or worked with them and still keep in contact. Add them.
4. You met them through a club or organization and want to stay plugged in to that club or organization. Add them.
5. You have class with them, have talked to them at least once, and need someone to get the homework from if you are absent. Add them.
6. Your grandmother, pastor, boss, faculty advisor. This will help you keep things on the professional level. And if you are doing things that you dotn want these people to know about, more than likely you shouldn’t be doing these things. Add them.
7. You met them through friends and are still friends with those friends and hope to maybe get everyone together one of these days and want to keep in touch. Add them.
8. You met them once or twice and you feel like they are good people to know for networking purposes. Example: If I were to meet a girl who works in the Boston Convention bureau, and we exchanged each others info. I would def add her. Do it.
9. You like their status updates and think they are funny. Add them.
10. "Famous" people. I’m friends with Jon Acuff and Paul Wright. It’s a good time. Do it.
Sundays always put things back in focus.
Sundays always put things back in focus. During the week I am guilty of loosing track of time, and I usually dont see everyone from the congregation on a regular basis. But on Sundays especially I am always humbled and encouraged by my local church body. Week after week, I see how close knit and loving we are towards each other. Not perfect, and not without some knicks and bruises, but thats ok, as the Gospel is preached and we look past our own imperfections towards the wonderful cross and how amazing it is that God loves us.
I see Christ's love in the church when Cheryl brings food to the McKays, when the kids learn about new attributes of God and seem to understand it during childrens church, when someone new comes and everyone flocks around trying to learn about them as much as possible, when people with terrible voices belt out the deep choruses with a passion for their Redeemer not caring what others think. I see Christ's love in the church when we pray for each other's ministries as a body, when Kevin and Isaac walk me home at night so I am safe, when we look into the community and see how we can help, when we show up for church early just to hang out and see how others are doing, and when Tiffany gave me side tables and ice cube trays because she knew I was looking for more furniture and had extra.
I see the body of Christ as such a beautiful entity. Nurturing, growing, loving. We are a bunch of broken and messed up people who almost have nothing in common. People from California, New York, Kansas, Idaho. Students, unemployed, mechanics, doctors, stay at home moms, retirees. Ages ranging from 2 to 75. Rich, poor, fatherless, adopted, Asian, Indian, Latino, European. Yet we come together in rejoicing for what our God has done, and we look out for each other, pointing each other towards truth.
What a blessing. I am blessed.
Not just Sunday's, but everyday.
Question: Where do you see Christ's love in your local church?
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Mini Expeditions: Oren Lavie
My friend Elyse posted this on someone else's wall, but I fell in love with it.
Watch it now.
QUESTION: Whats your favorite music video ever?
Stay Tuned for "People You Should Be Friends with on Facebook (add them while you can)"
Thursday, June 11, 2009
People You Shouldnt Be Friends with on Facebook. (delete them while you can)
1. You have not talked to them in over a five years, and have no desire to talk to them in the next five years. (unless its family. haha) Delete.
2. If you were to walk by them on the street and not even know it was them. Delete.
3. If you randomly added them because they were from your hometown and went to your college but you never really became friends. Delete
4. If you met them at orientation for college, but never actually became friends with them at college. Delete.
5. If you worked with them at one point, but when you walk into that establishment, they do not even acknowledge your existence. Delete.
6. If you were interested in dating them but now you know that you will NEVER date them and havent talked to them in over a month. Delete.
7. You dont know them, dont remember adding them and they are from Japan or Uzbekastan. Delete.
8. You went to elementary school, middle school, and highschool with them, but havent talked to them since 3rd grade. Delete.
9. You met them a few times through other friends, but now you arent friends with those other friends, and will never see each other again. Delete.
10. People that you generally dont care about but want the latest gossip from. Thats not cool. Delete.
Stay Tuned for "People You Should Be Friends with on Facebook (add them while you can)"
Life Revelation.
But with this week slowing down, and giving me time to actually live life and be engaged, I have been able to do a lot of thinking and reading and praying about different things. Its awesome, and Im enjoying every second, feeling the passion slowly drip back into my veins. I feel much calmer about some things and truly satisfied with God, knowing that He knows what He's doing. One thing thats been especially on my mind lately is what I am going to be doing after I get this tourism degree. And today, I have had a revelation. Well.. its been a long time coming actually, and its one of those things that I just know beyond a shadow of a doubt. I really really really really really feel called to get a TESOL certification/degree (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) and teach English as a second language. Now you might be thinking, "whoa there Alissa." What in the world? Well, dont worry. Global Tourism Management fits right in, and its not like I have to drop out and lose everything Ive worked hard for here. This is more of a long term goal. Kinda like, Hey Im going to graduate JWU, and then go overseas for a few years (with E.L.I maybe?) while simulatneously getting my M.A. in Intercultural Studies & TESOL from Wheaton College. Or something to that effect. Haha. And then missions overseas or working internally? I kinda feel complelled to teach at an international christian school somewhere in the world. I am not sure yet. But its going to work out. No joke about it.
My life is like one puzzle piece after another, but they all end up fitting together as I start to see the bigger picture. Sometimes I wonder about whether or not JWU was the correct desicion, But then I snap out of it and realize Yes, this is where Im supposed to be, obviously. I would not have grown the way I have and learned key things if I had done something different.
Hold Up. So, I have a long way to go before this happens, and I have alot of prep work for myself to do. I want to get more involved with international students here on campus, as well as really asking others for prayer about this, and just other stuff. So, I feel like this is what God wants me to do, and I definitely have a passion for this in my heart. If He doesnt want me to do it, He needs to start closing doors and openning new ones in a different direction. I trust that He is faithful and has my best interests in mind.
"Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a
town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— yet you do not know
what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for
a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills,
we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All
such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do
it, for him it is sin." James 4:13-17
So you know what? My life is a vapor. I cannot boast in what I do not know, but Lord willing, we will see what happens.
Ohward Ho!
-Alissa-
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Tuesday Tidbits
As for life. Hmm. Nothing much new. Im finally fully utilizing my summer meal plan. Thats cool. work is pretty off the hook today. I dont know. Nothing really to update, so I wont! Peace out.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Pony Express
1. UPS SUCKS
2. UPS LIES
3. UPS delivers packages to your house when you CANNOT be there
4. UPS does not allow you to schedule delivery for a time when you WILL be there
5. UPS doesnt ring the doorbell when they do show up.
6. UPS does not care where you live, and they dont care if you dont have any means to get to their main office in Warwick. Even if you can walk to a smaller UPS location in Providence, NO! that would be $40 for them to hold your package there. They refuse to hold your package at a different location. Only at the Main office will they hold you package. END OF STORY
7. UPS is the devil.
8. UPS is supposed to check the box on the delivery slip that gives you approximate times of delivery, but NOPE! why would they give you any glimmer of hope.. or yanno.. a way to try to schedule yourself to be home when they might deliver the package.
9. The pony Express is AWESOME!
10. Ponies are love.
11. Who doesnt love ponies?
12. Um really. Lets get serious folks. The pony express is clearly the most efficient and accurate way of mail and package delivery. And dont fool yourself. UPS SUCKS!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
I Have a Secret to Share...
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I actively mix ketchup and maple syrup.
And its really good. You can use it on sweet potato fries, sausage egg & cheese sandwhiches, eggs, plain bread, dang whatever you want. I like the combination o salty and sweet, kind of like the idea of mixing a frosty and fries. You should try it. Open your taste buds to new and exciting things people.
Yum.
-Alissa-