Happy Sunday! Today is pretty much a perfect day. The weather is gorgeous, church was SO good, I went to lunch with all my best friends, and now I'm studying with Caroline and Han...well, I'm supposed to be studying ;)But hey, everyone needs a break to blog, right?


    So I'll start off with the weather. I LOVE FALL. It's my favorite season, hands down. I am so happy it's coming closer and closer! Today the temperature is in the 70's and all the clouds are those ones that are white and puffy on top and darker on the bottom. Ahhhh, I just can't get enough of it. I think now I'll post some pictures from Pinterest, just in case it wasn't clear how much I love Fall...or Autumn...or whatever you say :)

   Next, CHURCH. At home, I go to First Baptist, which I absolutely love! I've gone there my whole life and love the ministry. My pastor always lays out the truths of Scripture so plainly and simply. He's so great! While I'm here at Cedarville, though, I go to Apex. Rob Turner is the pastor there, along with other men. I attend the Xenia region, since it's so close to school. Today, I met Tami Stout, the volunteer coordinator there, and talked about the children's ministries there! I'll be working with the 1st-4th graders on Sunday mornings. I am so excited and am so thankful to finally be plugging into my church away from home. And what good practice it will be for becoming a teacher! It's going to be great. 

  Along with the children's ministry today, church was so good! The worship was incredible in my eyes. We sang a hymn called Rock of Ages, with an added refrain in there. It was so good. Hymns are like medicine to my soul. They're kind of like little treasures that I feel have gotten kind of lost in the more modern times. Part of that song said, "His righteousness is my identity." How crazy is that?! I am not a righteous person on my own, but because of JESUS, that's how my heavenly Father sees me.  And in the message, which Bob Thomson gave, he was in John 17 when Jesus is praying for His disciples. One of his points was that Jesus acknowledged their obedience, despite their failures and mistakes. I can't understand how such a holy God can look at His children and still be able to say, "I know you sin and aren't perfect, but I see that you're trying,and it pleases me." WHAT?! God, do you see my heart?! And you look at me and see righteousness?! Wow. 

   Well, I should probably work hard now. I finished Earth Science...but I have so much more to do! 

My life has been so busy! I love it though :).  This past weekend, the volleyball team had a tournament at IUP in Indiana, Pennsylvania. It took around 6 hours to get there, but being in a nice Buckeye bus with my two seats made it much better! The girls won all four of their games, and improved so much in just two days. They prayed with the teams they played against and also handed out New Testament Bibles to girls they had been praying for all week. It was so fun seeing them interacting with girls who need Jesus. Not only did they show Christ in that way, but they made two honor calls. The volleyball team agrees to make these calls, which pretty much just means that if a ref misses something and they know it should be the other team's point, they tell the ref themselves. It's so so cool to see the reactions of the people involved or watching. What a great testimony of Christ and integrity! I was so proud. So after winning all four games (and going to five all but one of those), we got back around 5:00am on Sunday morning. Hannah, Maddie and I did homework in the new pharmacy building all day an then finished off the night with She's the Man. 

Then today we had practice  at 8:30am and then walked in the Labor Day parade.... In the rain. It was still fun though! After that I got to Skype with Emily and then Nathaniel, which was so nice! 


I do love being busy... But when I am, it's so easy to push spending time with my Savior off to the side. Why do I do that!? He's the most important thing! I need to be better at being intentional. Everything's better when I spend time with Him!