January 2011
34 posts
good riddance 2010.
some of this year was just awful emotionally… thank you Lord for a fresh start in a few hours…
not sure why everyone thinks that things magically start anew when the new year begins, but hey, if it works… i certainly think it helps!
December 2010
51 posts
Day 22 - What makes you different from everyone...
i’m not different from “everyone else,” but i’m different from the world in the sense that my God-born spirit is having a human experience… i have been born again.. i am in the world, but i am being transformed more and more every day to not look as if i am OF the world. “the world” is a term that encompasses everything not of God.. though He made the...
…what the?
You’re better than drugs;
Your love is like wine.
Day 20 - Someone you see yourself marrying/being...
nobody i know now, that’s for sure!
you can try to change my mind, but your chances are slim to none. especially if you’re physically and/or spiritually younger than me. sorreeeee.
Day 19 - Nicknames you have; why do you have...
skipping day 18 because that was already asked in another way before and my answer wont change.
back in the day it was momo, but it made a comeback recently and to be honest it’s quite awkward depending on the person who calls me that. but most people like to call me mo despite me saying from the beginning that i hated it… now i like it? also, my pastor likes to call me monika and...
Day 17 - Someone you would want to switch lives...
i like myself just fine, but if i could switch places with someone like me who knew how to drive and had a car, that would be pretttttty great right now.
The things I want to do in real life sometimes but cant because its rude always come out in my dreams.
It sure is better than chronic nightmares though!
give me a revelation;
show me what to do
‘cause i’ve been trying to find my way.
i havent got a clue.
tell me, should i stay here
or do i need to move?
give me a revelation —
i’ve got nothing without You…
i’ve got nothing without You.
Day 16 - Have you ever thought about giving up on...
i’ll try to do the abridged version.
i struggled with depression since i was a child, since i was 10 or 11 years old. by the time i was 13/14 i definitely wanted to die and was cutting myself and all that jazz. much of it had to do with me living with my mom and grandma, no dad to care for me, and my mom and grandma abused me my whole life. my grandma was totally bipolar with me - she would...
Day 15 - Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs...
1. que vuelvas - shakira
2. east to west - casting crowns
3. another day - dragonette
4. when you’re around - relient k
5. benedictus (song of zechariah) - for today
6. sweet silver lining - kate voegele
7. cash or Christ - trip lee feat. lecrae
8. trading your sorrows - random worship cd LOL
9. middle cyclone - neko case
10. yes, i am blind - morrissey
uuuuh, secular just barely...
wellll, moving along…. nothing to see here!
i don’t want to be the kind of person that needs to buy groceries, but will never go to the grocery store.
but why would i fear going to the grocery store again?
well, see below post.
Day 13 - A letter to someone who has hurt you...
i consider it a blessing that the most recent time i got really hurt was like 4 months ago. so here it goes.
dear __________________,
God bless you, abundantly, in every area of life.
love,
monique
Day 12 - The reason you believe you’re still alive...
john 3:16-17 —
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
(New International Version - if you don’t like the NIV, tell it to someone who cares.)
how appropriate on christmas eve. CHRISTmas eve....
littlebaby27 replied to your post: Day 11 - Something you hope to do in your life.
God knows the desires of your heart babeh guuuuurl! I love your heart. I want to do a lot of the same things you want to do.! Keep rocking your heart out for Jesus…wearing Him on your sleeve!
amen.. i love you sara!
<3
Day 11 - Something you hope to do in your life.
i have a lot of stuff i suddenly want to do in my life.
i want to continue making photographic documentaries about christians - more specifically, my church. i want them to be published. i want to go to the countries other metro praises are in - like india and nigeria - document those missions trips and publish those… i want people to be touched by my work and saved. i also want to preach....
do you ever have those secret hopes? the ones you’d rather no one found out about it or you’d go cry somewhere? lol
like, “i secretly hope that…”
well, i’m having one of those right now. JOY!
Day 10 - List the songs that you listen to when...
happy: typically worship music in general that is fast paced? or anything electronic i can get away with that isn’t secular… no specific song
sad: i have a hard time listening to music when i’m sad. so i don’t, usually, unless there’s one in particular that i know will help me give it to God and get it out of me.
bored: again, anything electronic i can get away...
serving God, and still single at age 50.
i was reading boundless.org (christian webzine) but i’m always cautious about it since there are writers of many different denominations. anyways, reading one thing led to another and there was a letter in another blog from a woman at age 39, still unmarried and serving God yet quite saddened at her singleness and age. then i read all the comments and saw many singles in a similar...
Day 09 - Something you’re proud of in the past few...
self control. not for any weird crazy carnal things, but self control of the mouth and the mind.
but it isn’t me, but Christ working in me!
Day 08 - Your views on drugs and alcohol.
my views are the same on both: honor God with your body, because it is not your own, and you were bought at a price. drinking is not a sin, but drunkenness is, and i would rather not make someone else stumble by drinking at all. drugs are straight up unacceptable regardless of the amount.
i know i did this early, sorry, but i love these survey things lol
chains be broken; lives be healed. eyes be opened; Christ is revealed.
saturday night as i lied in bed, i thought about some things. maybe they’re silly things, but i thought something along the lines of, “it’s hopeless, there’s no point now. oh well.” not that i was depressed or drowning in sorrow, but there are some things i was just coming to accept as unchanging...
Day 04 - A habit that you wish you didn’t have.
i overanalyze EVERYTHINGGGGGGG.
ps. today was one of the longest days OF MY LIFE.
the end@
when all of a sudden . . .
things got weird, and no words came out.
metro praise.
i had this on facebook but i want to put it here too.
I am so thankful for metro praise. I would NEVER visit another church and I would never ever leave unless God told me to. I am so thankful for discipleship, both 101 and 201. It had and is teaching me so much. I am thankful that I came to metro at the time I did when it was small. I am thankful that I came with Vanessa because she was...
this is what it feels like when heaven comes down.
this is what it sounds like when you sing heaven’s song.
and this is what it feels like when heaven comes down.
this is what it looks like when God is all around.
i finished my last final of this semester today. i think today was the hardest day for me. i passed up a good time last night at bdubs for davi’s birthday, EVERYONE was there and i was way sad because all i ever hang out...
if you want to marry me, it is absolutely necessary for you to have been serving Jesus as long as me or preferably longer, (it is actually ideal for you to be saved for a year prior to pursuing a woman) and totally tongue talking baptized in the Holy Ghost, operating in power, serving in ministry, etc. with everything you have. just sayin’. just to make that incredibly clear. also, please...
first off, i’m sad that i didn’t make enough cookies for myself.. oh well.. as the bible says it is better to give than to receive… lol. i’m like trying to eat chunks of incredibly burned cookies, glad i didn’t give those to anyone. ahaha.
i’m also pondering if i should get up early to go redo some prints for my final due tomorrow, get up early to finish my...
ENOUGH
IS
ENOUGH!
i get this feeling that many people who don’t know Jesus or understand christianity think that all christians are extremely happy, at all times. that we never get sad, we never get lonely, we never bitterly weep over anything. like we’re hypocritical and fake and don’t know what it’s like to be anxious, heartbroken or completely alone.
well, guess what. i know how all of...
*girl brings in food she made for final project*
girl: “come on, let’s eat, people!”
european history teacher: “that is a sentence where commas are especially needed”
one of my all time favorite psalms.
psalm 150:
1 Praise the LORD.
Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. 2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. 3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre, 4 praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, 5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him...
i’m convinced that my life would be the most hilarious television show ever.
- recently the fact that i am single somehow came up in a class.. ahem… nevermind how that happened. before i know it, some slimeball comes to sit next to me. “heyyyy monique. how’s it going?” ;D WINK WINK and all i can think is, “how do you know my name?”
- the relentless dude...
“Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity.”
Joel 2:13.
i was just thinking.
something really unique to christians, or at least the ones at my church, is the way relationships go. and it is something i admire and think is really wonderful. when radically saved people get into a relationship, i’d say 90% of the time, they get engaged shortly after. and when these relationships happen, there’s no pattycakin’. there’s no turning back. it’s...
anyways, enough about my stomach virus..
i have this really awesome european history teacher this semester. he is ridiculously funny and this is the first time in my life i have been able to even remember anything about history. thanks, mr. last name i can’t pronounce!
“i wonder how many fans rabies has on facebook.”
“when they were testing nuclear weapons during the cold war they would just bomb the place and...