February 2011
23 posts
like white on rice.
you know what they say when you’re a kid in line for the drinking fountain and somebody takes too long drinking…. save some for the fishes!
January 2011
34 posts
somebody came to my church today who looks like lex luthor from smallville.
clearly, i have watched way too much of that show in a very short span of time…. glad i stopped before it got out of hand.. LOL.
i also had a great reminder from my elder and small group leader that i’m not “just monique”… someday… somebody will see me as more than that.. and will pick...
oh boy, oh boy.
we will overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the...
i had a really terrible day today. like the kind of terrible where you’re just walking down the street and you burst out crying in public.
despite that, i still witnessed to a lady on the bus and invited 7-11 guy to church. the 7-11 guy who has a hispanic accent, yet looks really asian, but has a hispanic name. the one that asked me for my name one time, and has remembered it ever since...
today was…. interesting?
i fell on the ground thanks to ice, AGAIN, the second time in a week, on a main street with tons of foot traffic and car traffic. totally lame and embarrassing. my pants looked like i peed myself. but then when i got to the logan square train station, i felt God whisper to me. and tell me to talk to this girl i saw. wayyyy from far away when i could barely tell what...
manipulation and intimidation are forms of witchcraft. using those things to condemn people are of principles that do not come from God…
i knew this, but dear Lord, a reminder is always good.
i've had the time of my life and i owe it all to...
this weekend was my 4th metro praise retreat. hard to believe it’s been a year and a half. i woke up at 5am to meet at the church at 6:30. probably over 100 people all piled together in cars to head to lake geneva. three powerful services (i attended two - i took care of the babies in the nursery for the first one) lead by pastor glen “boom boom” badonsky (not even kidding with...
can i like, not slip and fall on ice anymore this year? i think TWICE in two weeks is enough.
i don’t understand people who like winter. but i suppose it’s tolerable if you don’t have to walk everywhere. my tailbone and entire lower half hurts. :( no matter how careful i am……………. it just seems to not be enough sometimes. lol.
somebody save me — let your warm hands break right through and somebody save me… i don’t care how you do it.
i’ll never get this song out of my head now.
thank You Lord for my salvation!
if i had not given my life to God, but was still free from my grandma, i would more than likely be out somewhere on the weekends looking for things that would only damage and hurt me.
i am more than thankful to be home on a friday night, even if i am alone for most of it.
i have been at my church five days in a row this week. including right now. totally unintentional.
but i think this is one of my favorite places to be. even when i’m doing nothing!
the best way to have prayers answered is to be persistent with them….
i may not have what i’ve been asking for yet, but i will in the name of Jesus.
i may not fully understand why it takes this long, but i don’t have to… i just know that God wants to preserve my heart because i want Him to have it all.
even though my flesh seriously wants to freak out right now and i have felt sick to my stomach for the last 4 hours about my future, my spirit knows that God provides, He is Jehovah Jireh.
i’ll feel so much better when i finally have a full time job after i graduate, and i don’t even care what it is. whether i’m a photographer or janitor, i’ll be just fine… i wish...
there is a God who loves me who wraps me in His...
when i was 15, i did some really dumb stuff. lots of bad things happened to me, but a lot of it was my fault. some of it wasn’t. whatever. (ask me for details if you really want them.)
over 6 years later, i have been completely recovered from that ordeal and the continually smashed heart i had from there on out. so i never really thought about it anymore since it didn’t bother me, i...
oh mandy moore, i can't listen to you until i...
you know everything that i’m afraid of.
you do everything i wish i did.
everybody wants you, everybody loves you.
_________________
i wish everyone would disappear…..
i'm so glad You love me.
i’m so glad my world is in Your hands.
it COMPLETELY BAFFLES me - i am COMPLETELY dumbfounded - when people have EXPERIENCED GOD, especially at my church, and completely reject discipleship. i have a serious issue with people talking crap about the leadership at my church and its discipleship and small group system just because it’s close to my heart, but for crying out loud, if you’re not going to do it at metro praise,...
i hate crappy photography.
after taking a totally nonsense, theoretical, philosophical, talk-out-of-your-butt photography lecture class in which i thought every tuesday “this is 3 hours of my life i can never get back,” you might expect me to have a broader vocabulary than this. but i don’t.
the end!
rachel: i need to lose weight.
me: ummmmm
rachel: i went to get my dress fitted for lauren’s wedding and it was the same style of dress as jessica’s.. except i was a size 4 then, now i’m a 6.
lele: OH NOO, a SIX????
cynthia: try a SIXTEEN…
rachel: they advised me to get an 8, but i took the 6….
lele: OH NOOO, an EIGHT??? i WISH i was an 8.
cynthia: i wish i was...
I don’t want anyone. (that could be debatable if you’re REALLY awesome, but the chances of that are slim.) Leave me alone. ERR’BODY OUTTTTT!
THX.
i would so much rather not experience the things i did when i was 15… again.
search me, oh God, and know my heart.
try me and know my anxieties,
and see if there is any wicked way in me
and lead me in the way everlasting.
[psalm 139:23-24; new king james version]
Day 25 - What I would find in your purse?
i don’t have a purse… lol.. i have a chrome biking bag (http://www.chromebagsstore.com/) and a yellow messenger bag from target.. i only use the yellow one to bring my discipleship class stuff (book, notebook, bible, etc) to church.. i only ever carry my wallet, phone, and ipod with me when i don’t need to bring a bag somewhere, and i clip my keys on my belt loop because the...
but please don’t catch me.
Day 24 - A letter to your parents.
dear mom and dad,
you were never there for me, and now mommy’s been dead for about four years.
but it’s okay, my heavenly Father meets all my needs and loves me more than you guys ever did. i’m alright though. more than alright. in fact, i’m great!
<3
dear grandma,
i’ve already said it all.
love,
me
