[Becky]

So, we have given our house guest till wednesday to get out. She wouldn't repent. I felt so bad for her she doesn't get it. :knope:

Here's the link if you want to see the rest of the story...

how to confront someone, while kicking them out

So, yeah.. last night I got really sick.. had a temp of 101.3

So, spent today here on CGR.. and in my bed. my back hurts, and my stomach hurts. I've been bad about drinking water. It hurts now.. and all this cause I stopped drinking enough a couple months ago.

But, it will all get better,

[Becky]

Yesterday, what a day. I helped my mom make pies for a local rescue mission (christian organization for the homeless). Our house guest left, her brother came and got her. what a nice guy. It was funny, my little sis answered the door, found out why he was there, closed the door on him, and whent to find our house guest... LOL!! when I realized this, I ran to the door and invited him in.

My sister and I played in the snow. we were planing on making a mangor scean, and started doing that... then I happened to notice a rope haning from the tree... my sis was trying to make a rope swing type of thing.... I started thinking... what if we made a snow man under that... and put a noose over his head.... WE COULD HAVE A HANGING!!!

My little sis LOVED the idea. but she didn't think it went to well with the mangor. So we scratched the mangor scean, and worked on making the horse that would be under the guy getting hung. Unfortunatly we never got around to the guy... but we got the horse up and standing! It's actually standing!!! it's soo cool! THAT takes talet. we made 4 pillars, (legs) and placed the body ontop (that took all our strangth. trust me, it took ALL of it... cause we tried 20 times before my little sis informed me she wasn't really trying!! :kmad: I was trying hard the entire time.) Because the snow got to hard to make a guy with, I thought it would be cool to hang a doll instead... but my little sis didn't like that idea either :knope:

[Becky]

another peice to our snow creation!

[Becky]

Well, my grandfather has had his surgery (they removed colon canser, and what apeared to be canser on his kiddney), and he seems to be doing well! Other then he thinks Nixon is president His memory of the pressent isn't that great, cause of all the medication they have him on. Least he's alive though.

Wow, I didn't have a chance to tell you about thanksgiving!! it was terrble, everyone was complaining almost non stop all day. what a great discription of THANKSGIVING
We prepard WAY too much food! My grandmother made 7 different vegitables!!! :kshock: and of cource, my mom made her DELICIOUS caramel pecan roles. It was increadible, everyone was so full that even by the time we left (hours after supper) we STILL couldn't eat the apple pie that my mom made.

Our snow mad melted He was standing so proudly, and then just went *plop* :ksad:

I learned something from the snow this week.

I was shovling the drive way, and asking God about my life. It was snowing, but the drive way needed cleared so my dad could drive up it when he got home from work (up it.. yes, our drive way's on a hill... great fun ). By the time I'd finished my half of the drive way, the side my sister had done perhaps a half our before was at least an inch think! so I needed to re shovel all of that!! I wanted to know why we shovled the drive way before it stoped snowing. I mean, we'll just have to keep reshovling! it was so frustrating to see that by the time I'd done the entire drive way, EVERYTHING I'd already done was covered again. That's when God showed me something. He reminded me of what my mother had told me. "if you wait, it will be harder to shovel, cause the snow will pile up. The same things true with our lives. We have to keep on trying, keep on searching, keep on working to get our lives on track with God. And though what we've already done will have to be redone a million times, we still can't take a break, or when we come back, it will be more to work with, and harder to handle.

had a nightmare last night I was dreaming that I was in a plane, and suddenly it started to blow up. I grabed a little kid, and ran from the flames (others were burning :ksad: ) I jumped, my parashoot worked, others didn't. Little kids were landing without parashoots, and they weren't like daffy or wiley kyody (cartoons) either :ksad: I woke up, and though I COULD HAVE gone back to sleep REAL easy, I forced myself fully awak. if I'd gone back to sleep, the dream would have continued.

[GMartin2R]

ugg that sounds like a nasty dream...

good lesson to remember too...

[Becky]

I went to youth group tonight. I almost didn't get to go... because an ice storm was comeing along. But I WAS able to Joel (my CGR friend) was there, so I invited him to my B-day party,... and he might come!!! They played that really rough game where they through balls around tonight (bombardment). I ACTUALLY PLAYED WITH THEM!!! and that was SOO fun! I've never actually participated before... but i did this time... and it actually made me feel like I was really part of the youth group. A friend came over to me and asked me to join her in the hall to find her other friend.. I followed... but I felt so alone out there. So I went back in to the game... and yeah.. it was soo cool :-D The way you play bombardment is, you spit into two teams, and each team takes a side of the room, you try to hit the other team with balls, if you hit someone they have to go to the prison, which is anywere on your side of the room. and if your hit by the other teem you have to go on there side. Once over there, you can catch a ball to get back on your own side.... I got hit, and when Joel through me a ball (which he seemed thrilled to do it, cause when your hit it proves you were participating ) and I actually caught it!!! OH!! and I'm learning ot hold conversations!!! It's so cool :-D it's only from talking to people online that I can do that... I just ask them the same types of things I'd ask someone I IM for the first time . 2 people from my drama group go there.. one of which is a guy who last time I said hi he acted scared of me... but this time we had a conversation!!!

I'm so happy today!



And this is my last post as a 17 year old!!!

[GMartin2R]

Originally posted by Becky
I went to youth group tonight. I almost didn't get to go... because an ice storm was comeing along. But I WAS able to Joel (my CGR friend) was there, so I invited him to my B-day party,... and he might come!!! They played that really rough game where they through balls around tonight (bombardment). I ACTUALLY PLAYED WITH THEM!!! and that was SOO fun! I've never actually participated before... but i did this time... and it actually made me feel like I was really part of the youth group. A friend came over to me and asked me to join her in the hall to find her other friend.. I followed... but I felt so alone out there. So I went back in to the game... and yeah.. it was soo cool :-D The way you play bombardment is, you spit into two teams, and each team takes a side of the room, you try to hit the other team with balls, if you hit someone they have to go to the prison, which is anywere on your side of the room. and if your hit by the other teem you have to go on there side. Once over there, you can catch a ball to get back on your own side.... I got hit, and when Joel through me a ball (which he seemed thrilled to do it, cause when your hit it proves you were participating ) and I actually caught it!!! OH!! and I'm learning ot hold conversations!!! It's so cool :-D it's only from talking to people online that I can do that... I just ask them the same types of things I'd ask someone I IM for the first time . 2 people from my drama group go there.. one of which is a guy who last time I said hi he acted scared of me... but this time we had a conversation!!!

I'm so happy today!



And this is my last post as a 17 year old!!!

cool...

well let me be the first one to officially wish you a

Happy Birthday!!!

at least i hope i'm the first one...:kshifty: welcome to the world of the grown ups :kgrin: enjoy your stay, cause you're gonna be here for a while...

[GRibbit]

H AP P Y
B I R T H D A Y

B E C K Y !!!


Way to be 18 girl!!! Love ya much! Have a fantastic birthday!!

[Andrew]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! have a good one!

[Becky]

aww! thank you guys! My birthday was awesome!

And yeah, GMartin2R, you were the first to wish me a happy birthday :kyep:

My dad got me a digital camera!! it was better then his own, and he's fallen inlove with the software that came with it... hmm... anyone suspect alterior motives?? :kshifty:

[Andrew]

haha, maybe.... you should take pictures with your digital camera and post them.

[Danny]

you gonna tell everybody what else happened on your birthday?

[Becky]

Lol, yup, I was planing on posting this last night.... but while writing it, my family blew up at me... :ksad:

All day Thursday I was EXTREAMLY happy. I was so happy, that it wasn’t even funny! Thing after thing happened that would normally would get me depressed, but after the thing was over, I snapped back into being happy almost immediately! I loved being so happy But through all this happiness, I KNEW something was missing... and I knew what it was. Usually I’m kind of depressed, and so I never noticed what was missing, but because I was so happy, this missing piece became extremely obvious. I had a void inside, a void that needed to be filled. You see, I’d been fighting God. I wasn’t obeying Him, I wasn’t honoring Him, and I didn’t want to either. Yet I was praying that He’d help me! How crazy is that? Here I am, not wanting to give Him full control, but begging for His help. What is even more of a marvel to me, is that He was doing just that. I didn’t recognize it all the time, but He was putting things in place, that drove me to my knees, and my heart to Him.

All day I’d left my AIM on, hoping that my best friend, James, would come on. I put him on alert, and set the AIM settings so that when he got on I’d hear a Cash register type sound. I knew he'd be so incredibly happy to find me so happy. As the night was drawing to a close, I was beginning to think he wouldn’t show up. And then, “claching!” HE ACTUALLY CAME ON!!! I was so excited! He asked how I was doing, and I told him “GREAT! *small faunt.. Except one little aria that I should get to in a minute.. *back to regular faunt* but I’m doing GREAT!! We talked for a while about how happy I was. He was very excited, and so was I. Then I shifted gears… I said…

“I need Jesus”

Those three words took everything in me to say. But I said them. A couple nights before, James had felt lead to ask me : “do you know if you ever really had one moment, where you prayed that God would take over you and change your life. And fill you with His life. And save you. Not just "re focus" on Him?” To that I said, no. Not where I really knew what I was doing. So, in more excitement then I remember EVER seeing, he asked me if I wanted him to lead me in a prayer now. I said yes. But I had 2 other very close friends online at the time… and I wanted them to be there… so we decided to get into a chat room to do it J one of my friends wasn’t able to get in (silly computers), but the other one was, so it was us three. No.. wait… 4. Jesus was also there
And so. On Thursday December 12th 2002, I gave my live to Christ.

I have never since experienced such great joy. It was absolutely awesome! I was so over come with joy that I had trouble typing! And I found it so hard to concentrate on other conversations, because I couldn’t get my mind off of Jesus.

When I went to bed... I stayed up for about an hour, mostly just saying "thank you" to God over and over and over... those are literally the ONLY words I could say!!!! I was so over come with gratitude... I have NEVER before enjoyed worshiping God, and spending time with Him... it always board me... last night, that's all I wanted to do!!! A couple lies tried to creep back into my mind... but I told saten to shut up. And I denounced the lies. Then I picked up my Bible... One lie still nagged at the back of my mind... it was one that said I wouldn't be able to be set free from my self centeredness. If I can’t over come this… if I can't get my mind off of me,.. then it will cause me to stumble again, and keep my eyes off of Jesus. I randomly read a scripture.... I read Psalms 91:1-5.... I can't believe that out of all the scriptures I could have read, I chose that one... God was obviously working... I'm not sure what it's SUPOSE to be about... but the way God used it in my heart was as follows : verse 2. the end say's "My God, in Him I will trust".. and I just said that over and over and over again for a while. I HAD to trust God. I WOULD trust God... I WILL trust God! Then I read verse 3. "Surly He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler"... lol, no clue what a fowler is. But it's a negative thing... and when I read that... God basically told me that He WOULD deliver me from my self centeredness. That was so encouraging, I was crying again, and again found I was only able to say "thank you thank you" over and over again. And this morning... I actually started the day in prayer, and God's word. God is AWESOME!!!

[AnjelikaStarr]

Wahooo!! Jesus is my superhero, because he died for me! Reading your experience is SO uplifting to me! Praise the Lord, for he is faithful! And praise the Lord for James! Wahoo! Don't keep your mouth shut, Becky! Tell everyone how good God is!

*Anjelika

[Amanda]

Congrats, Becky!