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May 26, 2012

New York, my crush on you is slowly coming back. Don’t make me rethink & regret. I won’t, and I don’t. But I’ll always wish that I had you. Even just for a moment.

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May 25, 2012
“In friendship…we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years’ difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another…the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting—any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.” The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”

— C.S. Lewis (via andreaalf)

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May 23, 2012
“What is more Christ-like, feeding the poor, making furniture, cleaning bathrooms, or painting a sunset? There is a schism between the sacred and the secular in all of our modern minds. The view that a pastor is more ‘Christian’ than a girls volleyball coach is flawed and heretical. The stance that a worship leader is more spiritual than a janitor is condescending and flawed. These different callings and purposes further demonstrate God’s sovereignty. Many songs are worthy of being written. Switchfoot will write some, Keith Green, Bach, and perhaps you yourself have written others. Some of these songs are about redemption, others about the sunrise, others about nothing in particular: written for the simple joy of music. None of these songs has been born again, and to that end there is no such thing as Christian music.”

— Jon Foreman (via iammeanttolive)

(Source: leahcapparelli, via -supjchwa)

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May 20, 2012

Saturday Night

Just relaxing this Saturday night by myself. In Irvine with no one around me, but that’s okay. Spent some time reading and chatting with God. Just praising Him for all the blessings in my life.

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May 12, 2012

God is Generous

Mid-May? No big deal. I’ve spent time with the most amazing people on this planet. It’s amazing that God has blessed me with so many great friends. People to laugh with, that’s what it’s all about. 

I saw Jocelyn like 3 times. That’s like 3 more than average within the last 2 weeks :o Haha thanks for everything dude :)

Flaky 5, minus one. Love them so much.

Gorgeous women of AACF. Learning to be women of Christ together!
 

So, I haven’t uploaded the pictures from Brother’s Appreciation yet, but this will have to suffice. Crazies. 

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May 11, 2012

hellograceko:

College Blessing #3 - AACF Brother’s Appreciation

Despite the craziness and bad timing (I had two midterms that week), it was all worth it. Definitely a highlight of my week and a blessing to love on these brothers. 

Whatup broskies, hope you enjoyed everything c: Thanks for all that you’ve done for us sisters! Thanks for being a blessing and a joy in our lives c:

Bless the Lord, O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name

Absolutely amazing!! :)

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May 05, 2012
“Me: I want to edit pictures
Catherine: Edit them now! Wait…of what?
Me: Of Des’ birthday surprise…
Me:…and I took some today of massive pancakes
Catherine: I…
Catherine: am a massive pancake”
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May 01, 2012

What.

It’s May! What is this?! Where did April go?! Man it went by so quickly, just slipped out of my hands. But I did a lot of things last month…half of which I don’t remember…

Anyway, long gone, moving on. Thank you Jocelyn for that amazing pinhole camera gift!! I’m so excited to use it!! :D

And today is my Desiree’s birthday…so I guess…she’ll just have to eat cake. And by eat, i really mean…eat… 

God is good. Life is good. [even though i have a midterm in the morning ><] 

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April 25, 2012

worthyofreading

Currently Reading: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt.

I bought this book about 8 months ago, right when I moved into my apartment. I thought, “cool, it’ll be a really interesting read, and I hear it’s good.” I never picked it up again until last night. I always had the intention of reading it when I got the chance, but didn’t really get to it. But last night, I just felt drawn to it, and I knew God wanted me to read it, now. 

So, I’ve gone through the first chapter and Platt talked about what it really means to be a follower of Jesus. What does that entail? We really have to deny everything that we have. Everything. Sometimes we hear “we must deny ourselves” and you know what? It’s not that hard to deny myself. I’m a sinner, why wouldn’t I want to deny myself? But it’s hard to deny the other things in my life. The other idols that I can see forming, slowly but surely. 

Mark 10: 17. A young wealthy man approaches Jesus, really having a desire to follow Him. He asks, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus tells him that he must follow all of God’s commandments. The man says that he has done that ever since he was a kid. But Jesus says “you lack one thing…” The man was asked by Christ to go and sell all of the things that he had and give the money to the poor. You see, this man was rich, he had material things that I’m pretty sure he worked hard for. When he heard Jesus’ answer, and that really wasn’t the answer he was looking for, he just walked away saddened. 

Jesus’ answer isn’t always what we want to hear, but it’s what’s good for us. This passage, this book, couldn’t have hit me at a better time. I’m him dude! Well, maybe except the wealthy part. I have to give it up, knowing that there are treasures in heaven waiting for me. I have to. I’m not going to walk away from Jesus just because that’s answer I don’t want to hear. 

And so the journey begins. 

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April 23, 2012

wordsforthought

Jesus is King. He’s not a king, He is THE King. 
If we believe in Christ, and we know that what He says is truth, then why is it so hard to listen to Him?
If, one day you get a phone call from the President’s secretary telling you he wants to meet with you to talk, and you know it was legit, you’d drop everything to go talk to him, right? Jesus is more than our president. Jesus is the King. He invites us to talk and listen to him everyday through the Bible. So why do we put it off?  What is more important than Jesus? 

And the goal is not that you would just know Jesus, and love Jesus, and enjoy Jesus, but that you would love what Jesus loves, that you would do what Jesus does, that you would go where Jesus is, that you would give for what Jesus gave his life to…
-Mark Driscoll

 Jesus isn’t our personal therapist. He can be. Jesus isn’t a close friend. But He can be. Jesus is King. He is who we know of Him to be but don’t regard Him as. He is higher than this, higher than us. 

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April 23, 2012

April, slow down.

Reevaluate. I must.

There’s so much in my mind, it’s hard to keep track of it all! I wish things would slow down so that I can actually take a look at the things around me, and just experience God’s creation.

There’s so much to do. Not enough time. But no matter what, gotta praise God for all of it. He is good. He is always good. 

*And congrats to my two bros Jackson & Johnny for getting baptized today! May the both of you continue to walk faithfully with God :)