Let My People Go Friend!

"Courage! I too must learn to force myself. Even if I am tired, even if exhausted, at the end I can find rest at the heart of Jesus..."

So I must say, I finally watched the Prince of Egypt for the first time yesterday. We watched it at work w/kids, and I really enjoyed it actually. Its juss so crazy how God called Moses to free the slaves and moses juss surrenderd himself and said, 'yes' Lord. Obviously, cuz it was currtoon im sure it wasn't as easy as it was portryaed. Juss how much stuff moses went through trying to free them and the risks he had to take. The deliver us song in the very beginning, I think yfc did that dance for the youf rally 02. Anyway, it was good a movie and juss helped me to really focus on relying on God.

Last nite was the last time I was gonna lead prayer meeting until summer sturrts again. SRE sturrts next tues. and wow sandy's still short teachers. Man, thas gotta be hurrd and I guess thas when you really juss surrender it all to God. Trusting that as always He'll provide for you w/whatever you need. Its juss crazy cuz I dont think many people understand the many souls that are at risk thurr. The SRE program at sPv has gotten so huge, especially w/the whole change in the sacarment prep. Im praying that this will be a fruitful yur and productive one. I asked cyril to be my aide for tues. nite. I told her to pray bout it and let me know.

I found this little story on grace's blog and really makes you think...
One day, a man went to visit a church. He got there early, parked his car, and got out. Another car pulled up near and the driver got out and said, "I always park there! You took my place!" The visitor went inside for Sunday School, found an empty seat and sat down. A young lady from the church approached him and stated, "That's my seat! You took my place!" The visitor was somewhat distressed by this rude welcome, but said nothing. After Sunday School, the visitor went into the sanctuary and sat down. Another member walked up to him and said, "That's where I always sit! You took my place!" The visitor was even more troubled by this treatment, but still He said nothing. Later as the congregation was praying for Christ to dwell among them, the visitor stood up, and his appearance began to change. Horrible scars became visible on his hands and on his sandaled feet. Someone from the congregation noticed him and called out, "What happened to you?" The visitor replied, as his hat became a crown of thorns, and a tear fell from his eye, "I took your place."

So many great things coming up in the next few weeks. The Victim of His Love retreat this weekend, eh the only thing im not looking forward to is the drive. Agh I wish I could juss fly over thurr to big burr, then I wouldnt have to drive yess! Then after that SRE officially sturrts for me on tues. and thurs. SH Cafe happening next fri. which I cant believe is hurr already! After that is the 7th yurr anniversary for the community. Even though I've only been around for two yurrs, it feels like soo much longer. Praise God for community!

The other day at work, these two kids come in to do thurr hw. Theyre bof in HS, one goes to kennedy and the other one gilbert. It was funny as I was talking to them, I asked the guy how come he doesnt have hw. He was telling me he didnt really have any and that they dont let them take the texts home from skool. The gf was telling him he could borrow her texts at home. I could tell he wasnt very motivated to learn. The gf kept telling him that he needs to go to college, he needs to take the SATS. She said, 'im not gonna stay w/you, if you dont do well in skool.' I found that really cool how she was motiviating him to do well. Its coo to see how she really values her education and the importance of it for the bof of them. It turns out in the end, I graduated hs w/her brother. So of course I ask how he's doing and wha hes up to now. She tells me, 'oh he's doing real well, he's at CSUF and has either one or two more yurrs left.' Then the first thought that came to my mind...'oh why?! im never gonna be able to graduate!!!'

I have this on going issue going on w/my former boss. THis actually goes way back to july before the maui trip. I had borrowed her lap top for the week cuz as errone only knows how i cant sit still for anything!!! HA ate nariza asked me, 'do you want ritalin?!' hahahah anyway, so the deal originally was i'd pay to rent it out for the week. $100 to use the lap top for the week, she needed the $$ anyway to buy this printer. Then i came up w/a better idea, we'd switch computers for the week instead. WE agreed to that and so she came up w/this stupid contract and emailed it to me. I went over to her house that morning before leaving to hawaii, switching computers.

When I came back I gave her back her lap top and she was asking whurr the $$ was. We got into it and I told her we didnt agree to no $$. The deal was changed, well she got upset and insisted thurr was $$. I emailed her the contract and showed it to her, and she still didnt think it was furr but agreed. Well it took me a while to finally get my comp. back, praise God it works. So she borrowed $20 from me back at the end of july. She told me as she got paid back from the city she would give it to me. Well last week she finally got paid and I asked for the $20 back. WE got into it saying she doesnt feel I need to give her the $ cuz of the whole comp. situation. Claiming I took advantage of her and blah blah.

I didnt want to deal w/it, so I decided to forget bout it. Well she works at the city as a contracter, in fact I got her the job as a pre-skool teacher. Last week I was missing my paint bottles, brand new ones too!!! I knew she's notorious for borrowing stuff, not asking and then ont returning them. I finally came to the point whurr I was fed up w/it all. I wrote her a memo and told her from now on not to use any of materials for any of her classes. If she wants to use something of mine, then she needs to ask me first before taking it. The point of the long story is well...ha I'll let you figure that one out on your own. I think thurrs hidden lessons we can learn from, ha you juss gotta find it. Have fun friends! haha jk

As of lately as I've been running into a lot of people I had gone to hs with, kinda made me miss it all. With each person that I've come across, it brought back a lot of memories and yall know how I can remember things. Its funny how I can really remember certain things, and yet thurrs other things that I dont even remember saying or doing! Anyway, HS was a lot of fun for me...hurrs a list of the top 10 things I miss bout being in HS. yay!
1. Pep Assemblies
-Setting them up during 4th period
-Cleaning up during 5th period
-Getting free snacks at the student sturr after.
2. ASB-nuff said!
3. International Week
-I was the inter-club council commissioner in ASB. I was in churrge of kinda overseeing all the clubs/organizations on campus
-Our int. week was the biggest event erryurr at skool, our food faire though always landed on good friday though, which meant i couldnt eat any meat. Oh why?! haha jk
4. Chillin in the ASB room and randomly walking around during 6th period
5. The dances!
-I think sadies and prom was my favorite dances my senior yurr
6. Working in the student sturr
-We werent allowed to hook people up, if we got caught we automatically got a 'u' in citizenship. THough whenever I worked window, erronce in a while id hook peeps up.
-I always ate the junk food for lunch cuz it was free! LArge Dr. Pepper, large bag of cheetos, and then for dessert, 1 pack of blue and 1 pack of my fav candy sturrburrts! I havent had them in a while, i should buy some.
-Actually, we were only suppose to get 50% off but ASB always hooked each up w/food
7. PLaying music during lunch
-Erronce in a while we'd bring out the huge sound system and play certain music during lunch.
-At times it got pretty crazy cuz we'd end up arguing wha type of music to play and the person who was in churrge of it was never really open to anything else besides hip hop, rap etc.
8. Morning Announcements!
-I always loved doing the morning announcements, 'Good mooorning Western High SkooL! Today is Wednesday, September 22 2004 , please stand for the pledge...' haha
-Sometimes we'd have guess this song
9. Yurrbooks and Yurrbook pic
-Its always exciting to get your yurrbooks at teh end of yurr, wha would suck though if you had a balance on your account, you couldnt get it til it was paid off.
-Looking through it and immediatlely sturrt reserving spaces for your friends to write in.
-AGh i still have 1 page blank that i reserved for my friend that she forgot to sign oh why?!
10. Friends Forever...Not!
-ha the friends that you shurr errthang with, at least the 4 yurrs of HS memories.
-The drama, the gossip, and most of all the rumors that go around.
-The whole 'he said, she said' activitiy
-The inside jokes, and juss daily phone calls that go until late in the morning
-How bout the relationships you'd think that would last forever?! ha only to find the day after graudation...its all ova babeeh!

Ahh yess i love it! Thanks western high skool for the 4 great yurrs! haha

Randumb stuff:
Thurrs some inside jokes still in my mind from last nite at core meeting...
cmon over to my placcee, juss sit yourself down and take a seat...' hahahha!
Achie: 'Where the Spirit of Lord, there is freedom...'
Ate Nariza & I looking at each other singing: Whurr the spirit of the Lord, there is freedom, freedom wha wha freedom wha wha! hahahaha

ahh man good times! Thanks Servant's Core 2002-2004 for 2 great yurrs! hahaha



Isnt going back to skool after summer vacation the worst?!


"I like it, I like it, I really, really like it..."im done, im out God bless!