Wow, I haven't written in here in a looooong time. almost 3 months...

Well, here's the reason I thought of writing in here. I was on the bus to West Campus to go to Perkins library and I was reading Proverbs 3. A verse really struck out at me:

          "Let love and faithfulness never leave you...write them on the tablet of your heart."
                                                                                                             -Proverbs 3:3

I believe one of the greatest things about the bible is this: no matter how many times you read a particular passage, it's never the same, because it's alive. I probably have read this passage at least a couple times before, mostly because it precedes the famous Proverbs 3:5-6. But this time it just really struck me hard. Let love and faithfulness never leave you. Many times, especially on a college campus, it's really hard to depend on God for everything. Or even anything. While in midst of all the classes, activities, tests, and papers, it's very easy to get in a habit of "Oh, I'll do my quiet time tomorrow..." I know, I'm guilty of it. Though we fall away and cut God short in our lives, He never leaves us. And in the same way, He calls us to have the same love and faithfulness in our hearts at all times.

But the second part of the verse hit me even harder, "write them on the tablet of your heart." I absolutely love this line. Not only is it beautiful, it speaks so much Truth in it. It shows that the love and faithfulness we possess really comes from our hearts. I try to show God's love to others, but I feel that on many occasions, I do it out of my pride and for myself, instead of to Him who deserves all praise. My roomie, Erica, and I both being late night sleepers, I often find myself pulling 3/4/5am'ers at least once a week, and I can see myself being kind of irritable and getting annoyed easily at times. I see that I am slowly going back to the "old" me, which I definitely do not want to happen. Satan seems to be attacking me quite a bit recently, which also came quite unexpectedly during CRU retreat. But in the same way this passage speaks to us, I know that God will never leave me and will always walk with me, no matter what.

And I probably should not be writing in here since I have a ton of stuff to do. I really need ot finish this 10 page paper, which I have about 4 pages done. And I also have to study for a chem test, which is infamous for everyone failing it. I simply cannot wait.

Well hope everyone's week goes well, especially those with midterms this week! Have a good one!

-Hannah

Currently Listening Sound of Melodies By Leeland see related

Hello people! Hope your summer has been well and dandy

I have been ridiculously busy the past couple of weeks, with tutoring and work and church and all, a lot of times all in the same day, but I am quite excited about CANADA!!! I'm leaving in about 2 hours, hopefully I'll get some good rest and rejuvenated the time I get back.

Harvest was a blast! Greg Laurie was a very good speaker, you could really see Pastor O's similar style with his. I really wish more of my school friends went though. But I did see something on the screen at one point in worship that I thought was so beautiful. It was a girl praising God with sign language! Watching that just really touched my heart and really showed me that God has given us so many different ways to praise God! He can be so creative.  And who can forget the music? David Crowder was David Crowder, no explantion needed and TobyMac was really fun too, but man, Leeland blew me out of the water. Not only was Leeland a CRAZY good singer, his passion for music and praising the Lord really impressed me. I love seeing worship leaders really praising God and not just making music while playing, when they stop playing their instruments and raising their hands high and praising, praising, just praising. I got their cd in the mail yesterday (perfect timing) so ill be listening to it in the plane.

Most of my free time has been consumed with playing with my new toy, my electric guitar. Man, it's a lot of fun. And I can play it at midnight with headphones, haha. I'm looking for a good effects pedal, suggestions, anyone?

College is drawing nearer but I don't seem to have the hype like anyone else. Hopefully it'll hit me when I get there. And maybe I'll actually become a Blue Devil (hmm skeptical, )

That's basically it, nothing too exciting but wanted to write something on here. Hope your summer is going well!!

(BarlowGirl CD in 21 days!!!! tehe )

you've shown my ever wondering heart what love is
what on earth is more important than to have all of you...
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Man, I'm so exhausted.... more blogging later!

God wants our generation to rise up and FIGHT. There's so much spiritual warfare going on in our generation and most of us are apathetic and losing this battle. We often times decide that we can do this on our own and find our own solutions when all we have to do is surrender our lives to Him and let Him do everything. So many fall away in their transition into college. If 100 "christian" teens entered college, by the time they graduate, 88 would have fallen away from Christ. Staggering, and also horrifying.

I don't know, I guess what I'm trying to say is, we need to rise up and bring awakening in this generation. Everything has become "OK" in our society. Nothing is right and nothing is wrong. No religion is right and no religion is wrong. People can sleep around as much as they want, drink to the point where you can't remember the night before, smoke two packs a day, the list goes on.

It hurts me to see people so lost, confused, feeling lonely, and don't know how to get out. I was that person once, then He rescued me.

So I'm asking you, especially the seniors, are you going to be that person with the lukewarm faith, or the one with passion burning for God? Are you willing to be a warrior of Christ, declaring your Battle Cry?

Not sure why I'm writing this, but what I know is that, this is where it really begins--our war, our journey, our spiritual warfare towards winning our crown of glory.

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
-Ephesians 6:13-17

This is a verse of Million Voices, a new song from BarlowGirl, and I think it perfectly describes our war for this generation.

We were made to start the riots
Take on the impossible
We will slay the giants
We're done with fake religion,
Fighting now to find the movement
Won't stop 'till we find it

G'day and God Bless!

Currently Listening Another Journal Entry By BarlowGirl Psalm 73 (My God's Enough) see related

So you know what I noticed today during my 8hr shift (bleh) at work today?

I am so weird. (don't ask me how I started thinking about this at work)

It's like I am two completely different people stuck together. Not in a bad way, but just different.

I can be the most quiet, reserved person you'll ever meet. But then again I can be this bold, not-afraid-to-do-anything person. Many people see me as the first, people know me a little better see me in both aspects. Shows how creative God can be, huh?

I guess I'm pretty quiet most of the time, at school, work, usually when I'm in big groups or just hanging out w/ my friends, then I turn all ninja and audacious in things like drum majoring, praise-leading, music playing, etc. Sometimes I wish that I was more outspoken and outgoing, but I know learn so many things because I'm like that. I'm more of a "listen and observe first, talk later" person. I guess I become the bold person when I'm doing something I'm passionate about.

Speaking about passionate-ing, I am so ridiculously excited about getting an electric guitar. I think new instruments is my one big spoiler. It's all my mom's fault starting me on piano when I could barely walk then starting me on flute. Then I got all into this drum set dealie which began as messing around at church, then starting trumpet for marching band (cause it's not wimpy like a piccolo on a football field ) then "permanently borrowing" my uncle's acoustic guitar and now I am getting an electric. Ahh, it's like christmas morning for me. I think I'm going to make it my goal in life to have played every single instrument in the world. Yay.

Oh, btw, I will have graduated high school in about 24 hours. Strangely enough, that is the last thing on my mind. I dunno, I'm not really all that excited for graduation at all. But after that, my facebook's primary network will be Duke.

Ok, I shall stop my rambling now, my xanga entries are the most randomest things, haha. I'm gunna write my end of the year "thank you all you people" entry with all the lovey dovey cheesy stuff later.

Until then, all you people have a great weekend! G'day and God Bless!