resolutions

The resolutions blog!! cliche!! woo!!

So as much as I want to lose weight this year (as does every other Chic fil a poppin, starbucks slirpin, car drivin American), I really would like to work on my personality. I think I've allowed myself to become complacent in the typical body of a 20 year old, dealing with boy drama, college courses, and backstabbing girls. I talk badly about people, get in other people's business, and try to find the worst in the people I don't much care for. How unChristian like.

Throughout this rocky breakup, I've felt God moving in me. He's allowed me to become more peaceful in all decisions I've made, including realizing that it's more important to forgive than hate the ones that trespass against us. My heart can't deal with the hatred. I want to become more forgiving and understanding on all circumstances. More compassionate to those in need or want of love. More loving to my friends and acquaintances. More outgoing, funnier, and over all more in the Word. I have lost my most important relationship. God has been on the back burner for oh 20 months now. It's high time He comes back in as my number one.

I've also felt led to a certain mission trip happening this summer. I think Lipscomb has been going to Perth, Australia for about 10 years now, and for whatever reason as I was looking across the email of what was available this one jumped out at me. And yes, I know I just got back from a three month trip to Europe, but I'm so ready to get out of the country again! This trip is going to be a month of living with the locals and being able to work with the youth group of a local church. I'm not much of a builder, much more relational. I also believe that the best way to get to Him is to talk about Him. God knows I need this more than ever.

The trip is $2500, wayyyy more than I'm going to be able to make on my 8 bucks an hour salary this next semester. So I need to find a good way to raise money. My friend Mary Lauren is going to El Salvador this summer and needed some money so she raised it by doing photo shoots for families and friends. She is much better than me, and I feel like I'm not worth giving money to yet, but if you are interested, I would LOVE to do a photo shoot for a donation. :)

Here is some stuff I've done before.

don't understand why they're so small...

Oh well. I'll be putting out a call on Facebook as well. :)