Saturday, October 27, 2007

check this out.

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

go to this and for each word you get right they donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.
its cool how such a simple website can do such a coolthing.

also...
by going to poverty.com you can understand more about world poverty.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

FUNFUNFUN and scattered thoughts.

today i walked down to starbucks, which was wonderful. they were blasting obnoxious opera music and it was sooo funny. i don't know why. today has been a bad case of giggles. from the momment i woke up. there are just some days like that... which are wonderful.

so God's been really revealing to me to just being still and waiting for him.
which has been really good.

today at chapel we had an awesome guy come and talk about evangelism. AH it was so good. i bought this huge bible commentary thing on the culture of the new testament. i'm excited to get into it.

so the more i ponder on people i have realized my friends are sooo supportive and i've just been realizing how blessed i am to have such wonderful friends.

down side of the day: my roomie justine is leaving next semester to go back to el paso. which is such a bummer. we are buddies!!! like we hang out all the time, talk all the time, cry together, laugh all the time haha. shes my giggle partner.

i am in the process of writing a paper on capital punishment and its sooooo fun... i will post the final draft when its completed.
not fun as in the issue, but fun because i am passionate about the subject.
seriously any human right thing, throw it at me.

speaking of human rights, denver university (i must go to colorado soon... i feel like i'd love it) has a cool international studies program that deals with a lot of political issues which is awesome. its like biola intercultural studies program plus politics/international relations.
good potential MA program.

praise the LORD for branko coming to know the Lord. keep praying for his health.
also pray for the fires. i know a lot of people who are being affected by it at school with there homes.
someone mentioned it could reach here... but i don't think soo. it looks like death outside.

p.s. i just talked to stephanie and bryan and they were sooooo encoruaging about this whole biola thing. it was so good to hear from people who have experienced biola and ahh it was just so good to think about real things in a different perspective.
so thank you guys :)

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

good morning jesus

today's been a good day. woke up. read some cool crazy stuff in jeremiah and have just been eased by Gods peace. last night i went to a bible study and it was such a BLESSING. seriously... it was probably the first time i've ever gone to a small group where everyone wanted to be there, where everyone was encouraging, and where everyone was REAL about where they were at. it was awesome. it was so nice sharing with them and having them direct me to God's word. a verse that has been with me all day... well the 4 hours i've been up is philippians 4:6...

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

heard it a billion times right?
yup, haha, well its a good one. especially to be memorized and have hidden in our hearts.
i just need to be still before the Lord and wait for him.

Monday, October 22, 2007

2 blogs in one day yet a different mood

after being in the library for 3 hours my mood has changed haha. although i still feel the same about the blog i posted a feel hours ago, theres someone else to talk about.

i am reading about islam nations, different views on islam, shittes, sunnis, and islamist fundamentalists....
which is very interesting. everytime i read someone about a different religion i remember how much i love learning about different religions. they always catch my interest.

a couple weeks ago after my foundations of global studies i went to an arabic restaurant about 20 min away from biola. theres just about every culture and people group in LA, thats for sure. one plus for LA! when i was there i loved it. my mind was stopped in time. when i'm in a different culture and with different people i don't think about anything else but being there. its a crazy thing. its how life should be most of the time. we went on the last day of ramadan, so all teh muslims were all excited haha. the day after ramadan is there version of christmas, so they were also excited for gifts. the own of the restaurants name was Joe. he was so excited that we were there (the only white people) and that we were enjoying his food. a man from Iran was excited to share with me the differente kinds of foods at the restaurant.

I loved it.

I am now writing a paper on different names of God. I went through psalms 1-50 and found the different images of God. For ex: righteous, unfailing love, rock, my salvation. Then i read through John and did the same thing. I had to find 80 in both of these. Now i hav eto find images of God in our Culture. So I have 19. I can't think of any more. If anyone has any... let me know. Some examples of these are.... the man upstairs, King of saints, and even that God is feminine (some people do think that).

i'll try not to be so loud...

so yes. i'll try to tone down my voice. haha (now i'm all self conscious of it.. dang it!)
so this weekend my sister and her friends came down to see biola, which was tons of fun. it was a little stressful because i was so use to doing my own thing and not trying to show off biola. one of the girls dad's came as well and i don't think he was too impressed with biolas campus. oh well, what can you do. on sunday my dad picked my sister and me up to go down to san clemente (such a good place to be) and we saw our friend branko. he is dying of cancer, but hopefully he'll be healed! but hey good news! he accepted the Lord last week. he was so closed to it because he thought people made up the bible to get money. i always forget that some people think like that. i kept telling my dad "he's goign to become so lonely hes going to realize he needs something bigger then himself." the day after i said that my dad called me up letting me know branko accepted the Lord. he came to realize what salvation was all about and that the bible could only be written by God. answered prayer like crazy. the first couple of weeks i felt like thats all i prayed for and its so cool to see answered prayer... God is faithful. Another thing i would love prayer for is... direction. i'm somewhat questioning the fact if i'm suppose to be at biola or not. i love it here and its a great place to be but i'm not so sure if i'm suppose to be at a private christian school. i say this because of the whole non-christian factor (still kinda odd- but hey maybe i'll get a job at starbucks or something), money, and well LA smog and NO NATURE adds to it haha. meghan told me before i went to biola "Angelaaaa theres no nature there!" and i was like "haha it will be okay, no worries." welp i've finally realized it. i have awesome friends here, good classes, the whole thing. this is such an unorganized way of presenting my thoughts haha oh well.
i'm just not sure. maybe i am suppose to be here and its my idea. i know i am this year for sure.
so if yal could be praying for direction that would be great.

p.s. i'm in the library right now and i just had to move because this guy is snorring sooooo bad. its bad. i put my ipod on and i could still here him... crazy.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

life as it is

"so peaceful"

apparently this is my signature statement here at biola. people mock me way to much, but i really don't think i say it to much. there are a number of things that are peaceful.
1. jesus, of course!
2. my room! ahhh i love it. i kind of stay in it to much haha.
3. eating outside in the caf
4. sitting anywhere outside
5. the rain
6. the sunshine
7. reading my bible
8. the prayer chapel
9. and one of my most favorites... pleasanton.

i did not realize how much i missed pleasanton until i came back to it a couple weekends ago. i REALLLY miss the bay area. like i LOVE the bay area. the last week has been a little rough. the realization of community college and saving my parents tons of money has finally kicked into my head, a little late i'd say. i love biola, don't get me wrong, and i am so blessed to be here... its just you know sometimes i miss norcal.
for all of you who think socal is better, its not haha.
attraction wise, yes it is. beauty wise, noooo way.

it never really gets dark here. no pitch black skies with stars haha which is nooo bueno.
but the bright side: cool churches- rock harbor, disneyland, hollywood, the beach...
all a PLUS!


anyways i miss you all very much. this weekend my sister and four of her friends are coming!! and my dad is coming on sunday and we are going to see branko, his buddy who has cancer. so if you could pray for him, that would be wonderful :)