More grace?

I find myself repeatedly saying to God - "God, can I have a little more grace this time? If you just give me grace on this...I should be good for awhile."

What?!

Sometimes I wonder how God could love me, which such wretched thoughts that go on in my mind.

I don't just need God's grace for certain things and then I'm "good for awhile". Eesh. Where did you get that idea, Hannah?

I need to live daily by His grace.

I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain. [Galatians 2:20-21]

For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. for the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Therefore, do not let sin reign in your mortal body,, that you should obey it in its lusts. and do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace!

What then? Sheall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not. Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed form the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. [Romans 6:7-17]

Enough to let go

This is probably the single most impacting song in my life this school year - You Can Have Me, by Sidewalk Prophets.

I've been thinking particularly on this line a lot lately:

I will love You enough to let go.

Do I love Jesus enough to let go of the cares of this world? The people, places, the things I hold onto? Love is consuming, moving, life-changing. Does my love for Jesus change me?

I say I've given my life to Jesus, but what about the things I want to keep? Have I given those to Him? It's so, so much harder.

Father of love, you can have me.

Okay, so maybe not *that* quiet yet.

Well, it's sort of connected to Idaho, so...

I met Leowren last year at the Idaho tourney, and I *just* discovered her blog today...I love discovering that awesome people have blogs. :) Her blog, Eat...Sleep...Write, is also uh-mahzing.

Aaannnddd, she's having a giveaway in celebration of the new year, which is this *adorable* hat:

So you can hop over to her blog to enter it right HERE!

Alright, that's all for now.

Oh, Oh, Oh! [again]

Remember this post?

Didn't think so. That's why I posted it again for you. :-)

Anyhoo. We're going to I-da-ho! For a speech and debate tournament!

*freaks out* I am SO not ready.

Prayers would be appreciated.

Ze blog will likely be a bit quieter for the next few weeks... ttfn!

Only five?

Today I had an extra quiz practice with my book 4 quizzers for awana T&T quizzing.

Oh, it was so. much. fun. One of them totally forgot about it, so we ended up going way late so they could all be there.

I started out using the goldfish crackers as a snack break, but it proved to be extremely distracting and I wasn't organized enough to just completely move it out of their way. (I've been up since 5am doing math and physics, give me break.) So I came up with the idea of giving them each a bowl and putting a goldfish in it when they did something particularly brilliant, and taking one out when they did something particularly...not so brilliant. =P

It worked quite well.

Halfway through, however, the following conversation ensues.

Me: Okay, take five and eat some goldfish.
>several minutes later<
L to J: you ate all of yours!
J: what's wrong with that?
L: she said eat only five!

Oh, how I love these kids. And coaching. And quizzing. I love seeing them get into it, get excited about remembering the material, learning new material...I especially love to see them in a huddle, buzzer jumping and getting excited like I did a few weeks ago on my quiz team.

(:

Excitement TO THE MAX!

And no! It's not a Narnia post!! Nothing makes me more excited than an opportunity to seek Christ, meet other Christians, and grow more. Oh my word. I am so excited!

THE REBELUTION CONFERENCE IS COMING TO OREGON!!!!

Which means we can FINALLY go!!! Last year they didn't come to Oregon or Washington, or anywhere in the northwest, so it was sort of out of the question. The year before I hadn't quite gotten into it or really understood the vision.



This year is possibly their last tour x( buuuuut I am really really excited for the opportunity to be able to go. So, so excited. AAAHH! Can you just see me now?? Oh. My. Goodness. :)

Check out the site HERE. AHH. I really, really hope it works out because I would give so much to go to that conference.

Translation

Sorry for the lack of blog updates that span more than 3 inches of page. (or perhaps you like short blog updates, reader?) Life is sort of up and down and crazy.

Someone translated my Aslan's Meditations Devotional into Brazilian Portuguese, right HERE. Isn't that just really neat? I stuck it all into google translate, and while it sounded sort of like someone who didn't know english very well, it was the same idea, and I thought that was SO. COOL.

Oh, languages fascinate me!

Aslan's Meditations: Add all that?!

I wrote this week's devotional for Aslan's Meditations - we're starting a series in 2 Peter 1:5-8. You can view the whole thing HERE.