Dress-Up

I get to dress-up. Tonight Mikey is taking me out to dinner so I get to do my hair and spend some extra time on my make-up. I also get to wear a new dress. I am actually excited to put on a dress.

2009

• Doing Flipside at CTK
  
• Going to college
• Stepping out of my comfort zone
• Got a job
• One of my best friends is my boyfriend
• my sisters (5 of them) are doing great
• Got baptized
• Learning how to wakeboard
• Learning how to be myself
• Got a "princess dress"
• I want to finish college
• Jesus is still #1 and always will be #1 in my life
• Taking dance
• Spending time with friends
  

Traveling Adventures- Part A

I am on my way to visit my aunt in Pennsylvania. Still attempting to get there. My flight was canceled. Awesome. So, I am currently sitting in a hotel wide awake with a flight leaving tomorrow.

Some things you should know:

I am waaaaaaay out of my comfort zone.

I am very happy that this happened now and not someplace that I would have known nobody.

I hate not showering every night. (Think of all the germs)

My overactive imagination is going crazy.

Jesus is awesome in the fact that He is always there for you.

I am to nervous to go outside of my hotel for fear that there is some wacko out there (not that there probably is). Because of that I am going to have not brushed my teeth in over 24 hours.

Wearing the say clothes 2 days in a row??? Nasty.

I would like a really big hug right now.

Getting Used To It All

For those of you who don't know I am in college. I am also the first of all my sisters (there are 6 of us total) to go to college. I should also probably also add that my sisters, mom and step-dad live in California and I live in Washington state.

Over the past year or so I have had to do a lot of adjustments. By adjustments I mean I have had to get used to being a college student and not a high school student and my mom and I are getting used to a different type of relationship.

Another thing that is hard for me is that I have to get used to not need my parent's approval of everything that I do. I am still getting used to the fact that God made Me into Me for a reason and as myself I have my own unique thoughts. I mean, I knew that I was my own person I am just discovering it more and more.

I have a tendency to think of things one way and God will do what He wants to. I see it one way He sees it another way. I need to get used to knowing that He has a grand an awesome plan for me.

I have a support system here. I didn't really have a support system when I was in California. Its all new to me that I have people who will drop everything to help me out.

1 Corinthians 7

For my quiet time I am reading 1 Corinthians and last night/ today I working on reading 1 Corinthians 7. 1 Corinthians 7 is about marriage. Before you get scared/ freak-out I am NOT getting married yet.

Anyway, back to 1 Corinthians 7. First off it took me 2 days to read 1 Corinthians 7 because there was so much information I was a bit overwhelmed (but the Bible does that to me most of the time) with what God had to say about being single, dating, and marriage. Before you get on me and say, "Ummm Kiah 1 Corinthians is about marriage." Please remember that the Bible has a lot of stories and lessons in it about everything possible.

"I would like you to be free from concern. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's affairs—how he can please the Lord. But a married man is concerned about the affairs of this world—how he can please his wife— and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord's affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband. I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but that you may live in a right way in undivided devotion to the Lord." 1 Corinthian 7:32-35 (NIV)

So this is pretty cool. I think its God saying that while we are single and not dating anybody we have one person to impress. That person would be God. But, when we are dating there is more then one person to impress. Those people would be God and the person we are dating. Now, only because we are human we will usually end up working more to impress the person we are dating. Actually, we should really be working on impressing God. God is the one that brought you guys together.

I think the point of 1 Corinthians 7:32-37 is to let people know while it is awesome that we are dating/ married to someone we need to work on a relationship that is like the relationship we had with Him before we started dating or were married.

Giving Gifts is Awesome/ I Can't Lie

I think the best part about Christmas and other events that require you to give gifts is giving them. However, the hardest part for me is waiting to give the gift. I mean I get so excited to give a gift that at times the gift is given pretty early. On that note...

I stink at lying. I cannot do it all. Most of the time this is a good thing, but when I want to surprise people it sucks a lot. Just ask Mikey.

God is the King and that means we are Princes and Princesses

So it has gotten to the point where I need to blog about it. I am tired of people letting the media influence themselves to a point that they will let themselves be degraded with pornographic pictures and media, and Facebook groups called "Boobies"

God put the time an energy to create each and everyone of us in a unique and special way (yes, that's right we are all unique and "special") I think that we need to honor Him with treating our bodies like a temple:

"Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Also, Because God is the King should we not surround ourselves with people that make us feel like a prince or princess?

Granted it is a lifelong process in honoring God with everything that we we thing say and do but God is suuuuper patient.

"And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.' Colossians 3:17

Give it some thought