web cams are like the tightest thing ever! :)

this weekend has been awesome! friday night nicole spent the night and we went and visited dad in the hospital and then watched movies and stayed up until like 2 talking about God. that was totally kewl! saturday my cousin lindsey got married to joel gregory... that was so beautiful and so incredible! made me wanna get married. lol. but not really. anyways... and then sunday i did kids church. whenever i do that, i normally bring a change of clothes but i wasn't really planning on going to church because i thought i'd just do kids church twice. i ended up not wanting to do kids church second service, and i had jeans and a t-shirt on, (i NEVER wear that to church!) and i felt really uncomfortable and i wasn't really sure what to do. dad saw me wandering around and took me to "the source"... it's a new service in the old gym that's for college aged kids and it's contemporary with a live band, which totally rocked, go josh and shena and mike and wes!, and they show pastor dan live via video. it was SOOO amazing! and pastor dan spoke about God speaking and letting go, and it was just soo awesome and i'm so glad i didn't stay in kids church and i went there even though i still had jeans on. :) lol. then today i got my teeth fixed and studied in the library and nicole went on a date!! how kewl is that!?! so i'm waiting for her to call me... and the top pictures are of me and caleb goofing off in his web cam. it's pretty spifty. i hope you had a great weekend too! more pictures and scriptures to folllow...
love ya!
-kara joy :)

ahh... dear, sweet fall break!

satisfy me in the morning with your unfailing love, that i may sing for joy and be glad all of my days.
-psalm 90:14

"Regeneration is that when a person is hit by his own sense of need, God will put the Holy Spirit into his spirit, and his personal spirit will be energized by the Spirit of the Son of God."
-Oswald Chambers (updated version)

today's my upmost for his highest text was so appropriate... i am SO ready to be rejuvinated/regenerated with the spirit of Christ! chambers points out that God cannot put into me what i am not aware that i need... and i think that today i am finally aware of his workings in my heart, and i am ready for him to put himself into me and just breathe into my spirit a breath of fresh air... a breath of himself! this weekend, may you also allow God to regenerate/renew/rejuvinate your heart and your soul and may you be energized and filled with the spirit of God so that each morning you will be satisfied in him and ready to sing his praises and be glad ALL day. be blessed! :)

the fire video!

so i just got rob bell's nooma flame dvd in the mail today... a.k.a. THE FIRE VIDEO!!!!!!!!
i am so excited!!! it just like inspires me to wait for love.. not that i'm not already, cuz i'm definitley waiting... but to really wait... to kindle all three flames and make it totally worth it. i wanna share with you a verse and a blessing he speaks in the video. and dude, i encourage you to wait. hold out... and just keep holding. cuz it will be SO worth it! be blessed! :)

Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field; do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
-Song of Songs 2:7

May you honor the way God created you.

May you have a profound sense of respect for the fact that you are a deeply spiritual and mysterious being, and that love is ultimately a profoundly spiritual thing.

May you realize that the three flames (raya: the flame of friendship, ahava: the flame of commitment, and dode: the flame of passion) are meant to burn together.

And may you discover the BIG FLAME!

also... today is my brother, caleb's birthday. i miss my bubba!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CALEB!!!

let the praises begin!!!!! :)

God! Great God!

Worthy of Honor and Glory

We stand here in reverence

Buh-lessed in your presence

Jehovah, Forever and ever Our God!

oh, praise Jesus! it is time once more for gospel choir to begin. let us "ride on" in chapel tomorrow morning! oh my goodness i can't wait!!!

so i think i'm gonna start posting a verse each day right here on the blog, and maybe a thought to go along with it, but i think that'll be kewl, huh? so here's the one for today.
it reflects what my love for God should look like, and i guess what my love in general should look like, but i've been reflecting a lot on becoming an unquenchable worshipper... one not hindered or dampened by the everyday crap that comes my way, but focused on my love. this is what i want my love for Christ to look like. be blessed and may your love abound and grow to look like this as well! :)

song of songs 8:6-7
Love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot qunch love; rivers cannot wash it away!

weekends rock my socks! :)

so this weekend was amazing!! i had such a blast! friday night was sooo much fun! we did this pumpkin scavenger hunt... and although we didn't find the great pumpkin, we definitley brought it back with us. then saturday i got to go to missy and brandt's wedding and babysat noah all day...isn't he just THE most adorable little guy you've ever seen in your life? i just love him! and i was so excited because a lot of times, he won't eat for me and he won't come to me and he'll just cry and he like loved me all day! like at the end i handed him to his dad and he wanted me!! i was so excited! i can't wait to see him again. i love baby noah!
also... i was driving home, and it was like 5 in the morning, and i've never almost fallen asleep when driving, and i had just ran out of my runts... my sugar... and i so wouldn't have made it if God hadn't been there and stepped in... i'm like 10-20 minutes away from home and i almost lost it and my phone rings... it was JONATHAN!! at 5:00 in the morning! he never wakes up like that! and he said he just woke up and saw the light was still on and wondered where i was. if he hadn't call me, i'm pretty sure i would have implanted myself into the guardrail. God is so faithful! he saved me... through my little brother. i was excited!
so it was an amazing weekend. i hope yours was great too!

blog from last weekend i couldn't post til now :S technical difficulties...

so this weekend i hung out with amy slonecker a lot! it was great fun! we chatted it up, had coffee, ironed skirts, watched trading spaces and she painted my nails! i just love amy slonecker! i am so grateful that God has blessed me with friends! he is SOOO good! every day i wake up... especially this morning... when i was riding my bike... and i just think WOW! God is so beautiful!!! and he loves ME! how amazing is that!?! reminds me of that song...

God of Glory, You have done great things
Who am I that You should think of me?
Cuz You made the earth,
You made the skies
Yet You know my name,
You know my heart
You're always there, You're never far away!

So amazing as You paint the sky
So amazing makes me wonder why
You love me like You do
That You love me like You do, Yeah!
You love me like You do
So amazing, so amazing...

Be blessed in the amazingness of God today! And enjoy my Amy pictures!!! :)

today's papa jon's birthday! :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!