Jumping Out of a PLANE!!!

Yep, in a few hours I'll be jumping out of a plane! That's flying high in the sky! I may even wear a parachute!

I'm going to be jumping tandem this time and I'm really excited! I'm surprisingly not worried. I don't think that anything bad will happen to myself or anyone else jumping with me tomorrow. So far I have a list of people that I need to call when I land and am able to make said phone calls! I decided that I would call my mom and dad first, cause, well, I should! I figure that I'll post on here when I get home tomorrow so that those of you whose phone numbers I don't have will know I'm alive and well.

School has been really good. I'm enjoying it a lot, learning a lot, and have been kept very busy with assignments, readings and many, many, many tests! So many tests! My instructor asked me yesterday if I'd be interested in either volunteering or working in a law firm that she knows and I said that I really was interested! She's going to find out some more information about it and then get back to me. I'm going to ask her on Monday though if there is a way that she could see about me volunteering or working part time in a government legal department cause that would be awesome. I would have my foot in the door so when it comes time to do internship they might be willing to take me on full-time and then after I'm done the internship they would maybe hire me! Oh man, that would be sweet! Most of you know, but I enjoy politics a good deal, so if I could maybe work my way into working with politicians, sweetness! Anyway, we'll see what happens there.

I've been going through a rough time because of decisions I've made in the past. Some of you know that, others don't have a clue. Anyway, in my readings today I found these two things that floored me. The first is from a daily devotional I have and it's exactly what the past two years of my life have been; the second paragraph is exactly what I want and is what I'm striving for. I have been praying that I would be a stronger and clearer image of Christ in my daily life because I'm co close to Him, so I need to work on drawing closer to him. The second thing I have is a quote that I found and that is my prayer now. I'd appreciate any prayers that you would like to say, even if you just lift my name up to the Lord.

Here are the readings that I found:

Many Chritians get caught in an inconsistency between their words and their lives. It's quite common. We say we love God, but we fail repeatedly in our obedience, usually in one or two areas in particular. We have secret sins, nagging habbits, persistent character flaws that we just do not want to let go of. We know this, and we know God's desire for us to leave those things behind. But we don't; it's too hard. That's when we need to ask ourselves a deep question: Do I really love Him? That's the issue, isn't it? If we loved Him more than that habit, sin, or character flaw, we would have victory. We pursue the things we love most. If we hang on to our hidden faults, don't we love them more?

Jesus often used "love" and "obey" in the same sentence. It isn't a coincidence. It's a challenge. Search your soul. Decide whom you love, and obey Him with all your heart.
~At His Feet; pg. 165

Help me, O Lord, to make a true use of all disappointments and calamities in this life, in such a way that they may unite my heart more closely with You. Cause them to separate my affections from worldly things and inspire my soul with more vigor in the pursuit of true happiness.
~Susanna Wesley