The Adventures of Darcey & Watson

Today was an interesting day. Starting off at 1AM I woke up and couldn’t really get back to sleep, save maybe a few 15 minute naps here and there, mainly just staring at the ceiling thinking and praying and such. Around 8:30ish I got kinda bored of my attempts to sleep that I got up and decided to check all the boxes of my Xbox, Playstation, and Wii games to try to locate some of the ones that were missing. I found one!! HUZZAH!  At this time Katie had woken up (Jess was already at work), and she lay on the couch as I cleaned my gerbil cage and talked about potentially going to check out all the yardsales in the area (since we were up early enough and had been talking about doing that for a while now). Katie, barely awake attempted to wake herself up a bit more, got dressed, and I toasted some bagels for us and we were off to check out garage sales at around 9:21AM.

We found quite a few garage sales, but as we were looking for bookshelves or dining room chairs, we were kinda out of luck. However, we did discover a few older games, a book, two rubber duckies, and after a stop at the ReSale, I got a little book holder for my bathroom and a few reeeeally old CD-Roms (all for under $10 total). Score!  We also had the chance to say hi to a few GFA people who were also having a garage sale.

Nearing the end of Katie’s energy levels, we stopped by Chick-fil-A (since we knew we would be craving it tomorrow on Sunday, but it’s not open on Sundays… sad!!) refilled our energy and had some time to chat and catch up for a bit. After a few hours, we headed back home and it was only 2PM!!  So productive for a Saturday! A little time passed and Katie and Jessica’s mom came over (she will be staying with us till Tuesday) and I went to clean/organize/get rid of/and consolidate all the stuff I have, while listening to the audio Bible on my iPod. I consolidated a LOT! and got rid of a LOT! and discovered some really cool letters from friends and some nice pictures, and some stuff that I forgot I had, like my Pokemon Card collection, and learned a lot from God’s Word.

So now my room is clean, stuff is organized, an Up for Grabs pile is accumulating in our living room, and I’m just now starting to feel tired. Where did this energy come from?? WHY DID I WAKE UP AT 1AM???! Praise God for all the productiveness and for catching up with friends.

I wonder what will happen in the next two hours or so before bed… hm… the possibilities are endless!!

Source: A Rather Productive Saturday

So, I was going through the memory boxes I have in my room in an attempt to consolidate them into one box (which I was successfull! Huzzah!), and I came across a something that the leaders had my School of Discipleship class write during our first week of orientation. The letter (of sorts) was to be what we want the Lord to accomplish throughout our year. Here’s what I wrote:

“My goals for the year spent in the GFA school of discipleship:

-Not let fear get in the way of doing all that I can to serve

-Learn everyone’s names, and call them by their names

-Serve my class in practical ways, not wanting anything in return, not even a ‘thank-you’

-Lord, help me to take seriously the job I’ll be given, and any homework I may have

-Help me to solve any issues with my brothers or sisters in Christ the way Christ said to

-Lord help my voice to be heard, if I have an opinion, let it be heard, unless it is not beneficial or not glorifying to God

-Please push any thoughts of depression, suicide, or distracting from Christ away from me

-Help me to not be dependant on my computer, let that not be where I go to to spend free time

– Keep me disciplined in reading and learning from Your Word daily, and not as a chore, but as part of my enjoyment and freetime

– Keep me constantly in prayer like I was way back before the beginning of this year

-Help me to be more self-confident, not worry about what everyone else thinks, but only what God would think

-Help me to be sensitive of other’s feelings

-Let me ask more questions if I don’t understand something

-Lord, help me to be trusting of those you would have me be trusting of

– Let me be able to discern between guys who are just being friendly, and guys who might mean harm…

-Let me draw nearer to my team, that we will be as family

-Please control my crush-meter. Let me not get any crushes, but only friends

-Help me to keep things at a friendship level and not a crush or more

-Allow me to ask for help if I need it and let me accept help if I don’t think I need it

– Let me be more perceptive of others and even if I’m too busy, let me be there if they need someone

– Don’t let me fall into my past sins…please…

– I ask that we all will work as one body and in one accord

– I would love it if I could be more flexible with the Lords calling, if He wants me to jump up in the middle of something, let me do it even if it seems ridiculous

– Let me not worry about life back home, let my sole focus be here at GFA

– Let me work on listening during prayer for a change…not having a one-way conversation all the time

– Help me to accept criticism, even if I don’t think I need it

– Lord allow me the strength to write my dad a letter telling him that I forgive him.

– Let the spiritual gifts you gave be evident, and flourish while we are here

-Help me to treat everyone with equality and not have prejudice against anyone.

LORD RENEW THE FIRE…”

Just thought that was an interesting find in my memory box. So far the Lord has worked all of those things into my life in one way or another, and is continuing to work them. I love discovering how the Lord has worked and is working and has answered prayers and is still answering prayers. :)  Thanks for reading!

Source: Prayers Answered from my School of Discipleship Year