girl with a mission

Yesterday I had a long tiring day. Me and my mates went over to my youth leaders house and we watched all of the extended lord of the rings. The first one and the second one so that was about 8 hours and then we went to the cinema and watched the third one which is about hours! We started at 9 in the morning and finished about 11 at night because we had to eat and stop for a bit. By the third film I found myself falling asleep but it was really good. I'm not going to talk about it in here just in case no one has seen it yet and I give it away.
Today I've got so much coursework and homework to do. I want to get it out the way so I can relax for the rest of the holidays and not worry about it. For my English coursework we've been reading 'The Crucible' it's about witch hunting and killing people and the devil, everything I hate! It's quite a religious book because it's meant to be based in a theocratic society. But the book is boring and the corkscrews is hard.

Wow this is great, people can now leave messages on my blog and everyone can read them. Thankyou matt(my brother) for showing me how to do that :) So now I can read what you think about what I'm writing. I've had a long day today but a good day.
Last night I couldn't sleep so I decided to read this book called soul sista which is good and I was reading this part about destiny. It was talking about how God gives you your heart desires and how you are special and explains how you can use your gifts God has given to you. For example I like singing and at church I sing in the worship band, and I think God gave me a gift of singing (even though I don't think I'm very good, but I enjoy it) and I can use it to worship and praise God. Also my Dad has a gift of talking(and if anyone knows him you will know that) and he can go up to random people and start a conversation with them and then after 10 minutes he could come back to me and tell me all of that persons life and living and what he believes in and that's amazing. So being able to talk to loads of people means he can talk to them about God.

Day after Christmas, I'm feeling the effect today from everything thats been happening, I'm tired and losing my voice. But at least today i can chill by watching tv and playing on my funky new guitar. I decided to clean my room yesterday so i didnt have to do it today. And good job!

*5 days till Christmas*
I got an email today off my friend. The idea of the email was to see who was better: Jesus or Santa? And it started off like this;
'Santa lives at the North Pole ...
JESUS is everywhere.

Santa rides in a sleigh ...
JESUS rides on the wind and walks on the water.

Santa comes but once a year ...
JESUS is an ever present help.

Santa fills your stockings with goodies ...
JESUS supplies all your needs. '

.....and at the end it finishes with;

'While Santa puts gifts under your tree ...
JESUS became our gift and died on a tree.... The cross.

We need to put Christ back in CHRISTmas,
Jesus is still the reason for the season.

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16'

I thought this email was an amazing thing to read and great to remember near Christmas.
If anyone wants to read the whole email just email me and ask and I'll send it to you!

Remember me saying that I wanted to start a youth group, well the pastor at my church came and spoke to me about my idea and he suggested that I stayed in the adult meeting and encourage the youth to stay in as well so I could show responsibility. Normally I don't find the meetings interesting but because I was trying to set an example I listened to what was being said. To be honest I actually found the meeting interesting and I learnt a lot from it and it has became helpful in my everyday life. I think I found the meetings 'boring' before because I had a blocked opinion of them.

Well my birthday has come and gone and Christmas is only 13 days away. I haven't been writing recently because I've been busy with work and Christmas. I think Christmas is so exciting because it's a time to be happy and have presents but most impotantly it's the time when we remember Jesus coming to earth as a baby. The king of kings and the lord of lords!

Today had been hard. I didn't speak once but I was tempted to. So many people were teasing me but I'll get them back tomorrow hehe! I was thinking today that people who can hear and talk and move are very lucky. Not being able to talk got me really annoyed and I really wanted to say something and I felt sorry for people who can't communicate. People who can't communicate must have a gift of patience because I know I didn't today, I was banging my feet on the floor and getting really annoyed. But God was with me all the way through it and it will be along time before I do that again.
On another note it's my birthday in 2 days (Saturday) I'm really excited and Christmas in 21 days. I really don't like it when people say 'xmas' it's wrong because its replacing Christ with x as if he no longer existed, I think its extremely offensive.

On Thursday I'm doing a sponsored silence to raise money for this charity called C.A.P which means Christians Against Poverty. The charity helps people in debt and I'm doing this silence for 24hours. Whovever knows me knows that I talk a lot and it would be hard for me to remain quiet. I've only had the idea for 2 days and I've already raised £70 which is really good for me. Please pray that I will be able to do it all and that no one will trick me into talking. Thankyou!