Spring Break Is HERE!!!

Okay, so I missed the post by one day, but it is officially Spring Break. yesterday, i had four not-so-little girls spend the night. we had a blast. dolphin brought a movie called Chak De India. It was all in Hindi and was so much fun. We spent Sunday evening watching movies. The movie had a theme song that all of the girls were singing. Sandy made us some of her famous sourdough bread, banana bread, and my favorite: poppyseed bread It was great. So it was an interesting day to say the least. The rest of this week will be so calm and relaxing...or I hope so at least. The rain is making me so peaceful.
Looking Forward to the rest of the week,
kimi

Eggy Chocolate?

in my house i have a lovely little room that we call the "sun room". my homegroup (kreighbaum/newman) meets at my house everyweek for dinner before the meeting so we always have these two long tables in the room. in the center of these tables there are bowls hershey kisses, hershey miniatures, reeses eggs, and dove chocolate eggs. it just so happens that i do my homework at these tables and decided to try some. i discovered something about myself in that moment: i love chocolate in shapes! they are so good. especially reeses eggs because they have extra peanut butter in the center making it oh so tasty.

i love learning new things about myself. its fun.

Existence

I don't really know what to say so I will just write about what I am doing in my life. So last night I was reading my handy little C.S. Lewis quote book entitled The Quotable Lewis. It is a great book. I love C.S. Lewis. He was a very wise man who learned from alot of mistakes in life. Something that I have been thinking about lately is faith. So I thought to myself, "I wonder what C.S. Lewis thought about faith?" So I looked in it and found this profound thought:

"We trust not because 'a God' exists,

but because this God exists."

I don't know about anybody else, but I think that is an incredible idea. People everyday doubt that "a God" exists. They question the very existence of what created our existence. My God exists. He is living and active in my life. That I am in the place that I am right now is a wonderful example of God's faithfullness. My prayer today is that people will see the existence of God in my life. That I will live a life pleasing to him.

I pray that I will always be pleasing to Him.

Living for God one day at a time,

Kimi

Life is Good

Life is good. As much as I struggle with things, I am reminded of one thing: It could be worse. I have had what seems like a very rough day. I don't feel well, I have been cranky, and I was very mad earlier. And after I think about all of the things that have went wrong today, I begin to think of what happened the rest of the day. I began the morning with my brother, I spent time in Bible class talking about Jesus, I played with my three favorite kids in the world (Alexander, Quinn, and Wren), I hung out with my friends at school, and I had a great time with my homegroup tonight over dinner. So when I sit back and reflect on what really happened today I see that I am truly blessed. That I am able to learn Biblical things in school is a blessing in and of itself. I have been blessed with a wonderful family who supports me and encourages me when I am down. I have great friends who always make me laugh and help me live life. I have a church family that is irreplaceable.
At the end of the day, I think that it is very important to take a moment, breathe and think of what really happend. How blessed you are to not have an accident while driving. How blessed you are to live in a house. And how blessed you are to always find a way back to salvation through Jesus Christ. He has blessed my life so much and I will continually be in need of Him.

Feeling Blessed,
Kimi