Boundless Challenge Task 17

I can not fast because of a diet I am following. But I can fast from a certain food. My pastor recently did a fast for 40 days and he still ate soups and certain things. His daughter who is little gave up bread for 40 days. There are many different ways to fast. I don't have anything wrong with fasting. I think it is a time for prayer and speaking to God. My mom explained it to me as a child by saying you should be praying so much that you don't think about eating. I think if I gave up food or something else and worked on my prayer life it would be good for me to get closer to God and pray about things in my life I am struggling with.

Boundless Challenge Task 16

Looking at those kids faces was heartbreaking. God loves them and they were brought into this world for a reason. I know there are many people in my church who have adopted children. I would be very open to adoption one day in the future. There are so many kids who need homes and I would love to take all of them but I would definitely consider adoption. Like one of my teachers used to say adoption is an option.

Boundless Challenge Task 15

I just recently just graduated from with my bachelors degree in May. When I went to college I went to a local private university and still lived at home. I will tell you college is different you have professors who are liberal and will curse up a storm in class and talk about things I did not want to hear. It was something I wasn't used to. I feel blessed because I had my family and church family around me all the time. I had people around me who were building me up. In speech class though we had to do speeches on an issue and I chose abortion and how I did not agree with it. Also many other times in my composition class I could write about how I felt on the issues. I was happy I was able to take my stand. Being in a private school we had small class sizes and I got to know my professors and when we had discussions I was able to share my views. In college I see how it can be hard to be strong in the Lord because a lot of people leave home and have this new freedom without there parents they never had. I think if someone can find a good bible club to be in like Intervarsity, BCM, Campus Crusaders, or any other group they will find the right people to hang out with. They will also bring them up in hard times and maybe even find some older students who can mentor them throughout college.

Boundless Challenge Task 14

We should be concerned about pre born life because

1. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. When you think about life and how a baby is formed it is just a miracle.

2. Abortion is not only physically going against the body but it can have emotional scars too.

3. Even though someone might not want the baby they are having there is someone out there who does.

4. Every baby is special and has a purpose in this life no matter if it comes out a healthy baby or has some health problems. You never know what the kid is going to grow up to be.

5. Psalm 139:13 explains a lot and how God knows us before we are born.

6. When you look at the 10 commandments it says Do not murder and stopping pre-born life is murdering.

Boundless Challenge Task 13

I think the verses in Romans are telling us to be different and show people that we are different. We need to live for God and not with the world.

I read John Pipers sermon and I got out of this sermon on who I need to live for. I need to live for God and be different. I want to be a kind person and show people the love of Jesus through me.

The boundless challenge so far

Since at the end of the challenge we have to write an essay I thought I would gather my thoughts from the last two week and say how it has changed me.

The first week was on relationships and when I started I was shocked the first articles were on biblical dating. It was stuff I had heard my whole life from many different people and it was nice to have a refresher course on it now with me being older. I loved how they talked about the guy being the pursuer and I really want that one day. I want it to be based on biblical ideas. I also enjoyed asking my friend what I could change about myself. She is now more open to tell me if something is wrong helping me to become a better person and in area that I could use improvement. Having to tell my brother I respected him was very special too thats the first task that got me out of my comfort zone because I am not used to telling him stuff like that.

The next week was on community another great topic and got me out of my comfort zone. The hard thing was finding a person to take out to Starbucks and having the courage to do it. I am a strong person I have gone through some tough things in my life. I thought to myself I can do this and the Lord was putting this girl on my heart to ask so I did. Turned out she couldn't do it but we are going to do it another day and we did have a good facebook conversation. Since we talked about mentors I have been thinking ever since they gave that challenge who my mentors are. At first I had a small list then as I got thinking I kept adding people to my list. Right now I have a little group of mentors. But I have had many throughout the years but some people move away and issues like that. I love doing kind things for people so that one wasn't hard. When someone is sad I love to surprise them with something they like and it usually cheers them up.

This part needs its own paragraph. We talked about church family a lot this week. I am so thankful for my church family they mean the world to me. We are very close and we accept anyone into our family its not like a clique. We have wide open arms for visitors. I was looking around today at church and I saw love in my church family all around today. In sunday school we have a good time and I enjoy being in there even though sometimes I am the only girl. During Sunday school I saw a lady crying and the pastors wife was talking to her. At the end of them talking they were praying with each other. I saw little kids having fun and playing a game after church. We have kids who are in the word together and have bible verses memorized. I just look around and I see the love of God pouring out of people there. I couldn't ask for a better church family. If I ever needed anything when I was home alone for two weeks anyone would have come. Speaking of church we had a God sighting this week with our building we needed a big lift to trim trees we are moving and the pastor went and talked to the manager who turned out to be a christian and is giving us the lift for free for a week. How amazing! God does provide.

This is really long and I might import my notes from today's sermon because it made me feel better after this morning since I was feeling a little down. Its funny how God gives you answer when you need it. :) I love my family for bringing me up in a christian home don't know where I would be with out it!

Thoughts

So I had to wake up at like 6:40 today because my grandpa is out of town and we had to go feed the dogs and cats. I woke up worried, confused, and a lot more feelings. I hate having these feelings. It has been happening a lot. But I was listen to my playlist and it was making me feel better. Then I remember a verse that someone had posted on facebook this past week that made me feel a little better. Psalm 27:14. There are so many more thoughts in my head how I am feeling but I gotta go get ready for church. I feel a little better now though I know everything will be ok.