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Freckled Hipbones. (clipped to polyvore.com)
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Florence and the Machine is so awesome. So awesome.
I reallly hope this year isn’t about to be as stressful as I am anticipating..
‘Cause that’d suck.
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You know how certain genres of music, or bands, make you feel a certain way whenever you listen to them and kinda change the mood of anything? I love that.
If I could just feel like 311 and Matisyahu all the time, I’d be set. Those bands chill me out so easily; it’s awesome. I wanna feel like that all the time, though. I don’t know how to describe my mood when I listen to them. Haha, it’s soo spacey.
Anyway, it’s Ryan Picole’s 18th birthday. Which means that my lastt big sister is going to college next year :/. Gray’s starting middle school, I finally got my permit, and Ryan’s a senior. We’re growin’ up soo friggin’ fast. I don’t like this. I mean, I’m glad we’re all succeeding and stuff, but I miss having all 6 kids in the house. Soon, there’ll only be 2.. Goodness gracious. I’m gunna be the big kid. I’m gunna have to be the ride everywhere and the example.. I’m not gunna have Ryan to bring me to school or help me find things or figure things out. She’s not gunna be on the swim team with me anymore.. Craaap.
She doesn’t know this, probably, but I depend on Ryan soo much. She’s my best friend and I don’t know what I’m gunna do when she leaves for college. I still have a year with her, but I can’t help but think about her leaving. I love my big sister more than all things 
. I’m very proud of her and that I’m her sister.
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I hate it when people try to tell me that I will have a life this coming year, and that they’re going to make me hang out with people and be social. It’s not gunna happen, I’ve most likely had this conversation with them before, and it’s not a fun one. All it does is make me feel like even more of a loser. I’m not a project that someone needs to work on changing. I’m fine with how I am and how I spend my time. During the school year, I go to school, and then swim practice. On the weekends, I have practice Friday and I’m usually too tired to do anything after, and then I have Saturday morning practice. After Saturday practice, I’m either doing homework or watching TV. Sunday, I have church and it’s family day. Other times though, I might have a swim meet that could be just on Saturday, or it could be on both Sat. and Sunday. During the summer, I have practice every morning, and I usually don’t do anything after. I go out of town with my church or with family, down to Baton Rouge.
I’ve had a lot of people ask me why I don’t hang out with my friends.. I’m usually hanging out with my siblings. I like being with my family because they’re all friggin’ hilarious. I think that being part of a big family, with so many brothers and sisters, even though I know people with muchh bigger families, makes it easier to kind of disappear from the social part of high school. For me, at least.
I understand that people don’t really get why I like being alone so much. I understand that it’s probably kind of weird. I understand that for some reason, it might be annoying to some people. But at the same time, it’s not your life, so why are you trying to push me to change my way of dealing with things and ignoring them? I don’t like being around a lot of people at once, I don’t like being around people I don’t know. I like being comfortable. I’m comfortable with how I am.
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Goodness, I love Florence + the Machine.
Is it bad that I don’t want to grow up anymore? Well, at least go through the whole process of growing up.. I just want to be there already.
I get really anxious when I think about the future for me; like, college and finding a job and having to deal with bills and kids.
It just doesn’t sound fun or easy to me. I know it’s not supposed to be, but I wish it was.
Sometimes when I think about it too much, I think I’d rather not even go to college. But that would mean less job opportunities and stuff.. and I need those. Ohhh, I don’t know. It’s whatever.
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July 2 Notes.
Ephesians 6. Prayer.
“In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.”
When we know the enemy is on our back, how do we get him off?
It’s a daily warfare. Pray always, on all occasions, with all kinds of prayers.
The battle is in prayer. Pray for something until it happens.
Pray in the Spirit; it’s not the words that make a prayer a prayer. It’s our position in the Word.
Romans 8:26.
No thought is ever waisted. The Spirit knows what to pray for.
The mind that is controlled by the Spirit is in fellowship with God.
You can’t do what you’re thinking about doing.
God plants something in your heart and you can’t get it out of your head.
Get outside the boundaries of prayer.
When you live a life of prayer you will never need to be reminded that you’re in a war.
FINALLY, BE STRONG IN THE LORD. YOU PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD AND YOU STAND AGAINST ALL OF THE DEVIL’S SCHEMES.
Don’t get dressed up with nowhere to go.
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Night of July 1 Notes.
Ephesians 6.
Repentance..
He doesn’t repair a broken heart, He gives you a new one.
Romans 8:5
If anyone doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, they don’t know the Lord.
YOU take the Helmet of Salvation.
Don’t fabricate the helmet. TAKE it, don’t MAKE it.
And the Sword of the Spirit.
The helmet of salvation is offered to you as a result of the Word of God.
There is no fine print. There is no “catch.”
“COME TO ME.”
During battle, soldiers we a liner under their actual helmet to protect their heads from the rough helmet.
The liner doesn’t protect you from anything if it’s worn by itself.
No one in their right mind would go out into battle without their helmet.
You’ve put a liner called religion on, and it looks good, and nothing’s bein’ thrown at you, but there’s one big blow, and everything’s exposed.
Religion is not the source, it’s a resource.
Salvation comes from the Lord.
The Word of God is sharp. It’s like a two-edged sword.
God wants people to be told about Him.
Take the gift of the Helmet of Salvation. It begins and ends with the mind.
Life or Death?
God won’t let you live by your own hand and your own strength. He won’t let you substitute another for the One, Christ.
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July 1 Morning Notes.
Ephesians 6.
The call of God is the same for everyone.
Fathers, don’t exasperate your children.
Don’t get Spiritual Separation Anxiety.
God IS. Yes. Where He is, we shall be also.
There is motion in the Christian life. It is not stationary.
No one wants to just look at the bride; they want to watch her walk down the aisle.
God doesn’t want to gaze, He wants to engage.
God is here, BIG DEAL. It’s not the promised presence of God, it’s the manifest presence that matters. He could be here and we could leave the same as when we arrived, unchanged.
He expresses Himself.
If we believe what we say we believe, we shouldn’t ever be without God.
We can’t live on another person’s faith. Faith can only come in gift form from God. Not from man.
It’s not your power, it’s God’s power.
Once you put on the armor of God, it’s who you become.
YOU take up the Shield of Faith.
Faith is other. It is other than what we have by nature.
No one can do this for you, you have to do it yourself. If there is no exertion on your part, there will be no reception of faith.
This shield doesn’t just catch the flaming arrows, it extinguishes the fire.
Faith goes way beyond just protection. It is an active demonstration of God.
WHEN the flaming arrows come, the shield of faith the extinguish the arrows fire.
What we can do together is much greater than what we could do alone.
TRUST GOD. Everyone needs to experience God.
The church of Jesus Christ wasn’t meant to be passive. It was meant to be aggressive.
The gates of Hell will not prevail against you.
Would you please just knock the gate down?
The blood of Christ is for my sins.
The cross of Christ is for my flesh.
The name of Jesus is for my enemy (Learn how to name-drop).
The faith of Jesus is for my attack.
The arrogance of religious flesh will ruin spiritual freedom.
Not a message that has to be believed. It is an experience of faith that becomes a message.
Your day needs to begin with putting on your armor. You could get real hurt if you were trying to put your belt on in the middle of a war.
FAITH IN JESUS SAVES YOU, BUT THE FAITH OF JESUS MOVES YOU WITH CHRIST.
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE HAS GOT TO STOP BEING A COURSE WE NEVER GRADUATE FROM.
