Who knew a Diddy Quote could have such an impact?

These past few days I've felt so inspired.
I've always been lost. I never made any plans for my future. "A dream without plans is just a wish." as Diddy would put it. At church we talked about using our time. Some people find they have that one thing they were made to do. I used to think they were the lucky ones, it was easy for them to plan because they knew what they wanted. For me, it was something different all the time. I wanted to be a marine biologist. I wanted to be an author. I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a teacher. A doctor. A lawyer, an actor, a dancer. Then, when I discovered God..I wanted to be a Christian. That hasn't changed much. I now know what I want to do. I want to show the world the Incredible One that saved my life. There are many ways people feel connected to God. Some find Him when they serve. Some when they pray, or when they read the Bible. For me, it's always been music. When I accepted Jesus into my heart, it was during a song. When I cried for forgiveness it was through music. That's when I connect. That's when I get those chills, and that inexplicable warmth. That's when I catch glimpses of Heaven and hear God's voice. And that's what I want to do with my time, while I wait. We're put on this Earth to serve Him. I want to do that through music. When I saw Hillsong United in concert a few months back..and I saw them singing and dancing and talking to God..I realized that's where I want to be. The band at church last night..well, they were incredible. They said, "We're not here to put on any show. When you clap, don't clap for us, clap for Jesus. We're all here together. We're just the ones leading this." Yes, although they get paid to do it, they treat it like it's just "getting together with friends and strangers to praise our God." What better way would you want to spend your life?

Short-Term Goal: Join the FCA band at school, and praise God with friends.
Long-Term Goal: Join a professional band, go on tour, and praise God with the world.

What are your Goals?

Tick tock, tick tock.

Time.
It really freaks us out. How much time do we have left? And then we're always trying to figure out what to do with the time that we have. But here's the funny thing about time. It doesn't change. It's always certain. I know that in exactly 24 hours from now it will be the same time that it is now. And in 60 minutes, an hour has passed. Seven days; that's a week. Yes, there are changes when it comes to daylight savings and lunar calendars and whatnot, but the point is: time remains the same. Time is a lot like God. God has always been and will always be the same. Time rules our life sort of the way our Lord does. Everlasting, never-changing. Here's the difference. When we think of time, we think of either birth to death, or history of the world sort of thing. When we think of God..we tend to think more about Heaven. and when you think of Heaven, do you think of time? I know I don't. Because when you think of eternal life, time has no control, it doesn't mean anything.
In Ecclesiastes, chapter 1, verse 4 says "Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again."
Ecclesiastes is a great book when it comes to figuring out life on earth. In chapter 3, it really breaks down 'time':
A Time for Everything

1 For everything there is a season,
A time for every activity under heaven.
2 A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.
3 A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
4 A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.
5 A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
A time to embrace and a time to turn away.
6 A time to search and a time to quit searching.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
7 A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak.
8 A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do people really get for all their hard work? 10 I have seen the burden God has placed on us all. 11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. 12 So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can. 13 And people should eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of their labor, for these are gifts from God.

So what do time and God have in common? They never change. They're everlasting.
But time is bound to earth; Heaven has no concept of it.

Testing 1,2,3..

Hello!
I've haven't thought about blogging in a very long time! But I always have too much to say when it comes to Twitter or Facebook. You know, I can't decide how I want to run this thing. Make it like a daily thing where I say what I did? Or dive a little deeper and use it to see how I think about things and feel. A friend of mine has a blog where she uses it to say how she's pursuing God on a daily basis. Maybe I'll do all of it. A day in the life...of a Christian Teenager.