Eight It Up

8 Things I'm Looking Forward to:
1) Cornerstone
2) Going to Indiana for Matt's graduation
3) Amanda coming
4) SUMMER
5) Sweet Sixteen
6) Lunch (currently)
7) Seeing Alora sometime, hopefully
8) Going to the beach

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1) School (I found out I finally am making an A in Algebra 2!!)
2) Slept
3) Ate dinner with the Phelps and April outside
4) Sat outside, in awe of the beauty of summer and Earth itself
5) Played my guitar
6) Wrote in my journal
7) Had a great phone conversation with Kimmie
8) Slept some more

8 Things I Wish I Could Do:
1) Meet God, without dying
2) Bring my Gramie Juju back to life
3) Change someone's life
4) Become a "famous" singer
5) Travel the world
6) Have a discussion with Matthew Thiessen
7) Get into Duke University (even just for the satisfaction of knowing I could)
8) See things literally through another person's eyes, and allow certain people to see things through my eyes so that they could know how much I love them and what they mean to me.

8 Shows I Watch:
1) What I Like About You
2) Home Improvement
3) Secret Life of the American Teenager
4) The Hills
5) The City
6) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
7) What Not to Wear
8) Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

8 of My Favorite Movies:
1) The Breakfast Club
2) A Walk to Remember
3) The Pursuit of Happyness
4) Seven Pounds
5) August Rush
6) The Parent Trap
7) Twilight
8) In the Land of Women

I am going to make a deal with myself, and all of you shall be the witnesses. I hereby proclaim to complete all of the following things on my list before I ever post another post on Blogger.

Emily's List
- clean room thoroughly (including vacuuming)
- organize dresser and clothes
- get all clothes washed and put away
- ask Dad about opening a bank account
- read Bible at least three times a week

Happy Belated Earth Day!

I know I'm one day late on this blog, but I still want to share with you some pictures of places and things on our beautiful planet that make me want to give God the longest bear hug EVER.



"He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing. He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke. By his power he churned up the sea.... By his breath the skies become fair.... And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! How then can we understand the thunder of his power?" (Job 26:7-9, 11-14)



taken from: http://petit-cheri.blogspot.com/


taken from: http://petit-cheri.blogspot.com/



"How many are your works, O Lord! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number-living things both large and small." (Psalm 104:24-25)




"The sun has one kind of beauty, the moon has another beauty, and the stars have another. And each star is different in it's beauty."
(1 Corinthians 15:41)




"Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours."
(1 Chronicles 29:11)



"Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." (John 1:3)




"My whole being, praise the Lord, Lord my God, you are very great. You are clothed with glory and majesty; you wear light like a robe. You stretch out the skies like a tent. You build your room above the clouds. You make the clouds your chariot, and you ride on the wings of the wind. You make the wind your messengers, and flames of fire are your servants." (Psalms 104:1-4)




"You are the Lord, you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. To all of them you give life..." (Nehemiah 9:6)




"Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt, to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on the desert, which is empty of human life, to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?" (Job 38:25-27)




"But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being." (Job 12:7-10)





"There are three things that amaze me—
no, four things that I don’t understand:
how an eagle glides through the sky,
how a snake slithers on a rock,
how a ship navigates the ocean,
how a man loves a woman." (Proverbs 30:18-19)


And, so....
"You shall not pollute the land in which you live... you shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I also dwell."
(Numbers 35:33-34)

Recycle! Conserve energy! Do what you can!

Don't you just love the Earth?

"I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing..."

Relationships in the past that have left us hurt and alone seem to shadow everything in our lives right now. At least for me that's how it seems. I've come to realize that my relationship with Jesus Christ is the only thing that could ever fully mend the other relationships that have broken me severely. With Him, all things truly are possible. Which means getting over him isn't impossible after all. Although that's exactly how it feels at this moment, I know that eventually, one day, I'll be able to look back on this and know that because of the love and mercy of the Lord, I have been blessed with learning something from this heartache. I'm young... things will come around, right?

Last night I got exactly 44 minutes of sleep, so when I say I'm "dead tired", I literally mean I could quite possibly keel over at any second.

Spring break is over. Mine was really good, I enjoyed it. Marlee and I hung out a lot, and it was a relief to feel her back in my life. Please, don't ever leave me again...



We went to see The Hannah Montana Movie and 17 Again; and they were both super good. Surprisingly, neither were even the least bit corny. They were adorable.

I've been practicing guitar so much lately. The feeling that playing the guitar or keyboard gives me is indescribable. It allows me to release things that even I didn't know needed to be released. It makes me feel as if I'm on top of the world, and I actually can do something decently. It gives me confidence and bravery, if only for a second. When I finally get a song right, pure joy spreads from the tips of my fingers to the ends of my toes.

The Phelps are coming back next weekend, I think. I'm excited. Having them here was wonderful. We hardly ever get to see them, and now we get to see them quite frequently. It's great!