I Have a Calling, I think.

I think God's calling me. I've been having restless nights, or having the same dream. I'm constantly thinking of going to ANTS, ever since I googled how many UCC churches there were down in Georgia for A. The closest one to her was over 70 miles away!

I've always grown up with a UCC church in every town. If there wasn't a UCC church in my town, there would be one in all of the five closest towns, if not two! So when I learned that the closest one was over 70 miles away from A, I couldn't believe it. I had this strange feeling saying that I should do something to change that. But I disregarded it. Seriously what can a 16 year old, who plans to be a librarian, do?

Then the dreams started. Me preaching, A by to my side, going to the UCC conferences and having the church be an ONA church. It seemed each night the dreams got more and more vivid. It started out as me just talking, but then other people started talking. Other people, with southern accents. Then it was me going to ANTS, and me living where there wasn't snow at all. It feels as if God is calling me. Well, it feels like God's going "CAELYN! CAELYN! OPEN YOUR DAMN EYES YOU BLIND BAT!! Do I need to send Jesus down there just to make you see your FUCKING CALLING?!" right now, but none the less I have this calling.

I feel as if I need to help the UCC spread into the south. Help them spread their ONA churches, and I want my church to be one of the first down there in the south. I'm continuing to pray, confused as heck on what to do with my life and where I should go to school, and what I want to major in. But the only thing that I can feel, that is set in stone, is going to theological school to become a minister and move down to Georgia.

Lent

You all know I'm religious, and some of you know that I'm a Protestant. Well we're back in Lent, 40 days of giving up or taking on something that would have you feel like you've sacraficed something, I was going to give up reading, but oh that would be death! Instead I decided to take on sweeping/vacuuming my part of the house everyday, because Mrs. T does her whole house daily, which she has a pretty large house, I've been in it. I couldn't believe that she does her whole house daily, just with doing my part of the house, it gets sooo boring, but it is kind of disgusting, when my brothers do their parts of the house twice a week, and when you see what they sweep up, it's amazing and really disgusting. I think after Lent I'm going to keep on doing it daily. Thanks Mrs. T for inspiring me

What did you give up/take on for Lent?

With Love,
Dear Daughter ♥

Taking the Christ out of Christmas - Merry X-Mas

Have you ever gotten a Christmas card that says "x-mas"? Have you ever gotten made at it? Well, here is something that my minister told us. "X" is a greek abreviation for the Greek word meaning Christ. So the next time you see x-tian, x-mas, x-tianity, don't say that they are taking the Christ out of any of those words. They are just using an abreviate that has been around for a while. So ask them why they use it.


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