eye of the tiger

well i made it! and as of right now i dont feel sick, i have lost my voice a little but that is totes okay with me. i have never came home from fall weekend without coming down with some cold, sinus infection, and last year the flu. I feel like its because im a girl that loves to just go go go go go until i cant go no more, and at rockbridge i am extremely good at running myself down because i just LOVE IT THERE, and basically i just want to do everything. lol (: but im home and had an incredible weekend. i love camp so much. I love watching kids hear about Jesus for the first time i love how kids just get to be themselves and be loved reguardless. I love seeing the walls break down and they finally see what is real in life. I love seeing the transformation of a heart go from death to life. Another thing that i love is just anticipating what the Lord is going to do. One thing i have noticed about younglife camp is it never goes as what i planned it was going to be in my head. Which i am so glad because the Lord just catches me by suprise everytime and it is seriously just the best.

this weekend i got to spend with my dear friends of mine. we werent in a cabin like usual because there were SO many kids there. so by my suprise we actually stayed in the lobby of my work crew cabin! Becca and Sam being the best made this fort/tent thing in the middle of the lobby and that was our cabin along with megabed one of my favorite things in the whole world. (megabed; noun, where you put all the beds together and you just sleep together on one huge gigantic bed. garunteed to provide the most fun for sleepovers, and younglife camps.) But seriously though, and we also shared the showers with the other girls from our school who had a total of two showers for 25 girls, needless to say i didnt shower all weekend and it was awesome. im doing this no shave november thing.... well trying, no shave november is just too darn easy for me and so i was like oh, hailey how about you do shave november.... i am so dumb, that lasted about one shower and i only shaved on leg. hahahahahah but anyways sorry thisback to this weekend, did i say is was so much fun? (:

This is my last fall weekend as a camper and i am so ready for college. Being a leader is basically my dream. literally though, i cannot wait to become a leader. I think about it all the time. I cannot wait to just love on girls from a different school, and just walking through life with them. I cannot wait to share with them the greatest love story ever told. and also a bonus just getting to hang out with them and do fun girl stuff. But loving the Lord while being a high school student is really really awesome. because the truth is i already get to do all of that but unlike leaders i get to be with these kids 5 days a week for 8 hours. so i really get to see these kids all the time, which is so cool. (but as you can tell from previous posts its pretty hard sometimes. but. its so worth it.) Along with being a senior my little sister is a freshman (mad shout out to her, she's the best. no doubt.) and getting to go to camp with her and her friends was probably one of the coolest and funnest things ever. Getting to see her just love on her friends, and just having a blast which is besically a wish come true because she totally deserves to have the greatest time of her life... in whatever she is doing. So this weekend i just got to hang out with my friends, i got to talk to them about real stuff. about life. and most importantly the Lord. This weekend also allowed me to see some amazing people that i dont get to see very much because we live so far away. but i love that though. even though it is hard i love how we can see each other and pick up a conversation as if we see each other every day, and also i get to see how the Lord is using them in HUGE ways back at in there home towns.

sorry i feel like im rambling on so im just going to post some pictures and then hit the hay because i have school tomorrow and im exhausted (and im trying really hard not to get sick lolololololol) maybe later this week ill just put up a little blurb about different things that happened at camp... because obviously i just cant type it all down.

God is good. All the time.

sweet girls hanging out infront of the shop

freshman/sophomore cabin

junior/senior cabin

this is just halarious. esp the guys in the background

sista4eva

blacksburg gurlz. #wesokool

pic with becca right after she specifically told me to take the tiger hat off hahahahahah

three of the greatest girls i know

alison in her american attire

and seriously just respect my photo bombing skillz.

grace and alison are in the back seriously they are so awesome i hope to live life like they do one day.

So i bought this tiger hat at the dollar tree and got it stolen from me by a friend of mine and finally got it back at camp needless to say i wore it the whole weekend... i made quite a name for myself.

dry season

if i could sum up my senior year so far this would be what i would say.

"Sometimes I feel incredibly disconnected, really uncomfortable in my own skin, or kind of like I don't fit into this world. Like I was born at the wrong time and I don't belong. I just think about my son, and it scares me, because... I don't ever want him to feel like he doesn't belong. I don't know if my heart could bear that."

These words are from Haley James Scott from one tree hill. Today i watched my favorite episode its called pictures of you if you ever want to watch it. This year hasnt been the year i expected to be. Its been a lot harder, alot more heartbreaking. and to be honest im stoked to get out of here. I was talking to one of my dear friends georgia last night and i was like its not like i could blog this. Its not that i can just tell the world you know life sucks right now. But today as haley was talking she took the words right out of my mouth.

You know i wouldnt change my life for anything, no sum of money, no wish could ever get me to trade this. The people i walk through life, the family i am so lucky to be apart of, the things ive gotten to do, and the things i have gotten to witness. i. would. never. change. that. But that doesnt mean its not hard. It doesnt mean that i dont get in arguments with my family just like every other high schooler. It doesnt mean that i dont want to do the things that regular high school kids do. It doesnt mean i dont struggle with hearing the vicious things high school students have to say, and it doesnt mean that there are never days where i just want to get the heck out of that school and never go back. I have disagreements with my friends. I dont like going to school alot of the time. And to be honest i feel like there is so much more i can be doing with my life than just sitting there.

This year has been hard. I guess i walked into  senior year thinking it was going to be exactly like Junior year. I loved junior year. it was so far the best year of my life. I witnessed the Lord do huge things. I got to see a glimpse of what the Lord has planned for me. I finally found a purpose. And this year its not like that. It doesnt mean the Lord isnt doing big things it just means that my eyes arent open to His mighty power. this year i have felt like i have lost my purpose. which is such a lie from the pit of hell. I believe in alot of lies satan puts infront of me. I get caught up in alot of his traps.

Following the Lord is one of the greatest things. You know reading the word, and being in fellowship is the greatest. i love it. i love doing ministry and i love just seeing the Lord work. Because of Jesus i do have a purpose. and i have life. freedom. but when i go into high school i feel exactly as haley said it. "...incredibly disconnected, really uncomfortable in my own skin, or kind of like I don't fit into this world. Like I was born at the wrong time and I don't belong..." i feel like kids look at me and there just like what the heck. i feel like kids dont like me. but like i said earlier its a lie. put infront of me by satan himself. he makes me think that following the Lord or being a younglife kids makes me diff. so diff. that kids dont like me. but that is such a lie.

i dont know if you feel the same as i do. i dont know if this even makes sense. but i do know when i go into the high school i dont fit in. and thats okay. i dont live life the same way most kids do. and alot of times that scares them. and thats okay. because after following Jesus. after reading His TRUTH, i have realized that in the end its going to be worth it. in the end im going to sit right along side those kids that are probably just as uncomfortable as i am around them. i'll be sitting with them with the Lord and it going to be great.

as we follow Jesus. or just stand up for what we believe in its going to set us apart. its going to put us in a place where we feel as if we dont belong. but dont let that over take you. dont let that bring you down because the truth is we are not made to be a part of this world. we are meant to be a part of the world the Lord created. and this here folks isnt it. i find my heart longing for something more. i know that out there i will find peace, and rest. and i will only find that in Jesus Christ.

This dry season will end. but until then i will keep confronting myself with Christ truth, with Christ's grace, Christ's forgiveness. Christ love. and i will be stomping down Satans lies, and traps, and disgusting spiritual warfare.

^{Revelations 21:1-7}
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. ² And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
³ I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, “Look, God’s home is now among his people! He will live with them, and they will be his people. God himself will be with them. ⁴ He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.”
 
⁵ And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.” ⁶ And he also said, “It is finished! I am the Alpha and the Omega—the Beginning and the End. To all who are thirsty I will give freely from the springs of the water of life. ⁷ All who are victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.

also sidenote:
We're going to Rockbridge this weekend! Cant wait to tell you all about it. Please pray that the kids going will hear the gospel for the first time and know how much they are loved. pray that they will cross over from death to life. Pray for the leaders that they will have alot of energy to keep up with these kids pray that they will ask the hard questions and that they will break down the walls in these high school kids lives.

ill give you an update when i get back! unitl then watch this halarious video. this is where im going for the weekend #cantwait

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsFZ2A04hgM&feature=youtu.be

Jesus Paid it All.

Oh goodness sorry i havent blogged in a while. i havent really felt "inspired" to write. and i def dont ever want to feel like i have to write because then it wouldnt be coming from my heart. but anyways lately i have been my inability to do things. more in a spiritual sense than anyhting else. And this weekend was def my breaking point. because of my inability to do things i have also felt because of this im not qualified to do things because im not good enough.

like i have said before i love chasing after high schoolers and showing them that there is a God out there who loves them more than anything else in the world. and can give them more life than any other thing kids are trying to find life in these days. wheather its drugs, alcohol, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends, grades, parents.... anything the Lord is able to fill you more than any of them. but recently i have just felt like i just am not able to do that because everytime i try i fail. everytime i find myself trying to glorify myself, rather than the King. i find myself placing my plans infront of His plans, and in the simple scheme of things i def put One Tree Hill before anything #obsessed. other things i tend to do is give up because the things high schoolers do these days i have never done and how do you relate to someone who finds life in that but i myself havent even done it? Things like that make me feel like i cant show kids Christ. It makes me feel like i am not qualified to bring kids to the foot of the cross.

i sit through school and look at my friends around me and my heart breaks because i know, i KNOW God is out there dying for them to see how much He loves them. I know that God is in their hearts already and He just wants them to feel that. I walk through school and see how so many of my friends are addicted to drugs, or enslaved to alcohol. I look around and see girls who are so broken that the only way that they feel complete is by giving themselves to their boyfriends. I see kids every weekend trying to forget why their life sucks so they drink until they dont remember anything. I see kids working so hard because they want to be the star player that they forget that the sport they are playing is meant to be for fun, and your supposed to enjoy it. i hate witnessing that. i hate seeing how broken our society is. and i hate seeing kids constantly pour themselves into something expecting something in return and in reality they are left emptier than before.

but like these kids i am the same way. i try so hard to be the "christian girl" that everybody expects me to be. i find myself seeing my worth in how many parties im invited to... i feel as if im not good enough for friends because i am not able to keep up with their lifestyles. i too am just like every high schooler. broken by the power of sin, constantly searching for something that will give me life.

this morning when i was having my quiet time i was just praying
"Lord they are so lost. they are so broken. i want to take away all their pain, i want to take away all their suffering. i just want to take it all away from them. except i cant. but Lord you can. you can take away everything that is hindering us. you can fill them with life. everlasting life. but how do i show them that whan alot of times i dont feel it myself because of my inability to follow you whole heartedly?"

and as i was writing this in my journal it hit me that its the cross. the only reason we can feel Christ love is because of the cross. The only way we are ever going to feel alive is by the mighty power of the cross.

we are constantly turning to things that will never fill us, drugs, alcohol, self image, relationships, success, grades, leadership roles.  WHEN ARE THESE GOING TO WORK? my heart screams out.  but the answer is. there never going to work. these things that we keep shoving into our hearts are never going to work. the only thing that is going to work is following Christ with everything we have. we will finally feel set free at the foot of the cross where Jesus's blood ran out for us so that we could be free from sin.

my failures, my heart, my everything sits at the foot of the cross where it is traded for love. it is traded for mercy. it is traded for salvation.

Jesus died so that we will never have to find life in anything except for him. He died so that when we are lost and indulge in the things life has to offer, we can find redemption and forgiveness because Jesus broke the power of sin. we no longer have to feel trapped by these things. and that is why we are set free. each and every single one of us.

just know that in all of our failures. you are loved. remember in your daily life. you are loved. remember when things dont look like they couldnt get anyworse. you are loved. know that everystep you take Jesus is right beside you.

a glimpse of the kingdom

this week has been insane! i got to take my first senior skip day... let me tell you its amazing. just a day to throw my feet back and relax. but i also took it because i got to go to busch gardens with my best friend and his family and we didnt get back until late Sunday night. Let me just tell you it was my first time being on a rollercoaster since elementary school. you know when people say there stomach was in there mouth... after something scary. not only was i petrified and could barely walk after apollos chariet, i also didnt even think i had a stomach.. going down that 90 degree drop i literally thought i was going to die. lololololol but i had such an amzing time. and got the crap scared out of me thanks to hallow-sceam... thanks to it i can safely say i have slept with all my lights on every night. hahahaha. i also got to see my sweet va beach and chesapeake friends and it was just so great to just hang out with them.

Today was a great day. its funny for the past two days i have just been hit with the transition between being confronted with my flaws, and seeing how i can just give them up to the Lord and go into a time of thanksgiving. I am just so greatful for this. because these past few weeks have been hard. it has broke down many walls in my own heart that i didnt even know were up. I realized how self centered, and prideful i am and it has just been really cool to see how the Lord takes my flaws and turns them into His masterpiece.

Today i got an amazing opportunity to hang out with one of my new special needs friends from school that is in graphics while i am in photo. He is awesome, today we got to go take pictures around the school for his graphics project. it was the first time he has ever held a camera and got to take the pictures he wanted to take. at first he took a picture here and there and then all of a sudden it was click click click click click. He started laughing and just pointing the camera at whatever he wanted and just clicked away. The whole time he had the biggest grin on his face, and was having the greatest time ever. He started running up and down the hallways and his aide kept saying i have never seen him so happy. i had an amazing time just seeing how happy taking pictures made Shaheem. in this i saw the Lord. i saw the Lord in Him and giving him joy alot of high school students dont have these days. Shaheem is full of life. and its amazing.

later tonight i got to sit and talk with three of my closest friends about real stuff. about following Christ and how our hearts feel. I am so fortuneate to have this every wednesday night. we have been meeting since the end of my sophomore year and i just cant even tell you how much the Lord has worked through our own hearts, and in each others lives. as i sit here and write this my heart just swells because i am just so blessed to have them in my life keeping me on track and pursuing me in the Lord.

tonight we talked about the Kingdom of Heaven and what it looks like to us.

I cannot wait to get to the Kingdom. One time becs was talking and she was saying that once we get to heaven every kid that we have walked through life with, every kid that we have felt called to, every kid that we loved on for Christ, we will get to wrap our arms around them and bring them home. the kingdom to me is going to be with all my closest friends, all the kids that i have walked throuh life with, my family, everyone sitting at this table (kind of like that classic movie huge thanksgiving table like where the whole family is there eating and is so happy to be with each other you know?) eating dinner with the Lord. I imagine that were going to get to sit there with our Father and have no more pain, were going to have no more fear, and we are just going to have extreme joy, and life, and love. Its going to be the best. i imagine that the Lord is going to come up to me and were going to finally get to be together. when i think of heaven i think of the Lord my dad and i just going to get to go the the field and hit some softballs around. i just cant even wait.

i get chills just thinking about it. but the Kingdom doesnt have to wait. the Kingdom is here now. Jesus is already here. He is living in us and the Kingdom is here. we no longer have to hold back, we no long have to hide because Christ is here. high school is a dark place but Christ is there. the kingdom is there. Christ goes with us to our jobs, our homes, our colleges... everywhere he is there. The kingdom is there. dont just wait for the kingdom because it is right infront of us. live like you are living in the kindom everyday. just like my friend shaheem, he found it. i believe with all my heart that Shaheem has found it. he has found where there is life.

have you?

home sweet home.

oh my gosh seriously i am so sorry i havent posted in so long. basically my life has been so crazy lately i havent had time to slow down. but right now i just got home from a day trip to DC and im WIDE AWAKE!!!! ahhhh school should be fun tomorrow lololololol.

well to start out idk what the heck has been up with me lately but following the Lord at school has been extremely difficult. but you know this is a process and im just trying to figure out how to follow Christ through this crazy life. (:

well anyways this past weekend i had some incredible people come down to visit. the kids that came down were from my work crew and we just had a blast... well i know i did lololol if you dont know what work crew is its where high schoolers volunteer a month of their summer at a younglife camp and serve kids that are going to camp. Work crew was one of the most amazing things i have been able to be apart of and i am so so so thankful for what the Lord has provided me through that. For my work crew we were only working for 2 weeks up at Rockbridge. its about an hour and half away from here. and seriously Rockbridge is home to me. I have actually never been to any other younglife camps. fun fact of the day (: 

but Rockbridge is what i consider home in Middle school i realized that following the Lord is what i was created to do there at Rockbridge. that week i felt Christ love for me way down in the depths of my heart for the first time. also at Rockbridge i met my two best friends tyler and tommy. we were the three kids that were always at club on friday nights and we just decided at camp one day that we wanted our friends to expirience the same thing we were expiriencing so from then on we have been best friends chasing after our other friends to come to club. then i also went with my two of my best friends for summer camp going into junior year. Becca our leader talked to me and hans about really just chasing after the girls that were going to be in our cabins. just laying it all down for Christ and chasing our hearts out for these girls. so all three of us buckled down and gave it our all. we lived every moment by Matthew 10:39 If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it. and by the end of the week i had seen the Lord do HUGE things through my own life, and my friends lives, and just about everything. That week was one of the best weeks of my life. Because of that week i realized that attempting to chase after Christ and my friends was not a crazy far fetched idea, but it could be a reality. Later that fall i was given the opportunity to lead a cabin at fall weekend full of sophomore girls and a few freshman at Rockbridge. This is where i knew this is what the Lord was calling me to do for the rest of my life. my heart was so broken for the girls who didnt know Christ. and i just fell in love with Christ using me to chase after His lost Children. at Rockbridge Christ called me to the Younglife ministry and i will never forget that. but now to this previous summer. i was able to go back to that beloved place, Rockbridge, and serve kids coming to camp behind the scenes as a laundry girl for two weeks. i met some of my now best friends that i have no doubt in my heart that i will walk with them through life every single day. work crew was one of the best things that has ever happened to me and i will always cherish it in my heart and i am just so blessed to have these incredible people surrounding me as i walk with the Lord.

but this weekend was different. this weekend wasnt at Rockbridge but at my own home. the fellowship, and love, and friendship are all still the same even though we are not in Rockbridge. and it made me realize that Rockbridge isnt just in Virginia, but its in each of our hearts going with us out into the world. But heres the thing Rockbridge wouldnt be so special if it wasnt for Jesus. It wouldnt feel like home if it wasnt for Jesus. Work Crew would have never worked if it wasnt for Jesus. And because of Jesus working through each of these things we are now able to take Rockbridge to others. Even if they arent at camp. Rockbridge is just a tool for Jesus to bring kids back home. but He is the real reason why Rockbridge is so special.

Jesus isnt just a person who came here and did cool miracles that we still talk about today. Jesus is a person who died so that He could know you personally, and so that you could be free.

sweet ohians. and joel... he's from scotland 

all of us at my house for a quick photo op

right before everyone left

alot of the work crew couldnt make it this weekend and we missed you all terribly. i cannot wait till were all reunited again. i am constantly praying for all of you and i miss you terribly. you are all incredible people and i am so lucky to have you a part of my life. keep chasing after the Lord as hard as you do because the Lord shines so brightly through each and every single one of you. one thing we talked about this weekend was that work crew doesnt just have to exsist with our group, it doesnt just exsist at Rockbridge. getting a group like this one it can happen anywhere. with your friends at home, your family. anywhere. Jesus can do HUGE things through just some people trying to chase after Him. He CAN bring groups of people together to make a big difference. dont ever stop believing in His mighty power.

i love you all.

hp

family ties

this weekend i got to get away. i needed to get away from my busy life and just have the opportunity to slow down and find myself. i needed time to see what the Lord has done in my own life. i think alot of times we get so caught up in the rush of our lives and we forget to slow down and take care of ourselves. also it was homecoming weekend in Blacksburg so i took the opportunity to get as far as i could away from that. hahahaha homecoming isnt really my thing i would much rather be spending my time in the mountains, in a little town called Independence. so i got in my car friday after school and headed to Independence.

Independence is a little town that only has two stop lights, it used to only have one but in the past five years have put in another one. i love it here. i love small towns and the culture that lies in the people. i love sitting in a resturaunt with my family and everyone that walks in knows you. i love how a brief hello turns into a ten min conversation of how your week has gone. my mom grew up here so most of the time i am introduced as Marquetta's oldest daughter and then that proceeds to awww i remember when you were this big. (indecating the last time they saw me i was the size of an umpa loompa) i keep starting sentences with i love. but i really cant even resist because my heart literally has fallen in love with small little town and longs to be a part of it.

i see Christ in this town so much. i see how people genuinely care about the individual, and i see how they see the importance of family. i see Christ moving in the deepest most inner parts of people here. wheather or not they believe, Christ is so evident and reminds me how no matter where we are in our walks with Christ He is with us always. Here there is no concept of time. There is no "were going to be late" and no "hurry up" its all at everyones own convinence.

here everyone is family.  which has taught me so much of what the body of Christ looks like. recently i have been reading "Kings Cross" by Tim Keller. he says "to gorify others means to unconditionally serve them, not because we're getting anything out of it, just because of our love and appreciation for who they truly are." i know i forget this almost everyday. serving becomes such a chore, and i forget that i am not serving a stranger, but someone who is part of my family in Christ. i am not serving them just because they are lost. but because of how Christ has chosen every single one of us to be a part of the HUGE family. this family does not just consist of our friends and our relatives, but people we have never met. people that are of different ethnicities, and different cultures. they live on different continents, and in different countries. when i look at the people around me i shouldnt see a stranger, but a brother, or a sister.

but even though Independence is a wonderful small town there is still hardship here. people still struggle with what everyone else in the world struggles with. people here are still lost. they are still searching for something that will give them life. and i pray for them. i pray my heart out that they will eventually see the Lord. i pray for the kids that go to school here, i pray that they know that there is a huge world out there waiting for them. i pray that one day they will see the love here in this town, that they will remember how one person took the time out of there day to see how they were doing, and know that it was Christ.

my heart has been renewed this weekend. Christ reminded me of how much i love showing people how much He cares for them, and how much He loves them. i was reminded of how i am called to serve my brothers and sisters back in Blacksburg. and yes it is hard. and somedays i am over whelmed with how my heart breaks for my friends. but our God is an awesome God and He is walking with us every single day at our own pace. and He loves us so much and cannot wait for us to come home to Him.

you are called. & sweet baby brooklyn

as i sit here in write this for the 20th time i have no idea what to write about. the past week has brought extreme highs and extreme lows. i have felt lost and alone in this walk with the Lord, and i somewhat gave up hope that i am called to walk into a high school and be an example for Christ. alot of days i sit through class and im like what the heck am i supposed to be doing here. i look around me and see a bunch of kids who think i am crazy. i miss my work crew friends aton, and i now understand how much i took for granted those 14 days that we were all together and had the opportunity to just sit and talk about Christ whenever i wished. time is flying by and i am still trying to catch up with last week.

but our God is a great God who see's me struggling and picks me up and carries me through this.
 
Matthew 4:18-22

¹⁸ One day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers—Simon, also called Peter, and Andrew—throwing a net into the water, for they fished for a living. ¹⁹ Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!” ²⁰ And they left their nets at once and followed him.

²¹ A little farther up the shore he saw two other brothers, James and John, sitting in a boat with their father, Zebedee, repairing their nets. And he called them to come, too. ²² They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind.

Just like these disciples Christ met me in the middle of what i found life in. and he called me. i was called to follow a God that i knew nothing about. i was called to love on my friends, my family, and my enemies. i wasn't called to follow the crowd but to follow Christ. i am called to let Christ do the work through me and allow Him to equip me for what His plans entail. and its hard, like these past few days have worn down my heart. i mess up and i believe in the lies satan puts infront of me but it doesnt matter because God gave His one and only Son to die for me. to die for you so that through our mess ups. through our disbelief, through our times of trials, He could be there with us every step of the way. that He could bare the pain for us and love us anyways.

we are not called to sit around and do the things that society tells us to do. we are not here to follow the plans that are normal. we are called to follow Christ. we are called to love Christ. and when we do that we will witness what we were blind to before. we will witness His mighty power. we will feel His endless love. we will be a part of something that we never thought was possible.

when you are struggling dont give up hope. i promise, it will get better i promise that the Lord is fighting for you. i promise that in the end you will witness Christ in ways you never have before. i am praying for all of you reading this and struggling. i will continue to pray for you. know that you are not alone in this, know that there are so many of us that are here for you, and we will continue to be here for you forever.


Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety.

Exodus 14:14
^"The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”


one last thing.

this weekend i got to meet an incredible woman who literally radiates Christ light. Her name is Kristen. Kristen and her husband gave birth to a sweet baby girl name Brooklyn three months ago. Brooklyn was born with a hole in her heart and has recently had surgery. although the surgery went well B's post ops have had huge complications. in the past week she has been put on strong medicine that have huge side effects one of which her brain could start bleeding. But brooklyn is a fighter last week she has fought with everything she has to survive. Both her parents work, but have exausted their FMLA between having to work to mantain daily life and going back and forth from here to Charlottesville to be with Brooklyn.

and for alll of you reading this. i am asking you to pray. pray with everything you got for this beautiful little girl. pray that she will not start bleeding because of the medicine, pray for the doctors hands, and for her parents. pray for her parents that they will find rest in the Lord as they do as much as they can for their daughter. pray that they will not have to worry about anything except for the recovery of their daughter and that the financial needs will be provided. please pray for baby Brooklyn's recovery.

if you would like to help or would like more information about Brooklyn and her family please contact me at hhailey.p@gmail.com