Desperation 05

After leaving our hotel at six am, we got home from Desperation a little before twelve. Just in time for lunch :)

The first thing I did when we got to Colorado Springs Thursday, was break the bathroom-door. Yep, good start. At least I was able to fix it without much trouble. Luckily, my weekend was not all this way.

For the first Session, John Bevere spoke. I did not know much about John before I heard him speak, but I knew he wrote a book (or more) and that my mum had it. He spoke on those Verses in Revelation 3 where Jesus said to the church in Laodicea, “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth...” He said lukewarmness is the most contagious disease there is.

He also said His wife is a babe, and I got to see her the next day. I am not sure what you call a babe, but she looked nice ( lol : ) ).

Friday morning, the guys and girls split up. Brent Parsley spoke to the guys and Lisa Bevere spoke to the girls. I thought what Lisa said was good. She talked about girls and how much God loves girls and that He has a plan for them that the church body would not be complete without them. Since girls are built more so on relationships, she said they are the connective tissue of the body. If you have sprained something, ripped a tendon or ligament, you understand how that part of your body no longer works right. You need your cognitive tissue.

After lunch, David Perkins spoke, he is the one who runs Desperation. He said short people rock (and don’t you forget it Greg!). Then he got into talking about prayer and becoming a person of prayer. He said there are three things you do to get in your head and believe to become a person of prayer: 1) God likes you. God loves you. 2) God delights in your prayers. He wants to talk with you. 3) Keep asking with persistence. Don’t give up. Also, “We don’t pray because we feel like it, we pray because of conviction.”

Once that Session we over, there were five different ones that you could chose from to go to next. I decided to go to one with Brent Parsley after hearing Jon and Jeremiah saying what he spoke on was good that morning (as for what it was he spoke on that morning, I still don’t know). He spoke on living a secret life when I went, and seeking God to change you on the inside and it will work its way to the outside. Not just raising your hands during worship to look good, but truly worshiping God.

Then when we came back from dinner, we got to hear Ted Haggard speak, the pastor of New Life Church. He spoke on fasting and how when we fast we build the character we need to say no to different temptations. Also, how we find healing in fasting. Some things that we have to face, can only be faced with fasting and prayer.

Saturday morning came along, the last day, and before it came very little sleep. Fred Markert, from YWAM, spoke first thing and it is not very clear in my mind for the fight I had with sleep coming over me. My notes don’t really help me much either, because I took to drawing to try and stay awake. However, a lot of what he said seemed to be different statistics about missions.

Then there was a break, during which I took a nap, and John Bolin spoke after that. He talked about when Jesus called the disciples. They were not asked to follow Him so they could become rich, or always be comfortable, it was so they could become fishers of men. It is our job to be fishers of men and live for God not ourselves.

After that Session was over, I then went to one (alone...sniff, sniff) with Marcus Haggard speaking (he is crazy). He talked about making our lives extraordinary, and he had three points on how to do that: 1) Lay a firm foundation. 2) Surround your self with powerful allies (good friends that will push you toward God). 3) Become a person of action. He expanded on each of those, along with many stories of stupid things he did when he was younger (and a video clip from Napoleon Dynamite and Brave Heart).

Our last speaker was David Perkins. He made us all stand up and sing, “I may never, fight in the infantry, ride in the calvary, shoot the artillery...” along with all the motions. I had not sang it in a long time, but I still could. He said these are some things we can fight with: a desperate pursuit, prayer, a focused life, and a consecrated heart.

Once we had said our good byes to some different people we met while we were there (and to Jon and Jeremiah whom Sue was going to pick up later), mum, Joanie, Kristina, and I went to our hotel and got ready to leave the next morning (this morning).

Sorry for the seemingly endless post.

Lord of the Rings

Last night, Joanie and I went to a Lord of the Rings marathon (along with Marie, Angela, Netsie, Kristina, Kimberly, Danny, Jeremiah, Jason, and Thomas). We started watching the extended versions around 1:30 pm and ended around 2:00 am. I would give you a good quote from each, but I don’t feel like trying to find one and watching that part over and over until I had one for you. So sorry.

It was cool to watch them all right back to back, but it is not something you do very many times (and now I am feeling why, as I try not to fall asleep while finishing up school).

I might try to write something thoughtful, but it may be hard right now. Just a heads up as to why it might sounds really odd and go on and on, but seem like it is going no where.

Watching them back to back you get to see it all in a short (well, sort of short) amount of time. So you can look at them differently.

You can watch Pippin and Merry grow to see they are needed, and try to do what they can to help (still getting into trouble, yes, but they try). Before they had nothing better to do than make trouble, but they proved they could do more.

Also, you watch the Ring eat away at Frodo in a new light. This burden that he was carrying was really to heavy for him to bear alone, but Sam’s loyalty and being there for him when he needed it got him through it (even though you see that without watching them back to back, it seemed different to me some how).

Anyway, I suddenly don’t feel like writing very deep thoughts out here, so that is all I will write (okay, so maybe it did not go on and on....).

Packing

I started packing tonight. It is rather sad in a way but exciting at the same time. I will be leaving in just over two weeks (the craziness of it all). My bag and small trunk are no where near ready to go yet; it is going to take a lot of work to get them there.

More...

I have been thinking I should write more than I did about my graduation party, but I have not really thought of what. It was rather odd really. I mean, I am still not done with high-school yet, so it does not really seem like I am graduating (in some ways).

At times it hit me differently that I was going to graduate soon but when I do I will just finish my work and that will be it. So the party itself did not have the full feel I guess.

As for what happened in the party, it was an open house; so people came and left at random, and I had to make sure to try and talk, at least a little, to each person that came (I have decided I HATE TALKING!!! ... okay, now with that out of the way... :P ).

I now have a lovely interview done by Greg on tape. He put the camera up over my head, and he is already a foot taller than me, and was acting like I was a little girl (like a really little girl). At one point he said, “Oh , I’m sorry. Am I towering over you? Here, let me get on my knees.” Then he put the camera level with my face. I was laughing so hard my face hurt.

Graduation

Yesterday, I had a graduation party/open house type thing. It was good to see several people I had not in a while, and to get a very lovely song Ben and Jason wrote for Joanie on tape ;) ...

I have not finished all of my school yet but this was the only weekend it would work out before I leave in three weeks. However, I will be done in the next week or two.

Lucky dice

Jennifer told me to take it, so I did:


The Completely Pointless Personality Quiz

Don’t say that!

Last night several of the girls from a little Bible study Joanie and I have been going to, and some of our parents, got together for a barbecue. Even though I have not been going for long, or so it seems at times, these girls have found a place in my heart.

Whenever it was brought up that I will be leaving In a month, I was told, “Don’t say that, I don’t even want to hear you say that!” So apparently, I will be missed. :)

The internet, blogs, and email are lovely.

Fast

Yeah!! Both my ipod and ibook cam this week. The ibook is so much faster than my parents computer. They are both beautiful.

It shattered

Saturday, my family and two others went to a small camp together. The main point for the weekend was to just get some rest and spend time with God, but we also got to know each other better and I got to catch up a little with Jenn and Joel (Isaac’s older brother and his wife). Their kids are so cute!

We also got to play frisbee-golf a couple times. I lost both games, but I guess it did not really help that my frisbee shattered when it hit a tree (I still need to ask them if they want me to pay them for that).

“Whoa, Jacki, I did not know you had an arm like that!!” Si said while looking at the many pieces of frisbee.

Jacki says under her breath while rubbing her right hand on her left arm, “just one.” She had her head down trying not to look at everyone looking at her.

I will have music

Okay, if you have been reading, I have had two CD players die on me in the last month. At first I was thinking about buying another one, but was not sure how it would work out to well money wise. Since my Uncle John said he would get me a laptop for a graduation gift (yeah!!), I had decided I could live without a CD player and could just listen to music as I worked on my computer (saying that, “my computer” has a whole new meaning to it now. It’s a beautiful thing to say).

While I was looking at the apple site (to set up an order for my laptop), I found this. What luck! Now I could get an ipod with my ibook (mini, blue, with my name on the back (my uncle decided it needed that)). I am psyched!