You're the God of this City!

There is no one like our God...
There is no one like our God...

I keep repeating this to myself throughout my days.
"Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are yet to be done in this city!", Chris Tomlin couldn't have said it any better in his song "God of this City"

And I so believe this. It also applies to my own life... "Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are yet to be done in my heart and life!"


I am so amazed at what GOD is doing in my heart. Not anyone else. God. My God.

I am so joyful... sometimes when things are at their worst, I just give it up to God, and he gives me peace. I so love peace. It's one of my most favorite emotions, and lately I had rarely been getting it. The reason for that though is because I was not asking for it, and I was not giving myself to Him. I wasn't letting go of the terrible things going on in my life that I can not control.

It's all over now though. For that I am thankful.

The Lord is good, and his mercy reins forever..


As undeserving of a person as they get..
-Bri

It's a Small Small World After All...

I think I last left off at Norco, didn't I? Well after that we went straight to Seal Beach where Doty's Aunt Vicki lives. It is gorgeous here, and their are beaches everywhere. That first night we chilled at the house and then Jamie and Kemery came over for dinner.

Day two in Cali, we went in search for the Ocean. The first beach we came across was a not so nice beach. It was more for volley ball, running and dogs than for water sports. Later we found Huntington beach, which so far is my favorite. It has a large pier that stretches out into the ocean, and the sand and beach is very clean. The waves were really big and fun, but there was a rip tide that day so the lifeguards were yelling at all of the people to get out of the ocean. It was really funny. They didn't listen, and there were helicopters flying over the ocean with rescuers perched on the side to make sure no one drowned.

Day three, to be continued. I am tired, we went to Disneyland today and my brain is fried. Goodnight to all.

Da Kine

As I sit here listening to traffic sounds outside of my window in California, I am reflecting on my trip thus far. So far, I have been blessed by God's faithfulness, and have not had a rough trip. I was dreading the 24+ hour drive, but I was able to sleep through a lot of it, drive some of it (4 hours straight! It's a record!), and the other portion was spent admiring God's creation that I had never seen before. I think it first hit me in New Mexico when the mountains started popping out of the ground how beautiful it really was.

New Mexico was fun, we stopped on the side of the road once to take a picture with lava rock.
Arizona (my favorite state), is where we spent the night. We stopped in chilly Williams right out side of Flagstaff to stay the night. God did a cool thing here. We didn't know where we would be staying, dad just called his agent and said 'book us a room and tell us where we are going, I don't really want to deal with it", and the agent booked us a room in an amazing place. It was a ranch resort, with horses, basketball court, and heated swimming pool and hot tub. Ahh it was a nice surprise. I love the smell of horses in the dry air. Dad went running when he woke up that morning and he said he saw an elk.

Next destination, Norco. Norco stands for 'North Corona' and it is a town in California. I am in love with this town. Wanna know why? Because it is a town with nothing but horse people. The whole town is dedicated to horses. When you come into the town (and it is a large town btw), you do not see sidewalks, but rather horse back riding dirt 'trails' down the roads. The houses there are small, with half acre lots, but in their backyards every one of them had a pasture (a mini pasture) with atleast one horse in it. Pretty amazing. Their shopping centers there are nothing but horse shopping also. This was my favorite part. There was a huge store dedicated to consigned saddles and tack. Ahh Heaven.

biology STINKs

i hate biology. did i mention that?

You don't know me...

I dont know if this will work embedded or not.. I hope it does though. Boston, by Augustana.
Wish I could move to Boston where no one knows my name... just a thought.

Life

Life... is interesting. And a blessing. The last time I posted was in October, and the title of the post is cracking me up.. I think I remember that feeling of extreme mouth pain when my wisdom teeth were coming in. Sooo glad I had them taken out, it was a terrible day when they stuck me with the IV 3 times (for those of you who don't know me, I hate IV's and needles and blood, it makes me have a mental breakdown pretty much..). I survived though, and now I have lovely holes in my mouth : )

Anywayss, it's been awhile. Lots of interesting/not so awesome/ and some awesome things have happened since I last posted.

• Christmas came and went. Was one of the worst Christmas' for me, but I serve an awesome God who helps us through hard times... which is what he did for me.
  
• Acquired a BMW (one of the things on my bucket list that has been completed now :)
• Raced said BMW and thoroughly enjoyed it.
  
• Finished last semester with a nice GPA, which I am super happy about.
• Started a new semester, which is going well except for Biology.. I think I could possibly fail this class. I've never failed any class before. Kinda scares me.
• Joined a workout class- lost 10 pounds and 2 inches so far.
  
• Got 2 new houses to house sit.
  
• I now have 6 riding students, which is the exact number I was wanting.
• Have another job lined up for the summer training horses for someone and getting them ready to show.. pretty excited about this one.
• Spring break came and went by really fast... it was a much needed stress break though.
  
• It snowed so much where I live this winter, which is odd
• I bought a new camera (one of the things on my "bucket list".. get a kick butt camera and learn how to use it and get paid for something you love eventually- still working on that part ;)
• Made new friends
• Lost a few friends
  
• Declared a major (IT Web Development... )
• And the list goes on...

So there is my list. I am going to try and post more on here, I know I say that every time, but now that I am getting back into designing websites and stuff I am sure I will want to try out some html on this blog. Like the new design by the way? :)

Smile,
Bri

Wisdom Hurts. Especially when it's the teeth kind.

Wisdom Hurts. Especially when it's the teeth kind.

My wisdom teeth are hurting so bad this week. I would like to cut them out. But that would hurt worse.

Anyways, this week has really been a bad week. School is terrible, I have no idea why I am even going to college because nothing here interests me, and I don't know if I am moving to fayettville or not. If I move to that school I will loose my scholarship, which will make me moneyless... and I will have to sell my horses, and I will lose my job. I've been praying about it alot, and I just don't know what to do right now. One day at a time I guess. It'll all work out.

I joined the missions team at the BCM. Pretty excited about that. This month we are having a halloween carnival to outreach to the kids around this certain area. A church is sponsering it and helping us raise money for our team too.

Joe Darcy is doing better. Ronni helped me get him on a different feed schedule because his glucose levels are sky high, he is becoming diabetic kindove.
Got a new horse, Nazwan, he's a polish arab. He's really cool, he talks to us all the time and wakes me up if I've overslept and thinks he needs to be fed :P

I'm working for a lady 20 minutes away, helping excersise and train her horses. It's a pretty cool thing, I hope it keeps going good because I can help her start showing her horses we are working.

I've also started giving lessons to kiddo's. They are so fun, so far I have 3 regular students. I have 4 more slots open so hopefully they will fill up and I can start saving some money up.

Fall is here... that's always good. Started the fireplace for the first time ever the other day. That was neat, except dad smoked us out of the house because he turned the knob thing the wrong way.. hah.

Ok, I'm done ranting, have a nice day. Even though no one reads this is helps to get it on paper and look back at it sometimes to see what's been going on in my life when I forget. :P

-Bri