you know how pretty much every day of your entire life you hear "6 o'clock news...so and so died in a car accident today on such and sich highway" or about someone dying somewhere and somehow. But we always think..."thats the kind of thing that happens to other people, not me or my friend" and then it happens to you....

I don't understand. One minute I'm at bball practice, or in Charlie Brown Christmas play, or in art class with everyone who knew her's favorite person... ♥ Megan McGrath ♥... and her two amazing, funny, God fearing and encouraging parents...and the next day... they're gone... forever.

And you think...people like that could have done SOOO much more on earth. Who lit the room everytime they smiled (which was constantly). Who made you smile everytime you talked to them. Who no matter WHAT problems they had in their lives, were ALWAYS there to help you, talk to you and pray with and for you about your problems. I just think, why would God take a beautiful 15 year old girl who no one would EVER forget after meeting her once... and her amazing parents... but leave her 20 year old brother behind... in devestation of losing his whole family in one day?
Chris needs our prayers...i need your prayers ...and so does everyone who knew the McGraths. ♥

I have asked myself everyday: Why would God let this happen? Let it happen to them? to Chris? To me? Then i have to remember, God is molding me and making me, and every test He sends in every form is to make me better equipped to do His work. No matter how hard the training may be. But the death of the McGrath's has truly changed my life.

Even though they are happier in Heaven, it is still so hard to remember them and not wish every minute that they were still with us.

Revelation 21:4 And He will wipe every tear from my eyes. There will be nore more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old way of things has passed away.

This verse has been my comfort through these hard times.

♥ praise be to God for His comfort, for only he knows my sorrow ♥

2 Corinthians 1:3-7
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

Valentine

If there were no words, no way to speak, i would still hear you
If there were no tears, no way to feel inside i'd still feel for you,

and even if the sun refused to shine,
even if romance ran out of rhyme,
you would still have my heart until the end of time,
you're all i need my love my valentine,

all of my life, i have been waiting for, all you'd give to me,
you've opened my eyes and shown me how to love unselfishly,

i've dreamed of it a thousand times before,
and in my dreams i couldn't love you more,
i will give you my heart until the end of time,
You're all i need y love my valentine

and even if the sun refused to shine,
even if romance ran out of rhyme,
you would still have my heart until the end of time,
cause all i need is you my valentine
you're all i need my love my valentine


Happy Valentine's day!

I am Legend...is a great movie...and it was kinda scary...but it was good.

"Let your light shine before men that they might see your good works and praise your Father in Heaven."

So how are everyone's lives going? What's going on in your life...? with anything...

SO far bball has been going amazingly. We're 2-1 and we've got a game this Saturday. One of our starters, Ali, is out with a bad knee which is NOT good but she should be back for the sat. game. Although we won w/o her on Monday, we don't want her to feel like she isn't needed ;) jk! believe me...we need her!

I absolutely can't wait until Thanksgiving break! I am so sick of having so much Chemistry homework every night until midnight. We're going to Alabama again this year to have it with all my family down there and maybe some from Ohio. (those of you from ohio...are u coming by the way?)

I can't believe that Christmas is coming either! it seems it was just here!

My dad got home from China on Monday. He had a great trip and 10 people were baptized. He went with Craig Bean, Collin Stringer and Rick Lanning and Mike Rosser, and probably others that i don't remember. Well there's the update on my life! Hope yours are going great! :)

Favorite verse
"You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart, and i will be found by you." Jeremiah 29:13-14 (i think)

I wrote this poem last night...and...well it's kinda self explanatory but...two hearts together in Christ is better than one. The more friends we have to lean on that have the same goal (Heaven) as us ...the better...Always! God gave us friends to lean on. Believe me. They are always needed! :)

We've trudged along this path together,
Pulled through thick and thin,
No matter the stumbling block we faced,
You remained a faithful friend.

Always there to laugh,
always there to cry,
We pray to God together,
Our perseverance may never die.

Our friendship stays as firm as rock,
Through wind, storm and rain,
No matter the hardness of our hearts,
Pull through the fuss and pain.

Always there to laugh,
Always there to cry,
We lean on God together,
And He will help is try.

Trust in each other as we trust in the Lord,
Lean not on your own understanding,
Tell jokes and tell secrets and just take my hand,
Together we'll both remain standing.

ALways there to laugh,
Always there to cry,
We walk with God together,
Ourselves we must deny.

If you fall down i'll help you back up,
Just hold on to me for your strength,
Together we'll walk through the darkness and light,
And pray that we both keep our faith.

Always there to laugh,
Always there to cry,
We follow God together,
With His wings of love we'll fly.

Our journey finds us as travelers through life,
With only one goal in mind,
Reach Heaven together and never lose heart,
For God promised that Heaven we'll find.

Always there to laugh,
Always there to cry,
We will reach God together,
If we stay side by side.