i'm employed!

Praise the LORD! i'm employed everybody!! i had 2 interviews at J Crew this week (which included me having to put together an outfit with J Crew apparel and try to sell it to my interviewer...HA...me...fashion?) and was offered the job and i surely did accept! :D i'm a "clientel specialist" in the call center, which means if you ever call J Crew to order stuff you might just get to talk to me :) dude, i'm STOKED! i have 38 1/2 hours of training next week and like, 2 more weeks of training after that, but i get paid for it all and that rocks my face off. and i get 30% off all J Crew stuff including their clearance store stuff, so you know...if you are looking for a little somethin' somethin', let me know :) let's all do the happy dance, right now!!

alright, assuming you have done and have finished the happy dance, let's move on. i'm drinking a vanilla latte right now that i got at Drowsy Poet (a local coffee house). i'm allergic to milk, but i feel it's worth the after-effects of spending extra time on the porcelain throne. i am slowly starting to like coffee...i figured all the college people do it and i want to be cool like them. HA :P

man, God is so awesome and just blows my mind. story of the day:

so most of you will know who i'm referring to so i'm just going to withhold his name. anyway a used-to-be-good friend of mine has chosen to turn his back on God throughout the past year and a 1/2 or so and has continued to go down the wrong path after apologizing and promising to turn around numerous times. what he's done and continues to do has caused a ton of pain to a lot of people, including myself, but i had kinda just compartmentalized (hehe i got that term from watching Alias) and tried to forget about what was happening because i was advised not to talk to him about it, since "i'm a girl" (no hard feelings to the people who told me that - hehe). i forgive him, totally - i just want him to turn his life back to God and live for Him. but anyway, i'll be the first to admit i had slacked off big time in praying for him and probably haven't really prayed for him at all for about a month now. ANYWAY (that was background stuff, leading up to today's story) today i got some bad news that the church has decided to "kick him out" of the church (for lack of a better term) this Sunday because he has lied to the church numerous times and continues to live a life of sin with no repentance. at first i tried not to let the news get to me, i kinda just shoved it off because i knew if i dwelt on it, it would consume me the rest of the day. then i go to Wednesday night church tonight and Jim Cymbala and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir were there for the last night of "Super Conference" that we had this week. as soon as i sat down, the news i had heard earlier started coming to mind and i just felt the need to go before the Lord as soon as i got home from church and just totally pour my heart out to Him. i kept trying to push it out of my mind but i couldn't. Jim Cymbala spoke about prayer and how God DOES listen and God DOES do supernatural things and God CAN bring the lost back to Him. so i'm thinking "wow...yeah, that is so true, note to self - remember that when i get alone with God tonight." so then Cymbala goes to end his message and says something like "i want you all to have just 1 person in mind that you know needs to come back to Christ, whether it be a family member or close friend of whatever. just focus on that 1 person that is heavy on your heart. " and he invited everyone who had a person like that in their lives to come down and just totally give the situation to God and plead with Him to bring that person back to Him, having faith that God really can and will work according to His good plan. oh my goodness - talk about amazing planning out by God :) here i had been, not praying for this guy for like, atleast a month, and i get news about him today and then have this message tonight...God is so amazing, He blows my mind :) i don't even know if people read my blog or if they do, if they read this far down the post (since it's long - hehe, sorry guys). but if anyone does read this, i want to ask you guys to pray fervently for this guy (and a lot of you know who he is specifically). being kicked out of the church is an extremely dangerous position to be in, and our friend could be facing that this Sunday.

whew, that was long. i doubt anyone really reads this anyway, but i wanted to write all that so i can look back and remember what's been going on. it's a lot easier than writing it down by hand. :)

man, i could write a ton more but i'll stop for now. it always takes so much to get me to sit down and write a new post, but once i do i remember why i like doing it and wonder why i don't do it more often. :) i'm learning so much here and i want to be able to share it with whoever reads this. i just have to motivate myself to actually sit down and post.

alright i'm really stopping now. our website should be back up very very soon!

~jen~

comments

i changed the options so people can post comments now. not that there's probably people who care about posting something, but the point is, you can now :)

more to come

jenny.justsomegirl.net is down

hey guys -
sorry, me and kristen's site at www.jenny.justsomegirl.net is down right now. :( our website is spawned off of nancy's website and i think nancy is working on switching host companies and stuff...some internet stuff i don't really understand a whole lot :) but we will get it back up and running ASAP and i have more pictures i scanned in for it.

oh my goodness i've had a great week :) it was "Spiritual Emphasis" week here on campus and they brought in a speaker, David Nasser. he's great, he's so blunt and just tells it like it is. it was so awesome to see 50-60 students accept Christ as their Savior over the 4 days that Nasser spoke! 50-60 students! one of the messages Nasser spoke on was that we can't labor enough to earn our salvation - it's a free gift that God gives us, it's not something we can do a whole bunch of good works to receive. i read in Mark today a couple verses that reiterate that fact:

(this is the disciples speaking) "...'Then who in the world can be saved?' they asked. Jesus looked at them intently and said 'Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.'" Mark 10:26-27

Romans 2:8-9 is another passage that tells us salvation is not by works, though good works should become a natural part of our lives when Christ is our Savior because we love Him and want to be like Him. i think some of the students who accepted God's free gift of salvation this week grew up with the mindset that they had to do good works in order to get to Heaven. even for me, it was a really good reminder that my Salvation is a gift from God and it's nothing i've earned from good things i've done. man...God is just so awesome :)

well i don't want to write too much in each post because if i make it too long, people will start skimming everything and will get bored after reading for like...20 million hours. that's a lot of time spent reading. but if you've been alive for 20 million hours, make sure you email me - i'd like to shake your hand.

i have so much i could write about but i'll save it up for future posts. oooh, suspense.

~Jesus is better than anything you could ever desire for here on earth~

--jen

my first post

wow i can't believe i actually have a blog now. i have to do this blog survey assignment for my Intro. to Mass Communications class and that's really what i'm supposed to be doing - surveying blogs. :) but God is doing so much in my life and i realized this would be a perfect place for me to journal my thoughts and what He's doing in my heart and life. so that's why i titled my blog space "get stoked". i get so stoked every time i think about Christ and what He's doing for me and continues to do for me and i pray that by letting you read even just a tiny bit of what God's doing, you'll be encouraged, or challenged, or reminded in your walk with Him and "get stoked". :) and if you have yet to receive Christ's free gift of salvation and accept Him as your Savior, i pray God will use this blog to open your eyes and heart to what an awesome world you're missing.

well back to that blog survey i'm supposed to be doing...