...who God places in our lives...

...its amazing...

so as of yesterday i figured out that you know what..God places the most amazing people in my life..people that understand me and get me and are good friends,and people that i can understand and i guess be a good friend too...last night Justin and i had a 2 hour talk,and it was SO good..it was super helpful, ya so i am just glad that God has put him here this year..so ya enough of that...today was leap, and man the kids were crazy but so cute..i help with the k-1st graders and so you can imagine how adorable and crazy they can be.. but i so love it... so i am going to help each thursday, ya i know i am a sucker for little kids..so ya... if you are wondering on the state of my heart..its still here and mine lol..well mostly God's (man i am having a hard time writting this not really sure why), but ya this week has been on prayer, and its been way better than i expected...today we prayed for 3 hours, it went by way faster than i thought i would be, i really enjoyed it... surprisingly i have enjoyed this class...so ya sorry this is really crappy and i have no idea where the heck i am going with this...i wanted to sound all profound and such but obviously it is not happening...so ya i am sitting here listening to Greg teach Priyanke how to use blogspot.....so if you want to check out his ministry... go to www.miraclevalley.blogspot.com so ya.... well this is lameo... later yall...LOVE YOU! Karlina

Songs of my heart....

.... from discipleship tonight...

So tonight we sang Lord Reign In me and it totally fits how i am feeling now, so i thought i would share it with yall....

Lord, Reign In Me
Brenton Brown

Over all the earth You reign on high,

Ev'ry mountain stream, Ev'ry sunset sky.

But my one request, Lord, My only aim,Is that You'd reign in me again!

Chorus

Lord reign in me,

reign in Your power,Over all my dreams, in my darkest hour.

You are the Lord of all I am,So won't You reign in me again!

Over ev'ry thought, over ev'ry word,

May my life reflect the beauty of my Lord.'

Cause You mean more to me than any earthly thing.

So won't You reign in me again!

I so want this, i want God to truly reign in me, OVER ALL MY DREAMS, OVER EVERY THOUGHT, AND OVER EVERY WORD... so i want to challenge yall to make this your hearts prayer this week, and to truly live this out in our lives...i know i will be trying with Gods help to do this...yall should let me know how it goes...

Verse:

Beautiful Lord, Wonderful Saviour

I know for sure, all of my days are held in your hands,

crafted into your perfect plan

You gently call me into your presence

guiding me by Your Holy Spirit

Teach me dear Lord to live all of my life through Your eyes

I'm captured by Your holy calling

Set me apart, I know you're drawing me to yourself

Lead me Lord I pray

Chorus:

Take me, Mould me, use me, fill me

I give my life to the Potter's hand

Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside me

I give my life to the Potter's hand

you gentlly call me into your presence

guidin me by your holy spirit

teach me dear lord to live through your eyes

i'm captured by you holy calling

set me apart, I know your drawing me to yourself

lead me lord i pray

oh how we should live this way...well i love you all.... Karda

my work ....

... me trying to write my feelings down...

UNTITLED

As I quietly sit in a sun lit room

I wonder as I ponder what are you thinking?

Do you think of me by day or night?

Is there in your hear room for me?

Do you see who I am?

For I see the real you

The passion you live with

Your heart beating for our Savior

I wish your thoughts of me were as mine of you

but God is writting my love story,the only beautiful way

So may it be His will if He so desires,

To lead us one to another.

(This one was inspired by well... solomon)

LIGHT

Rays of sunshine to a darkend world

Is for what we all should strive

For our dear Savior has called us to be,

Lights to a dark and dying world

A smile to a weary soul,a kind touch

All can be done to shine for Jesus

So in shining let Christ's love glow

Glowing not only to those we love,but all peoples

(this one inspired by my friend Shawn calling me sunlight to a dark world and Romans 13:12)

ROMANS 13:12

The night is nearly over, and daylight is near

so let us discard the deeds of darkness,

and put on the armor of light.

Foam Cakes...

...are funny(at least to Joni and I)...

SO i guys, what is up with yall... i always want to write something profound or just plain good, but i always write it like a letter..(pretty sure no one reads these) *tears* So ya... last night after dinner i was putting the food away and Mrs J says is that bugs on Karlina's back(i am getting the heebeejeebees writting this!) and i look back there and i see a fly and those nasty icky stink bugs.. I HATE THEM and so i jump and brush them off then Priyanke is like there is one in your hair so i am freaking out trying to get it out, while Joni is trying to tell me that there is no bug there...Evil Priyanke(kidding), so i decided i needed to get him back, well Joni last night talked to her husband wayne and he said we should do a foam cake, so we did(it looked pretty) and i asked Pri to cut it for me, he did, Joni and i thought it was really funny. Priyanke was trying to cut it nicely and be nice cuz he thought i had messed up the cake and did something wrong lol..No one else thought it was that funny, except for Joni and I... and then after dinner tonight we played basketball that was fun...

now me venting I hate it when people start talking about candidates and they have no idea what they are talking about. Like someone saying I would vote for Obama before Romney...what the crap Romney holds to our values and beliefs while Obama is the opposite o wait though he is not mormon so i guess that cancels his being for the killing of unborn children and such...grow up and use your brain people, oh ya and then said person being a strict conservative but they would vote for McCain over Romney agian do your homework, dont go around making dumb choices or stuff..RAR.. i guess i am in a crappy mood..sorry guys... MUCHO AMOR...

ps... i am learning singliese(language of Sri Lanka,its cool:))

SURPRISE....

...heck yes for the them(sometimes)...

Hey guys yes its still snowing here:) just thought i would throw that out there, but on to my surprise... so thursday after noon Rachel calls and is like are you available for dinner and i said yes, so she comes to pick me up at 6ish and we are walking outside leaving and suddenly there is someone walking toward us from the shaddows and i turn and look and its JIFFY!!! Well of course i freak out... so that was the surprise.. it was amazing..so the three of us went to Reds for dinner we met John,Holly,Brandon and Jamie there for dinner, then Jamie, Brandon,Holly and us three went to dairy queen for icecream and we met jamies friend Miget, interesting if i may say so. Then Rach and Iffy lou who brought me back at 11ish and we went into my bathroom and Rachel cut my hair.. it is now just below my chin and looks super cute especially if straightend... though according to Greg and Justin i should grow it out agian because they like girls with long hair.. BOYS!, well then yesterday (friday) afternoon didnt do much, started reading Brutchko to Trav, then jiffy came and we went to the Orts house for a little bit and had dinner(we had veggie burgers YUM!!! i forgot how good they are), and then Jiffy brought me back to school and then like 10 min later i left to babysit 10 and 12 year old boys while their foster parents went to dinner.. it was good,the boys were super well behaved and i think we had fun... then came back started watching Where the Heart is, but jiffy called and we went to Heidi's house and watched the end of the Simpsons movie with her and Tanner, and then talked to her mom for awhile... then today didnt do much at all..so ya that is my weekend thus far ... Jiffy left to go to Missoula till she leaves on tuesday today..so ya
LOVE YOU

making a difference??

... sometimes you wonder...

so on wednesday nights, i and rachel have an awana group. There are four girls, all crazy and simply amazing. I am so glad all four of them are there... Well last night it was just me and the four and it went way well, well during handbook time one of the girls was like happy can you pray for my family and i was like sure honey whats wrong and so she proceded to tell me a little and so then we prayed and she had more she wanted to tell me so she stayed after and we talked some more and hopefully i helped some, i didnt say much, i just listened but she is amazing, and i guess that is how you know you are making a difference.... when they trust you enough to come to you and ask for prayer and share troubles.... So i guess that I am hoping that God keeps usuing me and allowing me to make a difference in young lives!! They are a beautiful thing!!!

Again we have more snow and again its a beautiful thing... In Romans yesterday we read the verse about God being obvious in creation and man what a true statement... Gods inumerable attributes ARE clearly seen in our world, just look outside...

K venting time.... In our culture today so many people make sports their god, and its huge in the christian church and i think most people dont even pay attention to it... For instance there is a big football playoff game this weekend and normally we have discipleship at 7pm on sunday nights but this week we are pushing it back to 7:30 so we can watch the game and i know that i am probably sounded dumb, but again make accomidations for football and how often do we rearrange stuff for God?? Rarely, but sports?? Often! and i guess that is one thing that bothers me about our culture...no worries there are many more:)

Ya i am not sure these are even read, but i enjoy writting this blog so ya...
LOVE YOU GUYS

Travis Briscoe rides Copperhead Slinger for 95 points!

This is an amzing bull ride!!!!!!! Heck yes

snowflakes on my eyelashes...

...are a beautiful thing!
So today we had some HUGE snowflakes and i went outside and stood in them and man were they purtyful and they clung to my eyelashes.. it was pretty cool if i may so... So ya there is not a whole lot going on, just the day to day stuff.. its much quieter and weird without rachel.. but its okay, God has definately done His thing...Stacie is now my roomate(she got back sunday night) its going good, last night we talked for an hour and a half!:) so ya... I have realized that you know what freaking our and worring about stuff is not going to change anything and i need to just give it over to God and allow him to do His work! Which he does best lol...well i love you all

why pro-life??....

So in case you are wondering why the title, its because i am currently reading this book for our marriage and family relationships book so far SO good... the class this week is amazing! Chris is doing such a great job and i am so enjoying it, well now with josh,anthony,and rachel gone and with priyanka being here we are going to have 6 students, but staci isnt back yet... so this week we have 5 and me being the only girl...lol its really not so bad..the class is really challenging my views on some stuff and is making me find stuff to add to my list for a future mate so that is definately helpful!!... well so its definately weird with rachel gone, but i am managing... today i went sledding with Travis and Justin(they snowboarded) this one time i some how stopped cuz i hit more snow or something and i did a summersault off my sled it was purty funny if i may say so.. i laid there and laughed for awhile and i almost took justin out lol hehe... well its late and i need to read, so that is all for tonight.. love you

Spiteful feelings hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart.... ( HOW TRUE)

Here are quotes i stole from my sisters journal...(yes I had permission to read it:))

*Quotes*

We can do no great things,only small things with great love - Mother Theresa

Dont walk in front of me,I may not follow. Dont walk behind me I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. -Anonymous

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage -Anais Nin

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness - William Arthur Ward

All who would win joy,must share it -Lord Byron

The ability to give our unique gifts to the world comes from following our own path - Justine and Michael Toms

Extending your hand is extending yourself...- Rod McKuen

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow - Chinese Epigram

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. -Edwin Hubble Chapin

Success isnt something you chase its something you have to put forth the effort for constantly -Michael Jordan

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance - Henry Ward Beecher

Success is never final and failure never total. Its courage that counts - Success Unlimited

There is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disraeli

Give it everything you have -Scott Symons

Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway -John Wayne

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are - Max De Pree

The less you talk, the more you are listened to -Abigail Van Buren

*Thoughts*
(still from her journal)

What is right is often overlooked in favor of what is convenient

A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline -Harvey Mackay

Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet

Learn from the past and face the future with confidence

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to as you ought

It is not the difference between people that is the difficulty; but the indifference

* You ask me if I love you..*

You ask me if i love you, and i ask myself how to begin to share with you the feelings of my heart.

You inspire in me a love so deep words cannot describe it, so powerful that it overwhelms my every thought.

You ask me if I love you, and I wish there were a way you could just see into my soul and find the depth of passion,tenderness,and love that holds you closer to my heart than anyone or anything else.

You ask me if I love you, and I look into the magic of your eyes and promise, "Yes I love you...I always will."

*Quotes*

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her
- Anon

The best proof of love is trust - Joyce Brothers

Love does nto begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is growing up. -James Baldwin

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye -Jackson Brown Jr.

A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, to have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'cause you love and care for the one you chose.
-Rob Cella

Friendship often ends in love;but love in friendship... never - Charles Caleb Colton

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love - Henry Drummond

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you. -Erich Fromm

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -Bertrand Russell

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
- Ingrid Bergman

A kiss makes the heart young agian and wipes out the years. -Rupert Brooke

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on to make that thousand a million, Triple that million when that is done, lets kiss afresh as when we first begun. - Robert Herrick

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. - Mistinguett

Friends are treasures - Horace Bruns

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same - Elbert Hubbard

The real test test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? - Eugene Kennedy

True friends stab you in the front - Oscar Wilde

No matter what you do... no one will know every good deed you ever do.. admire yourself for what you achieve... dont expect other people to do it for you.

Dont wish apon a star, reach for one.

Intelligence is like a river, the deeper it is the less noise it makes

I always knew when looking back on the tears might make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughter would make me cry.

Spiteful words hurt your feelings, but silence breaks your heart

When in love be fair and honest even when it hurts.

What is love and what does it define, who's to say and who's to draw the line and within this world and all its fuss who's to say if its love or a simple crush?

Anyone can catch your eye but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

Girls are so complex they confuse themselves

Fear is nothing but the anticipation of pain: be it physical, mental, spiritual, or emotional

Sarcasm keeps you from telling people what you really think.

People create their own drama :)

Tears are words the heart cant say

You can close your eyes to things you dont want to see, but you cant close your heart to things you dont want to feel.

It's true you dont know what you've got until its gone but its also true you dont know what you've been missing until it arrives

A breakup is like a broken mirror, its better to just leave it that way, then hurt yourself trying to fix it.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

Being happy doesnt mean everythings perfect it means that you've decided to look past the imperfections.

Smart girls are more interested in having fun then looking perfect.

HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS....

So i wanted to wish everyone a happy and blessed new years... and to Rachel,Jamie,Brandon,Matt,Lanna,Justin,Josh,Gred, and so importantly Dawn thank you for putting up with all my pathetic emotions and drama.. just so you know the me you have seen is not the normal me.. i have no idea what the crap has happened to me.. i am not usually emotional or dramatic at all... i guess that is something i want to change in the new year... and i have realized thanks to my dad and sister today that i am pharasitical, and the law of God is more important to me than love,grace and mercy and that is something i want to change in this new year and so i pray that with Gods help i can become more like Him and less like the world... if yall could keep me accountable that would be way too amazing.. thank you guys:)

Muchos amigos de amor,
Karlina