Road Trip

Well today Whitney, Sarah, Olivia, and I are embarking on a road trip from Conway to St. Louis!! I am super excited!!!! This weekend is going to be so much fun and much needed at least from my point of view.  We're going to a Cardinals game and finding free things to do around St. Louis.. if you know of anything that is free let us know!!! I'm sure we'll tweet and such through out the weekend... 

Random thoughts

If the water is blue why do they call it white water?

do woodchucks even like wood?

when do you become old.. is it when you turn 30 or is it sometime before or after that

is it weird that i like to change my hair color when i'm bored?

love and chocolate covered strawberries

FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay so it has been a while since i updated my blog and i thought hw cool it would be to update my blog from Paris!!!!!!!!!!!!

first off french keyboards are all backwards so this is going t be short because of lack of time and my generql knowledge on this keyboard

France is AMAZINGGGGGG

I plan on coming back in July with another group!!!!!!

The work and things I have done here are such an encouragement

posting pictures soon

xoxox

Massey

Quick update

So it's been way too long since I last blogged.  So much has gone on since then.  We just had AFTERdark at Southern Miss last night and I think it was a huge success!! I still have some final things to do for follow up with them, but other than that it's done!!! I can't wait to start my one to won bible study!!! it's going to be awesome!!!

I will hopefully get pictures soon!

That's A Total God Thing

"That's a total God thing!!!"

Usually you hear this when something outrageous happens that you have been praying for or someone you were thinking about that day happens to call you or bump into you. Well I had a total God thing happen to me!!! I interviewed to switch positions at kamp this summer (don't worry baseball day fans, I'll still be doing that first term at KAA) so I could be a counselor at either K-Kountry or K-1 (prayerfully) for the summer. So as soon as the summer interview dates were set I decided to look and see what director I might get to interview with for the summer. I was really nervous that it might be someone who has a preconceived idea of me from others. I was so excited when I read that Tracy Ashcraft would be doing the interviews in my home town!! I facebooked her immediately and told her that I would be seeing her in January. So January 18th rolled along and I went to do my interview and Tracy did the interview since she already sort of knew me from the summer. She knew my heart on some of the things about kamp already and how much I loved to be there and such. Our interview was great! She poured into me some as well and that was so appreciated and I was extremely grateful to be able to have spent the hour and a half I got with her. Half of our interview was some catching up but we got what we needed accomplished (sell me to kamp Tracy haha) and then she prayed for me and prayed that God would send someone into my life for things like accountability and someone to pour into me.

Little did know this would happen within like the next two weeks!!!!

Today (Monday), I got an email from David Robbins from Campus Crusade.. I actually hadn't heard from him in like a month and I thought that he had forgotten about me but he gave me Joy Davis' number who is kind of doing CRU stuff here at USM but so far it has only gotten as far as Greek Life.. So I called Joy. She and I played phone tag for the better part of the afternoon and we finally got a hold of each other when she got off work. We got to chatting and I swear she's an answered prayer. First off, she wants to get CRU up and running at Southern (huge answered prayer). Secondly she is letting us put CRU name on After Dark (which is yet again another answered prayer). Third thing, she and I are probably going to get together some this semester and just dig into the word together (guess what y'all, ANOTHER answered prayer) and finally, she prayed for me over the phone tonight and over everything that is going to be happening this semester!

So okay that was sort of a long detailed explanation of how my prayers got answered but I mean c'mon!! How awesome is God?!?! I'm so thankful. This is something that I believe is going to help so much with my walk and how I represent Christ wherever I am.

New Years!!

NEW YEARS PICTURESSSS

I loved being in Georgia for new years!!! love my Augusta Girls!!!

xoxox

::I'm Third::The Johnny Ferrier Story::

On June 7th, 1958, The Air National Guard's minute men jet precision team were performing at an air show in Dayton, Ohio. There performance included a stunt they had done hundreds of times before, creating their famed "flower burst" with trails of smoke coming from each plane. Off on the far east stem of the flower formation, Captain Johnny Ferrier's plane looked to be in trouble, headed for the small town of Fairborn. The beautiful morning had turned to horror as Ferrier's plane crashed into a small neighborhood. The other pilots only saw blips of smoke from the crashing plane. The tower control kept telling Johnny to eject himself. Captain Ferrier couldn't reach the mic button on the throttle because both hands were tugging on the control stick, which also contained the smoke button. Ferrier answered the only way he could with three blips saying he understood, squeezing to tell the other pilots he thought he could keep his plane under enough control to avoid crashing into the houses of Fairborn. When his fellow pilots showed up to the crash scene they found a neighborhood in shock. Ferrier's jet hit the ground midway between four houses in a backyard garden. It was the only place he could have crashed without killing anyone. No one had been injured or killed with the exception of Johnny who had been killed instantly. Eyewitnesses recalled the scene as his fellow pilots stood beside the gaping hole where their friend had just died. "We were watching the show. When the pilot started to roll he was heading straight for us. For a second we looked right at each other. The he pulled right up over us and landed right there." Ferrier managed to steer the plane away from the civilians." In deep humility, the witness whispered... "This man died for us." A few days after this tragic accident, Johnny's wife, Tulle, found a worn card in his billfold. On it the words "I'm Third." That simple phrase exemplified the life and death of this courageous man. For him God came first, Other's second, and himself third.

This story gets me every time. That story has been told to me more times than I can count. The first person I ever heard tell it was Spike White. Then I got to hear Joe White tell it. I have heard almost every kamp director at KAA tell this story. Every single time I hear it I cry. I can't help it, I always wonder if I am put in a situation somewhat like Johnny's what I would do. What would you do??

Any Thoughts?!

Lord you are good and your mercy endureth forever, Lord you are good and your mercy endureth forever. People from every nation and tongue, from generation to generation. We worship you!!! Hallelujah, hallelujah we worship you for who you are!!! You are good all the time, all the time Lord you are good.

That is one of my favorite songs, and there is so much truth in it. I love that it just says "Lord you ARE good!" and if you do know the song you know that this is a very upbeat song. Most songs that I hear with this phrase are very well downbeat and slow. There is NOTHING wrong with that, I just love that this one is upbeat. You can be more happy to sing it. Does that make sense really? All I know is that He is good!!!