First post of the new year~

Okay I guess this is the first post of the new year five days six days late! Yes, as you can see I was going to post something yesterday and then life got a hold of me so I didn't. Life being going to grandma's house for a belated Christmas get together and stuffing my face with an unnecessary amount of warm delicious bread and a generous decadent scoops well-mannered portioned sized of this chocolate ice-cream called, "Death by Chocolate". Need I say more!?!?!

Since my last post two days before Christmas quite a few things have happened in my life. Two major events were  Christmas and New Years! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your families! My Christmas was awesome. Freshly made out of the box cinnamon rolls in the morning while unwrapping presents! All I wanted was Ener-gel pens and I got them, plus, I got four new books to feed this monster inside me which must read a book a week so I was really content and happy just to be with my family. My favorite gift though would have to be my brother's, he got a nose whistle. Yep, a nose whistle.

 For New Year's I got to spend ringing in the New Year praising God for two whole hours with nothing my my raspy voice (from all of the singing) and lifting my adolescent arms as high as they could go. At one point it felt like I was trying to detach my arms from my body so they could lift higher! Crazy I know but hey it was amazing! Just as a little adder to that, I was at a really awesome conference with CRU (Christian Crusade) in San Diego and that is why I got to do that with over 800 other college students. It was overall a really great conference and I was so honored to have gotten to go, so looking forward to doing it all over again!

Getting home from San Diego was a crazy story though. At some point we got a flat tire so my group and I stopped in the most isolated city that is basically just a pit stop for cars. Luckily there was a shop that could change our tire the only complication was that their English was as good as my Spanish. Hint: I took French in High School, the most Spanish I know it all thanks to Dora the Explorer. Really I should be stabbed behind a taco truck for taking French in California, how many French fluent speakers are there here? I mean really, but hey I can't roll my R's so I moved to French don't hit a girl when she's down.

About 90 minutes later with a lot of prayer riding on this tire which the guy did really well on it seemed we were on our way. Then I got home and I was just really energized by the Holy Spirit. I mean I just wanted to keep moving but I was so glad to be home hours in a car does not agree with my butt and legs. When I got home I went into my room and lo and behold what I found ANTS. ANTS EVERYWHERE!

I loathe ants.

I loathe ants.  

I loathe ants. 

I loathe ants. 

I loathe ants.    

Five days later I'm still battling this creatures. I know they have this wonderful purpose in the world, but they do not serve that purpose in my room and crawling on my hands when I am trying to write a post for my blog. Please God let them disappear. Is this some kind of metaphor for my life or something? Jesus I'm about at the end of my rope here but I was told that was where you lived so I
am going to give that up to you and pray, pray, pray that these ants soon go away because I don't know what to do anymore.

One a better note today was the first Sabbath of 2013. Do you hear a good message? I know I sure did. Hope your 2013 is amazing and I pray that God opens our eyes to see the blessings we are given each and every day.

Psalm 119:35

In His Loving Name,
Taylor