Voting for the first time!

So hooray...

Today I voted for the first time ever! It feels so cool knowing that you have a part in who is going to be helping lead our provinces and country. Now I know that if who I voted for wins the election I had a part in that. Also I can now have a right to be disappointed if who I voted for doesn't make it. As someone in one of the offices said to me when I called for directions to the polls, I'm doing my civic duty. Neato eh?

In case anyone was wondering...I voted for the Conservative party.

:-D

Growth Spurts

Becoming an adult is one of the most difficult challenges that I have had to face in my life so far. It's even harder than the teen years. Right now I'm at the place in one's life where they are stuck somewhere between teenhood and adulthood. I want so badly to be an adult, but yet I still often act like a teenager and even sometimes like a child. Now, becoming an adult is hard, but becoming a woman of God, now that is the ultimate challenge!

Right now I am stuck between being a teen Christian and becoming an adult Christian. Believe you me, this is not an easy journey. Already in my life I have been faced with many difficult questions, challenges, and life choices. And already I've chosen some pretty dumb stuff and some pretty good stuff too. Is it enough though? Not even close.

Today I watched a message by this guy called Paul Washer. I started the video thinking, well, nothing much really. I was mostly thinking I guess that I was glad for YouTube because I unfortunetly slept in this morning and so was feeling pretty guilty that I was missing church. I'm not too sure that I have yet found my Yellowknife church, but I know that I still need the Christian fellowship. So anyways, I watched this message by Paul Washer and it really got to me. He talked a lot about how Christians these days in North America live so much in and of the world and are ignoring the fact that it's not only a narrow gate that we go through, but there's also a narrow path that we should be following. He talked about how we so often "re-commit" our lives but it only lasts for maybe a week, sometimes a month, and sometimes even less. He also talked about how so many of us live our entire lives professing to be Christians because we prayed a prayer and we even live like our fellow "Christians" but often those people in our youth groups and churches aren't even Christians at all and we are living up to such a low low North American "Christian" standards. He talked about what we really should be basing our Christianity on, and it's not a prayer, it's our fruit and our lives and whether or not we really are walking on the narrow path, and yeah we all screw up, but as Christians when we screw up God is always there to chastize us and get us back on the right path.

What I got out of the message was mostly that I have been straying too often from the narrow way and have been basing my standard of living on too low of standards. I know that change will not be huge right away, but I think that if I really stick to it and if God is really in it, then anything can happen. I want to start putting my standards up to the way people like John Piper and Martin Luther and Paul Washer live/lived their lives. It's definitely not going to be easy, but I believe with all my heart that it will be worth it.

I recommend that everyone watches this message because it really is life changing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8

I would really really appreciate it if everyone would pray for me right now, because I don't want my convictions to last one day, one month, or even just one year. I have a real desire right now to be more like Christ and I want it to stay that way.

If anyone has any recommended reading either from the bible, or some good book, please let me know in a comment. One thing to keep in mind that Paul Washer said before his message (and I really like this) "If what I say in this message is not the truth, then I am the one who is going to face judgement, but if what I say is the truth and you don't listen to it the judgement is yours." something like that...

Anyways it's baby steps from here on to Adulthood and t0 becoming a Woman of God...

Weekend out...

Last night I went out to a club called the Prestige to meet some of my cool and classy non-drinking friends. It was really fun. The club has started putting on "Retro Dance" nights where they play music from the 70's 80's and 90's till about 12am. It's going to happen every second Friday. The guy who teaches the salsa dance classes that I plan on taking is the one who started the retro night. He is friends with the owner of the club. So anyways it was a really fun night. It was really classy, nobody was drunk or going around hitting on people. Besides, Raza (the salsa teacher) and his roomy, Josef, were taking good care of me. At 1am we went to a really high class french restaurant called Le Frolic and we just sat and talked and drank tea. After that we took a cab back to Raza and Josef's house where they had a car they could use and then they drove me home straight away. On the ride home we saw NORTHERN LIGHTS!!!!!! It was AWESOME!!! I was soooooo excited! So that was my weekend so far. Really really awesome. Today I am working from 3pm-10pm so I probably won't end up doing anything tonight. It's really boring here on Saturday because no one is checking in or out. So that is life.

PS. HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAVIS! Hope that you have a good one tomorrow!