Wednesday, July 16, 2008. around 8:30 p.m.

Well, I found this site through a guy I know. I haven't ever really blogged, except the stupid MySpace stuff that no one really does anything with. So currently, I'm hoping that my mom will actually take me to Warped Tour with Elizabeth and Callie, like she said. She hasn't ever actually said she'd do something and not go through with it, but there's a first for everything. This is a bit bigger. I'm really excited about seeing Relient K, The Academy Is.., Cobra Starship [!!!], Danger Radio, and several others I can't even think of. They're coming to my area the day before my birthday. So there's that on the 31, on the first of August I will have my birthday and at ten that night I get to go to the local Barnes and Noble with Elizabeth, and hopefully Luke if he ever calls me back, to experience the release party for Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer. It's the fourth book to the Twilight series. What's great about this book series is that it's excellent writing, one of the main conflicts is about whether vampires have souls or not and whether or not they are accepted by God. Also, I'm a romantic, and it's a wonderful, clean story about a vampire falling in love with the human whose blood calls out to him the strongest. That poor guy! The vampire's name is Edward Cullen, but there is also another boy vying for Bella's love, Jacob Black. He's a werewolf. I'm on Team Edward, I think that the two are meant to be together. If they're not, Stephanie and I are going to "chat". I can't wait for August 2. I made the mistake of reading a bit about what this book will be about, and I had to stop because I was about to pull my hair out. It was sad. So I'm starting high school next year, and I don't know what to think. Everyone says I'll be fine, and I usually agree, but I do get the occasional doubt. I'm just afraid that I won't make good decisions. But I think, as long as I stay true to my Faith and keep my God in my heart, I'll do fine. What I need though is for my friends and family to keep me accountable. I just don't exactly know how to get them to do that. I'm also trying to reach out to a friend of mine, who doesn't believe in God. I told her recently that I felt like I hadn't been a good friend, that I didn't care about her soul enough. I told her I wanted to talk to her about God more. I've been praying for her heart to open up to HIS word, and she what she said in response to me was that she didn't care what I said to her as long as I didn't condemn her to hell. Then I told her that I won't because Jesus is about love and salvation, not condemnation. I've also been praying for another friend who is finding God again to know how to take the next step, whatever that may be for them. At CIY, the conference I went to with my church a few weeks ago, what hit me hardest was how important community and working together as the Body of Christ is. Also, I realized that my approach to ministering was completely wrong. We need more people for Christ. More people to be able to hold each other accountable, more people to get more people, more people to congregate with on that glorious day in heaven. And while it's great to say "he died for us, he died for us" it's all about the RESURRECTION! The gods of other religions died too. I'm not going into that too much so that I don't offend anyone with my lack of knowledge, but what is important is that while he died, just like all of the other "gods", he rose again. He is coming back for us one day. John 14:6, "I am the way, the truth, and the light. No one comes to the father except through me." I'm done ranting about that for now, but there is more where that came from. Well, I'll update later. Bye!