Dan - he WAS waiting on his acceptance letter from Denver Seminary and found out yesterday that he DID get accepted!! So exciting. Congrats Dan. Be praying about his living situation; he would like to live on campus.
Jennie - First of all we are so glad you're home!!!!!!! Even if only for a little while. But more importantly she is getting married! Her fiance, Mark, is currently in the Congo and Jennie is hoping to head back to Uganda in February. They will have the wedding in Denver this summer. Pray for an amazing future ahead for them, that they would encourage each other to be the best versions of themselves for God, and that they would be an amazing team to further His Kingdom. And especially pray for Tiffani who is her wedding planner. ;) Tiff, let us know how we can help.
James - New Year's resolutions: play the guitar every day, run every day... and he wouldn't say any more after he found out I was writing them down. But everyone be sure to hold him accountable to his two known goals. ;) His nephew has finished kemo and is in remission. Pray that he would be healthy and strong to be the carefree little boy that he should be.
Kim - wants to get into healthy habits physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. She is ready/has been ready for something productive with school. She is also applying to Boston, Texas, and North Carolina. Pray that she would be open to receive God patience and to live fully into where she is now until results come.
Aubrey - resolution is to learn the Napoleon Dynamyte dance. DEFINITELY cannot wait to see that. She also wants to be part of the 52 project at TNL to pursue what she wants to do with graphic design. Her mom's eye is slowly getting better - pray for full healing so she can get back to her golfing. :)
Adriene - Doesn't want to plan her life without God. She gets a perfect idea in her head and when it doesn't happen she gets upset. She is taking the G.R.E. on the 25th; applying to Mississippi State, and running a 1/2 marathon in April. Pray that through all this she would submit her desires to God and know that He has her best future ahead and she can trust Him.
Philip - wants to learn Spanish and French and hang out with the hipsters.
Laura - letting go of guilt; stop trying to do everything on her own. Pray that she would know deep in her soul that God doesn't need her to do a 1000 things and that what she does do doesn't have to be perfect. She feels like she lets Him down all the time. She is looking forward to a stable year and excited with school. Her dad and step-mom got back together which takes burden off her brother. Pray for healing and restoration.
Jenna - resolution is to be on time! (Which she was yesterday when we went running in the park) She is excited and terrified to finish school and is hoping for a job somewhere in her field when she graduates.
Tiffani - wants to plan a personal silent retreat since TNL most likely won't be having one this year. She has a lot to look forward to this year with Jennie getting married, buying a condo, and she interviewed yesterday for a position at a school!
An excerpt from The Screwtape Letters:
"... he is making none of those confident resolutions which marked his original conversion. No more lavish promises of perpetual virtue, not even the expectation of an endowment of "grace" for life, but only a hope for the daily and hourly pittance to meet the daily and hourly temptation... God wants to bring the man to a state of mind in which he could design the best cathedral in the world, and know it to be the best, and rejoice in the fact, without being any more (or less) or otherwise glad at having done it than he would be if it had ben done by another. God wants him, in the end, to be so free from any bias in his own favour that he can rejoice in his own talents as frankly and gratefully as in his neighbor's talents - or in a sunrise,
an elephant, or a waterfall. He wants each man, in the long run, to be able to recognize all creatures (even himself) as glorious and excellent beings... He really loves us whom He has created, and always gives back with His right hand what He has taken away with His left. He would rather the man thought himself a great architect or a great poet and then
forget about it, than that he should spend much time and pains trying to think himself a bad one... God will try to render real in our minds the doctrine that we did not create our
selves, our talents were given to us, and we might as well be proud of the color of our hair... Even on our sins God does not want us to think too much: once they are repented, the sooner we turn our attention outward, the better God is pleased."
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