Project Nehemiah & My Favorite Highway

Heyyy guys and gals. Project Nehemiah is under way. We just recieved word from the guys of My Favorite Highway (pictured above) that they will play for our benefit fundraiser for street kids in Guatemala! How awesome? I know. God is good (all the time). I just wanted to post the band info on here so you guys can check them out and see how good they are. No joke.

you can check out the band at www.myspace.com/myfavoritehighway

If you want to help with P.N. just email me or Jim at freesaints@hotmail.com and we will find something for you to do!

Also, if you wouldn't mind leaving me some feedback on here that would be suh-weet!

lovelovelove
-Desiree'

Offense?

I was reading a book last night called "The Bait of Satan" by John Bevere. It talks about humans' biggest weakness as allowing themselves to be offended. Webster says that offense is an act of harboring resentment in hurt or displeasure. But this book describes offense as a way to defer from looking at our own character flaws by placing the wrong on other people. We as Christians need to be aware of the moments we find ourselves becoming offended. We ruin relationships by refusing to forgive and by not humbling ourselves. Most of the time we become offended because our pride has been hurt. Keep in mind that the devil's bait for us is offense, and offense and pride go hand in hand... and was pride not the down fall of satan? God is always way ahead of the devil, so sometimes He will allow us to go through our pride struggles in order for us to break and humble ourselves to fully rely on His best judgement for our lives. If we never fully recover from past resentment or offense, we will take it with us and hold it in our hearts, and our hearts will filter everything through it. But we musn't be afraid of offending other people by doing God's work and will-- Jesus offended his own family, his friends, his staff of disciples, pretty much anyone who wasn't built on the solid rock of God's will. Did you know that "many" of Jesus' disciples left him out of offense?! How selfish must we become in order to put our faith in the one who gave us life? Think about it. No offense. :)

TMNT!

Okay. If you haven't seen TMNT in CGI yet... my only question is this: Why the crap not? Jim and I have seen it twice already. Once when it come out on the 23rd (we were really bummed when we found out there was no midnight showing), and again on the 24th with Kendrew, Cam, Eric, Ian, Pitch, Jess, Tony and his girl. So yeah, we've created a TMNT Entourage. So far between the two of us we've spent $38 bucks on what some people will merely refer to as computer generated images of mutant turtles with ninja masks and a rat as a sensei. But dear friends, it is much more than that. Leonardo is flippin' crazy in this movie. The rain/fight scene alone is worth seeing possibly a third time? haha. But for real. I thought I was going to be disappointed with it since most of the characters remind me of The Incredibles movie... but it definitely tops all 3 of the previous TMNT movies (and every other CGI movie for that matter). You must see it.

Believe it.

I've been thinking about grace a lot lately. God's grace is what should move us, motivate us... not clothes, money, Starbucks, Grey's Anatomy (though I'm guilty of all of these). I'm gonna start living life measured by the wealth of the blessings of God and not by weekly paychecks (that never seem to come on time anyway). I know for sure that the only thing I can rely on is Jesus Christ. He's always on time. It's amazing to me that when I ask for strength, I get it. I don't want to live life for anything else but the grace of God...so I got to thinking. God is love, right? And the best way to express love is to show it. God expressed His perfect love by creating this insanely complex and beautiful universe, along with people in His image to love and worship Him. SO!- I got this idea. I want to love like that, no matter how unperfect I am, I want to try. I want to love a bunch of kids that have nothing because of the grace I've been given. So, the past few days I've been contemplating this idea of building an orphanage to express this unfailing love I feel inside. I brought Jim's bible to work with me (his is a life application version... it's easier for me to understand). I sat there and went back and forth between Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the Word of God. At first I grabbed Harry Potter.. then the Holy Spirit was like, Des, cmon. Read about Me instead. So I did. I opened up to Nehemiah and started to read. This dude Nehemiah had this awesome "impossible" idea to rebuild Jerusalem in 52 days!! God walked with him the entire time, through opposition of enemies who didn't believe that his vision was possible. Nehemiah kept his eye on the goal, cause he knew the truth--nothing is impossible when God is involved. There is no task too big if your heart is in the right place. So I'm sitting there thinking, hey, I can change the world. Sweet confirmation, eh? That's what happens when God calls us to do these seemingly "impossible" things. I know that opposition will try and slow me down, so whatever, bring it. I'm gonna build an orphanage with Laura and Jim and whoever else wants to be a part of something huge. I know that we as God's people CAN change the world. We just have to start believing it.
<333 Desiree'