Only Yours

One view
A heavenly sight
My eyes on You.
One light
Shining in my soul
My heart full.

You are mine, Jesus!
Draw me close to You.
Fill me drop by drop
Until I overflow with love.

One life
Being used up
Just for me?
One heart
Following You alone –
On my own.

I am Yours, Jesus!
Hold my hand in Yours.
Flood me with Your peace,
Until I finally rest in You.

One passion
To be close to You
And only You.
One journey,
Step by step each day
Just with You.

We are one, my Jesus!
Give me Your song of joy
So I can laugh and rest and sing,
And know I’m only Yours.

- Elizabeth Skiles
When Peter saw him, he asked, "Lord, what about him?" Jesus answered, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me." John 21:22

It's life...it's school...what more can I say?

Wow, so, it's been quite a while since I blogged. I have a perfectly legitimate excuse for that: MIDTERMS. :) But now those blessed things are over for me and I can back to normal life (laughs under her breath "normal?")

So, how about come categories?

Fun things I've done lately:
- Had a visit from my brother and sisters - yay!
- Went to a birthday dinner at Dean Glock's house a month before my birthday
- Played basketball for an hour when my sibs were here with two good friends
- Led a study group of about 15 people for Survey of Doctrine...which got crazy (crazy fun :))

- Ate a random coconut-filled chocolate that I found in my mailbox from a mystery giver
- Got a friend to read one of my favorite books and had a good time discussing it with him
- Went ice skating...started learning to be adventurous :)
- Cleaned five classrooms with a seven-year-old boy as my sidekick
- Let a brother carry my heavy laundry basket up to the third floor from the basement for me
- Went out to eat with a random collection of fellow students at Olive Garden (if you don't have money, you can always make friends with girls whose spiritual gift is giving :) JUST KIDDING!)


Random things that happened in Chicago:
- Went up 94 stories crammed in a little elevator with 8 friends in about one minute to the top of the Hancock building


- Took pictures of friends taking pictures...lots of them
- Experienced a singing chef in a Hershey's chocolate store
- Walked into Ghiredelli's chocolate store to get free chocolate, then turned around and walked back out again

- Waited for two hours to eat real Chicago pizza
- Ate real Chicago pizza
- Got misdirected and asked for directions in a snazzy Starbucks
- Took goofy pictures at this giant mirror ball...acting like kids
- Chased a trolley - literally running across the park toward the road yelling for the trolley to stop, only to find that it was the wrong trolley line
- Asked for directions of a guy who wouldn't tell us unless we gave him money...which rather stunned the country folk in our group
- Walked/ran 19 blocks back to the bus stop in a time crunch, getting there in about 30 minutes, collapsing with relief on the bus
- Watched Princess Bride on the way back and laughed till our sides hurt

How college life has changed me:
- I can now shower without complaining in bare feet in a public shower
- I no longer gripe when people take my laundry out of the dryer - I even do it to people
- I wear mis-matched clothes on Wednesdays sometimes
- I wear slippers around in public after class hours
- I'm no longer just proficient at house cleaning...I can now handle classroom cleaning
- I play in piles of leaves and talk to squirrels

What I'm learning:
- To not go by first impressions
- To quit judging people for every little thing they do
- That it's okay to forget people's names and ask them again
- That sometimes the people you're closest to can get along well and enjoy spending time with people you really don't get along with well, and that it's okay
- To keep my mouth shut
- To pray spontaneously with brothers and sisters, even on the way home from Wednesday night meeting
- That you can learn a lot about people from editing their papers
- That all people go a lot deeper than they first appear to
- That the Lord is with me as much when I'm taking a test as when I'm in a prayer meeting

tidbits

Someone once told me that Old Navy flipflops lasted forever. I guess they were lying. This evening at supper, my left green flipflop decided to break. That's depressing...it means I'll have to buy a new pair of flipflops to shower in. Buy a pair of flipflops in October? :rolls eyes:

I love it when we have pasta for a meal at school. It's the only time I get seconds on food in the cafeteria. We had baked ziti and garlic bread tonight. Yum.

Here at school there is a group called The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Mr. Leverentz, one of the teachers, holds it, and he teaches the guys who want to be a part of it how to be gentlemen. They learn proper etiquette rules. So now when a girl sits down with any of these guys, they stand up, or pull out her chair for her. They also run to open doors or offer to carry her stuff. It's quite fun. :D

This Sunday is worldwide "Pray for Jerusalem" day. We(those of us with SMF) are planning to spend some time Sunday afternoon praying for Jerusalem and for the nation of Israel. Pray with us, and pray that many students will come join us. There are four of us in SMF who are the core prayer group - Caleb, Tom, Emily and I. We at least meet every Thursday afternoon to pray, and sometimes(usually) there are others, a few at least.

The Lord has really given the four of us a passion to pray for revival in this school - to see the Lord change our hearts in a big way - to see the whole school praying and worshipping and even crying together, burdened to serve the Lord. It's so cool to pray together. Emily and I meet every day to pray. God has really been stirring our hearts for the student body. It's so encouraging. I want my heart to be soft, kind - not judgmental, encouraging - not critical. I want to be a blessing to even the people I have a hard time being around.

So pray with us!

You know you’re a college student living on campus when...

...you wear everything at least twice, often three times, before relegating it to your dirty laundry basket
...you wait until your clothes drawers start to look empty before you do your laundry
...you can’t do anything fun without the persistent thought in the back of your head saying “you should really be doing homework”
...you spend an evening at a real house and it makes your whole month
...you sit staring at a ceiling fan in said house smiling nostalgically, or insist on sitting on the floor because the carpet feels so wonderful
...you make friends by going to Wal-mart with random people who are all desperate to get off campus
...you memorize facts for your upcoming test while walking on a treadmill
...you send notes on Facebook to your neighbor down the hall telling them to bring you a Reese’s
...you work out in the gym just to get away from your computer
...you check your post office box four times a day just in case you missed something the last time
...you take naps at random times of day, like 9:30 in the morning
...you borrow pocketknives from random guys to go check the corrosion on your battery on your car that sits dead and forlorn in the parking lot
...you go watch a flag football game, intending to only stay a minute, start talking to the person you live across the hall from and keep talking until after the game is over, through the supper line, and until supper is over, completely forgetting about homework
...you look at a syllabus and realize you have 10 chapters to read in a certain book, due the following day, just when you thought you’d finished all the assignments for that class
...you cheer for an NFL football team you don’t care a lick for just because there’s no one to watch your own team and cheer with you and you have to cheer for someone
...you watch movies late at night on Sunday nights just to keep from feeling homesick
...you sing happy birthday on the phone to a different sibling three times in the same week
...you put pictures of your home state up on the wall outside your door and point them out to innocent victims who walk past your door
...you count the days till a holiday that’s two months away so you can go home (even to the point of making sure, that far in advance, that you’ll have a ride in that direction)
...you stay up late at night listing all of the things that were unheard of in your former life that are now quite the norm for you

Liz is being adventurous

So...today I made a funny decision, funny for me, that is. Emmaus is offering a trip to Chicago for a Saturday, October 13, and today I decided to go. :gulp: We'll go on charter buses to Chicago (about 3~ hours from here), then get on a trolley and take a tour of the city, with the opportunity to stop at different places and stay for a while looking around, shopping(or window shopping, as the case may be :P), sight-seeing, etc. They'll provide three meals, the bus and trolley fares, for quite an inexpensive price. So Esther and I decided to get a group together to go together. That sounded weird. What I mean is, Dean Glock told us that we have to go as a school group, but we can make up small groups of people to go with and then decide what to do together once we reach Chicago. The trolleys will transport us whereever we want to go.

This is going to be fun.

:back to homework: