Grains of Sand

So apparently there was one more thing that I needed to do before I started my mountain of homework, and that is to write in my blog! Yeah I really should do it more often, but hey...did you know that in Psalm 139:17-18 it says:

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.

They cannot be numbered!

I can't even count them;

They outnumber the grains of sand!

I thought those verses were awesome when I read them the other day and they still haven't stopped going around in my mind...just imagine, the God who created the universe and everything that we can see and all of outer space and everything that could ever exist also created you and me and He thinks about me and you all the time and is just waiting for me to stop for even just one minute and glance at Him and spend time with Him, even just to chat for a while or tell Him all about how I just can't seem to focus on my homework and how I tend to get overwhelmed when I think about how much I have to study for because of my exam on Monday...and yet He waits for me and listens and doesn't condemn me for procrastinating, rather He gives me strength to keep on going and helps me to focus on studying and encourages me with His love and His presence...because He really is here beside me all the time, just so often I don't realize it or don't stop to let Him into my life.

And His thoughts toward me outnumber the grains of sand, that's a whole lot of thoughts! Wow, I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine...that's You Jesus! Who else but your beloved would think about you so much that their thoughts towards you would outnumber the grains of sand?!

Drumming?!

So apparently I now know a little bit about how to drum, which I love so much! When I was at Rock Lake last week, I got to work with Eva (like Jakob and Eva) and that was so much fun...we did praise and worship together, so she would play piano and sing, and I would sing along with her. At first I totally didn't think that I knew how to sing harmony or anything, but then Eva started teaching me some stuff and then I would pray and ask God to help me with the harmony stuff, and then I would sometimes hear harmonies in my head and then I could sing harmony with her!

It was a lot of fun, I want to learn so much more...and then one day we realized that we didn't have a drummer anymore, so then I'm like ok, I'll try to drum because I took it in band during grades 5-8, except that our school didn't have an actual drum set, so I would just play the snare and bass drum separtely. Anyway, I knew the basic beat on the drum set, so I just started playing it and making stuff up, and it went ok, thank you Jesus! It was so much fun, I discovered that I really enjoy playing the drums a lot...so now Marvin and I are going to go looking for drum sets that aren't too expensive...so if any of you know of a used drum set for sale, just let me know!

And so this last week I have been organizing all of my Africa pictures and writing on the backs of them all, a very long process! But now it's all finished, and so next week it's off to school and homework, yikes!