Lizzy's Life

My Trip to School

2007-04-06T19:30:00.000-04:00

In January I went out to school and took a class. Nikki and I had a great time going to GreenBay and hanging out in a hot tub!!!

Rachel and I had some time together as well!! Of course it was so good to hang out with Sarah, Kat, Ursula, and all of my other friends and the guys.

I also had a great time doing some cooking for my friends and leaving them little goodie bags!!

Ryan and I had a great time in the Chicago airport and at the Markhams and the Remeikas.

Then I got to

spend some time with Dan in Chicago on the way back.

So that's my trip in a nut shell. :)

Sorry it's been so long!

2007-04-06T19:12:00.000-04:00

Well as you know I like pictures, so I will tell my story with them, as always! :)

Well I went to visit my sister at BJ and to check out the Culinary Arts program there. So to get there I traveled with the guys to NC. We stopped in Washington DC and had a great day. Yes, I know, I look out of place. :) At least I got there.

So I had a great time with my sister and I do miss her very much!!!!
I also had a great time of fellowship with Louise, a friend from a few years back. We had a great time of talking while I was there.

So then the guys dropped me off in NYC and I plent a week with my friend Katie at Faith Baptist Church in Queens!!!

We had such a great time!! We went to the food Network headquarters!!!! That was so awesome!!

Hanging out with friends this Christmas!

2007-01-09T23:09:00.000-05:00

We had a great time with friends this Christmas. We hung out at Gumps with the college and career group and had a really good time. There were so many friends of ours there that were unsaved it was awesome that they all came. (Some people that we've been praying for, for a long time.) We ate and had a bonfire, the guys played football, and John T. gave a great devotional. Praise the Lord for all the people that were there and for the way I know He's going to work in their hearts.

I made a quilt this Christmas for my Great-Grandma. I call it a family tree quilt. I printed pictures of our family on fabric paper and sewed them onto my squares.

It was SO awesome to have my Grammie sing in church with our family.

We went to our grandparents in PA for a week and had a great time. We went driving one night to look at lights, just like we used to do when we were little. It was great to see them and my uncle. It was hard to say good-bye.

I was so excited that it worked out to see some of my friends from camp on the way home. We met up at Friendly's in CT. I got to spend some time with Gene and Mike. We had a really cool time!

It was good to have our friend Dan come home for Steve and Ashley's wedding. You can tell how this week went by Steve's face. :)
Ryan grew out his beard again. (I think I might be one of the few that like it.)
It was so awesome to have my sister back for a few weeks.

Steve and Ashley had a beautiful wedding. Praise the Lord for the message that the unsaved heard and that everything went to well.

And lastly the famous group picture. Wow my sister, Shy, and Ash were SO pretty!! And of course the guys were handsome too. I was so excited about how my video footage came out.
Well, that and A LOT of shopping pretty such tells about the whole Christmas break!

Pictures of US during Christmas break.

2007-01-09T22:52:00.000-05:00

We had such a great time while my sister was home for Christmas break. We went to PA to visit our grandparents, did a lot of shopping!!!!, hung out, had a Christmas program, were involved in a wedding, and generally just had fun!

His Amazing Humility

2006-12-27T21:40:00.000-05:00

I would like to share a thought that I had this Christmas with you all. I've been thinking a lot about Christ's humility in coming to earth as a baby, with the sole purpose of dying. I was reading Phil. 2:7, in my NASB MacArthur Study Bible (I know you're proud of me Pastor Mark and Peter) and I really liked the note that MacArthur had. He talks about Christ emptying Himself of His privileges, but not of His deity. He listed several privileges, such as, "1) heavenly glory - . . . his face-to face relationship with God . . . ; 2) independant authority - . . . Christ completely submitted Himself to the will of His Father; 3) divine prerogatives - He set aside the voluntary display of His divine attributes and submitted Himself to the Spirit's direction; 4) eternal riches - while on earth Christ was poor and owned very little; and 5) a favorable relationship with God - He felt the Father's wrath for human sin while on the cross."

Not only did He temporarily give up these things to become a baby, that was completely dependent on others for food, shelter, etc.; but He also took on Himself "the form of a bond servant and . . . made in the likeness of men." WHO WOULD WANT TO LEAVE GLORY AND BECOME A PART OF THIS WRETCHED HUMAN RACE? AN AMAZING GOD WITH UNSPEAKABLE LOVE FOR SINNERS!!

Our First Snow Fall!!

2006-12-09T09:59:00.000-05:00

Before and After

2006-11-20T00:14:00.000-05:00

I decided my hair needed a change!
My wonderful sister and brother!!!!

I love taking pictures!!!

2006-11-06T22:17:00.000-05:00

My New Eating Habits

2006-10-31T11:59:00.000-05:00

Well, the Lord has answered some prayers. I've been asking God for some answers about my health. (Especially when it comes to my back.) So I went to this nutritionist person and she told me what she thought was wrong with me and I’m now on all kinds of supplements and a special diet. I am only eating meat and vegetables. No sugars of any kind, no milk products, no grain products, no peanut products, no fruit or juices, no vinegar, no potatoes or corn, no white rice, and no soy. So I’m eating all the meat I can and trying to stay sane. Please pray for me. I feel like the Israelites when God would bless them and they would go right back to complaining again. God answered my prayers and now I’m complaining again. I’m supposed to be on this diet for 4-6 months. Please pray that I’ll have a good attitude and be thankful. I would appreciate it.
:)

Isn't God's Creation Beautiful!

2006-10-18T15:48:00.000-04:00

My New Glasses

2006-10-04T16:59:00.000-04:00

Some Hearts Are So Deceived

2006-10-02T21:10:00.000-04:00

I had the saddest conversation on the phone the other night. I was talking to an old friend who has struggled with Christianity for years. Her parents have never grasped the concept of FAITH IN CHRIST ALONE. She saw a lot of hypocritical Christians during her high school years, and when a tragedy happened in her life they just condemned her for her part in it.

After small talk, our conversation led to church. She then went on the describe her view of a Christian, no "Baptist." (The perfect little wife in a skirt, with her husband in a tie, and their little row of kids that are so well behaved.) Well, most of you have never been to my church, but our families are not stuffy like she believes. :)She seemed to think that I would condemn her for having satellite TV. (In which she discovered that I have more channels then she does.) She was only bringing up issues that she thought were important and disregarding any truth that I tried to tell her. She kept referring to the fact that she is a free spirit and likes to worship God in her own way. She said that she never had the chance to "be free" in high school and now, even though she is in her 30's, she is still living like a child.

She then began to question God’s character in a way that I’ve never heard before. She questioned His Foreknowledge, His forever existence, His judgement in who He sends to Hell, His plan in trusting Christ alone for forgiveness, and much more. She said that no God who knows the future would make a human race that He knew would sin against Him. I tried to explain to her the vastness of His love for all humanity in doing that. She kept pointing to the fact of her goodness, although she knows the Bible and even emphatically told me not to quote the faith alone verses to her. She then went on to say that after she’s prayed over and over again for salvation and has been baptized twice; if God was still going to send her to Hell, she wanted to be there. (That is when I started crying.) I could only see us standing before God and her looking at me with this sad look and I could do nothing else but look at her with pity.

I tried to explain to her that she’s trusting in herself for salvation and not in Christ alone. She said it was silly to think that all there was to it is to confess her sins, ask Jesus to save her, and that’s it. I tried to explain how that the lack of spiritual fruit in her life and her wrong view of God pointed to the fact that she didn’t have the Holy Spirit living inside her. I told her I was crying and she could hear it in my voice. I pleaded with her to search her soul and read 1 John and see if she "be in the faith". She wouldn’t listen to anything and insisted that she should be able to get to God her own way.

Please pray for this lady and another chance for me to talk to her. Also that God would open her eyes if that is His sovereign plan.

My Wonderful Family

2006-09-30T14:31:00.000-04:00

This is my awesome family!! We're so cute! My brother Jon is such a gentleman and becoming a man so fast. My Dad is a pastor and a great, compassionate people person. (I don't think I know anyone with more patience than him.) My mom is a busy housewife, home school mom, piano teacher, Christian playwright, musician, and everything else. My sister Becka is a freshman in college and very busy. We love to watch movies and laugh together. (I miss you and love you Beck!) And me; I'm a Church Ministries, Northland Baptist Bible College graduate working on my masters in Biblical Counseling.

The current is too strong to swim against.

2006-09-29T22:41:00.000-04:00

Well, I’ve held out for a while and I can’t do it anymore. It’s time I get my own blog. I don’t like to "go with the flow," but what’s the use. I feel lost in the back woods of Maine and out of touch with the rest of the blogging world. Someone once said that blogging is for people that have no lives; so that they can comment on the blogs of other people that have no lives. So I’m joining the group of "no lifers" as I sit and stare at my computer screen and tell the world what’s going on in the life (that I obviously don’t have).