day 2.

First day wasn't to shabby, a pretty normal day. it was weird not watching TV, but i found a great station on Pandora. the almost station. its pretty good, but I'm sad that there are no christian artists that sound like weezer. or chili peppers for that matter. I'm reading this book flabbergasted, that jess lent me to read. its pretty good, about this guy who goes to a church to meet women, and falls in love with a missionary girl that is leaving for ecuador in a month. So i figured out what im going to do after college. ill prob do 2 years at AR and then 2 years at a state, but after that im going to do 2 years with the Peace Corps and go live somewhere exotic for those years, helping out little kids! then ill come back to the states and be a sideline reporter for ESPN, or a journalist for WSJ or NYT or something. i mean, who can refuse a resume with 2 years at the Peace Corps on it!! I've started to pray about it, and about everything else too. its so much easier to pray when its quiet.

Everyone should listen to the song awful direction by the almost

and to the acoustic versions of all the Relient K songs.

-Jess

what i've learned

soo this month has been pretty different for me in terms of the last two media fasts that i've done. the last two have been about cramming as much christian media as possible into the month to make up for the lack of secular. but this month has been different. i admit i have been reading a ton of christian books :) but i definatly try to balance that with my Bible. i think ive grown mostly in my relationships both with God and with my friends. The growth of relationships is probably one of the important things i've learned from this fast. i've learned that you cant expect to be trusted if you cant put trust back into the relationship. one of the biggest things ive been struggling with this fast was praying to and relying on God. for a while ive been feeling rather mediocre and melancholy. and thats really been bothering me. so egged on by a book i read, i decided to start praying regularly throughout my day. and its been about just everything. haha from my food to my friends ive been praying and i've found that its really helped me. ive grown closer to God and i ve been inspired to go and do things and live my day to the fullest.

so i finally figured it out...

so today i decided to call matt to figure out how to post on ourthirty. a little delayed but whatever. so my month has actually been going pretty well. ive read all the narnia books about 3 times each and ive also been digging around on my bookshelf for some more christian books. ive also been reading my bible a ton- james and stuff to go along with the bible study at dianes. im definatly looking forward to doing the challege thing for our leader. so one of my best friends from school, elizabeth has been going to church with one of our close friends, and is planning on going to hume sd with us. shes been asking a lot of questions about the bible and im hoping this will lead to her acceptance of Christ. so be praying for her! yesterday, after leadership, i came home and sanded all the rust off my beach cruiser, and washed her. so now shes blue and sparkly :) ive been riding around a ton getting my feel of the bike (i learned how to ride like 2 1/2 weeks ago) and ive been praying alot when i do that. something about riding your bike gives you soo much time to think about everything. so try it!
~Jess

9 days !!

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Im not sure if im happy or sad that the fast is almost over. On one hand, im glad i can listen to ALL of my music and not just some of it. But on the other hand I love how much closer to God i've come through fasting from media. He's helped me not pick up the secular book from the library that i've been waiting for forever. He's helped me not listen to stuff and challenged me to fill my time with something else. The only problem is school. (that sounds weird) but these next two weeks at DC is star testing. we have this really weird schedule on top of our 4x4 days. since i had all of my electives the first term i have to go back to all those classes even though we dont have a test in any of them. So guess what we've been doing ... BINGO!! who would've known, we are watching movies. So i've already watched edward sissorhands, some like it hot, and shrek, and tomorow we're watching something else. grr i dont think these count since i pretty much have to watch them but ya. So i kinda like mikes idea of capture the flag -- sounds fun! my fingers are super duper sore from playing guitar cause i havent played it in forever so im done typing-- almost--i have to memorize this huge witness statement (3 1/2 pages) for mock trial class and its key to the whole case so i need to go work on it especially since its tomorow!

love you all and i'll be praying!

Jess

Finally!!!!

Hey everybody! sorry i havent posted anything yet ! I couldnt figure out how to post anything for a while. Its been going pretty well- i been having a problem with music but i havent given in yet. i have been listening to relient k, anberlin, and barlow girl. i have also been playing guitar occaisionally. i sometimes catch myself looking at the tv but then i just turn around or leave the room. ive been grounded so i havent really done anything yet and it sucks but i will get over it. the only thing we did was go to san fransisco which was extremely fun cause we went to the exporitorium and the oldest bakery in sanfran. it was the best bread and pastrys ive ever eaten in my whole life! ive been reading a TON of frank perretti and ted dekker and my bible too. my mom also recorded all the love comes softly movies and althogh extremely hokey and corney i have been watching them. ( i wont admitt that i might secretly like them) ive also watched evan almighty and fireproof. i gots to go i need to eat lunch and then we get to go swimmmiinng!!!!!!! yay the pools finally clean. lol

Jess

p.s. anyone who got tickets to the devil wears prada concert - i hate you!! haha jk