Wow, where to begin? So much is going on, so much going on in my mind. This is life.

First of all, I’d like to ask you all to be praying for my family. My dad recently got laid-off from his job at HP. His last official day at HP was Friday, so he’s going to be home a lot more now. Which is nice, but a lot of it will be spent looking for a new job. There aren’t many jobs around here for people in his line of work, so we may have to move. I’ve lived here all my life, and I really don’t want to move. But I know that God has a plan for us. If it’s His will for us to move, I know He will have something there for us far greater than anything we’ve had here. But yeah, please be praying for my Dad to be able to find a new job soon, and for peace in my family’s hearts.

Also, I’d like to ask for prayer for a friend of mine. I’m not going to go into specifics, but she and her boyfriend just broke up and she’s taking it really hard. So please pray her peace in her heart as well as healing.

College is going well. I had today off for Veterans’ Day, so that’s been nice. I have a cold, though. And I’m supposed to be auditioning for a choir tomorrow…yeah, hopefully my voice will be better by then…please, God? J

Well, I know I just posted a song, but I’ve had this song stuck in my head for a long time and I want to share it with ya’ll:


Are you thirsty?
Standing in the rain
Not sure where you are or how you lost your way
Are you drowning?
In some bar outside of town
Searching for something given, not found
A crowd of people and totally alone
At the front door
But worlds away from home

Light up the night’s last regret
Burn your only safety net
Step to the edge
It’s such a long way down

Okay, so today was my first day at College! I only had one class today, Music Theory, and it went really well! Lol, actually before class was kinda funny…see I got there early since it was my first day. So I walked into the room and there were 10 guys in there and NO girls! So I thought “Well, I’m early, I’m sure some girls will come soon.” So I sat down and Got my book out and stuff, and then the door opened. I looked up and more guys came in. Two minutes later even more guys come in. And then more! So now I was kinda worried, ’cause it would be kinda awkward if I were the only girl in the class! Well, thankfully, some girls finally showed up. There were about 8 other girls in the class, and 20ish guys. But hey, I’m not alone! Lol! I can’t wait for tomorrow to go to all of my other classes!

Okay, this is short…Maybe it’s time for a song; I haven’t posted one in a while. Lol, here’s a less serious one, but I LUV it! It’s by Relient K and it’s called “Mood Rings” (you can find it in my playlist if you want to hear it):


We all know the girls that I am talking about
Well they are time bombs and they are ticking
And the only question's when they'll blow up
And they'll blow up, we know that without a doubt
Cause they're those girls that, you know those girls
That let their emotions get the best of them

And I've contrived some sort of a plan to help my fellow man
Let's get emotional girls to all wear mood rings
So we'll be tipped off to when they're ticked off
Cause we'll know just what they're thinking, just what they're thinking

She's so pretty but she doesn't always act that way
Her mood's out swinging on the swing set almost everyday
She said to me that she's so happy its depressing
And all I said was someone get that girl a mood ring

If its drama you want then look no further
They're like the Real World, meets Boy Meets World
Meets Days of our Lives
And it just kills me how they get away with murder
They'll anger you, then bat their eyes
those pretty eyes that watch you sympathize

And I've contrived some sort of a plan to help my fellow man
Let's get emotional girls to all wear mood rings
So we'll be tipped off to when they're ticked off
Cause we'll know just what they're thinking...just what they're thinking

She's so pretty but she doesn't always act that way
Her mood's out swinging on the swing set almost everyday
She said to me that she's so stressed out that its soothing
And all I said was someone get that girl a mood ring

Cause when its black means watch your back because you're probably
The last person in the world right now she wants to see
And when its blue it means that you should call her up immediately
And ask her out because she'll most likely agree
And when its green it simply means that she is really stressed
And when its clear it means she's completely emotionless
And that's alright I must confess...

We all know the girls that I am talking about
She liked you Wednesday but now its Friday
And she has to wash her hair
And it just figures that we'll never figure them out
Well first she's Jekyll and then she's Hyde
At least she makes a lovely pair

Mood ring, oh mood ring
Oh tell me will you bring
The key to unlock this mystery?
Of girls and their emotions
Play it back in slow motion
So I may understand the complex infrastructure known as the female mind


Lol, I luv that song…I think girls should all wear mood rings too! I mean, I’m a girl and I don’t understand the female mind either (although I probably understand it a bit more than guys do…probably…)!

~SeaChel

Heyo, peeps! How are you guys doing? Hope all’s well!

Youth Group is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy to be back in Youth Group after having the whole summer off from it (well, there were the Raft Camps…but still)! So yeah, I got to talk with a bunch of my friends, play some volleyball, and hear about what we’ll be learning this year in our lessons. I’m really excited for the rest of this year!

Friday night, my Dad had a bunch of his friends over for a 500 tournament (500 is a card game). I tried to learn how to play, but it was confusing! So I just hung out with my sibs all night (I went to bed around midnight, and everyone left at about 1 or 1:30 am!). My two oldest (but not older than me) sibs and I hung out inside the van out in the garage for about an hour. It was actually quite fun! We talked about dreams and stuff like that. I gotta tell ya, my sibs have very interesting dreams!

Monday night I went to my Youth Leader’s house for the kick-off of our Bible Read-Thru group. I’m not sure that I’ll be able to do it fully, but I’m hoping to! It sounds like a lot of fun, plus it will help me to grow in Jesus.

And so now I’m caught up to today, which is a really special day at my house. It is my youngest sister’s Birthday! This morning my two other sibs and I went outside and drew in chalk in the driveway “Happy Birthday!” so that when she woke up she could look outside and see it (she’s just now learning to read, so Mommy suggested it and we thought it’d be cool). I think she really liked it! Later today we’ll be going to Red Robin for her birthday dinner and then Grandpa and Grandma will come over to our house for cake and presents. If I remember to, I’ll put up a couple of pix later.

So yeah, that’s my life for this past week.

~SeaChel

Wow, It’s been a while since I’ve last posted, huh? Sorry about that. After Rafting was over I meant to get back into my normal blogging pattern, but I didn’t.

So, here’s what’s been going on for the past few weeks:


CityFest - A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be a counselor at a Luis Palau event. It was sooooooo cool! There was BMX, skateboarders, and Motocross, as well as free concerts from peeps like Kutless, Hawk Nelson, MercyMe, Chris Tomlin, and (one of my new fav artists) TobyMac! Yes, I liked him before, but his concert was sooooooo cool and now I have a bunch of his songs on my playlist! But back to counseling…after a few artists played, Luis came up front and shared the gospel. Then he led those who responded in the prayer and then he asked them to raise their hand if they’d just prayed the prayer. Then the counselors were supposed to find someone who’d responded near them and we talked with them a bit more about Jesus at a more personal level. This was my first time being a counselor, so I wasn’t very good at it, but I got to meet two girls who’d just given their lives to Christ and I prayed with them. So that was pretty sweet!


College - Okay, so a Community College nearby has a program for Juniors and Seniors in High School called “Running Start”, in which we can take College level classes. I’m really excited about this! A bit nervous, as I’ve never taken public schooling before, but still very excited! I will be taking English 101, Music Theory, Ear Training, and Swing Dancing. Classes start on the 22^nd!


Youth Group - Youth Group starts up on the 10^th! I am REALLY excited!!! I’ve missed Youth Group SOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Tagged - By GothamCityNights 

What is your favorite book of the Bible?
Either Ruth or the Gospel of John

What are you most afraid of?
Losing a friend

What makes you the maddest?
I don't know...I guess when people are mean to my friends and/or sibs.

What do you think is the worst kind of evil?
I'm gonna have to go with what she said: Tricking people into doing things they shouldn't (Jesus said a person who did this would be better off being thrown into the sea with a huge stone tied around their neck. O,O ).

What would be considered your theme song?
Superstar by BarlowGirl
Smell the Color 9 by Chris Rice
It's You by Fireflight
Stand Out by Jessie Daniels
Unafraid by Joy Williams
Anticonformity by Krystal Meyers
She's the Reason by Paul Alan
I Can Trust You by Rebecca St. James
I'm Not Cool by Scott Krippayne
Real by Superchic[k]
Good Girl by ZOEgirl
Skin Deep by ZOEgirl

Sorry, can't choose one...

If you had to choose a villain to team up with, who would it be? 
Hmm, probably Catwoman, because she's a cool villain and she's not really all that evil.

Do you think this Tag was creepy?
Well, I've never been asked what villain I'd team up with before...lol, no, it wasn't creepy.



~SeaChel

Well, I’m back! Rafting camp was, once again, amazing!!! Especially the second High School Camp! I had a bunch of my closest friends there, including some people I’d met in Orofino! It was so great to see them again!!! :-D

Umm, other than that, nothing huge happened. No one needed to go to the hospital (thank goodness), I didn’t fall off any rafts (yay!), I went on the paddle raft a bunch of times (funness!), and we had great Bible studies and quiet times! Oh! And I wrote my best song ever! I really wish I could sing it for you guys, but here are the lyrics:


When I hear the story I think that it’s all wrong
That they’d want a murderer instead of God’s Son
I think, “If only I’d been there I’d be yelling ‘NO!’”
But then I think of all I’ve done and that tells me it’s not so

It was my fault that He was there
It was my sin that placed Him there
And I can hear myself cry
Among the crowd, “Crucify!”
And then I run outside and weep
For I am one of the lost sheep
Yes, He left the ninety-nine
For one who yelled, “Crucify!”

And I don’t understand why You did this for me
Even after all I’d done You died to set me free
You went through the ultimate pain and suffering
Should I accept, should I deny this gift that You bring

When it was my fault that He was there
It was my sin that placed Him there
And I can hear myself cry
Among the crowd, “Crucify!”
And then I run outside and weep
For I am one of the lost sheep
Yes, He left the ninety-nine
For one who yelled, “Crucify!”

And now it’s time to make the choice
To rise above the crowd’s noise
Now I kneel before the cross
Now I am no longer lost!

Yes, it was my fault that He was there
And it was my sin that placed Him there
And I still hear myself cry
Among the crowd, “Crucify!”
But now I need no longer weep
He saved me when I was in so deep
This is something words cannot describe
He loved me, though I yelled, “Crucify!”


So yeah, I wrote this song after reading Luke chapter 23. During quiet time, we’re supposed to pick verses that we either liked or had questions on. I picked the verses about the crowd asking for Barabbas instead of Jesus. I was thinking at the time, “Man, those people are so stupid! They want a murderer released to them and they want to kill the Son of God! If I’d been there, I’d be asking for Jesus!” But then I remembered a verse (I think it’s in Hebrews) that said that whenever we sin we’re nailing Him to the cross all over again. So I nailed Him to that cross; I yelled “Crucify Him!” After realizing this, I just started writing this song, the words just came to me! It was awesome!

So yeah, now I’m done rafting until next summer. I miss living with everybody, but oh well…I guess Raft Camp is like a taste of heaven in that way! Just being around people you love and who love Jesus all the time and feeling His presence there with us!

Well, I guess that’s about it. Luv ya’ll!


~SeaChel

Well, here I am again, saying the same thing I said two posts ago: I’m sorry I didn’t post last week, and I won’t be posting again for a couple of weeks because I’ll be at raft camp. lol, déjà vu anyone?

I’m really excited about rafting camp! God did amazing stuff on the last one (see last post if you haven‘t yet), and I know there’s more to come!

So yeah, this post is short…if you want more to read, go to my story blog. And that’s all I have to say. Except for: Bye everyone! Don’t miss me too much, ok? ;-D

~SeaChel

Well, here it is. The post you’ve all been waiting for, right? lol!

Rafting was awesome! And I don’t normally say awesome. I use the word awesome to describe God, and that’s why I’m using it now, because God was there! I could feel Him working in me, in my friends, I could see the beauty of His creation all around me in the second deepest canyon in North America (deeper than the Grand Canyon!), and He taught me some pretty important stuff about my walk with Him. But I’m getting ahead of myself…

It all started at 6:30ish in the morning, when the bus left. There were fifteen Juniors and Seniors (including myself), Rob (our Youth Leader), and Brandon (one of the Interns, the rest had left the day before to start setting up camp). The bus ride (including stops) was about 10 hours long. Needless to say, we were all happy to get off when we finally got there!

Lots of stuff happened on Training Camp. We learned how to do our jobs that we’ll have for the rest of the summer (I’m in charge of Life-Jackets and I help out with the lunch crew whenever I can), we rafted on a stretch that we’ve never done before because the water was too high for our regular stretch of river (the rocks we jump off of on our rock jumping days were under the water, except for the thirty foot rock…that was about five feet out of the water…lol), and we bonded with each other.

There were difficulties along the way; I forgot some stuff that I really wish I’d brought, like bug-spray (I got at least 31 bug bites in two nights!); some of the rafts had holes in them that we had to fix (we found the holes while rafting…that kinda scared me…); and Rob had to make a run to the hospital. One of the Interns, Aaron, was with the college group and he was helping Steve (the college group leader) with a demonstration of Jesus’ love for us. Aaron did fifteen push-ups for all of the college people who wanted an ice-cream bar to pay for it. He also did push-ups for the ones who didn’t want ice-cream (like Jesus dying even for those who don’t want Him). So he ended up doing 540 push-ups! Then he went into shock and started having convulsions! Marc (his brother who was a Junior Intern) told us it was the scariest thing he’d seen in his life. Aaron is fine now, but he couldn’t go rafting or do much of anything for a few days.

Then the 1^st High School Camp started. It was so great to have the other campers there with us! I mean, I LUVED training camp and I would have liked it to last longer, but it was great to share it with the others too!

I rode the paddle raft for the first time (all of the other rafts had an oarsman, but on the paddle raft everyone does the work). I was scared to, because the paddle raft flips very easily. Thankfully, it didn’t flip while I was on it (I did fall out on the biggest rapid, though…thankfully I was able to grab the rope on the outside of the raft, so I wasn’t in danger (even though I was scared…)). And I fell off of a Cataraft (which is basically two pontoons and a frame with a seat for the oarsman) on the biggest rapid on another stretch. But I was able to grab onto that too, so all’s well. :-D

I luved Quiet Time! Just sitting in the sun, reading my Bible, praying, and looking around at God’s creation just moves me! I luv it! Really makes me think of heaven, you know? I mean, if there’s such great beauty here on earth, think of how beautiful HEAVEN must be!!!

I also wrote a song over two days during Quiet Time. I wish I could sing it for you all, but at least I can post the lyrics:

I’m sitting here in silence
Basking in Your Glory
I feel Your touch here
And it moves me

I wish I could write down
All of the things that I am feeling now
But there are no words
To say it, but still I will try now

I can’t believe that You love me
You’re the Creator of all the beauty around me
And I can’t believe that You see me
All the wrong things I’ve done but You sent Your Son for me
And I can’t believe

I’m sitting here in silence
Thinking of all I’ve seen
The trees, the hills, the river, the stars
Such beauty

Then I think of myself
And all of the times I’ve put on a charade
Why can’t I remember
That You are perfect and in Your Image I was made

I can’t believe that You love me
You’re the Creator of all the beauty around me
And I can’t believe that You see me
All the wrong things I’ve done but You sent Your Son for me
And I can’t believe

And right now I feel Your very presence around me
No feeling can top when I feel You Love surround me

I can’t believe that You love me
You’re the Creator of all the beauty around me
And I can’t believe that You see me
All the wrong things I’ve done but You sent Your Son for me
And I can’t believe


So yeah, that’s it. :-D Well, two weeks of rafting down, two more to go! Can’t wait to go back!!! I’m leaving again on the 29^th of July!

~SeaChel