Dec. 20, 2009 - I've been to the year 2009. Not much has changed, but they lived underwater...
Well, the year 2009 is almost up. For me, 2009 was full of fun times and many lessons, and I thought that I would share the highlights of my year with you all:
January 1st: I wrote a letter to myself about areas that I wanted to grow in over the year. These included learning to better share my faith, learning to build new relationships (as opposed to staying with my comfortable old ones), and learning if songwriting was something that God wanted me to pursue.
January 28th: I finished my Driver’s Education!
February 28th: I conquered my fears on a FIFTY-FOOT swing!!! I also wrote two songs, one about trusting God enough to let go of your comfort zone (entitled “Free-Fall”), and one about how we as Christians are called to be lights in this dark world (entitled “Meant To Be (A Light)”).
March 28th-April 5th: I went back to Orofino, Idaho on my Youth Group’s second Mission Trip there. In addition to having a great week full of service projects, Bible Studies, and sharing God’s love with people, God taught me a lot. He showed me some sin that I needed to get rid of, and He began to show me a big part of my spiritual gifting (but I didn’t realize it at the time. I’ll talk more about this later).
May 15th: I got my Driver's License!!!!!!!!! :-D
June 16th(ish): I finished my first year going to a community college!
Summer: Over the whole summer I was busy working as a Junior Intern at my Youth Group’s Whitewater Rafting Camps. I had a blast the whole time, rafting, hanging out on the beach, doing Bible Studies, working my tail-end off, sleeping under the stars, etc. God used these weeks to teach me many important things: what True Humility looks like, that all self-love is sin, that I had an idol I needed to get rid of, and that a big part of my spiritual gifting is to listen. God showed me that I don’t always need to talk (even when I really want to), that sometimes people just need someone to listen and empathize with them, and He showed me that I’m meant to do that.
August 26th: I changed my blogging strategy (although it didn’t seem to help me blog more, it did help me to straighten out things in my mind and to encourage other people more).
September 21st: School started back up, (yippie!) (that was half-sarcasm, half-true).
October 3rd: I officially became an “adult”!!
November 5th-8th: The Youth Group from Orofino turned the tables and came here for service projects! I had a WHOLE lot of fun seeing them all again, as well as getting to serve in my own community alongside them!
December 17th-18th: Mini-Retreat for those in Bible Read-Thru. I got to get to know two of my friends a lot better and Rob (our Youth Leader) led us all in two great “rap sessions” (kinda like Bible Studies, only focusing more on a question that one of us had).
December 20th: I looked back on my fun year and now I feel almost sad to see it leaving me, but I also feel really excited about this next year approaching me! Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year, everybody!!!!! :-D
~SeaChel
Dec. 12, 2009 - Hey!
Hey everybody! It's been like forever that I've been on here! How have you all been? Life has been pretty good for me! I was going to be going to a dance today, but it turns out that we can't go cause on the way we saw a car on its side cause the roads were a little bit slippery, so we thought it best that we stay home tonight. I'm pretty sure nobody was hurt, thank goodness! And I hope that there will be no more accidents! My life has been a bit busy. :) I think December is the busiest time of year for me! lol But I'm sure that goes for everybody. :) Goodness, it's been so long sense I've been on here! I've been doing facebook mostly. :)
Dec. 10, 2009 -
Saturday, December 5, 2009 - ....
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
Dec. 5, 2009 - Still taking!
I haven't updated on here in a while! i'm still taking requests so if you want one just comment!
Nov. 13, 2009 - My icons!
Heres some of my favorite icons:
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Thats it, I hope you liked them:)
Nov. 9, 2009 - Thoughts On Love
Mark 12:29-31 " 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."
God seems to put a lot of emphasis on love! The most important things to do in following Him are to love Him with everything you have, and to love other people more than you love yourself. Why is that? What is so important about love?
1st John 4:8 "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love."
A definition I’ve heard for wickedness is “the absence of God”. If God is love, then we can replace the word “God” with the word “love” and still have the same meaning, right? So wickedness is “the absence of love”! Wow, I guess that might be what’s so important about love, huh?
1st Corinthians 13:1 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal."
The tongues of angels…I wonder what angels talk about? Well, they are constantly in the presence of God, right? I’d like to think that because of God’s awesomeness, the angels can’t stop talking about Him! He’s just so amazing that everything they could talk about pales in comparison!
So, if we spoke the way that angels speak (talking about God) to other people (as we’ve been called to do), but don’t love those people that we’re talking to, we’re not going to make any impression on them at all! All we’re going to do is be the stereotypical “hypocritical Christian” who is just telling them something to get brownie points from God! A clanging cymbal that everyone just wants to be quiet!
The only way we’re ever going to get people to listen to us when we tell them about God’s love for them, is to show them His love through us!
Matthew 24:12 “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.”
This verse sounds a lot like what’s going on today to me. Love is being distorted by the world around us, even by Christians! All that the world tends to see when they think of love is s*x, or something that is there through the good times, but leaves when the storms of life come. This is a horribly distorted image of love, so much so that we can no longer see the very definition of love (God) in it anymore!
And Christians have similar problems. We “love” others by not telling them about God’s love for them. We say, “Oh, but I don’t want to offend them” or “They’ll think that I’m weird, and that will give them a bad image of Christians”. But really, how can we say we love our friends when we won’t even tell them about the most important thing in our lives? Is it really loving to let them walk blindly through life and then find themselves in hell when they die? No! No, that is not loving at all! That’s the opposite!
Dear friends, I struggle with this too. I am not a “super-Christian” who has brought many to Christ. In all honesty, I’ve never brought someone to Christ. I’ve helped someone rededicate their life to Him, and I’ve been there when someone accepted Christ for the first time, but I’ve never been the one to go up to someone and tell them the good news of Jesus. I think “Oh, they’ll see it in the way I live and if they’re interested they’ll ask me.” And while it is very good to live a life that shows Christ through it, that is not enough. This is something God has convicted me of recently, and I am trying to get better at it, because, as I said, that’s what true love is. It’s caring enough to do the hard things that could offend people, but it could also save them or at least plant a seed in them.
1st Corinthians 13:8 "Love never fails."
But without love you are sure to fail.
~SeaChel
Friday, October 23, 2009 - Tagged by luckyme
I've been tagged!!!
What are your ten favorite fiction books? (Not necessarily in order).
1. The Angel Experiment
2. School's Out - Forever
3. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
4. The Final Warning
5. Max (this one and the past 4 are part of the Maximum Ride series...in order)
6. InkHeart
7. InkSpell
8. InkDeath
9.Eragon
10. Ella Enchanted
What are the five most influential books on your life?
1. The Bible
2. Respectable Sins
3. ...
4. ...
5. ...
Who are your five favorite authors?
1. James Patterson
2. C. S. Lewis
3. ...
4. ...
5. ...
Who are your three favorite heroes?
1. Jesus (my Hero)
2. Max (from Maximum Ride...hehehe)
3. Fang(from Maximum Ride)
Who are your three favorite villains?
1. Ari (from Maximum Ride)
2. The White Witch
3. Max II (from Maximum Ride)
What are your three favorite movies? (hard question)
1. Race to Witch Mountains
2. Journey to the Center of the Earth
3. Get Smart
What are your three favorite sports?
1. Swimming
2. Soccer
3. Football
What is your favorite non-sport activity outside?
Daydreaming
What is your favorite animal?
i love them all!
What is your least-favorite animal?
Snakes, Spiders, you know the creapy stuff
Do you like to write stories?
I do....I'm just not good at it
What is your favorite genre to write or read?
Sci Fi and Fantasy (oh yes! there awesome!)
What is your favorite vehicle?
car...hello?! lol
What are your five favorite games?
1. Apples to Apples
2. Clue
3. Twister
4. Monopoly
5. IDK
What character in any book or movie describes you best?
MAX!!!!!!! (from Maximum Ride...of course...lol)
What’s your favorite food?
pizza!!!
What are your ambitions?
To live a life pleasing to the Lord
What ten things do you want to do before you die?
1. Become closer to God
2. Bring others to Christ
( wishes from here on out)
3. Be in a movie with an all star cast
4. Record a music album with my best friend
5. Meet my favorite actor and actress!
6. go to New York City
7. own a lab
8. fly (here comes that maximum ride in me again.....)
9. go to Hawaii
10. play in 3 feet of snow
Who are you going to tag?
anyone who reads this!!!!
Monday, October 19, 2009 - hey hey!!!
what's up people?!?! *sigh* i don't like school.....the older you are the harder it is... anywho i thought you guys would like to know that i can play the guitar now!!!! yay me!!!
Oct. 19, 2009 - Chapter 13, Final Chapter
Chapter 13
The Truth
“What?” Cassie exclaimed standing up.
“Yes, I’m Wolf Woman. Now maybe you can understand all of those times that I ran off, or stayed away for a week, or lied to you. I’m not saying that that’s an excuse for lying to you. I should have told you before, but maybe you can see why I did.”
Cassandra looked away from Julia, but then she looked back, “Prove it to me.”
“Prove what?”
“That you’re Wolf Woman.”
“Oh, okay.” Julia said, “Cap Flow.” The Wolf Suit appeared on her. “There you go.”
Cassie turned away, “All right. Now take it off so that I’m just talking to Julia, not a Superhero.”
“Cap Flow,” Julia said once more.
There was silence for almost a minute then Cassie lost it, “How could you have kept this a secret from me? All those times we trusted each other with our crushes, wishes, and all other secrets, but really you were keeping the biggest one of all to yourself! I thought you trusted me! I thought…”
Julia sensed what she thought, “I loved you?”
Cassie turned and nodded, hot tears running down her face.
“I do love you, Cassie. That’s why I kept it a secret. If you knew then someone could hurt you to find out. I didn’t want that to happen.”
“So you lied instead and hurt me yourself.”
“I know.” Julia said, “I know. I have hurt you. By not being there for you, and by not telling you about this. Cassie, I was wrong, but please believe me, I thought that I was doing the right thing. I truly did.”
“Well it wasn’t.”
“I know now.”
“And it hurts.”
“I know that too.”
“I still love you.”
“I’m glad.”
“But I’m a little mad.”
“At least.”
“Yeah, at least.”
“I’m sorry. But now you know. I hope that someday you’ll forgive me for not telling you.”
“I do. I do. But I’m still mad so I don’t. But I do.”
Julia laughed quietly, “Think about it, clear your mind and we’ll talk later.” She stood up and walked over to the door. “Night, Cass.”
“Night, Julia.”
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Mon, Nov 20th, 2056
Julia and Cassandra ate their dinner in silence. Their parents talked about what they’d done that day. Every once in a while Julia or Cassie would nod their head, but they did nothing more than that.
Finally, Christina Wolfe got sick of their silence, “What’s wrong with you two? Normally you’re talking so much that Dad and I can’t get a word in edgewise.”
“Julia can tell you.”
Julia turned and looked at her sister, “Are you sure that you want me to be the one to tell them?”
Cassie just nodded.
Julia sighed, “Cassie is mad at me because she found out a secret that I’d been keeping that I’d never told her.”
“Well Cassandra? Is that the reason?” their Mom asked.
She nodded.
“People are entitled to have secrets that they don’t tell anyone, Cassie. Except for their parents that is,” she added quickly.
“I know, but I’m still mad.”
“Why? What was the secret?”
Julia sighed again, “She found out who I am last night.”
“Oh.”
There was silence for a little bit, and then Michael Wolfe asked, “How? How did you find out, Cass?”
“Because the Principal talked to me about Julia and why she was gone. He had a completely different story than I had been told. I asked her about it and caught her.”
“Julia!”
“Mom, I tried! But like she just said, she caught me. I had to tell.”
“So it’s really Mom’s fault that you didn’t tell me?”
“No. I still wouldn’t have. Because I didn’t want to put you in danger. Mom wanted that too, but I wouldn’t have told you anyways. I’m sorry. I should have told you earlier, but it seemed like the right thing to do.”
“Yeah well it wasn’t!”
“People make mistakes, Cass. The Bible says that all people sin. That ‘all’ includes me. I’m not sure that keeping it a secret was a sin per-say, but it was a mistake. One that I truly sorry for.”
“Yeah, well-”
“I think I liked it better when you two were quiet.” their Dad broke in. “Cassie, Julia admitted that she made a mistake and she said that she was sorry for it. Can’t you forgive her and move on?”
Easier said than done!
Julia started at this thought that she’d heard come from her sister. It had to be a very strong thought, or else she wouldn’t have heard it. But it surprised her, not because her sister thought that, but because she wasn’t used to her developing powers yet.
“Yes, Dad.” Cassie turned to Julia, “I’m sorry I yelled, and I forgive you. I know that you thought what you were doing was right.”
“I forgive you for yelling. Thank-you for forgiving me.” Even though it’ll probably take a while before you truly do forgive me.
There was silence for the rest of the meal. Cassie finished first and ran upstairs. Julia rushed through the rest of her meal and ran up too.
Julia knocked on Cassie’s door. “Come in,” a quiet, slightly annoyed voice said.
“Cass?”
“Yeah?”
“You haven’t asked me yet.”
“Asked you what?”
“What I promised I’d do with you when I came back.”
“I haven’t been in the mood to ask.”
“Well,” Julia said, “do you want to know?”
“Sure.”
“Well, I bought tickets for us to go see our favorite band, Implosion.”
Cassie’s eyes lit up.
“But then I was delayed and the concert was two days ago.”
“Oh.”
“So then I thought, ‘Maybe I can trade them in for some tickets to another concert by them’, but that didn’t work out either.”
Cassie groaned, “Why are you telling me this?”
“Because then I happened to tell a good friend of mine about what happened, and he personally bought us two more tickets to see the show in Portland, Oregon, plus two-way tickets for a plane ride there! We’d leave on Friday after school, stay at your old friend Melissa’s house, go to the concert with her on Saturday-I’m paying for that ticket-and then come home on Sunday.”
Cassie’s eyes widened, “Really? Wow! And you’ve talked this over with Mom, Dad, and Melissa’s parents?”
“Would I tell you this if I hadn’t yet?”
“Wow! This is great! So who’s the friend?”
Who do I say? Dick or Robin? “He or she wishes to remain anonymous.”
“Well, tell him or her thank-you for me!”
“I will.”
“And thank-you for doing that originally, and for working this all out.”
“Are you still mad at me?”
“Yes, a little. But I’ll get over it; I just need some time.”
“I understand completely, Cassie,” Julia said. “I really do.”
“Thanks, Julia. And I won’t act like I did at the dinner table again; that was really rude of me.”
“I know you won’t, and I forgive you for doing so.”
Cassie stood up and hugged her sister. They had some problems, but they’d work them out together.
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Leo looked over Rabies’ shoulder, “How’s the Neutrium coming along?”
“Very well, Leo. Soon it should be ready to use.”
“It’s too bad those darn Super Friends wiped the location out of our minds.”
“Yeah, and off of our computer when they came to steal the info. But don’t worry, Leo. Soon the little bit we do have will be ready, then we can get some payback!”
That's the end of The C.F.M.C. I am currently working on the story that comes after this, but it's going rather slowly. Because of this, I won't be posting the next installment of Wolf Woman's story until I start getting back into my Superhero flow. In the meantime, however, I am posting another story of mine at this blog: Songflight. It is totally unrelated to this story and has nothing to do with Superheroes, but I hope that you will still come by and see if you like it. I hope to be able to post more Wolf Woman stories, as well as a story about another of my Superheroes that takes place about ten years before Wolf Woman came into being soon. But until then, I hope you enjoy Songflight.
~SeaChel and Wolf Woman
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