This is probably the best collection of tornado videos I've ever seen. I promise this is the last!

Tornado touches down near Elie Manitoba - June 22, 2007

Okay, this was a little close to home.

Lilapsophobia

The current weather patterns have been causing me some grief as of late. It seems that every week there is potential for a tornado at least once. It's really hard for me to put my fears aside and trust in God during storms. When it's hot and humid and storm clouds cover the sky, my stomach turns to rot and I feel it necessary to either watch ever single development, or hide out in my basement. Well, tonight is one of those "hiding out" nights. I am so afraid of storms. It's been extremely hot and humid today, and I'm home alone at the moment. I just don't know what to do! Please, if anyone has any words of encouragement, share them with me. Or, if you feel led, please pray for me. This is not something I can defeat on my own. I need the help of the Lord. I don't want to be held captive to this fear anymore. I do not think I will be able to survive.


On a more random note, the word for "fear of long words" is 36 letters long! It's "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia"

What am I gonna do now?

Well, I am unofficially done school, and there is something different I am experiencing...

Suddenly I have... what's this... time? Could it be? No projects? No deadlines? No marks, books, pens, papers, or teachers?

Okay, I sound like I am pretty jubilant, but I'm actually feeling kind of lost. What on earth am I going to do now??? School was so constant, and now it's gone.

Anyhoo, I'm going to go read a book or something.

Compromise

I had the opportunity to sit in the basement of Al Friesen today and be sideswiped by the wisdom God has imparted to Him. When I left his house, I could not fight the feeling that having a relationship with Christ Jesus is the most deep, precious, glorious, CRAZY thing I could ever possess. It's more than an attitude... it's a life. I want to stomp my foot on compromise! It one of the worst diseases to affect Christians today! Compromise in the smallest area is sin... AND SIN IS SIN! ANY sin alienates a person from the heart of God! One compromise sets the stage for another.... and another... and pretty soon we've turned a blind eye to the most BLATANT of sins! THAT is how such crazy things have seeped into the church! Compromise! Fear of man before God! Catering to the world! Why don't you STOP the landslide and ask the dear, precious forgiveness of Christ? WHY DON'T you give HIM your all??

Fine

I am FOREVER DONE HIGHSCHOOL EXAMS!!!

Yes, that's right, folks, today I wrote the last exam I'll ever write in highschool---pre calculus math. And, what's more, I finished with a flair! I only took half the time given to write it. I even TRIED to take my time, to read slow, to recheck my answers. But, what can I say? Sometimes math just comes so easy to me... and then other times... well... I'm just glad I'm done! I am SOOO close to being graduated that it's almost cruel!!!! Yup...

Sheesh, I gotta think of something more interesting to blog about, or else I am going to lose my (not-so)faithful (non-existent)readers!

I am a ball of nerves.

Today I had a bit of a frightening experience.

I was very heavy hearted, and I really felt like I needed to get outside, go for a walk. Usually when I'm home alone I don't like to venture too much outside of my house, especially when I don't have access to a car. Well, I decided to disregard that and went for a walk.

It could only have been 5 minutes into my walk when I was passed by this man on a bike. No big deal, right? Every one's entitled to ride a bike, no matter what gender. But I felt really uncomfortable with how he looked at me... It wasn't a quick glance... and it scared me. I kept walking, though, because, after all, he was on a bike, he was already far ahead of me, and I didn't have to worry about him anymore. I thought he was long gone.

Quite a ways down the road, I was surprised to find that he passed me again. He had stopped somewhere that I couldn't see, and, wouldn't you know, he decided to start biking again when I passed by.

I was getting a little nervous, at this point... blame it on TV, if you want, but I did not have a good feeling at all. I decided to turn off onto a path I knew lead me to a road closer to home, and he somehow got to the back alley that crossed the path before me. He kept biking, of course (as was his style), and I was pretty much freaked out. I ran when I was he couldn't see me behind bushes, but walked when I got to the end of them. I didn't want him to think I was scared! When I looked over my shoulder to see if he was gone, I found him stopped between two buildings, looking at me. That was all the encouragement I needed.

I kicked it into high gear as soon as I was out of his sight, and picked the most hidden route home. I avoided long open streets, took as many turns as possible, and finally got home by walking along the grass behind the houses on my street, entering my house through the back door.

When I got inside, doors locked, the doorbell rang. Wow, that just about pushed me over the edge.

Thankfully, it was someone I knew here to pick up my sister's bike. Silly Andrea, there was nothing to be afraid of!

You might think that I'm really paranoid. Well, I am. I probably worked myself up way too much. The guy was probably watching me cuz I was giving him an entertaining show. But what can I say? I think of a thousand possibilities at once, and my brain gets over-loaded.

Ahhh, well, that was the mentally dysfunctional moment of the day. Maybe tomorrow I'll take a bike instead.