DCC and makin a promise.

Today was a really good day. I hung out Josh Hawkins and Ashleigh Crum all day. We went to Ghengis Grille and ate lunch and then we went walking around downtown and then went to Doak Campbell Stadium where the FSU Seminoles play. Then we went to DCC. DCC is a church that meets up Monday nights. It is a church in Frenchtown, (which is the ghetto of Tally) and it is kinda like a church for the homeless, or we try to get the homeless to join and learn about the word of God. It was my first night and I really fell in love with it. Being there and being with everybody and the atmosphere made me feel at home. I also met a new friend and I fell in love with her, shout out to Cassidy Shaw :). But learning Ben Kaemper's message made me listen about homeless people. He his living homeless right now to reach out. Sometimes when you have to reach out to a certain group, you have to be like them in a certain way. But when we read in 1Corinthians 9, it talks about being a slave/servant. In our life we are a servant to Jesus and he is a servant to us. So on our way home from Chipolte after DCC, Josh and I are talking about relationships. He told me this, as soon as I get my IPhone, I need to skip to 6 months and mark a date from that day that says "I can start dating now". I can't kiss, "talk", go on date, or date a guy for 6 months. We talked about this and the reason why is because I need to become solid and I will become solid in that time being. So even though, I do like a guy, I cant persue and that's fine. For the Lord and a girl should never persue a guy anyways. So pray for me guys and wish me luck :)

-Love Always,
Courtney

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Today was a good day. I got everything that I asked for on my Christmas list and my new IPhone 4 is coming soon and I am very excited about it. But a lot of people in this world and around us maybe don't know the true meaning of Christmas. My believes is that I feel like Christmas wouldn't be here without Jesus and the birth of him. If you really listen to the story of Jesus, that's where Christmas came from. We are celebrating Christ the new born king, AKA CHRISTmas! We get presents because the 3 wise men brought presents to Jesus. Everything else ties in to the story somehow too lol. I hope people actually realize the true meaning of Christmas and whow as born to save our lives. It itsn't about the presents, Santa, or all the pretty decorations. It is a time to say thank you to Mary, Joseph, and God for bringing Jesus Christ into this world because in time He does so much for us. The main thing he does for us is he dies for our sins. We are forgiven beceause of him and being forgiven, if you are saved, you shall go to Heaven. So ending this up, I would like for people to really think about the real reason of Christmas and why not read the Book of Matthew. Have a Merry Christmas and good holidays and Happy Birthday Jesus :)

Tonight made me think..

I was going to start this blog in 2012, but when I went to dinner tonight with a good friend, I realized that I need to start it immediately. Tonight my church CUMC had our annual Christmas Eve service. I was really excited tonight because I haven't been to big church in awhile aaaaaand I had a really super cute outfit. Once I got there and seeing all familiar faces made me miss it. Lately after since a break-up of a very long relationship I haven't been the best Christain ever. But being there tonight made me miss it so much. When the church service got over, my friend and I went out to dinner. We sat down and pretty much caught up on how our lifes are going for us. Then we started talking about the people we are crushing on, found out, he is crushing on my best friend and I am crushing on his best friend, go figure! But forget that, to the point of this blog, we started talking about my relationship with the Lord. It's not the best and I will admit that. I have been out lately going to parties and I have been drinking. That's not me at all. I hate it, I actually don't like alcohol that much. My mom is probably going to read this and be upset but this is me being real and saying what needs to be said, kinda like a short testimony. But talking to him because I know that he was going through the same thing recently and I ask him, "How did you become solid again?" He told me that literally one night he just took his journal out and read everything and started crying. And truthfully, lately I have been doing that and looking at what I use to be made me cry and made me miss the old me. Sitting there talking about my future and his and what we wanna do church wise makes me wanna be solid. So my journey of becoming Courtney Briggs, a christain strong girl is happening now..