Today is Saturday yess! It's so weird that I wake up earlier on Saturday than any other day! I wonder is other people do that too?! Nahh....other people have lives and they usually have to get up really early on other days so they get up late on Sat.'s. Yesterday I woke up @ 11!!!!! That is a record for me. Seriously. Usually I get up from 6 (when I have to go somewhere, i.e. school or a dentist appointment etc...) to 9:00 (when I've stayed up really late the night before), but I can't remember the last time that I got up @ 11. So anyways...this morning I was sleeping and I didn't have my contacts in because I have to take them out every couple weeks to let my eyes breathe. So yesterday I had to wear my glasses (ugh! every time i do that I get up and look in the mirror and I'm like "what a geek!" for real. Plenty of people look great with glasses and they look all sophisticated or whatever, but that's not the case for me. I am majorly geeky looking. So I always try to play the "i look really smart, don't I?" look, but it doesn't seem to work. I look like the old American Girl © doll, Molly. You know, the one from the forties with the plaid skirt and the dorky glasses. yeah. that one.) So anyways....back to this morning. I was blind as it gets this morning b/c my glasses were on the desk next to me and I woke up and looked over @ the clock and it said 2:00!!!!! I was thinking, "whoa! I can't believe it's 2:00! I never sleep this late!" so I went back to sleep. I woke up later and thought that it must be around 5 p.m. and actually PUT my glasses on to find that it was 8:30. haha.

20/20 vision is a precious commodity in our culture! I was thinking about that the other day. Like, how different my life would be if I lived in an earlier era where people didn't have glasses. I would probably be considered to have weak eyes or something. It would be so strange to walk around with everything all blurry like it is without these focular lenses! That's the only way some people can see today though. My life would be totally different if I couldn't see the things around me. For one, I wouldn't be typing this, and if I was, it would have alot of typos I'm sure!! haha. But also, if was blind, I wouldn't be able to see the ice that graced our trees last week, the beautiful and always different sunset, the sparkling wavy lake in our back yard, my family, myself (that might help with a few other problems that I have), or my totally tricked-out room! (JPC....it's not that great, but it's so me that I love it!) Man, I wouldn't even be able to read the Bible. That would be awful. But how special for the Lord Jesus in His glory to be the first person I ever lay eyes on!!!!!!!!!!

Spiritual vision is so much more important than physical vision. I think that "regular" people toady kinda look down on people who are blind, or think that they need some kind or extra special treatment, or can't understand things as well, but one physically blind person who knows the Lord Jesus has better eyesight than all of the millions in this world who are spiritually blind. And that one with the clear spiritual vision has so much more to see than what can be seen in this fallen world that catches our eye, and pulls us away from the One true Love of our lives. The people of this world are more blind in what matters than anything else. They are taken by the things of this world, but little do they know that this is not true reality. True reality lies in what we can't see. In love and faith and life (or death) not on this earth, and most of all in our Awesome God and Maker, who is Love, and gives us faith, and became a man so that we could live with Him and not die in reality to come.

The saddest thing that I believe I will ever see or know of in our world today is not physical poverty, war , abuse, or corrupt government. It is the majority of souls who have chosen the easy but always looming path of death. I hear so many people say that "whatever you believe is true for you" and every life path is right if you think it is. Our culture is selling us plates of caviar and plates of dirt and everything inbetween, telling us that whatever tastes good to us is healthy. Health doesn't work like that. Today, in our self-saturated world most people if not all, given these plate choices would choose the caviar or steak, and without health guides, they wouldn't know that the vegetables are what they needed to keep themselves from a heart attack or death..........

oooookay. This is like 12 hours later... haha. I like got up and walked away, and then aMANDA called and I talked to her for a couple hours and then I cleaned up the house a little bit, and then I took a shower and then I had a pretty long prayer time for my buddy megan. (she's the sweetest!) and here I am, 12 hours later....well probably more like 11, because I was typing that @ around 10 this morning. Yeah. So alot of things happened today.... ok not really....it was pretty boring. So now it's 9:00 and I'm sitting here doing this again. haha...that was interesting, I know! haha. I went to a "ladies" ornament exchange @ Mrs. Whatley's house on Thursday and yesterday I went to the Smith's (in Monroe) house for a Christmas party. Those were both totally the BOMB! haha. I had a great time @ the ornament exchange and I got this really cute little baby snowman ornament!!! awww!!! And I had some awesomely fun chill time with Lydia and elizabeth @ the smith's house! woohoo! Those bratz dolls are the bomb, aren't they Elizabeth. I know what's on your Christmas list now! hehehe!!! yep. hAHA!

oooooook, it is now December 17th and I still haven't put this on my web-journal thing....oops! i better do that! Have a fabuluos day!
Love always in Him,
Rachel ><>