Praying for the Right Thing

I realized something yesterday. I'd been saying an intercessory prayer to St. James, asking him to get in a word with God to heal an ailment that I have. I thought that miraculously my problems would be solved and that would be the end. Yesterday I had an epiphany. I love the word epiphany. I realized that I was praying for the wrong thing. I would pray to God to "heal me," to "help me," but what I should have been praying for was for God to give me the strength to help myself. I wanted God to just give me the easy way out and to heal me without me actually having to do anything. That's not the way it works. I have the resources to help myself, and that way is definitely harder, but in the end it makes me stronger. I just wanted to share wtih everyone. If you think your prayer has not been answered, look harder. I'm sure the answer is there, it just might not be the answer you wanted. God isn't here to give us everything we want. God's goal is to prepare our souls for heaven. God loves us and knows us better than we know ourselves. God is doing what is right for us. God loves. And love heals.

xoxograce

Homecoming =]

Well, tonight was lovely. I got my haircut at 1:15 (notice the bangs). Then Julija came over and we drove to the Greek Islands where we met Andrea, Veronica, Cally, and Johanna. Julija and I were somehow color coordinated and we didn't even know we were going to be... we both had black dresses with green accents. Weird. I ate gyros and pastichio and it was delicious. Then we made a Walgreens run because my camera ran out of batteries. We had fun playing in the Halloween aisle. We took pictures that Ronica has on her camera. Then we went to the dance. The theme was Marti Gras but obviously, with our lack of school spirit, nobody cared. I had a lot of fun tonight. Despite my foot problem, I danced all night and had fun with all my friends. After the dance Julija, Andrea, Johanna, and I went to White Palace and got some milkshakes (Julija also got some French toast). That milkshake may have been the best one I have ever had. No joke.

have a lovely rest of the weekend!

xoxograce

"Ive never let my school interfere with my education." -Mark Twain

I'm in school right now. I'm extremely tired and I should be doing my astronomy homework but I don't know what it is so...

This is spirit week at our school and we have homecoming on Saturday. This is the schedule of the week:
Monday: Twin Day
Tuesday: Hawaiian Day
Wednesday: Superhero Day
Thursday: Decades Day (Freshman-50's, Sophomores-60's, Juniors- 70's, Seniors- 80's) So I'm dressed up with teased hair, leggings and legwarmers right now and it is wayyyy too hot in this building to be wearing layers.
Friday: Spirit Day-- we wear any school shirts and jeans and we have our pep rally. I'm sure it will be peppy. Not really. We have low school spirit at this school. We didn't have a football team for a long time and now we've only had it for five years and we're not the best...

Will on this blog is wearing red pants today hahaha. "Will looks particularly sexy today. Why does he have to be gay?" my friend Katie asked me. Katie, Will says thanks for saying he looks sexy.

I haven't really blogged in a while so I guess I'll update.

School started. I like my classes.
I got the supporting role in the school musical, "Kiss Me, Kate" so that's exciting =]
I'm going to the homecoming game tomorrow with Amy and I'm borrowing one of her dresses for the dance on Saturday because I don't want to spend money and buy a new one. Amy's 4'11" though to my 5'6" so we'll see how her dress fits me...

Being in the computer lab has woken me up because it's air conditioned all year round in here.

Latin class is really boring me lately. Freshman year it was my favorite class. I guess the teacher really can make the class.

I don't want to be in school right now. I want to be in bed eating food.

I'm starting a diet again. I've gained a lot of weight. Yeahh... we'll see.

I wish I could dance.

There is something wrong with my foot. I stepped on something a while ago and now it still hurts and sometimes it feels like a nerve is being pinched or something. It's quite painful.

It's funny to see everyone dressed up this week. We should have theme days every week. I would love it, but I'm sure we'd all get bored.

Okay 4th period ends in like four minutes so I'm gonna go. Hopefully I'll write more soon.

xoxograce

Autumn

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

-William Cullen Bryant

I Miss Summer...

Amy and me at the beach =]

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i'm not nervous anymore.

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I'm nervous.

-grace

"he's kind of charming."
-ariel

that's why they call them crushes

"That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy they'd call them something else."

-Jim Baker, Sixteen Candles


Ariel and I were just on the phone for a while. We were talking about a multitude of topics, but one that is really on my mind right now is crushes. I've been thinking about it. Most guys that I've liked in the past are guys that I kind of convinced myself to like because I thought that I should like them, not because I actually did. I don't really know if that makes sense, but it's what happened. I just always wanted someone to like. It's fun to have someone that you like. It's really difficult, too, but I realized something today. (The path my life has been taking recently has been one of revelation.) I realized today that the worst thing is when you like someone that you didn't chose to like. You just like him or her. You didn't pick them out and say "Hey, I like you." It just happened. You kind of tripped over them. You didn't mean to, but it happened. That is the worst thing. Well, for me, right now, it's the worst thing. If circumstances were different then I think that it would actually be extremely wonderful.

love,
grace

p.s. i'm finding it a lot harder to be close with God while school is in session. i'm kind of just trying to survive. it's getting in the way of my faith journey and is causing concern.

Hey, Blogger Family!

hey guys,
i just realized something a few minute ago. guess what. i know how to forgive.
love,
grace

1950's Style

I finally combed out my beehive. I think I must have been in the shower for at least twenty minutes longer than usual because I was trying to tame my teased hair and get rid of all the hairspray. I had a 1950's party last night! It was fun, we played fifties music, hula hooped, dressed up, and had a bonfire. We also had a graffiti wall on my garage and everyone wrote something.

I like making people dress up. I find it entertaining =]

In other news, I'm sick and my voice is shot and I have an audition this week so I'm kind of really upset. I'm also looking forward to seeing Shannon's pictures from her dad's wedding when she posts them! I hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday.

xoxo,

grace

Things I'm Liking...

• freshly waxed eyebrows
• dressing in 80's workout clothes
• the 1950's
• pink pumps
• Massa
• awkwardly cantoring at Mass
• talking at my usual volume even though my voice is shot... but now i'm talking like a man to ease the pain so i guess that's my punishment
• sweatbands
• mistakenly calling bloggers by their real name online
• dancing
• smiling
• laughing really loud
• going to Goodwill

<333grace

Bottle Opener

My brother just informed me that the dentures on our garage are a bottle opener! Is that not hilarious?
xoxograce

Dentures

I was just thinking about my garage. Why I was thinking about my garage as I was in the middle of writing my religion would take along and complicated explanation, but anyway, I was thinking about my garage. Our garage is an ordinary two car garage that is filled with way too much garbage to fit one car, let alone two. Our garage is ordinary. Except for one thing. There is a pair of dentures attached to our garage. I have no idea why they are there, but the are right on the garage door, painted white and easily mistaken for a hook on the door. After close examination, however, you will see that there is, a pair of dentures stationed on my garage door.

multa amore,
grace

i bought a new life for a dollar twenty-five, some sunglasses, too.
*backseat goodbye

A Short Post with Easy Reading Specifically for Ariel and Ausrine

my foot hurts.
i stepped on something on saturday.
it's not the ball of my foot, it's next to it.
it's not my foot with bursitis either.
i don't know what's wrong with it.
hopefully i won't die from it.
the end.

love,
grace