coming home...

so, for people who are actually wondering when i'm coming back up to ny, i thought i'd let you all know.....i'll be home for my fall break in oct..it's from the 8th-11th, so i'll see some of you then!!!! :D

libertyyyyy!

lovinggg it down here in virginiaaaa! & i'm really loving liberty university! classes started on monday, so i've had all of my classes....& i'm pretty happy with my schedule actually :P i'm taking afternoon classes, which i reallyyy like, yayy! ..and they don't seem bad, but we shall see how i feel about them in a few weeks, ha....&&&& i loveee the girls in my quad, so that's such a blessing!

i'll talk about it more, and post pics later...but i wanted to let you know that i'm here & i'm still alive, lol :]

friends foreverrrrr..

well.....i'm off to VA in just a few shorttttt, but very longgg hours! I was able to hang out with some of the best guys that i know...& i had such a amazingly awesomee time with them! ..as alwayssss of course!!! :P those guys would be tim, brandon & bryan..........these three guys right here, are incredible Men Of God, and i love them all!! these guys are the most encouraging, uplifting, fun-loving, Godly men & i'm sooooo blessed to have them as some of my closest friends!! 

after we finished watching a movie [remember the titans] ;) i was sitting there just talking with tim and brandon, and all of a sudden, tim started speaking this incredible word over my life....& let me tell you..i just losttt it completely and started crying when him & brandon kept speaking..& then we all sorta just realized that this was the last time we'll get to hang out together until novemberrr during thanksgiving break....hopefully maybe even just a lil sooner if they come down, or i happen to make a quick trip up here...we sat there for a couple hrs & just prayed and cried [well, mostly just me, ha] and just had an awesomeee time! i'm soooo thankful for being blessed with such amazing & awesome friends!!!! just all of their encouragement, support & love means the world to me & there's nooo way that i wanna let my close friendship with these guys go.....!! i'd be the most insane & senseless person everrr! 

I thank God for such amazing friends like these guys!! :D

goodbyes are neverr easy..

ackkkk! tomorrow's my lasttttt day in ny.....& i've never felt so mixed about something! it really hit me friday night when i was out at the lake with my parents & my gparents...saying goodbye to my gparents was one of the hardest things i think i've ever had to do so far....& i can't even imagine what it's gonna be like saying bye to my parents! after i said goodbye to mis abuelos, i was crying for the longest time..............ughhhh! for the longest time, i've been waiting for this moment and counting down the days, but now that it's here..i wish i had more time before heading off...

i know it's all part of life and growing up, and that it has to happen sooner or later...but i think just knowing that when i leave for college, things will just never be the same ever again, makes it soo much harder........there' s just too many emotions right now & i don't know how much more of them i can take on at this moment...i'm just praying for a supernatural peace to come upon me and my family, because of all the high running emotion that's going around...it's all a part of His plan & purpose, so He'll help us get through it!

...& whitehall was amazingg as usuallll!!!! i'll elaborate on that more later on & post a few pics of me & my lovessss! :]

& i have a praiseeeee!!!!!!!  dad is COMPLETELYYYYYYY done with alllllll of his treatments! chemo, radiation, everythingggg! he finished this past wednesdayyy!! we serve a mightyyy God who can do anything & everythingggg!!!!! MI DIOS ES PUEDE SALVARRRR POR SIEMPRE Y SIEMPRE!! [my God is mighty to save forever and everrrrrr!!]..PTL! :D

ready, set.....

i'm ready.

ready to just move on. ready for a new start. ready to see all that God has for me.

...ready to be all that i'm meant to be!

there's 20 days until it's time to be down at liberty, and i cannot wait! God has just prepared my heart over this past year for such a time as this. i admit..it has been the most trialing year of my life, and i've cried soo many times, but i could not be more thankful for all that He's going to do with it. i've definitely had time to think so many things over, just replaying them allll in my head over and over, but the more i keep thinking and realizing the preparation they've given me, i couldn't think of doing them over. 

i've spent some time reading and realizing things....this is an excerpt of something that a friend gave to me..

**The Gift of Woundedness - written by Francis Frangipane..

..."Gift?" you ask. Yes, to be wounded in the service of mercy and, instead of closing our hearts, allow woundedness to crown love, is to realease God's power in redemption. The steadfast prayer of the wounded intercessor holds great sway upon the heart of God...We cannot become Christlike without being wounded. You see, even after we come to Christ, we carry encoded within us preset limits concerning how far we will go for love, and how much we are willing to suffer for redemption. When God allows us to be wounded, He exposes those human boundaries and reveals what we lack of His nature...

the things that God allows us to go through are all a part of Him molding us, and preparing us for what He's going to do in our lives. sometimes we just need to live out hard times in our lives so that we're able to have the complete understand and compassion for others in situations similar to what we've been through. to gain a further knowledge of Christ, we need to experience what He has gone through for us....& even though they might not all be pleasant and enjoyable..

i can't waittt!! :]

editing fun - OBX 09

OBX 09

the cousins

here's a few pics of my fam vaca down in the OBX!

it's sooo nice here & it's making me even more excited for LU in virginiaaa!! :D

 

summer livin'

hi again..well, right now i'm at Chautauqua Lake with the whoooole crew & i gotta love it here! i've been coming here for as longgg as i can remember & have so many mems here at this place! i'm really hoping this isn't going to be my last summer here since i've graduated and everything, but who knows if and when i'll be here next... :( I've pretty much spent everyyy summer here with Chris and everyone else, and it's just a tradition that i hope will continue. so i've been here since monday, and we'll be leaving tomorrow sometime to head down to PA for the night & then on to the OBX for friday...i'm looking forward to friday night because i'll be meeting one of the guys i've been talking to who's going to Liberty with me & the fall, and he's pretty sweeet :P so yeah, that's one of my highlights, haha...but then, we'll be in the OBX with the fam for a week, which i'm sooo looking forward to the sun because it still feels like april here when it's almost mid july :/ so i'm praying for good weather & a great time before i head off to LU!

well anyways, it's pretty late, so i should probably be heading to bed...

¡hasta luego!

...buenas noches :]

graduation.....

well.....graduation's tomorrow, & i think it's finally hitting me that it's completely overr. i'm sooo ready to be done with it all, but at the same time it's like all that i've ever known is just a memory now..bitter-sweet.....prolly more sweet tho, hehe ;) but still, life really does go on & it all happens in the blink of an eye. i've been so stinkin psyched for foreverrr to just move on with everything in my life, but now that it's here, it's like i'm starting all over again & i can't go back even if i tried. i wouldn't want to go back thru this past year, because it's been filled with so many trials and frustrations, but at the same time, i've never felt so close to God and willing to allow Him to completelyyy turn myself to Him in every situation. i've only been able to smile and be soo joyful about graduating, but now i know tomorrow will be filled with tears..some of sorrow, and others of joy. i can't wait to see all that God does in my life because i know that with Him it will be made perfect! & that just amazes me.  i'll be so enthusiastic about it all, but i can say this...that when we go give our parents hugs and flowers during our ceremony, i'll be crying just because of everything.......

..but this is enough for now..& i'm sure i'll be back fairly soon

LU address

here's my new address for fall '09..

******NEW MSC BOX # as of 7.23.09*******

USPS Mailing Address	FedEx/UPS Mailing Address
Renee Rose MSC Box 51307 Liberty University P.O. Box 20,000 Lynchburg, VA 24506-8001	Renee Rose MSC Box 51307 1971 University Blvd Lynchburg, VA 24502

you know that you're really going away & on your own when you write your own address in the family phone book...