The Other Katie

She is the most outgoing, yet shy person that I have ever met. She is strong, she is sarcastic, she is unique. She is my best friend. When Katie was twelve, she sprained her ankle. Within hours, she was rushed to the hospital. It turns out, Katie had a very rare blood trait, Factor Five. She also contracted the MRSA staff infection. Over the course of three months, Katie had gone though eleven surgeries., one of them being open heart surgery. Katie is the strongest person I know. She is very sarcastic, and people who do not know her well often have a hard time discerning whether she is joking or not. She is definitely a blonde. She once asked me “How in the world do people go to the South Pole without falling off the Earth?” but that doesn’t top the time she told me that she thought “Islam” was a kind of lunch meat. Katie is a strong Christian. She has told me repeatedly that the only way she made it through her illness was with the help of Jesus. Although Katie is a strong person, there are times when she is weak and scared. She often wishes that she was as strong as she was when she was twelve. She often worries what the future holds for her. But through it all, she still has a joyous outlook on life, and she still takes the time to try to comfort and cheer up those who are hurting around her. She is one of the most selfless people that I know. Anyone who has ever made her acquaintance is truly blessed.


I LOVE YOU, KATIE!

hello all.
i started work today.
it wasn't too bad, i suppose.
its just going to take some getting used to.

i'm supposed to work from 4-10 tomorrow. but i swear, if i dont feel better there is no possible way on this earth i am going. i feel so sick. my throat hurts (also a few pus pockets popping up), im extremely fatigued, i can't concentrate, i can barely stand up without getting dizzy. i'm going to have to go to the doctor monday. but how am i going to make it past tomorrow?
i do not know. and its stressing me out.
not to mention, if i have what we think i have (uh-oh) im going to have to miss school for at least a week. and we have finals coming up soon...what on earth am i going to do?

only three more weeks.
i just keep repeating that to myself.
three three three.
i can't hardly believe it.
Sophomore year has gone by so fast.
Next year i'll be a Junior, then a Senior...
then its off to college. gosh thats freakin' scary and exciting at the same time.
i honestly cannot wait to move to Nashville.
I'll be there for four years...
then on to training...
then to Japan, maybe?
a scary thought. so exciting though.

well i must be getting to bed.

oh gosh. im so horrible about keeping up with this thing. my apologies!
today is the official start of...Spring Break! i am SO happy its finally here. I was starting to feel totally burned out on school. the break is welcome.

thankfully we only have 4 more weeks of school after this. (sadly, i've been telling everyone that we only had 3. my bad!) now THAT is something to be excited about! gosh i have so much going on this summer its crazy! State Competition (speaking of which i am no where NEAR done learning my piano piece, and i still haven't found a suitable monologue), Camp, hopefully staying with my sister in Nashville (and my bro too), TRUTH&PEACE, the Nationals, vacation out to NC to see my grandma, and, of course, working. yes, i have a job now. scary though, aye? at Quiznos. i was hired last week! but i haven't started yet...actually, im not even sure when i start. hopefully not this week. haha. no, im just kidding. like my dad said "Everything changes from now on. you cant just do what you want. you have to listen to your boss..." Oy im scared. no, seriously. i am. but hey, i need the money.

i had one of the most....interesting arguments last night. it was one of those Calvinism vs. Arminianism debates. dont you just love those? ha. one of my friends from school (a school run by a fundamental independent baptist church) called me and out of the blue asked me "so...you guys dont believe in 'once saved, always saved' do you?" The great thing was he used the arguments that Calvinists are known for using. i couldn't help but laugh. So to prove MY point i gave him Hebrews 6:4-6, (in KJV since that was what he was using.)

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

so he told me that that passage meant that "it is impossible for man to forfeit his salvation" i don't know HOW he got that out of that passage, because to me that is black and white. you CAN forfeit your salvation. you CAN turn away. If we have freedom in Christ, to say that we don't have the choice to give up our salvation, is in fact total bondage. to say that is to say that we no longer have freedom or a free will. I told him that too. But in the end whats going to matter is "did you believe that Jesus died on the cross and rose again?" its not going to be "were you a Calvinist or an Arminian?" ah and he did give me John 10: 28-29 (And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.) to which i said "yes. that verse is true. no man can remove you from His hand. But you yourself, can" to which he acknowledged that i had made a good point. but that was the argument. I'm not changing my opinion, hes not changing his.