A new direction. . . .

As you know from an earlier post, I am feeling God call me in a slightly different direction in my life. I have been attending UAM for about 3 years now pursuing a degree in political science. It has been my intention to either go to Law School or enter a Graduate program and pursue a PhD once I finish here. However I feel called to immerse myself in; I don't know what you would call it; God's work I suppose. I feel like the more I surround myself with the things of God and his people and his work the closer I will be to God.

Drama is my passion and it is what I feel like God has called me to do for him. While of course nowhere in the Bible does it say anything about drama leaders (grin) there is the command to be a witness and to spread the precious truth. I feel that Drama is a very effective tool for that. Anyway on with the story. I've been talking to God about becoming more involved in the field of drama ministry and a few times Bible School has come to mind. Then the other night I was talking to a friend at a drama practice in Conway and he asked me if I had considered gong to Bible college. He told me he thought it would be a great way to get my ministry started. To me that was like this confirmation from God(THANKS JARED!). I had already done a little bit of looking at some of the UPCI endorsed Bible colleges and I knew that if I went I would probably want to go to Indiana Bible College. I came home from that drama practice and began doing a little more research. The more I look at it and pray about it and think about it, the more I think I really want and need to go. I've discovered that IBC is about half the cost of UAM. The downside to that is you can't get federal financial aid to go. So now I'm off to try and save roughly 7-$8,000 for my first year of Bible school. I've simply told God that if it is his will for me to be at IBC then he will make a way and provide the money. I'm going to continue to pray about this and seek God's will. I'm asking all of you to do the same. Your prayers are very much appreciated and needed.

all my love,

Yvonne

A success

Well the Easter Drama is over and I couldn't be happier!! Lots of time, effort, stress, prayer, fasting, and work went into it. I so appreciate all the people that helped make it possible. I couldn't have done it without you. At first when the drama was over I felt horrible there were several mistakes that I could see, things that didn't go as planned. Then tonight in the evening service I heard over and over how it had touched and stirred different ones and someone also got the holy ghost tonight!!! I was also blessed and refreshed in a beautiful way. The best way to put it is I was drunk on the holy ghost!!! When the service was over I felt like I had just gotten off the phone from a 3 hour conversation with my best friend. Anyway I just wanted to let y'all know that the drama went great!

Love y'all

Yvonne

Two Days. . . .

Well it's only two days until the Easter Drama!!! I know that God has great things in store for this. Pray tomorrow's practice goes great!!!!!!!!!! We need things to go flawlessly. Thanks for your prayers and again pray that we touch someones life.

Yvonne

A Directional Change

When I was living in Crossett we often had an evangelist by the name of Bro. Proctor come and preach for us. Bro. Proctor was famous for stopping in the middle of his preaching and saying "I feel a directional change." We always thought it was kind of comical. A few days ago however I think I litterally experienced a directional change. I'll be quite honest it scared me at first and I'm still completely uncertain. I felt all of a sudden like God was completely changing the direction I thought my life was headed. This is scary for me because I thought I had my life all planned out and it's like God is saying "psst hey blondie I don't want you to go that way I want you to go this way!" The best thing I know to do in this situation is hit my knees and talk to God about it and then hop up and change directions to fit God's plan. While yes I may welcome some of the changes in my life I am a bit scared about some of what God may have in store for me. So anyway I guess I'm asking for you all to pray with me about this. When it isn't 2 am and I'm not half asleep I'll tell you a bit more about my situation. Until then keep me in your prayers.

Love always

Yvonne

Just Because. . .

I woke up this morning wanting to do something special for someone. I don't know why but everyonce in a while I just like to make my mom smile. Perhaps it's everything she does for me or just the simple fact that she is and always will be my mommy. While yes I celebrate Mothers Day I actually hate conventional Holidays. I think everyday should be Mothers Day. So today I sent my mom flowers. I didn't do much just two Gerber Daisies and some babies breath but I think I succeeded in making her smile.





If you have the privelege of having a mother that is living do something nice for her "Just because"

A sad day for me. . . .

Well today I am very sad. As some of you know I have been working for the Huckabee campaign in an attempt to get him ellected. Today John McCain cinched the nomination by winning all four of the states today and therefore Huckabee is dropping out of the race. I truly believe Huckabee is the best candidate for the whitehouse but alas that will not happen. So for now I will mope and perhaps cry for a day or two and then pick up the pieces of my broken heart and move over to the McCain camp and do everything I'm capable to do to prevent Barrack Obama or Hillary Clinton from wining the whitehouse in general election.

Ok Ok I know this was a bit overdramatic but I was trying to get my point accross!
I really am dissappointed in the conservative party for not seeing Huckabee for the conservative he truly is.

An easter drama update. . . .

Well guys it's less than 3 weeks away and I don't mind telling you I WANT TO PULL MY HAIR OUT!!!!!! LOL no it's not quite that bad but there have been a couple times where I wondered if it will come together. I know that it will it's just stressful sometimes especially when you can't get everyone to the practices due to conflicting schedules and such. Anyway just please remember to keep us in your prayers. I really want this to be a tool of ministry. I know that this is the area of the church God intends for me to be used in and I'm so thankful for that opportunity. The drama is called "Through the Eyes of Mercy" and it tells the story of the crucifixion from the perspective of the adulteress woman. Please pray that everything falls together and we have an annointing on us that will somehow reach someone and show them the wonderful Mercy of God.

The cast and crew to pray for are

Destiny
Debbie
William
Leah
Joy
Charles
Anthony
and ME!!

Thank you all for your prayers they mean a lot!

Love
Yvonne

5 hour Energy. . . .I think it works.

Ok it's almost 5AM and I have been studying ALLLLLL night. That's right I haven't gone to sleep yet. I'm still not sure if I understand the corrolation between the Roosevelt Corollary and The Monroe Doctrine but I have pages of notes on it so maybe I'll remember enough of it to at least fake my through 3 essays and 5 or 6 short answers. I also have to remember exactly how America's Foreign Policy stances changed from the start of the 7 years war (pre revolution) to the end of WWII. That my friends is a LOT of information. 151 textbook pages of information to be exact. Along with about 20 pages of notes and some internet resources. THANK GOD Dr. Strong is letting us use 2 large notecards with information on them. I learned to wrtie VERY SMALL! Anyway amazingly enough I am not yet sleepy. Why is that you ask? Well that's because around 1 am I was getting sleepy and so I drank one of those little berry flavored B vitamen energy shots called "5 Hour Energy". I think I can safely say it worked! I felt whats called a niacin flush but so far that's the only adverse side affect and it only lasted a couple minutes. Not only have I gotten all my studying done but I managed to write two people up in one night. I am so on a roll! Not that I really enjoy writing people up they shouldn't a been breakin the rules! Anyway I'm going to go hop in the shower and read over my American Foreign Policy notes one more time to make sure I have it all down. Wish me luck and if you ever need a boost to stay awake for a few hours longer than you normally do try 5 hour energy you can find it in the vitamin section of Wal-mart or Walgreens!

On a roll. . .

Wow three blogs in a row I'm on a roll today! lol. Really it's just pure boredom at work. Anyway I was thinking about the whole independence thing and about the fact that I want to go to Conway tonight instead of having Jerald meet me in PB. Well my first reason is I really want to attend a youth service that is being held in Conway tonight. I really feel like I need church tonight since I didn't get to go wednesday. Secondly it would be cheaper on Jerald but not much cheaper on me either way I go with it. Those two reasons were the only ones that I had in mind when I first brought up the idea of me going to Conway instead oh and wanting to see my family (as bad as I hate to admit it I actually miss them from time to time). Anyway on with the story. I didn't write about it but my car broke down and has been in the shop for almost 2 weeks now. Anyone that really knows me knows that my car is my LIFELINE! I HATE and I mean HATE having to ask someone to take me somewhere. So when I got stranded in PB I thought I was going to die and it got even worse when we found out how much it was going to cost us to fix the darn thing. Well I thought I was suppose to be getting my car back yesterday but alas the lady called me and said "there's a problem with your car we seem to have ordered the wrong part" In my mind I was thinking WHAT!!!!!!! This cannot be happening!!!!! I was just fixing to launch in to a tirade about their incompetance or some such thing when the lady finished her statement. "We have a loaner for you" Whew!!! I thought to myself lady you better be glad you said that. Not that it was the womans fault but I would have had to have released my anger onto someone and she the poor innocent soul that she is would have been the closest target. Anyway what does this have to do with the fact that I want to go to Conway tonight? IT"S A 2+ Hour DRIVE!!!!! I am soo excited to actually get to do some real driving again I have so missed my car!!!!

I think I may have slightly dissapointed Jerald and I hate that but I NEED this drive. I know that's weird and wacky and crazy of me but anyway on to the main point that i'm trying to make. Is this or is this not a case of independence being a bad thing? I don't think so but you tell me and be honest.

Yvonne

Independence. . .Good or Bad?

After all that meaningless chatter of my last blog I have actually thought of somethng halfway meaningful to talk about! *gasp* This blog will be in the form of a question I suppose. When, if ever, is Independence a bad thing. I am and always have been an independent person with a stubborn streak a mile wide. I've managed to trim down the stubborn streak a bit over the past few years of my adult life but my independent nature refuses to change and quite frankly I don't know that I really want it to. I kind of like me the that I am but I know that as humans we sometimes have a hard time seeing are flaws as well, flaws. So you tell me is it bad to have a really really independent nature and what could make it a bad thing? I really want to know so please please please pretty please with sugar on top comment???????

Ta ta for now

Not much to say

Well today I am in the mood to blog. I'm sitting at work bored out of mind and searching for something profound to say that will wow my few faithful readers and yet I seem to be pulling a blank. So alas you are stuck with my mundane ramblings about work and school. I've been attempting the blog about my nieces singing but I seem to be having troubles with the video. I'm going to try again tonight when if I get the opportunity to get on my sisters connection. I dont know if I'll be in Conway tonight or not. I'm waiting on Jerald to get back to me on whether we are keeping our original plans of meeting in PB (Pine Bluff for you non-arkansans) or if I am going to come to Conway so we can attend a youth service there. I'll let you know how that turns out (as if you really care about these minut details of my life). It's so fun to pretend that there is a world of people out there reading this thing and nodding their heads going wow very interesting I like this girl. It is quite obvious however that I live in the world of fantasy as you can look at my counter and see the stark reality of things. I've only had a little over 1500 hits on this thing since I started it back in July of '07 and a few of those were probably me checking my counter lol. Not that I'm complaining I absolutely adore those of you that read my blog even though you tend to do so in silence. I would greatly appreciate a comment now and then just to remind me that I am loved. *sigh* I'm going to start feeling unloved and unwanted and then that will lead to major depression and the need for me to receive mental health care and all sorts of other nasty things and we don't want that to happen now do we? So C'mon people be a jewel and comment on my blog even if you wish to such derogatory things as "you suck dirt like a hoover" or "I really wish you would give up this pointless blog" At least that way I'll know you're actually reading!! Ok ok enough with the guilt trip I really don't blog to give you guys something enjoyable to read I blog as an out let. My computer is a captive audience and therefore must listen to me anytime I want it to.

Wow this blog really was quite pointless wasn't it? Oh well it was fun and allowed a few minutes of this boring work day pass.

I love you guys
Thanks for putting up with my endless rantings and ramblings

Yvonne

SCARY!

Sorry guys I'm back to politics since I got this e-mail from Sis. Allard. When I watched the video in the e-mail I thought ot myself FINALLY something legitamately bad about Obama! I know it sounds weird and many of you looked down on me when I stood up in the mans defense over the lies that were being spread about him online but I have NEVER said that I supported him I have simply said that there are enough bad things about him and other Democrats that are TRUE that we shouldn't have to around making up lies about the poor people. Anyway sorry about the little rant on with the video!

At first when I was watching it I thought well this isn't so bad he's just talking about the fact that there are lots of different religions and we shouldn't discriminate. Not so terrible right? But then towards the end it's almost as if he is mocking the Bible!!!!! Of all things. So anyway watch the video and decide for yourself.




Love y'all

Yvonne

A conceited blog. . .if you'll allow me

Ok so the title is probably slightly exaggerated but if you'll allow me this blog is purely self interested. I simply wanted to wish myself a happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!!



More self exaltation to follow ;) (J?k)


But it really is my birthday and I'm 22 years old. I hope that makes all you people who watched me grow up feel ancient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Love you guys

Yvonne

Good Times with Jesus

The following is a video from when my mom was here in Arkansas visiting a week or so ago. I got the privelege of singing with her and my older sister Cristie. We sang "Little Song Coming On" by Three Bridges. I think it went great and just wanted to share that with you. I am working on another post that will include a video of my niece singing which is something I think you will not only find enjoyable but I think that it will bless you!


Enjoy!

Yvonne

Finding what makes us "feel good"

The other day I was eating in a chinese restaurant with some people from the church. I think that my favorite part of chinese food (besides eating with chopsticks) is the fortune cookie! Now at this particular place you could eat as many fortune cookies as you wanted because they are out on the buffet. I went to the buffett line and I got a large handful of fortune cookies and proceeded to open them up and read fortunes and eat cookies. The people I was with were laughing at me as I was becoming quite dissapointed that I couldn't find a fortune cookie with a fortune that I liked. You know one of those ones that make you feel good because they say your going to get money or find true love? Well I once again went and got another handful of cookies. FINALLY after eating 6 or 7 fortune cookies I found a fortune that tickled my fancy! It said you will recieve an unexpected payment soon. ALRIGHT! Just what I need I said and once again the people with me laughed. Later that night I was sitting in my room thinking (scary I know) and I had a thought about my experience with the fortune cookies.

Often times we do the same thing to the Bible that I was doing with my cookies. We dig through the Bible trying to find a verse or a scripture to make us "feel good". I was simply ignoring all those fortunes that said things like "you will learn a hard lesson this month" and simply looking until I found one that I liked better. Once I found the perfect fortune all the others were simply forgotten and that became my fortune. Now I know we can't put much stock in fortunes but we can put complete trust in the word of God and yet we sometimes pick it apart taking only the parts that give us that warm fuzzy feeling and leave the rest to be ignored. It's not that we do it on purpose it just happens. We love the part of the scripture that says resist the devil and he will flee but we often brush past and ignore that part that says submit yourselves unto God. We often try to ignore those ugly words like submit and obey in the Bible and we search and search for the parts that say blessings will flow abundantly. While there is nothing wrong with looking for scriptures that apply to our current situations let us make sure we aren't ignoring some of the many wonderful treasures in his word just because they don't make us "feel good"

Hope you all enjoyed my thought for the day. (See no politics this time either!)

With much love,
Yvonne

Time for a break

Ok guys it's time for a break from politics. It seems that's all I've been writing about lately. With the passing of Super Tuesday I shall take a break from boring you to tears with my political rantings and ravings! Instead lets talk about. . . . ME! lol just kidding I know you all get sick of hearing about me too. However I would like to talk a little about some things going on in my life. We have recently started working on an Easter drama at our church. I wrote it sort of. I took some songs and things that I love and compiled them to tell the easter story from a unique perspective. Why am I telling you this? Easy I need for you to pray!!!! For those of you that are close to me you know that my passion is drama as a ministry. It is in my humble opinion that drama is a powerful tool of ministry. I Do NOT want to just put on a play that looks good or has pretty music. I want to make an IMPACT on people. I don't just want to stir emotions over the bloody crucifixion. I want to stir souls as they realize the power of his mercy. I don't want to just cause excitiment when Jesus raises the dead or he himself raises from the dead I want to build faith in his healing power. More importantly I don't want people to walk away on Easter Sunday simply saying wow that was good I really enjoyed that instead I want people to walk away with tear stained faces and changed hearts and I want our visitors to return!!

So please keep us in prayer. Keep me in prayer as I lead this noble army of actors and crew members in the right direction and set them loose in battle on Easter Sunday. Pray that I will keep a right attitude when someones personality clashes and tempers flare.
Pray for the actual production process that costumes will fit and crosses will be tall enough and lights will be bright enough. Pray that no CD's get scratched midway through a performance and no one forgets their lines.
Pray for the actors that they too will feel the same burden for souls that I have and that our mission will be the same. Pray for the annointing upon each member of the cast.
Finally pray for those souls that will be filling our pews this Easter Sunday. I am challenging our cast and crew to fill the seat they normally occupy with at least one visitor.

The drama is called through the eyes of Mercy and some cast members to keep in prayer are
Destiny
Debbie
William
Leah
Anthony
Cindy
Travis
David
Joy

Thank you all for your prayers and support
With much love

Yvonne

Down but not out yet!

Mike Huckabee may have lost Florida which is a pretty important state in the primaries but don't count him out just yet! With Super Tuesday just around the corner he still has a chance since half of the Super Tuesday states are southern and polls show Mike coming up first in many of those states. With Giuliani more than likely dropping out of the race we have a chance to pick up some of his votes. I think we can still win this race for the nomination. . .I still think Mike Huckabee is the man Republicans need to send to the White house! Lets do all that we can do to get this man elected. There are several things you can do click on each one to take you to a link for more information.

1. Contribute! (You can't runa a campaign without money

2. Volunteer and make phone calls

3. Join a meetup group! These groups are a great way to get involved in the local campaign

4. Join Hucks Army!

5. PRAY! Nothing has more power than prayer folks!

A few things you need to know

First of all let me say I apologize for not having posted in so long. School has started again and so it's pretty crazy.

I'm getting heavily active in the Huckabee Presidential Campaign as you can see from past posts and once again this post is to inform you of a few things that are happening in Arkansas.

First of all Saturday (that's tomorrow) We are having a Sign Wave to show our support for Mike. There will be three locations in the central AR location. Two in Little Rock (One at each mall) And one in Conway at the corner of Oak and Harkrider (by Walgreens). I am the team captain for the Conway team and I'm inviting you out to show your support for Huckabee.

Secondly If you are from the Monticello area and you support huckabee please join the meet-up group for the Monticello area (that includes Crossett Hamburg, Fountain Hill, Eldorado, Camden all those places and more). Here is the link for the meet-up group.
www,mikehuckabee.meetup.com/545/
We will be holding our first event soon and being a member of the group insures that you are well informed of what is going on in Huckabee's Campaign.

Thirdly if you would like to help out the Huckabee Campaign please go to his website and become a ranger. Once you have become a ranger pull up the phone bank and spend a few minutes contacting 5 people a day between now and Sunday and more if you have the time. If you spend 5 minutes you could contact 10 people. The script provided is designed to make calls last around 30 seconds.

Well gotta run it's 80's night in the dorms and I have pink hair and we're watching old 80's movies!

Love you guys

Yvonne

Campaign Ads

So it's been a while since I've posted. I've been on Christmas break but now I'm back at school.

Since Huckabee hasn't launched a major campaign here in Arkansas yet we don't get to see the campaign ads he has been running in other states. I thought I would give y'all an easy way to watch his latest one that is set to run in Michigan.



Just click to play the ad.

I love his last line.

Don't forget to get out and vote on Super Tuesday February 5th!

Also if you would like to contribute to the Mike Huckabee Campaign click on the U.S. Map logo at the top of my blog.

Yet another reason I like Mike. . . .

Ok here comes another of my political tirades. I promise this one wont be long because it's 3:30 a.m. and I'm getting a bit sleepy.

As you all know I support Huckabee for President in the 08 elections. Of all the candidates out there I feel he is the best choice for President. Do I agree with everything he did as governor of the state I call home? No of course not. . .I don't agree with everything Bush has done but I still consider him a great president (I realize I'm in the minority here).

Here is another reason why I support Huckabee for President. . . .

The man has manners and the guts to admit when he's wrong. If you've ever watched political campaign ads you know they are often negative ads directed at why other candidates are bad choices. Facts get twisted and turned to one persons advantage and make the other people look bad. So far Huckabee's ad's haven't done that even though some ads have attacked him directly. Today Huckabee was due to release his first negative ad against Mit Romey. I must say that slightly dissapointed me as I hate the mudslinging in politics. Thankfully Huckabee redeamed himself by pulling the ad and ordering it not to be run. On top of that he comitted to not run negative ads against Romney or anyone else for that matter at least unti after the caucuses.

Anyway I'm off to bed now Hope you all have a Happy New Year and don't forget to get out and vote!

Yvonne