Cup of Jo

Jello,

I just read through my blogs and laughed at myself. It was a good time.
Anyways, hello there, long time no see, or...type...yeah.

Last Thursday I got my braces off! I am sooo glad to be free of that metallic bondage. I am free to smile without a mechanic distraction. But, I am very sad/disappointed in almost everyone that I know. Since Thursday, only 10 people have noticed without me telling them. Those people are Rachel, Anna, Jamisen, Ariel, Domenica, Vanessa, Miranda, two girls from my Chemistry class that sit behind and in front of me, and a girl that sits behind me in my humanities class. Yep. Nialls and Ian didn't notice until 15-20 minutes after I'd been around them. No one in my small group (besides Rachel) noticed. No one at my church noticed. I've been to every social institution that I frequent, it's not like I haven't been around people. I've been out and about; and, only 10 people have noticed that something that has been the same about me for 2 1/2 years has changed. Yep. :(
It makes me sad. And I don't understand.

"People always try to look beyond their own lives. But, I know that it won't last. Pride comes before our fellow man". -Emery, closed eyes, open hands.

On another note, I have a book suggestion.
"Stuff Christians Like" by Johnathon Acuff is the funniest book you will ever read. It is, seriously.

I'm still waiting for an accept/decline from the colleges. It's tough to wait, but it'll be okay.

Schools almost out. I'm pumped to be out of highschool, but sad about that chapter of my life being completely over. Does that make sense?

My memory verse/passage for the season is this.
Luke 12:22-34
22And he said to his disciples,  "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 26If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. 32 "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33 Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also".

Don't be anxious little flock.

♥