Starting to Heal.

I can feel my hand getting a little better day by day, and my cold, I'm praying for that to leave swiftly.

Oh how the month of January has just seemed to fly by! Projects are starting to be due and every now and then there is a little bit of a warmer day. My car is fixed now! Praise the Lord!

Tomorrow my pops goes in for surgery on his knee. I will/am praying for you daddio. I've been there done that so I know it's a tough time. It'll be good though, perhaps we all learn something from it, things happen for a reason.

Right now I am listening to some Sufjan Stevens and really enjoying his music. I'm coughing every now and then but I have faith this will go away soon.

Biked to school today, which was nice, it had been a while due to freezing temperatures and all. Blessed to have a sister like Melwren who will take me everywhere. :)!

Tonight is RIHOP and I just pray pray pray for dancing and rejoicing of some sort! Even if I can't physically dance I pray that my heart will be dancing. :)

This is all around but it's all good.

Night loves,
Cheers,
peace in Him,
much much more,
Carra "The Wash"

right now I'm imagining some really great armor... and I like it.

War

Some interesting stuff went on this weekend... but I've been slacking on my blog!!!

Short and some sweet about Sunday (yesterday):

Woke up with the Holy Spirit making me smile.
Went to a great service at Harvest Renewal Church.
Delivered Michelle's Christmas present (kinda late I know haha)
Got some work printed...
and then I think I started getting attacked a bit by the enemy b/c
Drove to the show (HOPE AT HAND) and my car window fell into the door and wont come out.
Some things happened to my sister Melissa.
Another thing happened at the show that I won't mention here

But then the fight was on at the show, b/c so many people were praying (fighting against the enemy) and Hope at Hand is a really exciting band! I got to pass out some TWLOHA fliers and smile at people... but then

I got home and went to get a snack, some whole wheat bagels, I put them in the small oven thing and then when I took one out my hand hit the top of the oven and burned part of my skin, sorry I'm not sparing the details...

and then I went to bed and had horrible dreams.

so PLEASE PLEASE pray against the enemy in Jesus' name.

LORD I AM YOURS.

FRIDAY FRIDAY

Well today is Friday.

This means a couple of things. Well esp. today. Joni and I are going to Taekwondo at the Siegal Center tonight! And RIHOP tonight! Earlier today Joni and I hit up Walmart for some shopping of foods and that was sweet!!! I didn't know I would get anything but then I realized I did need to grocery shop!!!

It is a weird weekend as well... b/c a lot of lovely peeps are gone on a Leadership weekend retreat thingy... :( we'll miss 'em. But God has a ton in store for them while there! So it's all good!

Sunday is exciting!!! HOPE AT HAND a friend's band is playing and I'm really stoked to go b/c I haven't been to a show in a while, and I'm really praying for boldness to talk to kids there at the show... I'm taking some TWLOHA handouts to give people b/c they came in the mail yesterday!!! YAY...

I need to wake up b/c tonight is Taekwondo night and that means I need to be energized!!!

LOVE LOVE.
I can't write anything else right now.
Sorrys

5:07

If you told me to put the guitar down would I do it?

I don't know... merbs. haha

contemplating some things that I'm not typing here... haha sorry!

Yes.

anddddd mango, melissa, music.

that's all I'm saying.
time to leave my house.

(it's currently 5:07 est.)

cheers!!!
:)!

TWLOHA.COM

(edit: i'm currently not playing guitar only talking about the moment i pick it up)

Hello Psalm 116.

This is my 116th post so I'm posting Psalm 116.

1 I love the LORD, for he heard my voice;
he heard my cry for mercy.

2 Because he turned his ear to me,
I will call on him as long as I live.

3 The cords of death entangled me,
the anguish of the grave came over me;
I was overcome by distress and sorrow.

4 Then I called on the name of the LORD:
"LORD, save me!"

5 The LORD is gracious and righteous;
our God is full of compassion.

6 The LORD protects the unwary;
when I was brought low, he saved me.

7 Return to your rest, my soul,
for the LORD has been good to you.

8 For you, LORD, have delivered me from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,

9 that I may walk before the LORD
in the land of the living.

10 I trusted in the LORD when I said,
"I am greatly afflicted";

11 in my alarm I said,
"Everyone is a liar."

12 What shall I return to the LORD
for all his goodness to me?

13 I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name of the LORD.

14 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD
in the presence of all his people.

15 Precious in the sight of the LORD
is the death of those faithful to him.

16 Truly I am your servant, LORD;
I am your servant, as was my mother before me;
you have loosed my bonds of affliction.

17 I will sacrifice a thank offering to you
and call on the name of the LORD.

18 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD
in the presence of all his people,

19 in the courts of the house of the LORD—
in your midst, Jerusalem.
Praise the LORD. (cheers to biblegateway.com)

(Psalm 116 TNIV)

Edit: I just re-read this and my 'tude for the day is just getting better and better... at first I had a somber attitude and I didn't know what was going on, something was keeping me down from being me, Carra, but then the number 116 put into the idea of checking out Psalm 116 which after reading this, the word of the Lord, makes me want to break the somber 'tude, break free!!!) I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR/SING WORSHIP SONGS AT RIHOP TONIGHT!

ANOTHER EDIT! Today is 1/16/09... which means the number 116 is in the date... as is the number post this is as well as the psalm chosen! YAY

Yeah.

I KINDA LOVE YOU A LOT.


cheers for the peace.
cheers for the energy.
cheers for making me want to sing loudly in my car.

will YOU be my valentine? tehehe.

it's cold.
ohs wells.

praying for nervousness to leave me b/c who needs to be nervous? nah

Today Today

So I woke up this morning with the beautiful natural lighting of the sun and pulled myself out of bed but I am really excited for my imaging class this morning... the hard part is getting to school on a bike in this 28 degree weather... burrrrr.

I really like my Bible verse of the day today. That was a good start to my morning... and I think I'm going to have a tastey orange for break-a-fast. Yumsical!

This is short and sweet... hm like someone I know hahaha ;)

Peace in Him!!!

Oh yeah I forgot to mention, it's exciting that during my first ever GenEd class here Melwren is sitting next to me!!!

ARCHAEOLOGY! haha, waaaah?

First Step Into New Semester.

I'm excited to take my first step into the new semester. I've got hopes of no papers for my Archeology class and I really want to work on my craftsmanship.

I'm super stoked to go to Harvest Renewal tomorrow and super stoked to love on VCU. Yay :)

SMILES ALL AROUND!

Got my books today. Hopefully no more will be needed!!!

Restful.

(Photo by MelWren)

Hey. Hey, my name is Carra and I am excited to be back in RVA, the wonderful 804. (I breathe in here deeply and sigh)

It's weird I'll no longer be the New Kid on the Block, that Transfer girl, or the Girl wondering where the library is... haha. But what I'm excited about is deepening many different relationships I already have... mostly, I want to pursue the love of the Lord because loving the Lord makes loving EVERYONE a lot more natural and real. And I'm excited about this... what's not exciting about it, I mean seriously hehe!!! I can't wait to meet the new kids and see the people I already know!!!

Something I really enjoy watching on campus are the tours for the new students, and especially the transfer kid tours... because having a tour around campus is still so fresh in my mind for when I came here in June as a student who had been at Meredith College and now is a student at Virginia Commonwealth University. I do have to put this out there... I MISS my friends from Meredith Co...

Just putting that out there...

EXCITING THINGS THIS SEMESTER:

* Trying to start a TWLOHA chapter at VCU!
* Getting to see my brothers and sisters almost everyday!
* Prayer meetings!
* Harvest Church!
* New design classes!
* TWLOHA conference in the Spring
* Spontanious trips.
* Wawa
* GUITAR
* Worship songs!
* Looking at the stars
* Riding my bike in the cold!
* Chinese food/sleepovers
* Hopefully NO ALL-NIGHTERS!
* Praying and finding a house for next year!!!
* My birthday on EASTER!
* My friends birthdays!!!
* Painting
* Finishing Merry Violet.
* PHOTOGRAPHS!
* Film Photography

and it can keep going on and on and on...

TWLOHA.COM

Ambitious.

YO.

Check out the new side salad blog HERE!

And while you're at it check out TWLOHA.COM

Back to the 804?

Welp, winter break is coming to an end... although I still have about a week until the late night art runs and times begin...

Tomorrow I begin my journey back to that wonderful city called Richmond. I've missed you, you silly silly city! haha... well actually I've really missed the people AND the place... there are times of exploring in RVA that bring new roads of inspiration to my life and my art. Why I took to Richmond so quickly: Well, it took me in, and when I say it, I mean the amazing people that I've met so far and those I'm excited to meet... They accepted me a quick as I don't even know what... God's love was AND is so abundent there, through the people and the memories that have and are happening. I'm blessed to have moved there, and it was all kind of on a whim... but when I say on a whim, I really mean God wanted me there, He keeps me safe, looks after me, makes sure I'm full of joy and obediant at the same time.

And you know what? I love that. I love every second that I'm able to soak Him in and just get to know the little special things about RVA. Moving to Richmond has become a new path for me and has inspired me further to have the motivation to love others with the eyes of Christ. I've been pushed more and more to want to help out To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA). God is calling me to help. I'VE GOT TO, I JUST HAVE TO... it's something that I think about all the time, PEOPLE HAVE TO HEAR ABOUT HIS LOVE!

I had a friend last night ask me to tell them a little about my spiritual walk and stuff... I told her I'm so excited to talk to her about why I choose to be a certain way... we haven't talked yet, but she is hopefully coming up to RVA in the near future and I just pray that God gives me the words to say, because sometimes I have a hard time expressing through words... but maybe I don't... maybe I don't give God's confidence in me enough credit...

This break I've played guitar almost everyday. This passion for playing music has been stirred up and I'm excited to just continue it... I'm doing the drawing a day thing too... and hopefully soon I'll be finished with my uncle's book.

I can breath it in, I can feel it right now as I type these very letters, God's love is just bursting around me and stirring something up in my family. I may not know it now or even later, but I know something is going on... and I'm just going to leave this at, I've learned a lot about myself over this break. Well, everyday I learn more and more how to love people. Striving and striving to live and love like Jesus. It's a beautiful thing.

Be calm, Carra. Restful... "Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord has been good to you." Psalm 116:7.

I will miss Greensboro. Mostly because my mom, dad, drew, and maia live here. Also, it's where I spent a ton of my life, and I get home-cooked meals. haha ;)... but really, I've truly had a blessed winter break, and could not have spent it any other way. Because I spent it this way, and that's how it was and how it's going to be! Thank you Jesus for teaching me what I've learned... and other things that I don't even realized I've learned.

I love my family.
I love my friends.
But most of all I love my Creator for bringing me where I am, and where I am going.

Cheers.

My Face Itches.

Gotta love allergic reactions.

First Blog of 2009.

Whenever the New Year rolls around I like to giggle at firsts of the year. Kind of like titling this blog "First Blog of 2009." See, it's fun to think of all the firsts of the new year.

First time I prayed in 2009, First dinner of 2009, first time I used the bathroom in 2009, first time I laughed in 2009, first time I danced in 2009, first singing of 2009... and the list just goes on... one on my list which would be said like this "first drawing of 2009," is part of a plan I have for 2009, in my art part of my life:

I've decided to create a second blog dedicated to drawing, sketching, etc at least once a day for all 365 days of 2009. I have decided to call this blog "Three Six Five Two Zero Zero Nine" and you can find it HERE!

A couple reasons I'm excited about this:

1. I've never really finished a sketch book, and I've been doing art since God created me!
2. I want to search more and more for artistic inspiration from the Lord.
3. Drawing is fun and should be done more often.
4. I'm tired of being lazy with my art and only doing school work.
5. 2009 is a new year and it's a new challenge.

I'm working on my uncle's children's book (illustrating) and I am putting down the line for me now... I must get it finished soon because I've been slacking. I'm excited at how it has turned out so far and am hoping to continue on working.

Throwing out an apology because I have used the word "I" a lot in this blog and it's kind of getting on my nerves. It's not about me, it's about Who created me.

Hey, love to everyone.

Cheers,
The Wash.