first day

goodbye summer, hello school!

cheers to waking up early, staying up late, and working hard my senior year!

I have one more year before going to university, becoming independent, and leaving the nest. Only one more year with all the people I've gone to school with since grade 6. One more year to impact their lives and help them see God's plan for them! That leaves no room for coasting, standing still in my faith and not sharing the Great News with friends. Fortunately, we don't have to do it alone - skype has become my best friend lately. The test will be staying in contact with all my brothers and sisters in Christ and helping eachother stay strong and grow. 


It's time to take the plunge!
I'm excited. for now at least. :)

meg.

"[insert your name], I have made you a watchman for [insert school]; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die,' and you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you do warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sin, but you will have saved yourself." - ezekiel 33:7-9

goodbye FOREVER...

well maybe not forever... but it seems that way.

Today we drove to Laurier and unpacked my brother's things into his new place. He's now officially a university student, an adult, on his own and independent! Unfortunately, school is an hour and a half away and his independence includes not being home. It never really registered that Nathan, coss, my brother who I've lived with all my life, is not gonna be here. I'm not gonna get to hear his annoying music late at night, I won't wake up to him right next door, and I won't have someone to be crazy and hyper with. I realized how much I took for granted and there are so many things I wish I could have done to be a better sister. It's bittersweet, I'm so excited for him pursuing business and for the Waterloo campus to grow, but I know that it will be hard for us to fit eachother in our lives. 

It's crazy how fast time really has gone, just looking through old pictures of our childhood, we really have grown up! And that kind of scares me. Another blink and we'll be married with kids and a mortgage and reduced to yearly reunions! Oh please God, no! Atleast I'm the only girl in his life right now - when he gets a girlfriend, that will be another obstacle to overcome ha. 

So Nathan, if you're reading this, I love you sooo much. I don't always say it but I really do. And I respect you and admire you and look up to you. You are honestly such an amazing brother and so many people wish they had an older brother to protect them - I guess I'm just really lucky. I'll be praying for you every day and thinking about you a lot. And you better not forget about me coss, I'm always a phone or skype call away! Can't wait to hear how school, please fill me in on everything!

Sad ends are also new beginnings.*sigh* :)

meg.

 awkward stage! see? change isn't always a bad thing..

"To the outside world, we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time." - Clara Ortega

up and down and all around

oh hey there!

It's been a while since my last post, I needed to take a break and figure myself out. 

I realized that this lovely gadget is a great way to document day-to-day joys, but it also has not been much help on my journey to humility. This summer God has shown me how much I can rely on myself and my image, and I always want to make it seem like my life is perfect and happy and all that jazz - as you can see, posting about everything good and dandy and writing in a happy-go-lucky mood can put up that facade very easily. And then getting wrapped up in having the perfectly edited pictures and music and designs, and it's a recipe for self-focus, superficial-ness, and insecurity. 

I can't try and find my security in how many followers I have, or how I look in one airbrushed picture or how witty I am, etc etc. I need to find my security in the One that made me and who will never dissapoint or get old. 

I mean, I made this blog to show others my life with God and to inspire people with what He's teaching me! Instead, it became the "ALL ABOUT MEAGAN" show - I wouldn't even want to watch that.

So.....yeaah. :)

But I do love writing and sharing funny stories, so I'm gonna try this again, and pray that I do it RIGHT this time.

Take that Satan. 

adios amigos!

meg.

"But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith." - Philippians 3:7-9