Ashley’s Goals for Fall 2006

Ashley’s Goals for Fall 2006
(Updated Saturday, September 16, 2006)


I will join in enthusiastically, honestly with the goal that whatever I'm doing is for a greater goal.
I will be grace-full & in-tune to what is going on around me, balancing time with others and time with God justly.
I will be honest with myself--the good, the bad, the good (which is often harder), & the ugly, accepting grace purely and respectfully.
I will be me through & through.
Embrace my strengths, & allow my weaknesses to be made something more than they are.
I will treasure the "awkward moments" & embrace the times when the genuine share their heart with me & I with them.
I will fight for another's name, testimony, heart, & word.
I will listen intently & life-changingly to those who have the courage to speak & be quick to understand those who are working to break down the walls in life & speak.
I will learn to relax: celebrate: have fun: let my guard down: do what I feel: get out of my comfort zone.
I will be open to discovering who I am & who this person we call God truly is.
I will be thankful for my past: be Honest about my past.
I will run to those who have laid their heart out on the table for all to see, comforting them in their pain, rejoicing with them in their triumph.
I will stop lying to myself, stop lying to others about who I am, and be transparent: the same through and through.
I will recognize that we are all on different paths, not so much different levels & out of that accept them where they are and stir them to more fully live.
I will give my friends the chance to win, give people a chance to win me over.

authenticity vs. me

Friday, August 25, 2006
Currently Listening
Sweetly Broken
By Various Artists
track: Sweetly Broken

God, there's so much in my heart right now. so much i wish to say, so much i'll never form into words. God you are beautiful to me.
I don't want to end this year thinking that I didn't fully live it out.
I want to change. I want to embrace it. I want to get out of perfection and comfort, and into the abundant love of life.
I want to know people, really know people, know their heart and their story.
Jesus, your truth is so pure and mysterious.
Help me, Jesus to embrace purity and not run from it. I know it's not an easy battle, but I want to be authentic--I've wasted too many years being fake. ick.

Happy birthday to me.

Happy birthday to me. I can’t believe I am nineteen now with my final teenage year. Thank God. I’m so ready and excited to let move on. But, I am also thankful for the day which symbolizes another great year. I’m believing God for another year for Him to use me. I am praying for Him to become more and more into my life and remove more and more of me so I can be more like Him and less like me.