Do It Anyway

THE PARADOXICAL COMMANDMENTS OF LEADERSHIP - by Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered - Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives - Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies - Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow - Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable - Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest people, with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds - Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but only follow top dogs - Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight - Build anyway.

People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them - Help them anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you may get kicked in the teeth. Give the world your best anyway.

If better is possible, then good is not enough.

RA retreat

"If you can't learn how to do something right, learn to enjoy doing it badly." - Neal Friesen, RD

Meh

So I just realized I haven't blogged in over a month. And I really don't have much to say anyway. Let's see......

Camp Good News was a lot of fun :)

Still working at Applebees about 35 hours a week.

I go back to Hesston in 15 days. Super excited!

and that's about it.

Maybe I'll feel more talkative later.

Crazy Love

"A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief." - A.W. Tozer

"Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?"
- Francis Chan, Crazy Love

The CYIA curse

(Larcyn was annoying Ruth)

Ruth: Sticky notes upon you!!

krow

So, in case any of you are not up to speed on my life, I started at Applebees in Salina on Monday. So far it's going pretty good. I think I can make it through a couple months there at least! :) The people are cool. Right now all the stuff I need to learn is pretty overwhelming. I lie in my bed at night and it takes me awhile to go to sleep because all the knowledge they tried to cram into my head that day is still swirling around in there. So pray for me please that I'll learn everything I need to know and that I won't make any huge mistakes and not very many small ones along the way. :)

Tim (last year): "There are times I think CYIA is a tiny foretaste of what heaven will be like."

Erin (my partner last year at CYIA): Are you coming to CYIA this year, Rachel?
Me: Afraid not. I had to join the real world and get a job to pay for college. :(
Bekah: *in mock shock* Are you saying CYIA isn't the real world?
Erin: I think CYIA is a taste of the real real world.
:)

Back from Oklahoma....

(quotes from my crazy but awesome family)

Me: Hey Mom, is okay if me, Sarah and the Hannahs go to the mall?
Mom: Well, what are you planning to do there?
Me: I don't know, just hang out.
Mom: Define "hang out."
Me *getting slightly exasperated with my mother's questioning*: We're planning to go find some drug dealers and buy stuff to get high on.
Uncle Lance: Well, how much money were you planning to spend?
:)

Sarah, walking through the mall, starts singing the beginning of "Disturbia"
Sarah: Sorry, every time my brain isn't occupied, that's the song that comes on.
Me: So it's kinda like your brain's elevator music....

Me and Sarah: Unicorns!! (private joke)

Uncle Dave (aka Silly Bomya): lomph!
(don't ask)

Life gave me lemonade and I can't imagine why.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while....not much to say I guess.
I'm still not doing much, just looking for a job with not much luck.
I drove my grandparents out to Colorado for the first part of this week, then went with my whole family to Oklahoma. Both trips were for the high school graduations of various cousins.
One of these days I'll think of something to write about.
Right now though, I'm just a little bored and a lot happy.

Home.....

Hesston's graduation was Sunday, so I'm home now. I miss my college family. So this post is the year, summed up in inside jokes.

My group has so many little things we do or say.... I'm going to go home and do all these things without even realizing it and nobody will get it. So here's a heads up for y'all....if I say or do any of these things just ignore me.

"Heck no, yayno!"
"Friction....."
"Ah, sheba!"
"Thet ther's funny raght ther, Ah don't ker who you air"
".....and then I found 5 dollars."
"Sticky buns!"
"Toolbag"
"Punk"
"Son"

if I talk and end random words with the -er sound, just ignore me

when watching a movie:
if I finish a bottled drink of some kind I might very well throw the empty plastic bottle at the TV
I will probably tell you the movie was made in Oregon
I might very well make random sniper noises

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Happy birthday to my favorite twin cousins! It's not technically your birthday here, but it is there.

One More Thing :)

I was made to love You
I was made to find You
I was made just for You
Made to adore You
I was made to love and be loved by You
-Made to Love, by tobyMac

Bittersweet

Finals week: This week is stressful, exciting, sad, wonderful, hard work, fun, and exhausting all rolled up into one. It's a bittersweet feeling.....so nice to have classes over with, but so sad to have to say goodbye to everyone.

Let's recap the past few days:
Last Friday (not technically a part of finals week, but whatever): First part of the Cell Biology Final Exam: the Essay *ominous music*. We just had to sit down and write about the Central Dogma of Molecular Genetics (if you really care to know what that is, ask me about it sometime. I'll tell you waaaaay more than anyone should know). I wrote for nearly 3 hours on this thing. But it was a relief to have it over.

Saturday: Collapse, hang out with friends, etc.

Sunday: 3 fire alarms (false alarms) in about a 17 hour period: 2 a.m., 4 p.m., and approximately 4:30 p.m. The two afternoon ones involved standing outside in the pouring rain. Also, tornado warning! Definitely an interesting day, weather-wise. Unfortunately, it was never bad enough that we Kansans felt the need to go down to the basement (i.e. we never saw a tornado on the ground heading our way)

Monday: Reading Day - Rachel spends a good portion of the day sleeping.

Tuesday: (today) 2nd part of Cell Bio final- multiple choice. Also, Receiving-of-the-Final-Grade-for-Cell-Bio, because Hugo is very prompt in his grading. I got 58 points out of 60 on that huge essay (super exciting!) and an A overall in the class! YEESSS!

Looking ahead:
Wednesday: No finals for Rachel. Relax, finish up chemistry lab reports, and study.
Thursday: Chemistry and Speech final. Speech is pud, hopefully I'll do well enough on the chem final to keep my grade at the borderline A it is now.... :/
Friday: No finals for Rachel!!! Woot woot! Hanging out and packing up.... :(
Saturday: Back to Salina for SVHE graduation. Then back to Hesston for last night with my family here :( :( :(
Sunday: Hesston's graduation. Saying goodbye to everyone, some just for the summer, some til who knows when....maybe forever. Sunday is going to be the first time I've seriously cried since my last basketball game, which was over a year ago. :'(

lyrics

Give me Your eyes for just one second
Give me Your eyes so I can see
everything that I keep missing
Give me Your love for humanity
Give me Your arms for the broken hearted
ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me Your eyes so I can see
-Give Me Your Eyes, by Brandon Heath

Who has told every lightning bolt where it should go
Or seen heavenly storehouses laden with snow
Who imagined the sun and gives source to its light
Yet conceals it to bring us the coolness of night
None can fathom....

Indescribable, Uncontainable
You placed the stars in the sky and you know them by name
You are amazing God
All-powerful, Untamable
awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God!
-Indescribable, by Chris Tomlin

I will dance, I will sing
To be mad/ for my King
Nothing, Lord, is hindering
This passion in my soul

But I'll become/ even more undignified than this
Though some may say it's foolishness
And I'll become/ even more undignified than this
Leave my pride by my side
-Undignified, by Chris Tomlin

I've been spending way too long checking my life in the mirror
and bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
but my breath fogged up the glass
so I drew in a face and I laughed
-I'm Yours, by Jason Mraz

And I'm acting as if
this blue sky's never gonna rain down on me
And I'm telling myself
this true love's never gonna leave me lonely
Unless there's something I've missed
I'm acting as if
-As If, by Sara Evans

So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You can stand through the pain
You won't drown
And someday what's lost will be found
if you stand in the rain
-Stand in the Rain, by Superchic(k)