My Adventures...

Do you ever think..."WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH ME?!?!?"

2007-08-08T01:17:00.000-07:00

Ok so...given that I am a girl, it is already assumed that I am emotional. But, come on, why am I so emotional??? I mean seriously, I look at myself sometimes and wonder what's wrong? Will I ne like this forever? It seems like 15 year old girls have it more together than I do! You know what's the worst...new people. I am in the middle of trying to fit into a new home, and with new people. I really adore them, and I know they like me, but why do I struggle to truly be who I am and let that be enough? I mean I have the hardest time just holding a stinking conversation with someone. Grrrrr! So many thoughts it's ridiculous. My mind doesn't stop. Why doesn't it stop? And then when I try to figure out what the heck I am really thinking about...I have no clue! Welcome to me life! Who am I Lord? And then on top of it all...nevermind. Lord help!

Crimson Road

2007-01-26T13:48:00.000-08:00

So a dear friend of mine wrote this amazing song that I can't stop playing today. Her name is Kristian, she is a youth in the church here in NM. She is so gifted, and I know God will use her in amazing ways now and forever....here are the lyrics and I will try to attatch the song, its amazing!

Crimson Road

Oh my God, what have I done

to a tree and nail your only son

Arms stretched wide, to break my pride

I saw the blood fall from His side

Thorns pressed deep in His head

not just blood Your love was shed

And now I will walk the crimson road

Step by step with You alone

And all to You I humbly give

You gave Your life that I may live

So I give all of me

I lift it you Lord take all of me

yes I give all of me

I lay it at Your feet

2007 New Beginnings

2007-01-12T12:06:00.000-08:00

Well, first of all I would like to apologize for my lack of blogging. It didn't realize how hard it was gonna be to keep in touch. In this new year I want to blog at least once a month. And if I don't feel free to send me all the hate mail you would like, cause thats what I may need to get my act together and write more. But anyways....wow...2007! Can you believe it? I am 20 now, thats crazy in itself. I can feel the change. Its hard to figure out where I fit in in group settings. I love to be with kids, but feel to old at times, the teenagers (13-17) sometimes seem to be in that spot of trying to fugure life out that its odd for me to hang out there cause it's just odd, and the adults, well thats where I seem to find myself the most comfortable, yet people my age are the best cause we can relate the best. I am blessed to have a nice number of people my age here, so I guess overall being 20 is alright. We are in a time of transitioning in the Masters Commission right now. Our student had some family issues and decided to withdraw from the program, so your prayers would be awesome for us and her. Right now we are just trying to hear the Lord about what He wants to do now. Please pray for us. We will be in Washington from Jan. 31 until Feb. 19the, for a Microsoft show, and MC conference. So this next month is busy yet exciting! Lets see what else....random things are: I hurt my elbow weight lifting, I got a new San Diego Coffee Cup, I went to Mexico for new years with my dad, I got a french tip manicure, I broke one of my french tipped manicured nails yesterday, we are working on a drama to the Skillet song Comatose for MC conference, My mom is coming tomorrow, I have White Cherry Blossom body splash from Bath and Body works, and I am gonna go get lunch at Wendys now. I love you all and Pastor Mike says he loves u too.....and I will write more often.

Amen.

-Erica

Its been a while ay"?

2006-11-15T13:24:00.000-08:00

I got wasted!

2006-10-19T23:05:00.000-07:00

Woah. Well where do I even start. Tonite I went to kinship, at the Martinez's and I knew the Holy Spirit was ready to move on us, but He was hindered. But, we had an after party. It was Emily, Kaenan, Patrick, Mateo, Liesa, Maggie Jean and I , all at Emily's apt. We started talking about the greatness of God, and Kaenan started to talk about His encounters with the Holy Spirit, and then He prayed and...WHOOSH....Everyone was laughing (which was only patrick, mateo, kaenan, emily and I ), I wasn't laughing tho. They were praying and laughing, and just being free in the Spirit....I was just praying "Holy Spirit, have your way, come, do what you want." Once I let go of fear of man, I cried. A gut wrenching crying too. Everyone was laughing and I was crying, then....I felt like a calm, and Patrick, I think, started screaming like he was on a rolercoaster!!! And by this time Liesa and MJ had come over and Liesa was so filled up she started screaming like she was on a rollercoaster too. So here's all these people screaming "WOOOOOOHOOOOOO", and something is bubbling in me, AND I LAUGHED. I couldn't control it, So we were all laughing and having so much fun, getting "drunk" in the spirit. MAN, it ws amazing. I can't do the experience justice with words, but there was one point, where I sensed the Lord just sitting back watching and I was saying "God your crazy....I love it!", and He would look over and say something and then jump and laugh and play with us. IT WAS GREAT!! Man, I want everyone to experience this.

I think we were there just laughing and playing with the Lord for 2 hours!

There was another point where we were all just chillin' and in a daze, and Liesa told us to just look around at each other....WE ALL LOOKED SO WASTED!!! BUT....it was pure. It's ok to have this encounter with the Lord, it's what He wants....He's real. AUGHHHHHHHHHH.....I can't even begin to express what I experienced tonite, I pray you will all find out yourselves, don't seek the experience, SEEK THE ENCOUNTER, SEEK THE RELATIONSHIP, FRIENDSHIP, FUN....WITH GOD! So pretty much I got wasted!

I love you all!

-Erica

ps...I wonder what the hang over is gonna be like? lol

Hard Times, Balloons and Sleep

2006-10-14T16:09:00.000-07:00

Sorry its been awhile. Lifes been extra tough lately, BUT God is so good. Thank you for all your prayers. So I went to the balloon fiesta yesterday....5am! It was amazing! those are the pictures...I got sick 2 days ago and slept today until 2pm.... I had some crazy fun dreams....God is good. Oh yea I saw One Night With the King, in the theatres yesterday....AMAZING!! I am now all ga-ga over God. Its the story of Esther....its great. Well I am not very talkitive...but I will write more later....love you all!

Erica

I am tired...

2006-10-05T21:09:00.000-07:00

So I am about to go to beddy bye, but before I do I justed wanted to stop by here and let you all know that I miss you and care about you dearly. Please be praying for me and our program, we need financial provision, and we can see the Lord is moving, we just need strength to keep hanging on and walking in faith. There is a possibilty of getting a new student, (I will fill you in on that later), but if you could be praying we would so appreciate it! Thank you so much! I hope it rains tonight. (just a random side-note).

much love-
Erica

GOD IS SOOOO GOOD!!!

2006-10-03T22:48:00.000-07:00

NO seriously people! He provided for me in an amazing way today! My finances are not a burden anymore! The Lord gave me money!! Thank You Jesus, just in the knick of time! !WOOWEEE! He astounds me!! I mean really!! How GOOD is HE!!! MANNNNN!! I love Him so much!!!

AND..I went to an awesome concert tonite! Violet Burning and The Listening! Way tight!

Love you all-
Erica

11:58 pm and counting

2006-10-02T23:04:00.000-07:00

I am tired, but I wanted to tell you all I love you very much and am really enjoying sharing my adventures with you. Thank you Teresa for your love and encouraging words...I love hearing from you. Thanks Leasa for encouraging me to do this. Thanks Jared for being you!

And to all my friends, I would love to hear more from you when you get the chance. Hearing from you brightens my day! Love you all so much!!

Erica

Bringing back the past....

2006-10-01T13:34:00.000-07:00

So this weekend has been filled with past. But oddly enough, this past is different than before. Before when I thought of the past it would hurt or terrify me. I never wanted to go back there, ya know? Well this weekend I talked with so many people form the past. I got to reminisce on old times good and bad. But overall, it was great fellowship. I mean I talked to someone I haven't talked to in over a year and a half!

God is doing something and its fun. Yet it is so nerve racking at times, I guess cause I don't trust myself, I have to control my emotions and feelings, as well as be available for these people, every conversation was uplifting and these people just needed someone to trust, and they came to me. That can be alot of pressure, ya know...but you know what is even better and makes me so happy....I CAN TRUST IN JESUS ALL THE TIME! I mean, seriously, think about it....who else is there in all the universe that you can trust and have absolutely no doubt about if He will reveal your secrets and hurts. He will never intentionally hurt you for the fun of it, or just to see you squirm. No, He knows whats best for you. He sees where I've been and where I am going and He goes with me! I love to think about this! When is the last time that you actually sat back and thought about how much God really loves you and cares about you and longs to be with you and for you to be with Him? So when was it?

That long huh....well that was the same place I was at for awhile until recently. God is so good. Today sit back and think about your God, the one that loves you endlessly, and out of all the things he's made, He loves you the most. Wow huh?

Another thing of the past the Lord has recently brought up is my poetry. I used to write alot as well as rap too. This has been a hard area to pick back up because being a girl everything is connected, and I have to choose to look at the good versus the bad, and walk in the fact that writing poetry is a gift that God alone has blessed me with. So anyways, I wrote a poem the other night that I want to share with you:

One Whisper

Just one breath, one flow of air

Just one night with the moon shining bright

Just one look into your eyes, and I lose myself inside your glare

Just one chance to make it right

Just one move to make tonight

If you could see the way my heart skips a beat

Just to hear one whisper

Jesus, I'm crying out to you

I want to hear your voice sing out, in a love song over me

Jesus, just one whisper, melts me to my knees

this longing is to much to bare

Your face, Your touch, Your love, Your care

You give to me so freely

But all I need is just one whisper and it's more than I can bare.

And there she is...I am excited for all the Lord has in store. Miss you all much!

ELH

A mighty long day...

2006-09-26T18:01:00.000-07:00

So here I am really tired and yet excited for some strange reason. I am just feeling content I suppose? Today was long for me physicall, my body is drained. But, I ate a good dinner and went on a nice walk, and now I am ready to tuck myself into bed early and read a book Emily let me borrow called "A night with the King", its the story of Esther, and it comes out in the movies on the 13th of Oct. I am pretty excited. Tony left us to go back to Wa. today. Please pray for a safe journey homw for him.

I love God. No really. I do. He never ceases to amaze by the way He grabs my attention with the little things He' makes. Tomorrow take time to notice all the priceless gifts the Lord has given you, it will make you smile.

Love you guys and miss you tons! And you should leave me a comment sometime, I want to hear how you are...or email me....love ya!

EricaLyn

ps....the pictures are of Malachi-1st and Joshua-2nd(my house brother), they are cousins and we went to the park yesterday and had some fun. Are'nt they beautiful? And the other is of Tony, Phoebe(Pastor Mike, our director's, daughter), and me eatin' out at Taj Mahal...yummmmm!

Surfah Girl

2006-09-24T11:40:00.000-07:00

So I am sitting here this sunday afternoon, listening to Paul Wright's "Surfah Girl", eating Mott's applesauce, while waiting for my ravioli's to get done warming up in the microwave. Church was good this morning. So you know when you do something that makes you come to grip with the reality that you are so unworthy of the sacrifice God made for you. And then you realize how often you take Christ's sacrifice for granted and often forget the truth that you didn't deserve it and never would have, BUT....He died for me already knowing this, He already knew the sad condition of my heart, and how my actions would say how unworthy I am of His grace, yet still....He did it. Not because He had to, no, no, no...because He wanted too. Man, this blows my mind, thats where I was this morning, for me, it's hard to recieve things, but this morning God gave me His son again, He showed me the sacrifice was made for me, and He didn't make a mistake in doing so....WHAT LOVE! WOW!!! I am now lost in ga-ga land thinking about how great my Daddy really is....

Now, back to this song "Surfah Girl"...I think its really called "Walking on Water"...I heard it recently on the radio over here, and fell in love with it! I am still trying to find out what inspired Paul to write it, and what its supposed to be about but, to me it's fun and what I want to do someday, "Wake up and take up her surfboard...head out out from the seashore, from the world in where she lives..." yep, who knows maybe one of my future adventures you read about will be just that...never know!! Anyways, heres the lyrics to the song if ya would like to see....

She wakes up and takes up her surfboard heads out out from the seashore and from the world in where she lives. She's got no fears or worries at all right there just the smell of salt water that's in the air and the sunrise. She's walking on water, she's walking on water

Verse 1: Imagine waking up no knowing if today is your last one tell me what would you say if you had somebody tell you that you're young but youre dying which is weird cuz you feel so alive and she has a dream to be queen of the ocean mad emotion showing her devotion on her surfboard fully in motion hoping for a miracle whn her eyes first open.

(Chorus)

Verse 2: Face up toes in the sand surfah girl gave up trying to understand why some get to live and other have to die she's tired of goodbyes cuz they make her cry lookin in the sky blues as her eyes watchin the rising of the sun well how time flies when you're outside and your in love and your'e havin fun remember all the days when she was layin down on the sand with her fam and she had a plan bam to wake up at the daylight watch her rise like the sun on the run from the night sunrise feels so alive when she...

(Chorus)

Sunrise. From the world in where she lives...sunrise From the world in where she lives...

Well I love you all very much and I will do a better job at posting more often, also I fixed my comments thingy so that if you don't have a blogger account you can comment now, sorry about the frustrations.

Love ya-

EricaLyn

Arrrr.....we have a cold.

2006-09-19T08:06:00.000-07:00

So the Mountain was amazing! I loved it so much! It was so beautiful! Although I think our enitre group caught colds.... :( So Pastor Mike made today a day of rest, Thank the Lord! Pray for us, we need our health...oh yea.....TODAY IS NATL' TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!! ARRRRRRR....I am lovin' it! Azast me hearties, everyone better talk like yer's is a pirate or else you'll be dancin' the Hempens jig today mate (aka being hung)....arrrr.....Have a greaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttttttt day!

Here's some pictures they are pretty big so it may take a sec to load:

Love -
Erica

LETS DO IT TO IT YO!?%^&* (lol)

2006-09-18T08:02:00.000-07:00

So yesterday was Induction Sun. The elders prayed over us and invited in this year the right way. The path has been paved and now we're gonna walk it. I am excited. Pastor Dave leaves today, not so excited about that. For those of you that don't know Pastor Dave wasmy MC director, an awesome Dad, friend, and pastor. I love Him and wish he would stay here, but I know thats not practical....lol. Love you PD. God's given me another Dad like figure here tho, Pastor Mike, I am excited to serve him and to become part of his family this year.

OH YEAH.....GUESS WHAT!!! We're going to the top of the Sandia mtns. today. The Sandia Mtns. are huge mtns. here and we are taking a tram up them...I am excited, this will make for a mazing pictures!!! Nicole is nervous, shes a lil scared of heights....but this is gonna be great, so yea....with that and as I look at the time, I should go because I have some running around to do before we leave at noon. I love you all so very much and can't wait to either see or talk with some of you! Take care and have a blessed day! **Muah, Muah**

-ELH

Well here we go...

2006-09-16T20:30:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone! Well, so Leasa gave me the idea to start one of these and share my journeys with you so I am. I am in NM now and enjoying it alot. I have been here a weeks and already have been working like crazy. I am an intern in the Masters Commission now and I love it. I am looking forward to entering into this new adventure with the Lord, and I am also excited to share it with you. I miss AZ alot and WA alot as well. I miss my class, and family. But I know that I am here for a reason and I want to be used. Please pray for me and the program as well, we have one student (Nicole) and one other intern besides myself. This is year is going to be out of the box, and fun, but harder than ever as well. The area we are located is ghetto no doubt, its the slums, drugs and prostitution are rampant and people are just so filled with death, but Gods plans are great for this place, and I believe we (MC) are going to play a big role in whatever the Lord has planned. We need your support through prayer, as you can imagine the warfare here is strong, and we want to fight. Thanks so much, I love you all and will write again later.

Love-
ELH