Random thoughts

Hey ya'll!

I haven't blogged in a while... Honestly, that's because there isn't a whole lot to catch up on. I haven't been doing anything. Our mountain climb got postponed a couple weeks since I got sick, and I haven't gotten out of the house just to hang with a friend since December. :/ Luckily, that's about to change though!

So my friend Alee is in a school play tomorrow and I'm hoping to go to that and Monday I get to see my friend Emily. :) Yay!

I have so many people that love me... I am very blessed. I was doing devotions the other day and asking God if He would bring "the one" into my life sometime soon, and over the past couple weeks, He's really spoken to my heart and just said, "For this season of life Olivia, I need you to fall in love with ME." So I turned to the gospels and have been reading through them and focusing on getting to know who Jesus is. It's the most intimate thing EVER to read about Him and focus on His love and then close your bible and pray knowing that your talking to that very person. It's like the very key to falling in love with Him is focusing on how much He loves you. Of course it's because that our desire as people (okay - as a girl:) is to be loved compassionately and deeply. How can you not love someone that loves you more than you will ever understand?
Showing love has been a huge challenge for me for a long time and something God's been working on in me lately. In fact, I was having such a hard time forgiving someone who hurt me time and time again that I sat down in tears and just begged God to give me the strength and show me how to love the unlovable.... and He said one word: "Agape."... It's one of the Greek words for love. It's the type of love that you choose to give. It has nothing to do with what the person has done, it is purely a choice to love no matter what. Agape was demonstrated on a cross. The perfect picture of selflessness. That night was a very painful, very important breaking point for me. So many times we ask God to work on our hearts, and we're very honest and sincere, we simply don't understand the cost. It's like there's this wall of protection around you the first time that you really feel on fire for God. But the longer you follow God, the more that wall is torn down, and you see the cost of being the only one standing for truth - and yet the beauty of it too.
Okay... that's enough rambling for now. I've got to go! haha!

~Olivia

Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Getting Fit 4 Du Mountains!!

Hey!

Wow.. it's been forever since I posted... it's really busy around here!

So, I am now actually getting UP when my alarm goes off at six o'clock every morning and I'm trying to get myself in bed at ten every night... which hasn't been happening.

Me and my dad are going to go climb two or three mountains in the Black Mountain Range in about a week. We've been eating really good and working out really hard for about three weeks now to prepare! :)

Other than that, not a lot is going on. Just the same ol' routine around the house every day, but I'm learning to love it. God has blessed me SO much!

~*~Olivia~*~

Galatians 6:9
Let us not lose heart in doing good,
for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.