Growth

Okay! First of all look at my post on my blog (thewatchmanstower.blogspot.com). The lord blessed me in seeing four people accepting Christ into their lives. Praise GOD!

As I said in my comment to Rae's post, I am really hoping to continue to dig into your guys' lives and to be vulnerable in opening up to you guys. The Lord has just taught me a lot about humility, and taming the tongue. During my discipleship time, my discipler talked with me about growth and relationships with people. Anyway through this, I found that I am so quick to speak that I don't realize that it can hurt people (which is so selfish). I also found myself interurpting people a lot. Like if they are talking with someone I just "barge in" and talk to them, without even thinking before I act.

So with this I want to apologize to you guys in ways in which I didn't think before I acted, and just acted upon my selfish feelings, not thinking about what is the best for each of you individually. I am trying to learn from this in hopes to be slow to speak and quick to listen.

there is this cool relationship equation that my discipler told me, which is Grace + Truth / Time = Growth. Each element to the equation is important for growth. We need to be truthful with each other, but still extend grace. And We can't just have grace without truth. Like, we can't give grace without being truthful about how we are feeling or how certain things and situations are affecting us. And we can't have all this good grace and truth without time. We have to take the time (and make the time) for the roots of our relationships grow deeper.

I hope this summer we will all take the time to dig into each others' lives and continue to be real with each other's, and not leaving it for August.
God bless you all! I love you all! and miss you!
love, Jessica

I Miss You

Hey Guys,
I miss you. I can't wait to see you again. I am doing the leadership training thing out in colorado this summer. I can't wait to ministry with you guys again next semester. Ashley and I are having a great time she is does housekeeping at the castle here that was turned into a hotel and I wash dishes in their 5 star kitchen(among other things).

It is absolutely beautiful out here. In my free time between training sessions, I go hiking a lot. A few days ago above the house that I am living at with the other 20 guys on the trip there was a herd of big horn sheep ramming each other, it was pretty cool. There is tons of wildlife here, including wild turkeys.

I'm praying for you guys, I can't talk much on the computer but I hope you are enjoying the beach for me this summer.
In Christ,
-Mike

wherefore art thou Blog?

i would just like to reinstate the purpose of this blog. It was birthed from a necessity to know whats going on in the progress of our train station. Recently it has turned into a rare post of hi-s and how-are-you-s which is fine, except for the fact that we dont know whats going on :P Although most of the train station appears complete, some expectations were not met, and those delays were not posted. It was an error easily made, and unfortunately i have suffered the consequences because of a simple lack of notification. Please lets keep this an updated place of the state our apartments are in, what furniture we have come across and how we are in our spiritual life! on that note... does anyone know someone with a truck that can assist me next weekend?

Furniture update:
This is the wardrobe that i believe we can put the TV in (picture it without the stuff on it :P)

DO WE HAVE A TABLE? my aunt is getting rid of a round 4ft table (4 seater) do we have a table and or is this one too small? let me know asap.

Salt, Sugar, Flower, Oatmeal containers:

the TV:

corner deco?:

couch: im not sure if this is up for grabs yet... keep your eyes open for another!

fake plant? im not to interested... how bout you?

DUnnnn Dun DUUUUUN!

you signed that wrong there papa loh!

Doin alright over here in LA... took the day off half way through (head hurts from having my teeth taken out) AJ is still out there working (10 pm) and i have no idea when they are getting back :P the party sounds cool... i guess ive been so concerned with getting a fourth guy i hadnt thought of the fun stuff we are gunna get to do! Hopefully ill be moving in next weekend (if all goes well) even if i dont have anything with me i want to start staying there. I feel like im getting home sick and i havent spent more than five minutes there! sigh... i miss you all so much!!!!

girls: my dad is wanting me to take some furniture, but of course i have to get the OK from you guys! i was thinkin ill take pictures and send them to ya. One of the items is a wardrobe with two doors and two drawers, I was thinkin we could put the tv inside of it (oo fancy) the other stuff i just gotta show bethany! love you!

A Vision

So I was worshipping at TAG tonight. And I had a vision.

I had remembered a prophetic word spoken over me long ago, when I was asking for prayer for God to raise up an army to bring revival to Fullerton. As people prayed over me, God told one of them "You have to have a family before they can be an army."

So I saw the members of the community. We were in full armor, with swords drawn. We were charging towards CSUF. The school had something like a giant trap over it, all black. We were in bright light, and as we ran, we cut the cords holding the tarp. Apparently, there was a strong wind at our back, because as we cut the cords, the tarp was blown back (wind is usually a symbol of the Holy Spirit). We continued running and cutting cords until the whole tarp blew away, and light shown on our campus. The end.

Hey from VA! woot woot!

Check my blog for updates and prayer requests! I love you all and missing you!
love,
Jessica

Privacy For Prayer

So while at my youth group (TAG), I was thinking about times of deep prayer. And I was thinking it would be nice to have a "prayer closet." And then ... I remembered the closets in our apartments. And I realized we could use those as prayer closets at need. And I was excited!

Then end.

I love you guys

I leave tomorrow a 8:45am! I love you all and will miss you so much! I try to update my blog so you can know what is going on, but I will be very busy! I can't wait to see you all when I get back! If you want to call me you can, I have free long distance and roaming. If you want to snail mail me my address will be:
Jessica Howard
c/o Campus Crusade for Christ
Paradise Resort Inn
516 19th Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
I know that this next year will be great! I am so blessed to have friends like you. You all are so caring and kind, I really couldn't ask for better friends!
I love you all deeply
Love Always,
Jessica