Finding faith in... Transformers???

    I have so many thoughts pulsating through my head right now! I want to put them as statuses on facebook, but I might be addicted so away with facebook for the night, begone! Wow what a busy day. I sorted donations at work today and carried in a buuuuunnnch of heavy boxes of donations. I worked six hours but phew it was a long six hours!
   I am relaxing at home now, watching Transformers 2... well after I did some youth band organizing. I gathered 15 different pieces of music into alphabetical order, put it in a binder, then I wrote a letter of encouragement to each student. I'm exhausted, but it's a good kind of exhausted. My band is amazing and I've been meaning to show them how in some way.
   It's almost 9 and I am ready for bed! I am starting to feel the stab of missing my best friend. Being so busy has helped distract me, and God has strengthened me. It's just whenever I'm alone with my thoughts, my thoughts take over. I've wanted to talk to him every single day since we parted ways, but I am trying harder than ever to focus on God. My first reaction to any situation was to tell my best friend... so it's forced me to go to God instead. I'm not saying that in a bad way, because I need to get my silly little head out of my... I mean... I need God and I love spending time with Him, it's good for my soul.
   I have to be honest though, I haven't been in the word yet today. I was so busy this morning working on making cds for the band... then I went straight to work at noon. I'm going to before bed though, I promise.
   Holy moses... I just heard a great quote from Transformers 2... it's at the point where Sam is at his lowest point and his last resort to bring back Optimus by using the matrix key... He has the matrix key in his hands and then it kind of just dissolves... the key turns to dust in his hands. Then this exchange takes place

Sam: Everyone’s after me because of what I know. And I know this is going to work.
Mikaela: How do you know it’s going to work?
Sam: Because I believe it.

   I just love that line because I feel like it is the essence of being a Christian. Not much of what we do makes sense to everyone else... you know, our lifestyle and whatnot... we are set apart from the world. It's what we believe. I believe God is my creator. It says so in the bible. (The bible tells me soooo) I know it's true because of the bible, because of what God has done in my life and, well, it's just what I believe! I have faith, conflabbit (yeah I used conflabbit... Grandpa from the tv show Rugrats used it. So why can't I?!)
   I know that time away from my friend to work on my relationship with God is going to help me become secure where and who I am in Christ. God will grow me and continue to shape me into all he wills me to be, I will come out of this more dependent on God and stronger because... well, I believe it. (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!)

 CONFLABBIT!