If you read this,
Even if i don't speak to you often,
You must post a memory of me.

It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad,
Just as long as it happend.

Then post this to your journal. See what people remember.

wow, I seriously need to start making entries in this weblog more. I have like a ton of these though...I have phusebox, facebook, myspace (which I don't use anymore), and xanga.
woot! yes I know I"m an online diary geek.... but anyways, this weekend was fun.
Me, Katie, Katy, and Heather all went on a Target Raid and got some stuff we needed and then some! lol, we had fun looking at the halloween stuff and the clothes... me and Heather got matching black sweaters that are super soft and comfy. yay!

I hope you all have a great week!!
Love through Christ, Kaylei

Hey everyone! I hope you all are having a wonderful week so far. Well, the reason I'm writing on this thing is that I would appreciate it if you all could pray for me right now. I'm having a hard time being patient and not worrying about certain areas in my life, and I just really need God's help. I've been asking Him to help me in this endeavor, but I am still struggling. I want to feel content about my situation in life, but sometimes it is so hard to feel content, especially when I really want to find someone to be in a relationship with. I mean I don't want to be in a relationship with someone that God wouldn't have me be in a relationship with, and I do want to find someone who can only help enhance my relationship with God. It's just I will think I have found a great guy and then nothing works out with them and I end up feeling discouraged and rejected and unimportant. I really wish it were easier for me to just not worry or dwell on this stuff, but it isn't. And I just need some big-time prayer so I can actually learn to not dwell on this stuff. well, I have vented and discussed my problems way too much...but I greatly appreciate any prayers! Thanks

yay, Lipscomb actually has Facebook now. So, I'd really appreciate it if yall would add me :)
well, that's all I have. You all have a wonderful day! :)

-Kaylei

I have this devotional book that I've been reading each morning before I head on to classes and it has been very encouraging to me....so I'm going to put in the entry from today, because I thought it might encourage you all. So here it is...

"Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly (following their advice, their plans and purposes)....But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually mediates (ponders and studies) by day and night."
Psalm 1:1-2

Keep in touch with God today; stay tuned to His voice. You may have a plan for the day, but God may lead you in a totally different direction if you are sensitive to the Holy Ghost. Be brave enough to flow with what you feel in your heart God wants you to do.
Today is going to be a good day. Listen for the voice of God to lead you. Be determined to walk in the Spirit and stay in the flow of God's leading today.

- Kaylei

Hey everyone. Well I'm home untill Monday afternoon.
I hope everyone has a fantabulous memorial weekend! :)

Love in Christ, Kaylei

so yeah, I'm coming home this weekend.
Who wants to hang out?

In other news, school is going great. I'm loving all of my classes so far and am making a great group of friends. The only thing is this one guy that I met the first day I moved in....yeah, he's very cute and nice and all but I haven't had the opportunity to hang out with him.
I don't have any classes with him but I do sit in front of him at Chapel so that's pretty cool...uhm but you know how I am....yes, shy stupid Kaylei. But we've been saying hi and all to each other and have talked some like after chapel and all. oh well, I guess I just have to wait and see if he'd like to form a friendship or not.
I have to remember I'm here to get an education and to strengthen my relationship with the Lord.
I hope all of you at MTSU had a great first day...Amy, Anna I hope your classes were great :)
well that's all I have. Have a great day!
-Kaylei

well it was a good week. We had activity after activity and I was tired a lot, but we had some fun. Yesterday we did a service project with our english classes....my class went to this church and fixed up the home that it owns that the church uses for people who need a place to live here in Nashville. We painted the porch area and shed doors, and put dirt out on their lawn so the people who run the house can start putting grass in where there wasn't any. It looked great after we had finished and I was really glad I went. We've had information sessions about different clubs and stuff, and we've had to sit through some boring sessions about campus safety and all of that, but there was also some fun stuff like "What'd You Say?" Karaoke audtions which they'll be having the show on Sunday night so I'm thinking I'm going to go and watch. It should be quite interesting, lol.
Well I hope you all have a blest week! I love you all and miss you a ton! :)

okay so I have come to the conclusion that I don't know if a boy is interested in getting to know me or not. It just seems to me that they'll talk to me for a little while and all, and then they go and stop talking to me and get all friendly with some other girls. I just feel kind of rejected by them is all. I mean I would love to have a great group of guy friends but I don't and I just wish I knew what I was doing wrong. I mean, am I just acting too shy around them that they just don't think I'd be cool to get to know. I just am confused is all....
and I want to understand more. I mean I don't have to understand all of it, but I just wish I could have some light shed on this whole thing. I just am right now feeling like a boy-repelent or something.
well that's all I have right now....you all have a great day!

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37:4

well it's been a long, long day today....moving boxes after boxes of stuff into my room. But the room looks so nice now, even the other girls in my suite love the look of my room. My roommate, Rachel...she is such a sweetheart and I can't wait to get started with everything now well that's all I have right now. I'll fill you all in more once I get settled more.

wow I haven't written in here in a while. I've been pretty busy getting stuff together to move in to the dorm on Monday!

*sighs* It's bitter-sweet. I'm gonna miss Murfreesboro and all of the friends and memories I've made here.But I will be back to visit quite a bit...it's a good thing I'm not going far far away to like Harding University in Arkansas, because I think I'd be quite homesick if I did that.
Well with school starting and with starting in another city with new people and all it has gotten me a little nervous but I am very excited. I was quite worried and nervous at one point this summer but now I'm not so fearful. Today I was reading in Isaiah and I saw this passage and it just calmed my spirits all over again about college and everything....

"So do not fear for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Isaiah 41:10

well that's all I have right now. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! -Kaylei

...such a strong phrase and yet such a phrase that people take lightly nowadays. I've been thinking about this all lately and how nonchalantly people will tell their boyfriend or girlfriend they love them right away without truly thinking things out. I think especially that people my age and below are rushing into saying this phrase to their newest fling too soon. They have no idea that the relationship is guaranteed to work and they risk having heartbreak by just saying those few little words.
Now I'm not saying that saying "I love you" to a good friend or fellow Christian is wrong, but when it comes to relationships I'd say people need to be careful and really think about what they are saying. Girls especially need to be careful of when we say "I love you" to our boyfriends. We as girls are emotional and sometimes those emotions get the best of us. I mean what if a girl says they love their boyfriend and then the boyfriend drops them for the next pretty girl out there? That will leave the girl crushed and heartbroken. I'm not saying that guys don't have any feelings, but we as girls are more emotional when it comes to things like this.
well, that's just something I've been thinking about and was brought to my attention this week.

As the deer thirsts for the water, Lord
so my soul longs after You.
My soul thirsts for the living God
My soul longs after You
And I pour out my soul deep within me,
deep within me I pour out my soul
Draw me deeper Lord, deeper Lord in You.
Draw me deeper Lord, deeper Lord in You.

^ I love that song!
God continues to bless me each and every day.
Today He's shown me that I only need to rejoice in Him and seek after Him alone that is how I can truly find contentment and assurance in this life. He is always there protecting me and I shouldn't worry about a thing. College is soon approaching, and with that comes new people, a new place, and my future lying ahead of me. So many endless possibilities and so much more room for growth spiritually. My only hope is that I'll become all that God has ever wanted me to be. I love all of you and just am so blest to have such great, Christian friends in my life. I hope you all have a great day!

okay so this book that I have to read for my English class at Lipscomb is very interesting....
This book talks about how even though we as a culture have all kinds of entertainment at our fingertips,from the internet to video games, people are still suffering from boredom these days. I think this author is completely right, because nobody is fully content with their daily routines...it becomes monotonous and humdrum. Also, entertainment such as movies and tv shows can only hold our interest for so long. This book also talks about how people can get burned out from all of the entertainment...for instance going to the movies or watching tv can get boring after a while, and so people run out of things to do.
But yeah, so there's my little blog for the day!
Hope you all enjoyed it! I'm gonna go read some more of this book now...
Love in Christ, Kaylei

"If God is going to write your love story, He's going to first need your pen. If God is going to lead your love boat to the harbor of romance beyond the fairy tales, He needs the helm. As Jesus once said to His followers, "Daily you must trust Me, surrendering everything, including the blood in your veins and the breath in your lungs, for Me to do with as I see fit. If you want to join up with Me, you must let Me lead" (Luke 9:23 paraphrase). If you are ever going to hear the "sweeter song" that God created you to hear, then you're going to have to first open the door to Jesus and let Him has His way. And you are going to have to trust that He, as the inventor of romance, knows how to write a beautiful tale!"
- from When God Writes Your Love Story

All that is so true. If God is the head of our lives then we must trust Him to give us the most beautiful love story ever.

"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Therefore, do not worry about tomarrow, for tomarrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:33-34

"I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that supasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the full measure of all the fullness of God."
Ephesians 3:16-19


^ Those two verses really gave me some stuff to think about. I know I shouldn't worry about things that concern my future because I know who holds the future :) I just need to concentrate on my relationship with my Lord and savior Jesus Christ and what I can do to please Him instead.

well, worries about guys and college have yet again taken a hold of me....why can't I just stop focusing on that stuff and learn to just take each day as it comes?
I guess maybe it's because I've wanted so much to meet that special someone....and I haven't yet and I begin to worry I won't sometimes. I had always hoped and thought I would meet the man I'd marry in college, and yes I know I'm not quite in college yet....it's just something that's been worrying me.

Well enough of that.... my weekend was pretty awesome. I got to meet my roommate from North Carolina on Thursday, and had a great time meeting different people and playing the games at Nocturnal Madness in the cafeteria of the Student Center at Lipscomb. and then Friday I got registered for classes and all that great stuff. Saturday I went to a Nashville Sounds game with my parents...my dad got to represent Nissan and hit one of the first pitches, lol it was quite amusing.
Had church today and that's pretty much it.
well, I hope you all have a great week ahead!

well I'm back from Nashville and I now finally have my schedule for the semester.

Monday,Wednesday, and Friday I am taking Psychology, Chapel, The Story of Israel (Hebrew History- bible class), and Biology and I get done at 1:50pm with classes
Tuesday and Thursday I have University Bible, Fundamentals of Math, Lipscomb Seminar (English), and University Singers and I get done at 4pm....but I don't start untill 9:30am which is good :)

well, I guess that's all I have for now.
Hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week!

Love in Christ, Kaylei

Hey everyone! I'm back from my trip. I'll post some more about the trip later. Hope you all had a wonderful Fourth of July!

-Kaylei

**EDIT** I have some pictures from my trip on my myspace page... www.myspace.com/smiliekay
since I can't put pictures on here for some odd reason I guess that's where I'll have to post them.

lol so I'm in NYC and we went to the Today show and I met Ann Curry and Al Roeker, and I was this close to meeting Katie Couric....although she did wave my way so that's awesome :) but yeah, Ann Curry is soo friendly and sweet, and I got a picture with her to remember it all by :)
But yes, I've been all over actually. We first stopped in Detroit and I got to see Motown and Lake Huron and then we went into Canada and went to Niagra Falls and Toronto! Niagra Falls was soo beautiful, let me tell you. But we've been driving and walking everywhere, lol. AND we've been going in and out of hotels because of going into Canada and all. It is tiring but well worth the trip.
well, I'll be back early next week. See you all then!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Hello everyone! wow, it's been a while since I've updated. Well, It has started off to be a busy week.
Sunday was church as usual and then Monday I babysat these three little girls for a couple that just moved here from Louisiana who have started attending my church. And let me tell you, I find such joy in looking after and playing with kids. They truly let me know what's most important in life.
So I'm listening to music from The Sound of Music...
I absolutely LOVE it. It's my favorite musical of all time and the music just speaks to me completely.

"I go to the hills when my heart is lonely...I know I will hear what I heard before. My heart will be blest with the sound of music, and I'll sing once more."

I love that part of this song...as I was thinking about it it made me think of where I go to when I'm lonely.
Do I go to God or to other things? Whenever I go to God with my loneliness I always come out of it better, and it rejuvenates my soul time and time again. I need to remember to always go to Him first.

-Kaylei :)

Hello again! Well, I don't have really that much to say.
My life is getting kind of boring lately since school has been out. But not for long, thank goodness.
I'm going to NYC with the family in about a week, so that should be awesome. Also,I've got Advance at Lipscomb coming up in a month. I can't wait to finally get registered for college! aaah, I'm so excited!!!!

I've been reading this book "The Power of Positive Thinking" and it's been helping me a lot. Sometimes I have the worst attitude about things and I'll admit it.
But I see it's all so pointless to worry and complain. So from now on I'm going to be a happy, optimistic person. And if you see me doing so otherwise, please tell me so I'll stop, lol. Well, I love you all and hope you have a great week!

"Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight."1 Peter 3:3-4

"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all. Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised."
Proverbs 31: 29-30

I want to be that kind of a woman described in those two verses. I was reading Song of Songs and I was just thinking how the Shulamite woman did have a strong passion for her true love but she knew that she didn't need a guy to be happy, and that's what attracted her mate to her. She says "Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you....do not arouse or awaken love untill it so desires." Song of Songs 2:7. She knew that having love for God first is what it's really all about, and then God will bless you with a truly wonderful earthly romance. If we focus on becoming more christlike then our inner beauty will outshine everything. Just a thought for the day, lol.
Hope you all have a blest day!

-Kaylei :)

hello all! Wow is all I can say. Today I have had a total renewal of hope within. God has been so good and never ceases to amaze me. When I need Him most, He's there. I may not feel His presence or realize He's evident in my life right away but He is always there. If anyone who is reading this does not know the true joy and fulfillment in having Christ in their lives, I beg you to not waste another minute, don't go to sleep untill you have tasted what is truly good...having a relationship with the Creator of the Universe and Savior of humanity. It's an incredible thing!
I had been very doubtful and fearful about where my life is headed lately, but God is turning my doubt and fear around into trusting and hoping in Him alone to carry out His plans (great plans) for my life. I have realized that my future is not for me to worry about...that is God's work, not mine. But He does expect me to do the best I can each day and to keep my faith and hope alive in what He is doing in my life, always. well, I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead! May God bless you always!