So I'm obviously bored and you can find random surveys online (mostly for myspace), but I did one and here it is, some of the questions are weird, but whatever:
1.You have 10 dollars and need to buy snacks at a gas station: I'd put it in my gas tank instead
2. If you were reincarnated as a sea creature, what would you want to be? A manatee-they are so cute!
3. Who’s your favorite redhead? Ummm……duhhh :o)
4. What do you order when you’re at IHOP? Pigs in a blanket
5. Last book you read? Geez, I’m reading about 6 right now
6. Describe your mood. Hmmmm, a combo of many things
7. Describe the last time you were injured? Yesterday, I stubbed my toe (as usual)
8. Of all your friends, who would you want to be stuck in a well with? What??, probably my littlest sis-she’s small
9. Rock concert or symphony? That’s tough-probably symphony
10. What is the wallpaper of your cell phone? A pic of my bro and sis
11. Favorite Soda? I don’t drink soda-but if I’m forced-sierra mist
12. What type of shirt are you wearing? An orange long-sleeved shirt I got from target for $6.48-yeah man!
13. If you could only use one form of transportation: a helicopter
14. Most recent movie you have watched in theatres? How sad-I don’t remember!
15. Name an actor/actress/singer you have had the hots for: there are a few but I have always liked Freddie Prinze Jr.
16. What’s your favorite kind of cake? Probably chocolate
17. What did you have for dinner last night? Chic-fil-a-nice and healthy :o)
18. Look to your left, what do you see? My Bible-awwww!
19. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? nope
20. Favorite toy as a child? My little ponies
21. Do you buy your own groceries? Of course
22. Do you think people talk about you behind your back? I’m sure-I think everyone has that problem
23. When’s the last time you had gummy worms? Can’t remember
24. What’s your favorite fruit? A peach or a strawberry
25. Do you have a picture of yourself doing a cartwheel? No, but I have a video of me doing a handstand
26. Do you like running long distances? Yes, especially when I have a lot on my mind
27. Have you ever eaten snow? Yes, I grew up in blizzard country (upstate NY), me and my sisters even tried to make ice cream out of it
28. What color are your bed sheets? brown
29. What’s your favorite flower? A white oleander (b/c it’s deadly)
30. Do you do ballet? No, I do modern dance, and am starting hip hop classes soon!
31. Do you listen to classical music? yup
32. Last restaurant you went to? outback
33. Do you watch Sponge bob? Ummm, sometimes
34. What temperature is it outside right now? Not too cold (very rainy)
35. Do people consider you smart? For the most part
36. How many piercings do you have? Tattoos? 6 and 1
37 Last time you did volunteer work or made any donations? I ushered at church this morning
38. Have you ever tried gluing your fingers together? Maybe a long time ago
39 .How do you feel about your family? Love them
40. Do you have an iPod? nano
41. What time do you go to bed? Around 10
42. What CD is currently in your CD player? Depeche modes greatest hits-love them!
43. What movie do you know every line to? Sadly-labyrinth
44. What is your favorite salad dressing? ranch
45. What do you want for Christmas this year? Christmas has come and gone
46. What family member/friend lives the farthest from you? Where? My bro, SC
47. Do you like hugs? I LOVE HUGS!!!
48. Last time you had butterflies in your stomach? Hmmm, off and on today
49. What’s the way people most often mispronounce any part of your name? my last name-they say ritzbitz and many other things
50. Last person you hugged? My Mom
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Yeah I said it.
So a few of you may be “offended” w/the following opinion of mine, but that really doesn’t bother me too much, in fact it kind of excites me b/c there are few things in my life that I am absolutely certain of, have believed my entire life, and refuse to “back down” about. One is my relationship with Jesus Christ, Who He is, what He’s done for all of us, and the unwavering passion I feel to live for and serve Him. The second is abortion (uh-oh), I am absolutely pro-life and I believe God is as well, I also know all the typical responses to this-“What if a woman is raped?”, “What about incest?”, “What about teenage pregnancy?”, “What if the parents are financially unstable?”, “What if the mother’s life is in danger?”, “What if the baby is going to be born w/major birth defects or a serious illness?”. I’ve heard all of these and they are all serious questions, and I admit there are fine lines when it comes to these issues-cases that I could almost see how you could “have the right” to choose, almost but not quite-I don’t know why God “allows” certain things to occur, such as birth defects or serious illness, but I do know that He is God, not us, He creates life, we don’t. I know many woman who feel that they have a right to decide what they do w/their bodies-well, even as independent as I am-I STILL don’t believe that I have the “right” to destroy something that was created inside me-no I haven’t been raped, and honestly I cannot say how I would feel if I was and became pregnant, but I do know that the life that was created inside me is no mistake (God does not create mistakes), and there are options-adoption-a painful process, but I believe a much safer one than running the risk of never having a child again due to the trauma that takes place in a woman during an abortion. I know a lot about the details of abortion-maybe even too much, but I know every different “type” of procedure, I know that a baby (I refuse to use the word-fetus) literally feels every slice of the knife, burn of saline solution, and jamming of scissors into their skulls, there is even a video out there that shows a baby being aborted and how he/she flinches and opens and closes his/her mouth during it. I know this is hard to digest, but so many people I have talked to have no idea how the abortions are performed, they somehow believe that a “fetus” is a blob of tissue that magically becomes a baby upon leaving the birth canal-they’re wrong (you should check out the “bodies” exhibit if you ever get a chance-that will blow your mind), and you can look up what the baby looks life at every single week of development-it’s amazing-I wonder how people DON’T believe in God after seeing those pictures. This is an issue that is important to me-it’s a part of who I am and what I stand for. I love Jesus and I want to truly represent what I feel He would fight for if He were still walking the earth.
God is somehow involved in every detail of our lives, including our formation. The following verses prove more than anything else that God is deeply and personally concerned for every human life-even before birth.
Exodus 20:13 says, "You shall not commit murder."
Psalm 78:6-7 says, "That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born might arise and recount them to their children. That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but might keep His commandments."
Psalm 127:4 says, "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward."
Psalm 139:13-16 says, “For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know them well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.”
Psalm 147:13 says, "For He has strengthened and made hard the bars of your gates, and He has blessed your children within you."
Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Romans 9:11 says, "And the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God's purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls [them]."
Ephesians 1:4-5 says, "Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]."
Hebrews 2:13 says, And again He says, My trust and assured reliance and confident hope shall be fixed in Him. And yet again, Here I am, I and the children whom God has given Me."
This blog has been a long time coming-needed to get it off my chest and please don’t think I wrote it b/c of one specific thing anyone has recently said to me, frequently I remain silent when other people voice their opinions on this topic or others that I may disagree with, and frankly I’m just tired of it. I will even be so bold as to say, how dare anyone ever think that God Himself is pro-choice, that literally makes no sense, it goes against everything God Is and stands for, how dare YOU-a simple finite human being have the audacity to think that YOU can choose if another human being will live or die, (and just to be clear, I am speaking about the innocent, the unborn, not in regards to war or self-defense-that’s a separate topic) the fact is every single creation HAS a creator and trust me-we create the “act” to create life but Who creates that life is another story.
Oh yeah, and do I believe in the death penalty? Absolutely. But how can you be against one form of “termination” and not the other? Simple, I don’t compare innocence to guilt-babies have done nothing wrong, nothing to deserve death, no chance to be born into their sin nature, adults have-we all have “free will”, and the adults who receive the death penalty have decided their own fate-most w/unspeakable acts. Do I think God is for the death penalty? I can’t say for sure, but I am.
As for your opinion; looking forward to it.
God is somehow involved in every detail of our lives, including our formation. The following verses prove more than anything else that God is deeply and personally concerned for every human life-even before birth.
Exodus 20:13 says, "You shall not commit murder."
Psalm 78:6-7 says, "That the generation to come might know them, that the children still to be born might arise and recount them to their children. That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but might keep His commandments."
Psalm 127:4 says, "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward."
Psalm 139:13-16 says, “For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know them well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.”
Psalm 147:13 says, "For He has strengthened and made hard the bars of your gates, and He has blessed your children within you."
Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew [and] approved of you [as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I separated and set you apart, consecrating you; [and] I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
Romans 9:11 says, "And the children were yet unborn and had so far done nothing either good or evil. Even so, in order further to carry out God's purpose of selection (election, choice), which depends not on works or what men can do, but on Him Who calls [them]."
Ephesians 1:4-5 says, "Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent]."
Hebrews 2:13 says, And again He says, My trust and assured reliance and confident hope shall be fixed in Him. And yet again, Here I am, I and the children whom God has given Me."
This blog has been a long time coming-needed to get it off my chest and please don’t think I wrote it b/c of one specific thing anyone has recently said to me, frequently I remain silent when other people voice their opinions on this topic or others that I may disagree with, and frankly I’m just tired of it. I will even be so bold as to say, how dare anyone ever think that God Himself is pro-choice, that literally makes no sense, it goes against everything God Is and stands for, how dare YOU-a simple finite human being have the audacity to think that YOU can choose if another human being will live or die, (and just to be clear, I am speaking about the innocent, the unborn, not in regards to war or self-defense-that’s a separate topic) the fact is every single creation HAS a creator and trust me-we create the “act” to create life but Who creates that life is another story.
Oh yeah, and do I believe in the death penalty? Absolutely. But how can you be against one form of “termination” and not the other? Simple, I don’t compare innocence to guilt-babies have done nothing wrong, nothing to deserve death, no chance to be born into their sin nature, adults have-we all have “free will”, and the adults who receive the death penalty have decided their own fate-most w/unspeakable acts. Do I think God is for the death penalty? I can’t say for sure, but I am.
As for your opinion; looking forward to it.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
A long December...
I guess I never realized how hard Christmas time is for some people, for the first time this year I was affected by feelings of sadness and hurting, not just in those around me, but also in myself. Mine I take as self-pity, which I try not to allow too much of into my life, and Jesus usually yanks me out of my rut (sometimes it takes a few days), but mainly I was affected by certain people around me that I care a lot about. One of my friends that I’ve known since high school’s father passed away a few months ago, another girl that I work with lost her grandfather last week, three other people that I’m close to are going through messy divorces, just to name a few. I am actually thankful that I am able to recognize different circumstances around me that I have never really paid attention to before (during the holiday season). I was able to visit and talk with each of these people throughout this past month and became quite burdened (in a good way I suppose) with what they were going through; I have never experienced the loss of someone I have been very close to, but I can honestly say that I know the gut wrenching feeling of a broken heart, I know the suffocating pain of feeling hopelessly sad, I know how seeing the light at the end of the tunnel can seem almost impossible, and I also know that God heals and God restores like nothing else. It takes time, time, time, and prayer lots of prayer. That’s what I’ve been doing for everyone I know that is really hurting through this season, that’s a lot of what I’ve done for the past two days. This is an odd “season” of my life-lots of soul searching, but the closest I’ve ever been to God-I’m taking it all in, absorbing it, processing it, and checking in with God constantly- it’s interesting-when you give God the reins and sit back and watch Him work, amusing as well, but hard, did I mention hard?
I did my first updo on Siobhan-"Grace", and it actually turned out pretty good! (We were both nervous)
I fell in love w/this little boy/sheep-Tadhg, I put his costume on for each performance, and he always made me make sure his hat was tied "extra tight" :o)
I did these beautiful girls (and boy) hair-Danielle, Stefani, Kate, Corbin, and Madison-so much fun!
This is my small group at church, I got them books that tell the Christmas story and play music-they are Myatt, Sara, Harper, Logan, Emory, and Eric-love them!
My two favorite girls-so pretty and such amazing personalities! (Emory and Harper)
These are my sisters and brother on Christmas-Zach, Olivia, me, Sheela, and Tye :o)
December had some really good times though, the first set of pictures is from our churches Christmas production:
I did my first updo on Siobhan-"Grace", and it actually turned out pretty good! (We were both nervous)
I fell in love w/this little boy/sheep-Tadhg, I put his costume on for each performance, and he always made me make sure his hat was tied "extra tight" :o)
I did these beautiful girls (and boy) hair-Danielle, Stefani, Kate, Corbin, and Madison-so much fun!
This is my small group at church, I got them books that tell the Christmas story and play music-they are Myatt, Sara, Harper, Logan, Emory, and Eric-love them!
My two favorite girls-so pretty and such amazing personalities! (Emory and Harper)
These are my sisters and brother on Christmas-Zach, Olivia, me, Sheela, and Tye :o)Thursday, December 20, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Free at last...
Ummm, so I can't TRULY express (in "writing") how absolutely THRILLED I am to be finished w/this semester, I ended up pulling through with a B in anatomy (very good considering my teacher), and at least a B in abnormal psych (possibly an A-don't know yet). God really helped me out, gave me a constant strength (as usual), last week was pretty rough, I blame a lot of it on myself though b/c I tend to procrastinate when it comes to major assignments, for instance I did an entire research paper from 11:00pm to 6:00am last sun nite, and still made a B on it-that's how I roll, sometimes I just need the fact that it's due the next day (by 3pm) to motivate me-wish I could learn things the easy way, but what would that teach me? I am so happy to just catch up w/friends and actually go out to eat and not feel guilty about the fact that "I really need to be studying right now". I'm excited to see what God has planned for my life as well, a lot of times I just want to quit school, but I am not getting the "green light" from God on that (darn!), so I will continue to do what I've been doing-go to school, go to work, volunteer at church, enjoy my life, and remember Who my best friend is :o) I don't understand a lot of what I'm going through but I know the One who sees the big picture and all I can do is trust that-plain and simple. There are two things my pastor once said to always remember: 1.)Remember you are weak, and 2.)Remain mold-able. Will do.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
sniff...
From The Inside Out
~Hillsong United
A thousand times I've failed
Still Your mercy remains And should I stumble again
I'm caught in Your grace
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
Your will above all else
My purpose remains
The art of losing myself
In bringing You praise
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart and my soul
Lord I give You control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord let justice and praise
Become my embrace
To love you from the inside out
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart
Is to bring You praise
From the inside out
Lord my soul cries out
(I love this song)
~Hillsong United
A thousand times I've failed
Still Your mercy remains And should I stumble again
I'm caught in Your grace
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
Your will above all else
My purpose remains
The art of losing myself
In bringing You praise
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
In my heart and my soul
Lord I give You control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord let justice and praise
Become my embrace
To love you from the inside out
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart
Is to bring You praise
From the inside out
Lord my soul cries out
(I love this song)
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Pray for me please :o)
This week is going to be CRAZY for me (to say the least), I have 3 major research papers due and a lab practical (labeling a real sheep brain-fun!), I am also spending a major part of the week at church doing hair and make-up for our Christmas production-I will be there tues, thurs, fri, and sat nites, and sun morning-I know I will have a great time though-I always do :o) I just need extra prayer this week for strength and endurance-much appreciation.
"I cannot do everything so I choose those things which are vital and excellent and of real value. I have wisdom and I am able to distinguish the highest and the best things for me to do."
~Phil 1:10
"I cast the whole of my care [all of my anxieties, all my worries, all my concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for me affectionately and cares about me watchfully."
~1 Peter 5:7
"I cannot do everything so I choose those things which are vital and excellent and of real value. I have wisdom and I am able to distinguish the highest and the best things for me to do."
~Phil 1:10
"I cast the whole of my care [all of my anxieties, all my worries, all my concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for me affectionately and cares about me watchfully."
~1 Peter 5:7
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