living

Please lift up all four of us and three other guys from our youth group. We are preparing for HS Winter Camp this weekend and we are doing Set Me Free skit. Please just pray the Lord uses us all. We are stoked!!

(:

I have successfully completed 4 years of English and I am that much closer to graduation!! (:

  This is me....as if you didn't know that!!

Anyways, i took a shower after rehearsals and then made a funny face at the camera. 

I am rehearsing for Thoroughly Modern Millie right now. I got a pretty good role and I am stoked(:

And this is the picture that needs no caption!

Rehabilitating

It is so hard on my body to deal with all of this. I just want to scream sometimes because I want my normal life back. Sorry if this sounds dramatic but I am like at the point of frustration. My body hasn't been the same since both of the concussions and I don't like it. We were practicing our skit for winter retreat and like I just had to stop because I got so sick. It's sooo hard to deal with because I used to be able to be so crazy. Now I have to be super careful and always have access to food. It's super difficult right now and I just keep looking for the end of the road. I know God has me here for a reason and that theres a purpose but it doesn't always help. I just have to stay focussed on God and pray that the end is soon. I know my almighty precious father is holding me. I know that he knows everything about me and the end he wins!!! So the truth is I got this, but your prayers are seriously coveted!!
Love Ayana <3 (:

Dear Morgan,

I love you. I love..your beauty, your brains, your gentleness, your kindness, your sweetness, your thoughtfulness,  your heart, your love for those in need, your personality, your writing, your caring compassion, your hair, your style, your joy, your peace, your zeal for God.
Morgs, I am crazy about you!! You are one of the best friends I have ever had!! And I am so thankful for your friendship regardless of where life takes us. You have had and continue to have such a strong impact on my life. I would be lost without you as a friend! I love you beautiful and I am praying for you!!
Love Forever,
Ayana <3 (:

i love my family!!

project beauty #2

Here we are second beauty project and I am excited!! I am actually thoroughly enjoying this! Which is pretty awesome! 

Project Beauty #2

To Help with number two on this list

and #23 on my bucket list

See The Beauty In Everything

I have been contemplating how to do this and I am exciting that the Lord revealed this to me yesterday! I know your wondering how this has anything to do with Jesus but it does. I desire to be a more positive person so that my relationship with God will be strengthened. Jesus calls us to have full joy in the Lord and joy comes when you can see Gods beauty in the hard situations. SO my way of seeing the beauty in everything is by starting a week by week overview of what is up. This week has been hard! Really hard. There hasn't been one day that I haven't gone to bed and thought "wow this was rough". Unfortunately I am really being hit hard right now, but I a choosing to see the beauty in it all. I am going to share some things, but not all as it is extremely personal.

Tuesday: My Aunt and Cousin get in a really bad car accident! 

It was kinda stressful because we didn't know the entire time if she was okay or not. It just made me question my example of Jesus. Had I done enough for her to show her the way of Jesus? 

The Beauty: She made it out of the accident with only a few scrapes and bruises. If you saw the pictures of the accident you would see why this is a big deal. It drove me to instantaneous prayer to Jesus. I didn't think twice about it, I just contacted my Lord. Last but not least it made me realize God is in control and that I needed to not worry which is number 6 on my objectives list. 

Thursday: I had a really long day with zero sleep the night before. Drama was discouraging! Which if you have been with me awhile you know that drama class is my favorite way to unwind. It wasn't like that yesterday and I came home and literally cried. 

The Beauty: The moment I looked to Jesus all was better. It made me question my motives and my example of Jesus in class. It showed me God loves me for me. The daughter that he went to the cross for. 

-love ariana (:

confession

i don't have a lot of like creativity juices for writing a blog. i get my inspiration from:
mere and morgs
therefore i am soooo thankful for these two girls and their willingness to let me copy them (:
i love them!! (:

a new project

I am starting a new project here on my blog to help with my Objectives as well as my bucket list. 

I am going to call this Project Beauty. 

So for project beauty #1:

Alright so! I feel like starting with number three. I love writing so I really want to express myself more through writing then through talking. It is usually easier for me (: I love that God has chosen to bless me with a zeal for writing. It sorta gives me a good feeling. Writing for me is like shopping for most girls. This does mean that I am not your typical girl. I would prefer to sit in my room with my laptop and write then go to the mall for a bazillion hours and shop. I hate shopping! Really! To me it is a useless waste of time. Writing is not that way to me. I really think writing is an amazing and beautiful way to express myself. Will I go somewhere with it? Doubtful! But for now it creates a wonderful place for me. PS: stay tuned as I will be unveiling a piece of my new book and talking more about that! 

God Bless my friends (:

PPS: I wrote this entire post without a single spelling error....10 points for me! haha

oooohhh (:

the plans that are yet to come in these next couple months....AHHHHH SOOOOO STOKED!!!

I serve an amazing God!

Life is hectic right now. There is no denying that, but for the first time in awhile the hectic lifestyle is something I am thankful for. Why? Because I so heavily feel God's presence in my life!! I don't even know how to explain it all. A few weeks back I was asked to share with my youth group about what I sensed God was calling me to in this next year (: When I first started praying about what I would say, I was worried because I didn't know what I was being called to. But as I sat there praying I heard God say "tell them I am going to prepare you for battle". I was like what???? And as I prayed more and more it became clear that I needed to tell them God was going to use this year to prepare me for the rest of my life. The battle? Well that's simple, it's Ireland. I have said it many times before that I believe God is calling me there after College. So I shared that Jesus was going to send me through hard stuff to prepare for future missions to Ireland. See God has closed the door this year for me to return to Ireland. But I don't believe that door is being closed permanently just for awhile. Well as anyone would expect I have gone through some yucky stuff! But I know it's all for Gods glory so it has been somewhat exciting! I never knew trials could be so exciting until now! It's awesome
Love Ariana

this is visual jet lag...

ever wanted to see what jet lag looked like in three high school girls?

your welcome!!

:(

Missing those chicas

Celiacs Disease

Okay so most of you know that I have been self diagnosed with Celiacs Disease. Some of you may think I am stupid for going g-free without having a proper diagnoses but this has been a long battle. I was first diagnosed with Depression when everything was perfectly fine. So obviously that wasn't true. Then the doctor ordered a celiac panel and it came back negative. We must take into account that I had only had gluten in really my tummy for three days. And when I did that I didn't have gluten every meal. The next step would have been an endoscopy procedure. My parents and I made a joint choice not to have the procedure. The symptoms that I carried during the time I had to eat it for the testing, were unbelievable. I was literally out for a week for it even when I was done eating it I just had the pain that lingers. So I think for me it makes the most sense to remain GF and to deal with the disease. The doctors just want to put me on drugs. That is not happening.
So for now.....
This shall be the writings of a GF girl (:

Hey there 2011 (:

So..... (: 2011 has gotten off to a great start!! I have had so much fun!! I feel like this is going to be such a great year. I think that feeling comes from starting the year off right. I am not trying to boast but I just did what was natural and put God first!! It's incredible what happens when you make Jesus number one in everything. Simply praising him and just talking to him has made this year so exciting!! I am in this crazy I want to tell everyone about Jesus mood. I love being close to him! He is soooo amazing!! So I thought I would post a few pics from the first two days of 2011!! Sorry they aren't the best quality. They are from my phone. Enjoy! You know how much I like pics (:

Ringing in the new year!!!! (with sparkling apple cider)

Christmas with my grandparents on the first day of 2011

Eating out with this crazy boy! He's awesome!

First starbucks of 2011 and the best part is that it was with my best friend!!

PS: I haven't been glutened at all this year!! I AM GLUTEN-CLEAN!!