hey

so i have like two seconds.... i am on the computer in the cafeteria so i have to be really short.... everything is going pretty good now.... the first days were tough but i actually got sleep last night.... it was good to be able to get some sleep....... if anybody would like to send me mail mama has my address so email or talk to her and she will give it to you.... MAIL IS DEFINITLY WELCOME!!!! everything can be sent by that address.... i will try to write more once i get the computer stuff worked out..... after this week everything will slow down alot so i may be able to put more on here.... guess that's it for now.... everybody please keep praying i need it alot..... thanks so much to those of you who have been fighting for me in the past couple of days.... it's been kind of hard....
love ya'll lots
allison (or IHOP chic)

WOOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i just figured i would let everybody know that I AM LEAVING IN LIKE 1 HOUR!!!!!!! WOOOHOOOO then i get to go see morgan and eat and then keep going to tenn. to my hotel all in one day........ it's going to be GREAT!!!! ya'll keep on praying to ok....... it's a long drive up there......... once again thank you all for ALL of your support (in whatever way it was given money emotional whatever......) THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!
love ya'll buches i have to go and get ready and finish packing those last minute things......

LOVE YA'LL BUNCHES AND BUNCHES AND BUNCHES
Allison

LEAVING!!!

just to let everybody know i am leaving for IHOP tomorrow....

i need lots and lots of prayer for the rest of tonight and the next couple of days....

after losing that work and then after not being able to figure out what to do on another paper i haven't finished school.... that will work itself it.... so pray for me for that cuz i'm sort of stressed because of that..... now i'm taking a break from packing to write this soooooo....... i guess i should get back to packing.... oh yeah.... i don't have my address yet so i will get it to mama and she can give it to people...... so you all that are far away in different places i'm sure that you will know somebody that can give it to you!! I WILL BE EXPECTING LOTS OF MAIL!!!! (hint hint) and a few visiters wouldn't hurt if anyone feels up to it....... hehehehehehehe of course that's only if you would like to spend lots and lots of time in the prayer room and that sort of thing.... i was told that the only day i will have off will be on thurs.... (just to let ya'll know) anyways...

oh yeah if anyone does happen to come and see me..... i don't think you will actually be able to stay with me.... (there will already be 8 people in a 2 bed 2 bath apartment) so you will have to make other accomodations..... you will have to check in to it, but i think that if you mention something about IHOP you might get a discount...... anyways.......


almost forgot..... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOU SUPPORT!!!!! I HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH MONEY AND ALL OF THAT GOOD STUFF TO GO!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!


LOVE YA BUNCHES AND BUNCHES!!!!
ALLISON
(I THINK I CAN TAKE THE CAPS OFF NOW WHAT DO YA THINK?)

I'M FALLING AND I CAN'T GET UP (BUT DO I REALLY WANT TO)

ok this post is about two really different things that just so happen to have made an extremely really really big impact on my life and feel like i can finally share these with lots of people so here goes. so lots of people know that i have been through lots of stuff in the past years. i won't go into details cuz that's more than i want to do right now...... anyways....... so i've been through lots of stuff..... that was one falling experience for me..... falling because i fell away from lots of different things at that time..... to explain i will say..... it was hard.... to say the least..... but God and his various ways helped me through and picked me up........ the problem for a while was that i didn't know how to stand....... it seemed as though i had been flat on my face for so long that it was comfortable and i didn't want to do anything else..... it was sort of that poor pitiful me kinda thing...... i think that's where lots of people tend to get stuck sometimes...... you get to where you are comfortable in what spot... no matter how bad it is and you/ we just decide to stay there instead of deciding to get up and face the world......

now i have to use a little lesson that mr. jim taught on about the egyptians and the wilderness..... that's pretty much what this experience is...... that's what the egyptians did..... they wanted so bad to get out of egypt so so so bad..... then we they got out and realized that what they were going into was unknown and egypt was what they knew(no matter how bad it was) they wanted to go back....... it was like they were telling God we don't care what it's like on the other side...... we just want to be "safe"..... sometimes what people might think is "safe" is actually worse that what they could run into on a different path..... this is what we tend to do alot of the time..... we get start out in egypt and go to the wilderness, but once we get there we start to get scared because we don't know what's going to happen....... we can either choose to trust God that He will take care of us (side note: ummm why wouldn't He take care of exactly? i mean seeing as He's the one that created us in the first place....) we have to give everything up and follow Him..... let Him lead!!!!! if we(i) try to lead then i know i/we (mainly talking about myself at this point) will mess it up...... i figure ya know what i think that He knows a little better about what He's doing and what He wants me to do than i do...... so now i/we must decide what we are going to do.... i have finally decided myself that i don't like just sitting around in the wilderness and i don't want to go back to egypt so let me see where else could i go
hummmmmm let me think uh uh uh pick me pick me pick me

PICK ME PICK ME

ah yes you in the back there

WE COULD FOLLOW GOD THROUGH THE WILDERNESS AND THEN INTO THE PROMISE LAND!!!!!


congratulations of have one a silver plasma TV (not really i just wanted to put that in there hehehe)


so what are we going to do? are we going to stay in egypt or are we going to follow God into the wilderness and allow Him to take care of us and lead us through to the promised land? remember though that there will be stuggles along the way.... the wilderness is just that...... a wilderness..... there are dangers everywhere.... but once again we have to trust in God and know that He is going to lead us through....... we might even kinda go in circles every once in a while, but as long as we get back on track and follow God then i think that we will be ok..... it's when we turn tail and run back to egypt that we are in trouble




ok the second part of this post about I'VE FALLEN AND I CAN'T GET UP (BUT DO I REALLY WANT TO) is that I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE AND HE IS THE BEST!!!!!!

if ya don't know what i'm talking about then i will give you some hints......

1) He's really really BIG!!!

need another one????



ok



2)HE'S AWESOME


another one???




3)HE'S THE LOVER OF OUR SOULS



keep going????




4)MAKER AND FRIEND



more??? ok





5)CREATER OF EVERYTHING



one more????




6)MINE AND YOURS!!!!!!!




figured it out yet?????



if not here's one more hint (and my favorite)



HE HAS GRACE AND MERCY AND HE LOVES US SOOOOOOOO MUCH MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN EVERY COMPREHEND!!!!!!



so here it is I HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS BIGGER THAN ANYTHING OR ANYONE ON THIS EARTH......... HE'S THE MOST AWESOMEST THING IN THE WORLD(OR IN HEAVEN) ........ HE LOVES ME AND YOU NO MATTER WHAT...... HE MADE ME (THAT'S ONE OF THE REALLY REALLY AWESOMEST THINGS...) PLUS HE MADE EVERYTHING ELSE TO........ LAST BUT NOT LEAST HE IS MINE AND I AM HIS.....


give up?????? i have fallen for the One and Only

there's a verse in the Bible (Song of Songs 6:3) it says I AM MY BELOVED'S AND HE IS MINE!!!! this is like one of the best verses in the world!! love it!!


so why the title i've fallen and i can't get up (or do i really want to) for this part? because that is what i have done...... i have fallen for my King....... i want to worship Him and love Him because he loves me so much and He is showing me this daily....... if anyone out there wants to fall in love again just remeber something..... first i have to take a little rabbit trail..... the ONETHING conference that we went to has a saying it goes ONETHING I DESIRE IS TO SIT AT THE FEET OF THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE..... that's not exactly what it says but that's close enough..... anyways that is what you should remember....... the ONETHING that he desire of us is to love Him and to sit at His feet...... the question is Are we doing this and are we willing to do this????



so i guess that's all...

i'm leaving early wed. mornin so PLEASE be in prayer..... i don't have a computer to take and i don't know how much time i would have to get on it if i did so i won't be able to blog or anything but i will definitly try to write people.......


love ya all bunches and bunches!!!
me

HEY HEY HEY!!!!!!!!!!!

GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!

I LEAVE FOR IHOP IN 4 DAYS 20 HOURS AND 6 MINUTES (PROBLY NOT EXACTLY) but close to it anyways!!!

i just came to this realization and i had to take a break from school to share......


THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO HAS AND IS MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1


LOVE YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH
allison

WOOOHOOOO!!!

just to let everybody know I HAVE 8 DAYS TIL I LEAVE FOR IHOP KC (KANSAS CITY)!!!!!! i have made my reservations for my hotels on the way up there and all that stuff....... i'm leaving the 20th and i'll go up close to clarkesville tennessee and spend the night....... then i'll go to columbia missouri the next day..... then on the 22nd....... i will finish my journey to my dwelling for at least the next three months!!!!!!! WOOOHOOO!!!!! if ya can't tell i'm a little excited. i actually just got on here to say that i won't be on here for the next few days (for anyone who looks at this)...... i have to finish school and i'm gonna be cutting it like super super close sooooo...... i have to put whatever time i have that i'm not worshiping reading the bible eating sleeping or working doing school............. got it? hope soooo and then after i leave i won't be able to get on here cuz i won't have a comp. or anything like that.... i might get lucky, though and get with somebody that does and then maybe they'll let me use their computer :) maybe.... if not then oh well...... i promise (for those who go to pathway) that i will write ya'll leters and get somebody to read them at church...... guess that's all
love ya'll lots and thank ya'll SOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!
allison

i kinda also want to apologize for my previous blog..... i was sort of not in a bery good mood that day and i was just letting it all flow...... sorry please forgive me...... i apologize if i hurt anybody's feelings or anything like that...... i'm really sorry that wasn't my intent..... i was just venting ........ sorry....... really i really really am sorry.........................

the dumps

so today has not been a very good day.... it seems like everything that i touch gets messed up... it did start out pretty good though. it seems as though if my day starts out good it ends up bad and if it starts out bad it ends up good. that's what has happened the past two days. i guess i need to keep the FINISH WELL in mind.... anyways..... so i guess your wondering why my day has been so bad..... well it starts with everything going really really good..... i finished a lesson of writing which means i only have like 12 papers to write now...... yeah i know i'm working on it.... it's just getting really really frustrating when you try so hard and it just keeps getting pushed back in your face cuz you keep messing things up..... it really really stinks.... anyways so then i go to start one of my papers and i'm like hey i can go on and delete some of this stuff off my floppy disk so that i will have more room on there cuz i don't need it any more.... so that's what i did... well i went to open one of the things that i had saved because i was going to use it to do some of the writing that i was fixin to start on.... well i open it and most of what i had written wasn't there..... so i was like OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so i looked and sure enough i had deleted what i needed... then i thought for a second and i was like oh no..... i hooked back up to the internet and went to my school page to where i turn my stuff in at and looked and sure enough I HAD TURNED IN THE WRONG ONE AND DELETED THE RIGHT ONE!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR if you couldn't tell i was a little upset.... so after searching the computer for like two hours and then finally calling Uncle Tom (thanks by the way) to see if there was any way to get it back i found nothing.... so now i am praying very hard for a miracle..... if i can't get that back i don't know what will happen.... I NEED IT BACK!!!!! anyways.... so after this i just like really really bumbed(sp) and down in the dumps (hence the title)....... then mama calls and she's like (yes mama i'm putting this in here to) well did ya talk to deanne about the money (money for IHOP) no i was a little busy chewing myself out for deleting the stuff before i was completly and totally finished and graduated and married with three kids.... (this is why i like holding on to stuff cuz if i don't this is what happens) back to the money deal..... so i go ask deanne and she tells me how much.... i can asure you that this added to my frustration irritation and everything else.... not necessarily at everybody else just in general because i don't nearly have enough.... and i probly shouldn't put this on here but oh well cuz i am..... this is just the kind of mood i'm in at this point.... oh and i forgot that as i sit here listening to this wonderful captivating CD that i have i also have to listen to this beat that is off tempo and very annoying because my speakers are apparently messed up.... probly because they are just tired but none the less it still adds to my dumpyness...... for me leaving in less than two weeks (1week and six days) i'm not doing so good...... although you wouldn't have guessed it the way i was talking last night about everything that's been going on lately.... so anyways.... instead of doing school right now and messing it up to i have succomb to typing this up for all the world to see near and far..... oh well..... some may think me ungrateful for what i have gotten as far as IHOP is concerned... i'm not ungrateful or unappreciative or whatever... i thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOOOO much.... it's just that it's getting really really close to time for me to leave and i'm having doubts because of it and those doubts are not good cuz i know that this is what i'm supposed to be doing.... i can't wait to get up there..... i am going to have so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much fun....... IT'S GOING TO BE GREAT JUST WAIT AND SEE!!!!!! so right now it seems as though God is going to perform a few miracles in order for me to go and that's going to be great to.... so i just previewed this post and it is really really long..... if many people don't read i understand especially since you may get a little mad.... oh well... just understand that i have been in a not so great mood today and give me a little grace (which is harder that law) hehe we figured that out last night at youth..... (thanks mr. T) SO i guess that's all
love ya'll
allison
thanks again to everybody that has helped out with prayers money thoughts or whatever....

really really short post....

update for everybody on IHOP stuff..... my last day of work is the 14th and i'm leaving the 20th. anybody who is helping me out financially i'm going to need it before i leave. thank you thank you thank you
love ya
allison