Florida Trip 2012-on

Watching Prince Caspian on the way to Florida...Me, my cousin Hannah, my sister Katie, and my brother Coleton.

The many faces of one of my favorite speakers, Allen Hood.

*laughing*

Cousin

International Mall, one of the most beautiful malls I've been too!

Our lunch destination!

What I had for lunch.

Cousins

My Nana and another cousin

Boys

Me and my mom

Beautiful flowers hung on the railings around the restaurant.

I Encourage you to try Fish Tacos.

Records

One of my favorite stores.

Pretending to drink tea at Teavana

The Hunger Games

I don't know about the rest of you but, I am in love with the Hunger Game books! Haven't been able to see the movie yet but, I already have plans on when to see it, and I can't even express how excited I am!!!

While I read the first book, I'm sure my family thought I was going insane because, almost every five minutes I was either sighing with relief, laughing, saying 'oh my gosh' fifteen times fast, or jumping up and down.. oh and not to mention the occasional crying. The book was so amazing! And still, I have to admit, I have the leftover emotions from the book each time I think about The Hunger Games.

Here is a video I wanted to share with you:

New Year...

For the past couple of days... I've been revisiting my past, a daring adventure... an adventure I haven't taken in a while. For some reason at this time of the year I revisit... It's a time where I visit places that have never been healed, or places of joy, or places that are now bittersweet. It's a time of reflection!

This time, for some reason, it has been the hardest but, I believe it is because of where my life is at the moment. It's abounding in blessing, promises are blooming and the relationships around me are amazing! I've come to the understanding that...outstanding times in life are just interwoven with trials...David's life is a perfect example.

My other belief for this challenging reflection time is that, its just that time to officially say goodbye to parts of my past. Things that have caused pain, or dreams that are no longer meant to be... you see I'm a deep person, so I don't let go easily... because soon as a word, action, person, thing, gets close to me..  it stays close.. and its incredibly hard to let it go. I guess that's why it takes me so long to let someone in, because I am afraid of the outcome of the situation afterward. It's a trusting issue I know but, you see... I just love, and love is so hard to live, when everywhere around you is encouraging the exact opposite, death.
So when I love, and a not very loving response is given... I get cut to the core. I need to forgive yes, which you can trust that this is something I'm working on but, I do want people to understand that because I love, and feeling as been revived because of passionate relationship with Christ I feel more deeply... because people are not just people and words are not just words to me but, things that make life worth while!

This is why its been so hard but, honestly I'm excited about the pain of this recovery... because out of pain comes beauty, an beauty is one of the most important things in this world. Which is something I've learned in my small life span. I'm excited for the New Year... I know if healing and pain at the beginning than... New life and beauty will be at it end, and in amazing abundances!

To the New Year... 2012!

Releasing Your Strength...

So I've finished the book "Captivating" and now I'm reading it again....
God has taught me so much! And slowly but, surely, I'm letting go and becoming the person I'm meant to be... this adventure is starting out so promising.

Here I'll share some breakthrough moments:

- Been praying for more training in Worship and just places where I can really grow in that area, and last night I go to Concord- IHOP.... and there wasn't many people, so they offered me a place to sing. It was a divine appointment!

-Spoke up at a leadership meeting.

-Just let myself be me, at a leadership fellowship night, and I had the best time being me in a long time!

-Expressing my interest more often in Worship, and messages at Churches, etc. The responds from Christ is just so encouraging!

And so much more....

I'm beginning to see the things I've hidden not only expressed because of the courage I've been given lately, but excepted. I'm stunned at the path ahead, and to think that this journey is beginning! God continues to speak more promises, and words to me and to think I was going to give all this up, for the fame of the world... a couple years back! Go ahead call me, silly! I know I was....

UGH! If only I could open up my heart for all of you, so you can see the road ahead... and how you really can have a "Captivating" lifestyle if you let go and hold on to the hand of Christ!

Coming Alive

 

Fall is making me come alive, even when the world is dying. Its promoting beauty when soon the focal point of it will be death... but then again because of redemption a dying season is always followed by fruitful one, making the last all the more beautiful for the suffering! New seasons, new life which is exactly what I'm experiencing... now. I'm coming alive!

Walking Out.

"If we are never broken we can never be made whole." JJ Heller-- It takes pain, to go the next step... to go deeper and to have better relationships. Be vulnerable even if it hurts! 


This was my status today on Facebook, the reason because I am going through this very step. Why the picture? Because this is me, my true self.. a person that I tried to smuggle away. At the core of my being, I am loud, spontaneous, and deep. I took risk, I was the one who got out in the middle of everything and did something crazy when no one would, I would dance in the grocery store, I would be the person to push people into doing something that they wouldn't do.... and now I wish I had that part of me back. 


I try to smuggle my true self with the excuse that I'm being more mature. Last year, I had lied to myself by excepting that being meek was being quiet.... and now I am beginning to understand the real meaning of that verse. Its not a outside action but, a heart action... that verse has nothing with me being quiet exactly but, with me being open to listen continuing to what He says. It has nothing to do with me being quiet! 


Another thing that came out of that time, is me being afraid to trust... its a generational curse. I am afraid of being vulnerable, I'm afraid of getting hurt. And honestly, I hate it... and I have decided I am going to try my hardest, along with Christ, to brake through. For this very thing is entering into my relationship with Christ...and its simply not exceptionable. 
So even though its hard, we have to step into vulnerability even if it hurts... because if we don't then we will forever be in a dull, shallow place. We have to take risks in order to live... its a no brainer! 


So I am walking out of the person I am now, and getting back to the real Kassie...the one full of freedom, Joy, wisdom, and all the other things that I have decided to hide from people because of the level of fear in my heart of getting hurt. It won't be easy but, I have to do this! Because I can't be a healthy leader, if I'm not out of the bondage of fear for myself. God is healing me of this, and He has called me into vulnerability... so be ready Kassie is coming out!

Fascinated!

So I went to IHOP's Fascinate conference! It was sssssoooo amazing...

I encourage you to go to this link and listen to the speakers, and the worship!

Sessions 




This was worship one morning...so good right?
The testimony of this past weekend will be posted soon as possible!

We are Good...

So my revelation this morning was really amazing! It brought such freedom... and joy into my life and I just have to share it with you.
Okay..so for the longest time, the whole "Are you a good?" person thing got under my skin. I just knew that wasn't right... The question that would go through my head  and that would always nag at me when this question came was this, "If we are bad, then how come God said after he was finished with creation 'It is very good!'? And we are made in God's image and God's image is not bad at all, and it is very far from that!"
This morning the revelation that hit me was this, we are naturally not bad people... I am not a bad person, its the contamination of the spirit of sin and the spirit of self relience, and weakness out of that I make bad desicions. You see when God made us, he made us to be vulnerable to Him, not to be vulnerable this world because He gave us domian over it! We were made to be dependant on Him, not self reliant. Made to gonverner creation, in strength. But because of the knowledge of Good and evil, set in we became weak to both because it was to much for us to handled on our own, self reliants is not a virtue but a weakness. This all happened in the beginning....
But when Jesus came, he died for all sin commited and all we're going to commit. He took that burden, and forgot it, to redeem our natural spirit of good. Then He sent his Spirit to brake the spirit of self reliants, and into help strengthen into the strength of being vulnerabe to God! Because of God's wonderful mercy, and He restoring the ability to be good in our lives, it is to Him we owe! Now the reason He is coming back, is to rescue us completly from this earth and to completly destroy the evil that still tries to lure us away from Him, with the lie that independance in self is the best way and to complete the work in our hearts! You see, even though we are good, because of the restoring from the love of Jesus and the goodness of God placed in us at the beginning of time- simply because we were made in His image, (You see its because of Him in us we are good.) He is going to give us even more purity and strength in the end, and finelly to brake completly the spirit of self reliants from our devoted souls!


For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. Romans 8:29

I thank God, that He made us good. That He broke us free from sin, and restored us. That He is continuing to help us in the strength of being vulnerable!

He is Not What He Seems...

A revelation I had this weekend at camp, which I didn't know I really had until this morning, is that the Spirit is so important and fun!


I hardly knew Him until this weekend, where the revelation that he is really a person and not an emotion, or a element but, a very strong relation to the three. I knew this before but, I still treated him as a third wheel to the three!

I thought of him as a element to bring myself to the Lord's heart, and to God's, me not really thinking that the Spirit might want to show me who he was in the realm of the supernatural and just in my life!

Last night, when I was at youth, the Spirit brought a picture of who he is, and what he was doing. I saw him rubbing against us, like Toothless in "How to Train Your Dragon."

The Spirit is that dragon, and as I began to reflect on that movie and the story line I noticed that me seeing that picture was important to understanding the Spirit!



We really don't see the Spirit as we should, we are often afraid of it because of how out-going and free it is! We fight against it like the Vikings fought Toothless, because we don't understand its power and the greatness to its depth... and because of a lack of understanding we push it away in fear, and the lack of wisdom in this area of knowing who he is, is what makes us hold back.

When Hiccup brought down Toothless, he was expecting him to lash out, He wasn't expecting him to be as gentle as he was, and that's how we are, we have an image of what we think the Spirit is and we really have no idea how he is, and we really don't know him at all!

We put a cap on him because were so sure he is going to be this demanding, aggressive, thing that we don't know how to relate with, when really we begin to know him he is not like that at all! When Hiccup first sees that glimmer of gentleness, which is what draws him to Toothless because he realizes, in his heart of hearts, that this dragon is different than what it seems to be like. So it opens up his heart to trust, understanding, and fascination, which are the things that draws us to the Spirit in the first steps of getting to know him.

So then Hiccup makes the effort to know Toothless, and when Toothless sees the truth of Hiccup's heart, and sees Hiccup's trust in him that’s when the friendship takes place, and Toothless takes him to those high places, and when he begins to show him the root cause of injustice and fear, and why some things are the way they are. Like when Toothless, takes him to the nest, Hiccup begins to see the deeper part of troubles that are happening.

After that when they come back, the girl makes a certain remark that I think we can relate to, "You’re going to keep, "finding the nest" a secret, just to save your pet dragon?" Hiccup said yes, like the lot of us would. We say yes a lot of the time because we’re afraid of telling the root problem of our pain, irritation, etc. Having fear that it will hurt our relationship with God, or other people, which is a lie!

It will make those relationships stronger, and give you freedom in a way you never had before! When Hiccup goes to fight the other dragon, he can't do it because he knows that the problem is not the dragon its self but, the root behind its malice is what is driving it to kill the people of the village.

The same can be said for our hearts towards people, we have to remember the root of their attitudes when they are cruel to us! Its often because they excepted the weakness of the enemy and turned their gaze off of God. There is then something under the service that is making them cruel, offensive, prideful, etc. and that’s when we have to have compassion because of their weakness.



Next, in the end, when Hiccup and Toothless destroy the root problem of injustices that have been going on in that presence time, it’s because Hiccup learned to trust, and him and Toothless had a loyalty for each other! When we let ourselves trust and be vulnerable with the Spirit, we become leaders of battle, promise, worship, etc! If you look at Hiccup at the beginning of the movie, and then him at the end there is a difference! He looked past the voices, the difficulties, the rejection, and went for that relationship with love and passion.



When I talked to my mom this morning, the three persons are like a family. God the father, Jesus the son, and the Spirit like the mother. The one who nurtures, and gives guidance, here are some verses that tells this:



26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.



``John 14:26



7 But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you. 8 And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment; 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father and you no longer see Me; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.



``John 16:7-11



"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will"



Romans 8:26-27 (NIV)



That last verse serves my last point. If a mother was to leave the family, there would be



complete chaos. The mothering nurturing spirit would not be there to guide the children, keep the house in order (the Church), direct them in relationships, and to help them understand things. How much more would there be if the Spirit was gone from the three? We see it a good bit in our own lives, it still flows enough for us to know God but, when you learn to live by the Spirit that’s when the strength comes, and the good starts to flow from the deepest parts of our core!

So it is to our well being that the Spirit is able to come at the power it does, because the Spirit of God is what brings conviction, wisdom, deliverance, etc. Without living vulnerably to the Spirit, God, Jesus, we are weak!

Self reliant is not strength but weakness, we have accepted the world’s view of strength and we have to learn to live in the drive of the Spirit, and not our own flesh!

Two Songs!

These two songs they sang at camp! I encourage you to worship to these songs they are so powerful in meaning!

This video below, is actually the closest I could find of this song..to show you the type of experience we had at camp! Almost everyone was dancing the last night, it was truely amazing!

Reflections...

So this past weekend I went to my youth group's camp. The theme this year was overflow!
It was so amazing!!! God was just all over the place... in the games, in the fellowship, in the service, in the preperation, just everything.
As I look back to where I was before I went, I see a heart nicely orignized, just not in the right way!
My talents had been moved to a shelf, my thoughts of God had been pretty settle, not as much thought as there should have been. I thought it was alright, I was working on getting the "Ladies of Femininity" things together and to my eyes everything was fine, and to the blind parts of my soul it looked okay. There, even in my blindness, I knew there was hunger that was raging, I could feel it!
If you then looked at the house in my heart in the middle of the weekend, you probably would have seen a ramaged mess! Things were being turned around, stuck in different places, things were on the floor. I was being changed and challenged, far more than I had been the last couple of weeks.
The words that were spoken in the prayers of many who prayed for me was, "That she will have boldness. Give her courage!"
I have been struggling with that, actually sharing my dreams, talents, words, with others in person. Even praying!
So as I stepped out this weekend, got to get to know people I didn't know... praying outloud among people, and just with the presesnce of God on my life and in me getting me to think and push harder, I saw myself in a new light, not shy but, bold! Not silent but, loud! I was pulled from my comfort zone for sure, which I'm glad, my life was getting little to easy, as it can seem to get sometimes!

The last night we were there, last night, a spirit of joy broke into the room we all were in! Some began dancing, others began to clap their hands, and some started laughing. The energy was rapturous, and as we began to be detoxified of the things holding us back and impurities, and as we began to get intoxicated by God and His spirit, I noticed a freedom to do almost anything. I have to admit, I did have second thoughts when the worship began to get crazy, I'm more of a reserved person and it takes the Holy-Spirit to get me out of that and into dancing, and other things. I'm hoping though that I will be able to brake from that, and to take more liberty to speak more!

All in all, the weekend was amazing. It was one of the most refreshing weekend's I've had in a while. Oh, also they had a prayer room and it was so nice just to sit in complete surender to God, and just let His spirit melt your heart! I will, be sharing more later... Now listening to Julie Meyer! Whooo!!! :)

May the spirit lead you, God bless!

Busyness!

Dear Friends,
sorry for not posting. I am in Cleveland, Tennessee! :) I am with my cousins visiting them and watching them, with the help of my parents, while their parents are off to a conference! So ten people in one house... its been fun. We are going hiking tomorrow and then swimming at a lake. I love the outdoors, they inspire me beyond my own mind.
I am not promising any pictures... because I am noticing I haven't been keeping my word in that area! (Sorry.)


I hope you all have a great week, God bless!

An Interesting Conversation!

As some of you know, I go to IHOP (International. House. Of. Prayer.) and being a part of IHOP I've been tested and told things about it. Like its a "cult"- "Julie Meyer is a false prophet" and so forth. Now I know some of you don't believe in some of the things of the Spirit but, here is a conversation I wanted to share.
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Hey!
I might be going to IHOP's (International House of Prayer) high school conference FASCINATE this summer, and I was just wondering if any rebelutionaries were going?

I was thinking of turning the trip to the conference into a ministry idea and car pooling from Orlando Florida, with some high schoolers that would like to go and with chaperons of course, to Kansas City for the conference ... but that is still up in the air at this point.

If you don't know what IHOP is, here is a link: http://www.ihop.org/ (IHOP is awesome, by the way.) 
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Kassie,

I felt that I should post this - while I sincerely hope I do not offend you, I must defend the gospel.

Please watch this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgXb7yIlDNc

I know the content of what Mr. Friel says in the video is true! This is not a movement that we as Rebelutionaries should be involved in! I would beg anyone reading this, please do not attend an International House of Prayer meeting! While prayer is wonderful, the teachings in this movement are unbiblical. 
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 This is me...

I watched the video. I've heard this for awhile, and I have done my research but, I was wondering how it is unbiblical?
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The other girl... Kassie Burke wrote:

I watched the video. I've heard this for awhile, and I have done my research but, I was wondering how it is unbiblical?

The IHOP movement is unbiblical in many ways, one of those ways being their worship serivces. In the worship serivces there is a lot of repetition, which is part of the new-age mysticism movement. In one video I watched of an IHOP meeting the people there repeated one line in a song for two hours, in another instance I heard of a young man was told by an IHOP leader to repeat a scripture over and over for 2 hours - or until he "recieved Revelation from God". Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to act this way.
There have been many, many reports of young people leaving an IHOP conference and not remembering what they had just seen because they felt they were in a "state of hypnosis". This is caused by repetitive, hypnotic sounds which can induce trance-like states by focusing the brain’s attention on a minimal set of sensory inputs.
Just because the words to the songs are about Jesus does not mean that they are okay! (See 1 Peter 5:8, 1 Corinthians 14:15 and Galatians 5:22-23)

Another instance is the common "jerking, twitching, and lack of sanity" that comes over many of the IHOP leaders as they pray. This was the description one young lady shared when she came back from an IHOP conference. We know that a lack of sanity or being unable to control ourselves is not of God! The Bible tells us in many passages that God commands us to be sober, and the dictionary tells us that definition of that word is not only free from alochol and drugs, but also being self-restrained and rational.

One girl emailed me and asked (as response to my previous post) "How can prayer be "wonderful" and right when the teaching is wrong?"
The answer to this is that when a man tells us how we must pray then it is unbiblical.

A young woman (we'll call her Alice) graduated high school and decided to go into the IHOP ministry as an intern, little did she know what she was getting into. She spent several months living at the IHOP "ministry" to learn under the leaders. She recalls spending hours and hours in the prayer room, yet for the entire time she was there she never once talked to God from her heart. While she was in the prayer room she was required to pray certain prayers (There's Catholocism mixed into this movement too) and fill out worksheets. They were requred to stay in the prayer room for 2 hours - no exceptions for any reason. She said there were leaders who always stood like guards blocking the door preventing any of the interns from leaving. There were many mentally damaging things that happened to this young lady, when she left she had expected to be on fire for God and rejoicing in Him. Instead she left in a state of serious depression and the only thing she wanted to do was warn others of the extreme danger of this movement.


I could go on - but I think I've provided enough evidence that this movement is unbiblical. So, I hope someone who reads this can agree with me that the only "IHOP" we should be attending is the International House Of Pancakes. 
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 A friend to help...

________, I am guessing that Kassie has talked to her parents, and they've probably decided that this is okay. There is different denominations in the church of God...Baptist, Protestant, Presbyterian, Assemblies of God, Carasmatic, and so forth. This could be jsut another denomination. My church does no do that long of worship liek that, BUT we do have worship sometimes where there are repeated lines....it's a crying plea, or a uplifting praise. The jerking and twisting are manifestations of the Holy Spirit, kind of like praying in tongues. I'm not exactly sure what your church believes on this, but I think that there are definate physical characteriscs that happen, like the jerking and twisting.

I'm not saying any of this confrontationally, but you need to make sure that you go on all grounds before you tell someone that something is evil!

If you have any questions, I'm not an expert but I'm able to answer some. PM ME!!!
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The other girl's reply....

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The jerking and twisting are manifestations of the Holy Spirit, kind of like praying in tongues. I'm not exactly sure what your church believes on this, but I think that there are definate physical characteriscs that happen, like the jerking and twisting.

Britt, I'm really not trying to be confrontational, but I'm just wondering why you think that jerking and twisting are signs of the Holy Spirit? As far as I can see in the Bible when people are unable to control their bodies it is caused demon possession, not the Holy Spirit. The Bible calls us to be sober. 
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MY REPLY... 


All I say is this... on the day of Pentecost what do you believe happened? Because a lot more crazy things happened there then anything that has happened at IHOP. I know lots of people personaly that have gone to IHOP and I've seen them before they've gone, and when they came back. And they were more on fire when they came back... then when they went! I've seen the fruits of this "movement". God does call us to be self controlled to a extent but, when David danced for God and all his clothes fell off. God did not rebuke Him but, rebuke His wife! The holy spirit is apart of God, you cannot control God! John the baptist said in Mattew:


"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Matthew 3:11

IN Acts Jesus says:

4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:4-5


You can't shake fire off. The only way to get it off is by putting it out... but if you put fire out, then its out! God comes as a flame and that is simply what the spirit is and I don't want that flame to go out because if it does you will lose it!
When God said for us to be sober he meant for us to not get so (overly) zealous for God that we start slashing peoples ears off, like Peter. Or yell at them to become Christians... A lot of the time we get overly zealous, frustrated, legalistic, etc. with people. So Him wanting us to be sober, is really a warning for us to not push people around or make them feel guilty so they will except Christ! He was not warning us against His spirit! ~~~~~~~~~~~ 


Now everyone before you point fingers here, I been on both sides so.... 


Just thought I would share... Kassie

War

Life is short,
And is in barren lands.
A place where evil manifest,
Where ever it can fit!
Satan's battle ground.
How do we survive?
How do we fight?
No materiel sword can defeat,
No mere human can win by self.

Oh but if you cry,
If you praise,
If you give your self body and soul,
Unto One.
You will see a war greater than flesh,
 Be won-
The air will scream Holy is the One who Made me,
An then you will see the war of Spirit and Flesh.

Evil can rise and say,
I am the Most High.
For that he cries,
Lying to Him self in desperation,
Wanting it to be Truth!
But Thanks be to God,
its a lie and always will be!

Be warned brethren,
The shadows many times,
Tries to swallow up the Light,
But never succeeding!
Them warring for your soul and mine,
For if his identity is realized then,
The war is done,
And all Heaven rejoices!

For Light always comes,
The next day.
The sun always shines when the hour comes,
Light flourish onward and is always high in the sky!
Because God is Higher still,
And will ALWAYS rule on His throne!

Hey

Everyone,
I have been experiencing God like never before... not only Him but his love!
I am reading an amazing book called "Enjoying God" by S.J. Hill. It is a must read for EVERYONE.
I have not only began t understand the jealous love God has for me but, have also experienced awesome things... and learned so much I can't write it down fast enough!


Also I wanted to post this podcast by teacher S.J. Hill... he spoke to us Sunday.
This podcast is so good: Joyful Jesus

I would love if you shared your thoughts on the podcast... :)

The love of God is truly amazing, overwhelming, perfect, precious, so many words!
I wish I had time to share the things I've been learning over the last couple of weeks but... time as I'm learning is a vacuum! :P Love you all... God is so beautiful!

FASCINATE

Dear friends and family, we, me and my mom, are doing something we have never done before. We are going to be taking a road trip to Kansas City, MO. for a youth conference by the International House of Prayer normally known as IHOP. I had my heart set on this as soon as I saw the promo video, thinking "What a great way to get youth together and be a great bonding experience with God and each other!” As this generation rises to the higher calling of God and as things in this world begin to unfold I believe it’s time for us to start being that brother, that sister that God calls us to be to those people around us! I was at my youth group FURNACE and the Holy Spirit was there, and I mean there! The next morning in my prayer time, listening to Jesus Culture... praying it out, God said "What you saw last night is JUST the beginning of what I'm going to do in your generation. I have just begun to touch you and I'm going to touch you even more than that." I believe that the gates of heaven are soon going to be opened and that we as a people will never be the same again. Here is the link to the site: FASCINATE We will be leaving July 11th. The conference is from the 12-15 of that week! My mom will be car pooling there and back, possibly with other car poolers. (Still looking into that.) The overall cost is 450.00, which that include food, a share in room cost, and partly in gas, an the registration. Our plans in raising the money are: Huge yard sale! (Want to help with this and want more info email Kassie at: burkefamilylmail@gmail.com ) Arbonne fundraiser, through my mom. (Want more info email Kassie for details at: burkefamilylmail@gmail.com ) Doing yard work for neighbors and church members. (This is best done with a partner!) Want to be a chaperone email us at our email above. Want to GO! Send us an email at burkefamilylmail@gmail.com any high schoolers are welcome!

A Day Out~

I'm turning sixteen next Tuesday and if you know my family we are doing something big in honor of how I've grown in God and maturity. For my sixteenth birthday we are doing a pass into womanhood banquet with classical music, formal dress, and yummy gourmet food! So there were a couple things needed for this great day..such as gloves and a hair piece. So where is the best place for gloves? a vintage store, of course. :) So me and my aunt and cousins, who are also homeschooled, went off to a cute little street with cute little stores, called Carytown.

On the way, we watched "Return of the Daughters" in my cousins van. That movie is a big encourgment to me!

When we got to Carytown...I couldn't remember the name of my favorite vintage store. So we decided to walk around and look to see if we could find it. Well we ended up stopping in a different vintage shop.

Old pictures in the shop. Are they not interesting?

Hannah, my cousin, looking at old fashioned dresses. They had very pretty and some not so pretty dresses.

My three year old cousin Joseph just loved this hat!

Hannah...really would of liked to have this hat to go with a dress she has but, she did not end up getting it. Isn't it pretty?

We found my favorite vintage store! Which by the way it's called Bygones. It has the prettiest things.

We found the gloves...they are a lot prettier in person. :)

My cousin Jack decided to try on a hat. he quoted "This picture looks just how they looked in the oldin' days"

My little cousin Joseph put another hat on, a flat cap, well he loves the movie "The Greatest Game Ever Played" (Its a good movie, about a boy becoming an amazing golfer!) So he was so excited he got to wear a hat like Frances (the main character). He said "Mommy, Mommy! Look I wearing Frances's hat!" He was so proud and happy about that hat. Joseph LOVE's old movies, well the classics. Like "Pride and Prejudice" which he calls Mr. Darcy and "The Greatest Game Ever Played" which he calls Frances and a couple more. Unfortunately I was not able to get a picture of him in the hat but here is a picture of Frances.

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So that was carytown..then we got lunch at a pizza place. Which was yummy!

After that we took a drive through the country and stopped at a civil war battle field. Which was fun. Then we came back and me and my cousin Hannah washed the dishes and vacuumed. Then me and my cousin went with my dad to go look at cars and then went out for some tasty BBQ. Then we decided to go to an ice skating rink to just see what was going on. :) An then we went back to Hannah's house to play the wii which I never do...This was a every couple months thing for me. Well we played a couple rounds of a mini golf game an then me and my dad went back to where we were staying...

Adventures at Midnight~

Well, we went to unlock the door at my Aunt and Uncle's and well the dead bolt was locked, my dad does not have a key for that one, so then we decided to call my aunt and uncle who we were staying with. Well that didn't work so.... we decide to call my other Aunt and Uncle which are the parent's to the cousins I told you about. Me and dad thought we would run up to a gas station to get a drink of water and to take a bathroom break..it is now 2:00 am still no one is answering the phone. So we go back over to my other Aunt and Uncle's and we knocked on the door.."banged" on the windows. Well they answered the door and we were able to get some sleep and not sleep in a hotel room!

Well, I hope you all have a blessed day.

Kassidy