Keep Up with Chelsey

One week till my birthday. I love my birthday. As a kid I use to tell people that it was my favorite holiday. The idea of people gathering together to celebrate life, my life no less, with cake and gifts was the perfect accumulation of all the things I love most-- parties,friends, cake, and presents! All of my close friends know this about me, and always have made my birthday meaningful and special! Now I need all of you, not just my "close friends" to help make this birthday special once again. I would love to be able to start school this semester, but I have a cash flow problem. I've been able to cover the cost of school on my own till now. I need to be able to cover the tuition cost, a technology fee (which is a new fee from the school) as well as apply for graduation which is another fee. It all adds up quickly. So if you would like to give me a "present" this year, and help make my birthday special and my life better, I would love for you to...

This is a follow up to the previous post;  http://keepupwithchelsey.blogspot.com/2013/01/puddles-that-could-swallow-you-whole.html So my day went like this-- Ice every where-- I slipped and stomped through some "eat your children" kind of puddles... 10:15 a.m.  waited for bus...in the rain... Rode the bus 25 mins, arrive at the office that can process mine and my family's documents. 11:00 a.m. Wait another 20 mins for my parents due to traffic plus another 30 mins for our lawyer to show up... 11:50 Wait in the office for the director to grace us with his presence ( all with my stomach doing flips like it had a bug)... 5 till 1, he tells us we need this one document that should come from Kyiv( mind you that he'd spent the whole hour walking by us, knowing what we needed but didn't have... moments like that I wish I had an insight to what Jesus would of said in that situation...hmm..) 1:00 I begin my trek home, (3o mins) and I got sick-- least it waited til...

My label for my blog is that it is about my life, ministry and moments of insanity .. this may be the latter of the three kind of post.... So, I haven't blogged in a longer time than I suspected. The thing is there are things I should be blogging about, but I have had trouble blogging when my heart and head aren't in the mood. If you keep up on my twitter or Facebook posts, then you know what I should be blogging about. The fact is, tomorrow we are going to the office that should give us our renewed registration. We are late in doing so, not by our own choosing. I don't want to blog about the cost I am sure we are going to encounter for being late, or the sheer fact that I may have to leave Ukraine because I can't get my documents because we are late-- so yea, I don't want to blog about the stress of that... Also I should be blogging about the fact I don't have the money to start school this semester... Or the fact that I need new pants, or how sometimes I wis...

Friday, January 11, 2013 National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (US) I am sure you know the story of "Footloose." If not here is the summary... A small town bans dancing and rock n roll music because of an accident that killed the preacher's son and his friends. Through the movie, a new kid moves to town, who defies the rules and gets everyone to fight for the right to dance to lively music. The movie morally may not be the best. The whole point of the movie is that people can get carried away with restrictions- but that if you want to change something, then you better stand up and fight. National Human Trafficking Awareness Day/Month is more than just a day for organizations to post the statistics about modern day slavery. It is more than just a day for you to feel sorry for the 27+ million people who are denied all their rights as human beings. It is a day for you to see that slavery has gone too far, and it is time for you to stand and fight. We all know...

Well, technically this is part 3 of what came from my recent trip to Moldova. I had a creative lead in, you know, with a captivating title, but things happened, time passed by, and so now, I'm just going with the simple. This week I have been listening to Passion 2013 online. It is a conference for 18-25 year olds with amazing music and speakers and honestly I know it has had a huge impact on me, and friends of mine.So anyways the first night the scripture that was presented was a scripture that infiltrated my every thought two years ago. I spent my first year of college telling God what I was and was not going to do with my life. I told myself that I could live a worldly life and a "godly" life simultaneously. And well when that bubble of ridiculousness popped, I felt like I was in a valley of darkness. I didn't know what God wanted me to do with my life. I felt that I had wasted my time, God's time, with my hardened heart.  That is when God opened my ey...

* Okay if you are a dude reading this, let me save you some time... the next few paragraphs are about my woes of being single. I know you don't care really, so this is for you...  Singleness is not bad. Saving sex for marriage is good. 2013 is a year for you to love others before yourself and to make a lasting difference- single or not:) Your welcome... Now for you who want all the mushy emotional stuff, keep reading.... Do not conform  to the pattern of this world,  but be transformed by the renewing of  your  mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is —his good, pleasing  and perfect will.  Romans 12:2 Man, nothing like the fireworks going off at the stroke of midnight, with love birds kissing in the new year to  remind you that you have no significant other.. And to top it off, only one month and 14 days till you are reminded again, " Hey you are single, why don't you start a cat collection now!" You all kn...