Need an update on my transition into Shorter University? There's a whole article about it!
http://goshorterhawks.com/sports/w-lacros/2009-10/releases/070810dulaney
Shorter really is amazing, I don't know of another place that would be able to write an article like that with me talking about my relationship with the Lord. I'm not gonna lie though, some of the info is wrong! I was a two year academic all-american in high school not at Pc!! And only a two year most valuable offensive player in college!
Ps. Funny story, the picture of me in "my office" is actually a picture of me at Coach Warner's desk (we had to hide the pictures of his children). I was pretend typing while the screen was on lock and it beeped SO LOUD, I couldnt help but laugh...so we had to take a million pics to try to get me to look "for real" instead of laughing the whole time!
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
4 fun memories of the 4th
Happy fourth of July! Every 4th of July I have been in VERY different places and experienced funny things for some reason each place: we'll start four years ago:
July 4th, 2007--I was in the back of Andrew Hawkins' pickup truck with Becca Hayter, Mitchell King, and others from the Leadership Project in Myrtle Beach. We were headed to the beach to watch fireworks when all of the sudden we were REAR-ENDED!! Keep in mind we are in a pickup truck so we look at the driver and he just looks at us and shrugs holding his hands up as if to say- "I have no idea what just happened"--we just laughed and continued to the beach for the fun.
July 4th,2008--In South Africa with Campus Outreach. What a cool place to celebrate the 4th of July! I skyped my mom to tell her to have a great day and this was how the conversation went:
Me: Happy 4th of July Mom!!
Mom: Happy 4th to you too Brittni! Do they do anything special in South Africa to celebrate the 4th??
Me: Mom...the 4th of July isn't celebrated here...it's independence day for America...
All of my friends(I remember specifically Ashton and Brinck): Wow...now we see where Brittni gets everythingggg... haha!
July 4th, 2009--Again in Myrtle Beach, Lauren Snyder and I wanted to share who Jesus is with someone on the beach. I've talked to alot of people about jesus but I have never EVER had an experience like this before. There is a woman sitting by herself and we decide to talk to her. This is how it goes:
Us: Hey how are you!?
Woman: WHAT DO YOU WANT?
US: Oh, Sorry no, we are actually with a Christian group and we were just hoping to share with you something we have been learning.
Woman: Oh, ok, I guess..
So anyway, the conversation went on and on and on. But it got weird. We asked her what she thought about sin and she said: "Oh, I KNOWWW what sin is! You don't even wanna know how I sin...Oh boy, you would be in for a treat!" And we were like...oh boy..no no we dont have to hear specifics. But then her husband walked up and it was like a light switch as if they were putting on a show: She went from being what seemed like the roughest hooligan who sinned constantly to an angel!!
Woman: Oh yes, the Lord is so good, and its so great what you girls are doing. You guys need to keep going all over the world talking about this, because we definitely do!
---I can't give justice to this conversation but it was by far a strange experience, I just don't have enough time to tell you all about it.
July 4th, 2010--In a new place, with new people, and new experiences. Went to a new church to try it out, went to lunch with a couple of girls I've just met, and now am at the pool with my family. Later, I will probably head to see some fireworks with some friends (friends that I am just now getting to know). I'm praying that God will continue to grow these friendships, and continue to provide in the ways he knows I need.
July 4th, 2007--I was in the back of Andrew Hawkins' pickup truck with Becca Hayter, Mitchell King, and others from the Leadership Project in Myrtle Beach. We were headed to the beach to watch fireworks when all of the sudden we were REAR-ENDED!! Keep in mind we are in a pickup truck so we look at the driver and he just looks at us and shrugs holding his hands up as if to say- "I have no idea what just happened"--we just laughed and continued to the beach for the fun.
July 4th,2008--In South Africa with Campus Outreach. What a cool place to celebrate the 4th of July! I skyped my mom to tell her to have a great day and this was how the conversation went:
Me: Happy 4th of July Mom!!
Mom: Happy 4th to you too Brittni! Do they do anything special in South Africa to celebrate the 4th??
Me: Mom...the 4th of July isn't celebrated here...it's independence day for America...
All of my friends(I remember specifically Ashton and Brinck): Wow...now we see where Brittni gets everythingggg... haha!
July 4th, 2009--Again in Myrtle Beach, Lauren Snyder and I wanted to share who Jesus is with someone on the beach. I've talked to alot of people about jesus but I have never EVER had an experience like this before. There is a woman sitting by herself and we decide to talk to her. This is how it goes:
Us: Hey how are you!?
Woman: WHAT DO YOU WANT?
US: Oh, Sorry no, we are actually with a Christian group and we were just hoping to share with you something we have been learning.
Woman: Oh, ok, I guess..
So anyway, the conversation went on and on and on. But it got weird. We asked her what she thought about sin and she said: "Oh, I KNOWWW what sin is! You don't even wanna know how I sin...Oh boy, you would be in for a treat!" And we were like...oh boy..no no we dont have to hear specifics. But then her husband walked up and it was like a light switch as if they were putting on a show: She went from being what seemed like the roughest hooligan who sinned constantly to an angel!!
Woman: Oh yes, the Lord is so good, and its so great what you girls are doing. You guys need to keep going all over the world talking about this, because we definitely do!
---I can't give justice to this conversation but it was by far a strange experience, I just don't have enough time to tell you all about it.
July 4th, 2010--In a new place, with new people, and new experiences. Went to a new church to try it out, went to lunch with a couple of girls I've just met, and now am at the pool with my family. Later, I will probably head to see some fireworks with some friends (friends that I am just now getting to know). I'm praying that God will continue to grow these friendships, and continue to provide in the ways he knows I need.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
to never be disappointed...
Disappointments. They really are everywhere for me, especially now. Sometimes I'm disappointed in others, sometimes I'm disappointed with situations and other times I'm just disappointed in myself. I want the stability of being content with the gospel, seeing it as the treasure above all other things. But then I find myself wishing I was other places, doing other things. I find myself wishing I was at the Leadership Project with all of my friends, wishing I was a room leader, wishing I had gone on staff with campus outreach. This disappoints me. I want to be content. I want to be joyful always, I want to pray continuously and I want to give thanks in all circumstances. But I don't. At one point in my life I had a huge realization. Whenever I viewed God's will for my life I saw it as a past thing or a future thing; something God had already done in my life or something that I was trusting him to do. But God's will is now. Where I am right now is where he wants me, where he has called me and I know he is screaming to me that he will provide. Provide friends, provide a church, provide community, provide a team, provide comfort. I want someone I can call that can be by my side right away when I need a shoulder to cry on or a friend to laugh with and I know God will place people there, he is already starting to, but it is just very new.
--I'm disappointed that every guy I have met so far is not walking with the Lord. I miss having guy friendships in which I know that they care about me as a sister in Christ and don't have any other motives.
--I'm disappointed that I am scared of being alone in my new house because I've never lived on the first floor before and I have a terrible imagination. I want to claim God's promise over and over: Do not fear, do not fear, do not fear. Why can't I just fully trust the Lord.
--I'm disappointed that more people in the world don't know Jesus and that some of the one's that do don't always want to tell others of the amazing treasure they have and know.
--I'm disappointed that I am not always content where the Lord has me. I want so much for the silly thoughts of being elsewhere to drown in the depths of my knowledge that this is God's will for my life and that he would have it no other way.
--I'm disapponted that I am a sinner, but that I don't always see my sin. I want to see my sin and I want to embrace the joy of the gospel through it.
God is faithful, and he will remain faithful always. He is one thing that can never disappoint me. As I strive to be content in life, I turn to him; I read his promises in his word over and over. I push to know more of the God I know and love and I pray that His Spirit would transform me as I read His word and that I would know more of Him in everything. I want to enjoy God through all of my disappointments. It has allowed me to see that nothing satisfies us except Him. In nothing can we find true joy except in Him. And in everything we may find disappointment but never in Him.
--I'm disappointed that every guy I have met so far is not walking with the Lord. I miss having guy friendships in which I know that they care about me as a sister in Christ and don't have any other motives.
--I'm disappointed that I am scared of being alone in my new house because I've never lived on the first floor before and I have a terrible imagination. I want to claim God's promise over and over: Do not fear, do not fear, do not fear. Why can't I just fully trust the Lord.
--I'm disappointed that more people in the world don't know Jesus and that some of the one's that do don't always want to tell others of the amazing treasure they have and know.
--I'm disappointed that I am not always content where the Lord has me. I want so much for the silly thoughts of being elsewhere to drown in the depths of my knowledge that this is God's will for my life and that he would have it no other way.
--I'm disapponted that I am a sinner, but that I don't always see my sin. I want to see my sin and I want to embrace the joy of the gospel through it.
God is faithful, and he will remain faithful always. He is one thing that can never disappoint me. As I strive to be content in life, I turn to him; I read his promises in his word over and over. I push to know more of the God I know and love and I pray that His Spirit would transform me as I read His word and that I would know more of Him in everything. I want to enjoy God through all of my disappointments. It has allowed me to see that nothing satisfies us except Him. In nothing can we find true joy except in Him. And in everything we may find disappointment but never in Him.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
good days..
Yesterday was a good day:
--I woke up in a new house with new roommates
--Went to my new job--Chicfila breakfast run on the way
--Met with a recruit who definitely wants to come to Shorter =)
--Got a phone call from a girl accepting a scholarship offer =)
--Got a phone call saying a girl isn't coming to Shorter =( (God is totally in control!)
--Laid in a small twin bed with my sister and made cat noises/harmonized in the most ugliest way ever while my new roommate Christy was listening in the other room (I have now come out of my shell and she knows how goofy we are!)
--Annndd had a wonderful visit from my boyfriend Sam who just came from his staff meetings in Gville! =)
Such a great day! God is good and provides in so many ways, through the good and the bad..the disappointing things and the uplifting things! "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."--Isaiah 55:9
--I woke up in a new house with new roommates
--Went to my new job--Chicfila breakfast run on the way
--Met with a recruit who definitely wants to come to Shorter =)
--Got a phone call from a girl accepting a scholarship offer =)
--Got a phone call saying a girl isn't coming to Shorter =( (God is totally in control!)
--Laid in a small twin bed with my sister and made cat noises/harmonized in the most ugliest way ever while my new roommate Christy was listening in the other room (I have now come out of my shell and she knows how goofy we are!)
--Annndd had a wonderful visit from my boyfriend Sam who just came from his staff meetings in Gville! =)
Such a great day! God is good and provides in so many ways, through the good and the bad..the disappointing things and the uplifting things! "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."--Isaiah 55:9
Saturday, April 24, 2010
empty rooms
Today my parents came up for my last Senior Lacrosse Game--wow, it's hard to believe that it has been four years...
four years of:
--living in a dorm
--playing lacrosse
--waking up for morning weights every tues and thurs at 5:30
--Growing and struggling and growing and strengthening my walk with the Lord
--Getting to know my best friends for life
--GDH food!
My parents helped me pack up some things from my room and memories just flew through my brain! Pictures of me and my first roommates(Jordan Newberry,Allison Green, and Riviere!!). Pictures of me and my ZETA family! Pictures of me and Ashton and our four years together. God has blessed me with the best four years of college. I definitely made mistakes but I'm getting there.
Another memory and cool update: My favorite waitress is Teka at Steamers and I have been really praying these four years to be able to share the gospel with her. Yesterday I got to share my testimony with her! I didn't really get to tell her much bc we always speak in passing but I got to tell her about how the reason I come to steamers so much and why they know me was becuase my freshman year Bethany Griffith who was involved with CO took me once a week to steamers to do a bible study. This changed my life becuase that year I became a Christian, so steamers is an awesome environment!! And I got to tell Teka all about it!!
So after four years, my room is empty. Empty of physical and material things but it will always be FULL of the memories I have here at Pc.
four years of:
--living in a dorm
--playing lacrosse
--waking up for morning weights every tues and thurs at 5:30
--Growing and struggling and growing and strengthening my walk with the Lord
--Getting to know my best friends for life
--GDH food!
My parents helped me pack up some things from my room and memories just flew through my brain! Pictures of me and my first roommates(Jordan Newberry,Allison Green, and Riviere!!). Pictures of me and my ZETA family! Pictures of me and Ashton and our four years together. God has blessed me with the best four years of college. I definitely made mistakes but I'm getting there.
Another memory and cool update: My favorite waitress is Teka at Steamers and I have been really praying these four years to be able to share the gospel with her. Yesterday I got to share my testimony with her! I didn't really get to tell her much bc we always speak in passing but I got to tell her about how the reason I come to steamers so much and why they know me was becuase my freshman year Bethany Griffith who was involved with CO took me once a week to steamers to do a bible study. This changed my life becuase that year I became a Christian, so steamers is an awesome environment!! And I got to tell Teka all about it!!
So after four years, my room is empty. Empty of physical and material things but it will always be FULL of the memories I have here at Pc.
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