Hey everyone!
So today I slept until 11. And it was fantastic. Haha. I kept waking up at various times in the morning feeling like I was late for something. I got a great, full nights' rest and laid around all day. Me and some of my friends made pancakes this morning and after I ate those, I practiced memorizing some stuff and then watched the Alabama - Tennessee game. What a great afternoon. Around 5:00, I went to Times Square with a group of my friends to get tickets to see a show called "First Date" that is currently playing on Broadway. After we got tickets, we got some pizza of course!
The show was great. It was very modern and not a typical Broadway musical but it was very entertaining and very real. It has one of my favorite actresses in it, one who I actually passed on the street last week, Krysta Rodriguez. She was in the Addams Family and Smash and a lot of other shows as well. She is brilliantly talented! Her co-star is Zachary Levi. He is probably most known for being the voice of Flynn Rider in "Tangled". He was great too. And so cute I can't even deal...... We were going to wait around at the stage door to meet the cast but it's that time of the year again when all the Broadway shows take donations and stuff for BC/EFA (Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights Aids) and they were selling opportunities for people to pay to take pictures with Krysta and Zachary on the stage after the show so we would have had to wait a while. But I think we may go back later this week and try to catch them after one of their shows.
It was a really fun night and I still can't believe that I live here........ It blows my mind everyday.
Tomorrow I'm going to sleep in again of course, but later in the afternoon I'm going to Times Square Church with my friend Meg. I'm so excited to meet new people in a new church! I've been looking forward to it all week.
"In all things we know that we are more than conquerors. You keep us by your love! How high? How wide? No matter where I am healing is in your hands. How deep? How strong? Now by your grace I stand, healing is in your hands."
These are the lyrics of the song I am listening to while I am reading Jesus Calling for today. It says:
"Come to Me when you are hurting, and I will soothe your pain. Come to Me when you are joyful, and I will share your joy, multiplying it many times over. I am All you need, just when you need it. Your deepest desires find fulfillment in Me alone.
This is the age of self-help. Bookstores abound with books about "taking care of number one," making oneself the center of all things. The main goal of these methodologies is to become self-sufficient and confident. You, however, have been called to take a "road less traveled": continual dependence on Me. True confidence comes from knowing you are complete in My presence. Everything you need has its counterpart in Me."
It then lists 2 verses:
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. John 15:5"
"Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4"
God is amazing isn't he? That passage is so appropriate to exactly where I am in my life right now. So much of the business I am in is about me. No one else. I would be lying if I said it wasn't easy to make it about myself all the time. It is hard to remember that without God, nothing is possible. It is even harder because it's not like I am surrounded by people that are passionate about god. It's a tough world up here in NYC. In every single way. I mean I got attacked by a hobo yesterday for crying out loud! Haha. It's not only a tough world up here but it is a lost world. I wake up every morning and I pray "God, let your will be done in me". I have no idea what each day brings. I don't know who is watching me or listening to me. And that comes from every aspect. Not only from a professional, business-related aspect because we never know what kind of agent or casting director is walking around the building. But I also mean it in a personal way. I have talked to quite a few people about being a christian and that I have a personal relationship with God. And boy do I get some great looks back sometimes haha. A lot of the people around me don't believe in God. They want nothing to do with Christianity. That is painful to see but I know all I can do is plant that seed and from that point on it is all in God's hands. I just have to set a good example. That's hard! I really have to watch what I say and do around anyone because I don't want people to be turned away and relate my wrong actions with being a christian.
Well, on that note, I'm going to get some sleep!
Goodnight!
Thanks,
Molly
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