Life may be spinning round and round
And sometimes it can be simple
Other times complicated and frustrating
But all of my days,
I will follow after your ways.
And Father, when I'm blind and cannot see,
You're constantly guiding me.


Thank You for your Son
Thank You for your vision for my life
Thank You for every new day
Thank You for Joy
Thank You for your full encompassing LOVE.

If we would just stop, surrender, and listen
If we gave Him our all
If we were never ashamed
If we lived out what we believed
If we loved how Jesus did
Then they would know.

In these places we hid or faces,
With shame and guilt.
We can't see through these walls
That we have built.
We cover up the sin with lies
But He can see the burdens we carry
In our hearts and eyes.
He hears our crys.

What is Beauty?


Is it blonde hair?
Brown hair?
Red hair?
Is it makeup?
Is it the latest fashions?
Is it cosmetic surgeries?
Is it being skinny?
What us b e a u t y ???
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
Then we are all beautiful.
You see, we were all created in God's image.
That makes us extraordinarily beautiful!
What makes you different than others
Was not a mere mistake, it was in God's divine design.
You are unique
And you are special.
...The apple of God's eye.
He looks at you, smiles, and thinks, 'how beautiful'.
Beauty is not defined by looks,
Not by your appearance,
Not by your weight,
Or even by your accomplishments.
But it is defined by your heart.


Their is nothing more beautiful than that of a pure heart.


This is true beauty. 

I love Him,
He Loves me.
I walk with Him,
He walks with me.
I praise who He is,
He praises who I am.
I desire a relationship with Him,
He desires a relationship with me.
I cheat, steal, and lie.
He shed blood and paid the debt for my sins on a wooden cross.
I did this to Him,
But he did this for me.


1 John 4:9-10 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.  This is Love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning Sacrifice for our sins.

This Love.
How can it be?
For me?
I'm a sinner
I deserve nothing
A wretch
Just look at my past!


Your Glory
Your Beauty
Your Salvation
Your Power
Your Majesty
You are a King!


... And you love me.
God, you blow me away.

You are Beautiful, so Beautiful

Father,
Your Love is so much bigger than I could ever know.
You are so beautiful.
There is nothing better than being in Your presence.
The warmth I feel...
I love hearing your voice.
I fall in awe before you.
I surrender E V E R Y T H I N G.
Fill me up, let your cup overflow in my life.
Prepare me for the things to come.
I want and need to be ready.
With these hands, Your Love will spread.
With these hands, Your Spirit will invade lives.
All through You.
When You come, I will be ready.
But until then, I will be Your missionary 
This generation is deeply desperate for You.
So blinded by lies, hurt, pain, and scars.
Awaken these people.
They're sick of religion. They want the Truth.
But they do not know the One Truth is not found in church or religion,
It is found in Salvation.
Save them.
Send me, Father.
This generation needs You.
Continue to renew my spirit so I can be your disciple for Truth.  


God of Heaven and of earth,
Thank You for saving US.
All my Love,
Rachael. xoxo♥.

So here's where I'm at.


I am a sinner, I don't [at all] deserve God's Love
His Pure, Blameless, Immaculate Love.
Yet why does He love me?
I'm not worthy.
How can He even look at me?
To look at my actions makes me want to hide.
I hate what I've become.
A slave to it.
I can't get away.
I try and fail, & try try try some more...
Only to go in circles.
I ask for His forgiveness every time
He washes me clean, then I fall back down again.
I want to run away from this,
Run to my Father.
I miss his love.
I feel so far away.
I want to come back home.
These prison gates wont open for me.
Father, rescue me...
Mind, Body, and Soul.
I can't take this anymore,
I don't want any of it!
God, please.
Take back my heart
Capture it, Father.
Again, wash my sins away.
Make me beautiful again in Your eyes.
I Love You.
As you open the gates, I run to You, with all that I have.
I fall on my face before you and praise you!


Your Love Endures Forever!♥

A love note♥

Here, my love lies
Are you weary?
Are you lonely?
Come, rest in my arms.
Your sin, your imperfections
Repent and I will wash them away.
Like a new snowfall,
I will wash your sins away
A Clean Slate.
My beautiful princess,
Everything about you
makes me smile.
My love for you
Surpasses all things.
Oh, how I love you.
Come, rest in my loving arms, dear daughter.


-Jesus♥♥

a beautiful sacrifice

Standing, just standing.
A field filled with wildflowers as far as the eye can see
Now, spinning
I see a faint figure in the distance
I stop.
There He stands, arms wide open
I can think of nothing else but to run to Him
I do.
Then, kneeling before him, a tear falls from my face
He kneels beside me and wipes it away
He places a flower in my hand
And whispers in my ear,
You are beautiful
You are loved
And you are Mine.
With daises all around, i stand up joyously 
A Love greater than anything else...
Blameless, he sacrificed His life. 
His life for me, He thought i was worth that much.

This is the face of Love.

Love so unfathomable you came, you lived, you saved my soul.
Father the words I have,
nothing can describe
my gratitude, my joy.
Your grace that saved me,
your hope that holds my life,
your promise that gave me a future.
You are so worthy of more praise than we could ever give.
When all strength is gone and my soul is weary,
your loving arms are there to give me rest.
No one, no thing could ever compare to my Jesus.
He is the Way, the Truth, and the Everlasting Light.

let's live like we're Alive :)

another poem that i wrote about my awesome God...

I Am
I look out at those glorious stars
each on shining oh so brightly.
I look out at the moon
sitting so quietly above me.
Peace like a fresh spring flows over me
He holds me in His never-ending love and says
I Am.

this is a poem i wrote about watching a girl waste her life away...

Alison

It was summer in the Northland.
Just a normal teenager, she went by the name of Alison.
She went through life like a boring day at school
But she was open to the wide world that was out there for her
Like a young bird, she was ready to take flight
One day, Friend knocked on her door
Alison opened without any hesitation
Friend was nice to her unlike anyone else had been
She was joyful in every circumstance that came her way  
Friend had something that Alison didn't
Then, not too long after, Love knocked on her door
Alison hesitantly opened it up halfway and looked at Him for a while
She contemplated whether or not to let Him in
She had only met Him once before 
She was willing, so she opened the door to the kind man.
Soon Alison's house was full of people
She was so full of happiness she couldn't contain it, everyone noticed
She and Friend were like two peas in a pod
Nothing could ever separate their friendship
Well, nothing could ever separate their friendship until Friend left town

Shortly after, Hurt and Trouble knocked on Alison’s door

There was little hesitation, she welcomed them in

She no longer wanted Love, so she kicked Him out of her house along with her other old friends

Her life changed from good to bad, like the dramatic change of seasons

Hurt and Trouble now thrived in her life

Alison never took flight

She never considered the great opportunities she could have had

She was lifeless like movie without sound

She simply wasted her life away

Meanwhile, Love still knocked on her door everyday

6 more games this week in 80 degree weather=death!!

Just some things i wrote the other day! ----->


God, show me your ways. God, be my light as i walk this path in all of my days.
I want to be a witness for you..to penetrate light into the darkness
to love the unlovable, to reach the unreachable, to hope for the "impossible".
...So just one question remains: am i willing to be used by you?




God, you have blessed me beyond anything to compare
A life worth living,
A song worth singing,
A praise worth praising!
You have made me so unique
every part of my being, well thought out
I will praise you in this day for I am fearfully and wonderfully made
Lord, don't let me stray or fall 
I will draw near to You
For you have given me a life worth living,
A song worth singing,
And a  praise worth praising!

i need sleeeep...desperately! 

something i just thought of..

I'm sick of rings and fancy things
I want to live a life thats worth living, thats more about giving
God, let my eyes focus on you above
and as your hands and feet, may I show the world your love!

i like to rap :)

word to yo mothaa

word to my motha funk docta luva

i live in pequot lakes and all that it takes

is a little brain and brauns

and for me a couple rap songs

you neva stop till you reacht the top

you go up, down, sideways

you gosta have wud it takes yo

cause here in pequot lakes, we down.

we from the bottom to the top

we neva gunna stop

till ow body drop

cause we do things the christ way homes

to show er'body wut God has to say

we play His way.

COMPLIMENTS OF: LUKE FUNK & RACHAEL LANGER :)                                                            

school...

i'm really sick of being a procrastinator... just throwin that out there!

He might be my only hope... But in that Hope, lies e v e r y t h i n g .

Psalm 36.


Lovingkindness, Faithfulness, Righteousness and Judgement
with these things you preserve us
how precious are your ways.


Your love is Meteoric Your love Astronomic
Your purposes Oceanic, and i'm sheltered in your wings


You give drink to those who thirst
from the fountain of you life
I drink and have my fill from the rivers of your delight
and in your life we see the Light and it's shining oh so bright
and deep within, out shame and sin are found
Our darkness turns to LIGHT 


The Father gave his only Son just to save us.


God, thank you so much for coming and taking captive of our lives! Let us remain close to you & cast away all of our impurities.  Mold us into your image. Work through is.  You will give us the strength to do all things, big or small.  We just need to put our faith in You.
We love you Jesus:)

side note...

I Really want to go to Tanzania, Africa to visit the little boy, Samwell that I sponsor!! Really Bad!!!!

Thursday, April 15th, 2010.

Today has been a very good day! I realized something new about myself... I need to constantly keep challenging myself everyday. This isn't much of a revelation, but a realization nonetheless! haha. I like to keep myself in this box that I have created and rarely do I go outside it. God may be telling my to do things and ways of reaching out to others, but I think to myself... This box is just soo comfortable! Today i realized again that there is so much more outside of my box. I experienced something bigger than me. I was scared and unsure, but I trusted and relied on God for strength. In doing this, I broke outside of my box, that I created for myself. If I am willing to step outside of it and let God use me, I could do soo much more for His Glory!! But only if I am willing.

I WANT MORE!

thoughts!

So here's what i'm thinking... Their are so many people out there that view Christianity as hypocritical and irrelevant. Can we that call ourselves followers of Jesus Christ change that?? Statistics out their show that between believes and non-believes, the way we live our lives don't vary much... We are still doing the same things; Cheating, stealing, lying, being hypocritical only to name a few. So then what sets us apart?? How do our lives reflect Jesus?? Can people see the face of God in our lives?? The term 'Christianity" is slowly becoming more and more watered down. What can we do to change that?? What can we do to change the way people look at our generation?? Another thing I have been thinking about lately is how much our generation has made their own Christianity. People take what they like about it, then add or take away whatever they feel... Are we doing this in our lives? Am i doing this in my life? It's a big question! Having a relationship with God is not saying just a prayer, then hoping God will put the odds in your favor. It's a commitment. A life style. We need to be reaching out to others everyday and showing love to everyone... Matthew 25:40 says, "The King will reply, I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of the least of these brothers, you did for me."

How much would it change our lives and the lives around us, if we really started to listen to God's voice to reach out to others...

Mark 11:22-26 says, "And Jesus answered them, 'Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive your sins."

i have made a decision!

Hello Everyone!
I have made a decision...I will no longer just ignore this issue that is out there. I need to become an advocate for this. AIDS/ HIV is a HUGE Crisis!!
I recently read a book called Red Letters that challenged me to do something about all the men women and children that die everyday, every hour, due to this.
We NEED to doing SOMETHING.
I will no longer be a 'typical' teenager.
People are dying, and I for one, think it's time that that we start caring about it and putting that care into action!