My Favorite Time of Year. (besides Christmas) :)

The Grammys, ladies and gents.

For as long as I can remember this has been my favorite thing to watch on tellevision. I feel like no matter what age I am or will be, I'll always watch the screen like a kid in a candy store, glossy eyed and dreamy. But this year was different, a little. :) I usually wait around for the good performances and the "big ones" like album of the year, but this year, all I wanted to do was find out who won what awards. Beyonce and Taylor Swift collected more awards in one night that I can imagine in a lifetime. Crazy, absolutely crazy. You know, I'm not sure what exactly the Grammys does to Los Angeles as a whole, but I can tell you that E!'s music department is rather sparce this morning-only one of 3 supervisors is in, and then every other cubicle that is normally full is empty. So it's me, Nick (my boss) and Sarah, the other intern. But I'm writing this aren't I? So it can't be too terrible ;)

So a while back I wrote about what God has put on my heart for Pop culture. Well, I must say, as passionate as I have become about seeing revival in a dark place, working for E! has hit me hard with the reality of the emptyness of it all. It's all about fashion, and lights, and glamour, and celebrities, and causing hype, and just....life that isn't real. So many people watch hours of tellevision and search the web about their favorite celebrities and what they were wearing last night, or who they were with, and it's just really discouraging. I don't think that being at E! is coincidence. This company is pretty much as worldly as it gets. It is nothing but the surface of things. Sometimes I feel like pop culture is so long gone that I'm not going to be able to do anything about it, but then, as we know, I may be small, but I certainly don't think that means I'm made for small things. I've been reading "Forgotten God" by Francis Chan. Honestly, it's a potentially life changing book. I think he totally has it right- We have forgotten the power of the Spirit. I mean, imagine what life would look like if we really lived knowing that the Spirit was in us every day. And then on top of that, what God has been encouraging me towards lately, is praying with expectations. Put believing in the Power of the Spirit and praying with expectations and I think you have an unstoppable force. This Sunday God showed me what praying with expectations looks like, even if it was a small request. He answered my prayers about connecting at church way beyond what I thought, and I am now super involved and invited to multiple events within the next couple of weeks. It may seem small, but its the result of really believing what I was praying for. In addition to all of this power of prayer business, I've been reminded multiple times over the past week that I'm not understanding certain things and directions because I'm not asking for them specifically. I'm praying really broadly, on a "possible" level, but God can make the impossible, possible. We don't recieve because we don't ask, right? To put icing on the cake, yesterday at church, the speaker mentioned how we need to ask God for the impossible, and believe that He can do it. I've been overwhelmed with the Spirit this week, in the most wonderful way possible.

So with that, I know that I'm supposed to be believing and asking boldly in prayer, but I'm still unsure of what it is exactly that I am supposed to be asking for. I guess I'll just have to start moving, becasue going in circles isn't nearly as fun.

loveyoubunches!
Anna