Hey! I haven't wrote on here in a while, but I will start keeping y'all updated on the days till my trip to Singapore.  I had my jambalaya fundraiser last Friday to help raise money for my trip, and it was a success!! Thanks to everyone who came and donated, I couldn't have done it without y'all!!!  But the reason I am blogging right now is because I want to share something that God showed me today.  This evening, I was walking down my street listening to worship music on my ipod, when I started to feel God's peace and His joy overwhelm me.  I smiled and went to raise my hands, but then I remembered that I was walking and that a car coming down the street might see me raise my hands.  Even though I had the sudden urge to lift my hands, I resisted, because I was afraid of what people might think.  Then God brought my older sister to my mind. She was born blind and can see very little out of one eye, so she walks with a cane to help guide her.  She is 24 now, but when she was younger, I looked up to her a lot.  We shared a room together, and I can remember before even walking into the room I could hear worship music turned up loud, and I could hear her singing to the top of her lungs.  I opened the door to see her arms raised, praising God wholeheartedly.  She never stopped when I entered, but stayed in God's presence.  I didn't understand it at the time, but I still admired it.  Even when I had friends over and we were in the same room she was, she was praising God as if no one were in the room.  We would just watch her because it was just beautiful.  I wished I were like her.  She was so free in worship and didn't care what people thought.  Mostly because she's blind and doesn't see people's facial expressions.  So God brought this to my memory to show me that we as Christians need to be blind.  Not physically blind, but blind to the world.  Blind to people's reactions.   So that when we want to do something for God, it will just naturally come out, and we won't have to think about who is watching and what they might think.  We are called to stand out, and it doesn't matter who is watching or what they think.  God is watching and it brings glory to Him.  The world will think that what we do for God is weird and abnormal,  but it doesn't matter.  The people who are normal are the ones that think what Jesus did was a big deal!!!  How can we not openly praise and worship our God when we think about what He has done for us???!!!