Best Box EVER!

I am just so excited right now... Abby Cunningham came over a couple of weeks ago and brought all of her makeup with her. This might not sound like a big deal, but for anyone who knows Abby and her makeup knows that it's a pretty big deal. I have been dying to get a box like the one she keeps her makeup in so that I can start building a huge makeup box for the freshmen residents I will be living with next year. I have been looking and looking and looking with no success. I went to Michaels AND Hobby Lobby AND I have been searching online... No luck so far, until tonight. I decided to listen to one of Andy's sermons and the first time I listened to it I was doing my nails and didn't write anything down. The sermon didn't take long to listen to at all, so I decided I wanted to listen to it again so that I could write down a couple of points that I really liked, and during the other stuff I didn't particularly care to write down I decided to look around some more for this box. I typed in something ridiculous that I hadn't tried before like "best plastic box ever", and it came up!! I am so freaking excited. It's pretty expensive, but my mom sends me some money once a month to use however I choose and I decided I'm going to use the extra money that I don't need for food and traffic violations on the box! So here it is, pretty awesome:

http://art.artbin.com/super_satchel_series.asp#6980ab

And here is the description:

Deluxe Super Satchel™
Divided Top/Divided Bottom
6982AB

• The ULTIMATE STORAGE UNIT
• 4 boxes in 1
• Divided Top/Divided Bottom
• 2 side bins, with dividers, allow for multiple
storage options
• Comfortably fits on top of
6855SC Super Satchel™ Cube
• Stackable!

The box is so awesome all around, but the thing that I think makes me love it so much more than the thousands of other boxes I've looked at are the side compartments that flip out. It's the only box that I've seen that has those and they make it the ultimate best box ever haha.

Another thing I'm super excited about is Andy's sermon. Here is just a little blurb that I found especially wonderful and encouraging that just reminds us of what the gospel and the love of Jesus Christ is and how to apply that to our lives practically.

Andy said,

"The gospel instructs us to put this old thing away and grab onto this new thing that is more beautiful and even better than what we had before. Put away your lust and grab onto your love and intimacy. Put away control and grab onto God's sovereignty. Put away your pride and clothe yourself with humility. Put away your slander and start building each other up. Put away the way you used to live and grab onto something more beautiful and precious that you might be a person you've always dreamed of being."

He also said that by doing this, putting away the way we used to live and putting on the righteousness of Jesus Christ is to bring us joy. When we are living to our fullest in Christ it is our joy to put on righteousness. He said, "It is our calling to be made new in our holiness and true righteousness. Righteousness is not dullness of life, it is radiant with joy and pure laughter and excitement and energy that makes people say 'I want to be like that. There is something about that person that I'm attracted to.' And it's Jesus!" That is my prayer for today and every day - that I may live in a way that exudes joy and that I am able to attribute that only to Christ who is my rock and my source of purpose and fulfillment and excitement and security and love and happiness.