I am so excited about this weekend. I love football season and I am excited about the Red/Blue game tomorrow. It is going to be fun getting a glimpse what next season will be like. It is amazing the kind of excitement that a football brings and all the preparation that goes into it, from practices, to practices, from picking out what to wear, where to place a tent, when to leave, where you are going to sit and so on. It is so much fun.
Sometimes I think of events like this and then think of what the day when Jesus comes back will be like. I think that all the blessings and the wonderful events in our lives are just a glimpse of what is to come.
So my thought for today is are we ready for the return or are we just enjoying with previews? Let's make sure that we enjoy the previews but keep Jesu first in our lives so that we get to enjoy heaven!
Have fun this weekend! (it will be 4 months before we get to enjoy an Ole Miss again)
I know that a few of my post have not been very up beat or happy. But today is better. I have felt better the last several days than I have in a long time. I am making head way in my studies and feeling like the semester is going well. I have few things that I need to work harder on but just a few and that is good. I am feeling very blessed.
I have been trying to get my apartment in order and make it feel like home, that is not going as well as I would like, but that is were patience comes in and I am working on that. I was needing something to put socks and that sort of thing in since I don't have a dresser and my soon to be brother-in-law hooked me up and I am so excited! (so I am making progress) I hung a few pictures up too.
I feel better about the relationships conflicts I was having. I talked to them to make sure that we were on the same page...well if we weren't we are now and I feel so much better about that. I am realizing more and more that it is not always easy to do what Jesus would do, but I feel so much better when I do what he would do. Even though sometimes it may not be my fault, but if I know that someone feels something against me it is my job to do what I can to fix it. Sometimes it takes sucking up my pride! (but once I have done it.. I feel so much better) Praying is always a help and something that I am doing more of, not just praying by myself but getting prayers from others. I am so glad that I have God in my life and I am realizing that more and more as I get older.
Things are looking up for our trip to Argentina. We are getting our funds together and our training is going well. So that has taken a lot of stress away. We will be on our way before we know it. I am so excited about sharing what Jesus has done in my life with my readers.
I talked to my sister, Gena today. I miss the relationship that we once had, but I am feeling like we are getting it back. We talk more and are finding that we have more in common (even though she is married and has a child) than we thought. I am so thankful for our talks and we I could see her more. They will be moving soon when Adam (her husband) gets a new job, so we have discussed how cool it would be to live near each when I graduate. So we will have to see how that all works out.
I am so blessed and I am so thankful for all the positive things that I have come out of all the negative that I was feeling the last year. Things really do work out for those who love the Lord!
I am enjoying the nice weather. I think it puts me in a better mood, since I have so much going on. I like afternoons to sit on the couch, listen to the birds and feel the cool breeze. I am so thankful for Spring. I think it might be my favorite season. Especially when it is not to cool and not too hot. Like today, for example. I am so thankful that God has provided me with weather like this. I love to do things outdoors and weather like this makes that possible.
Today I am thankful for Spring!
So many times I get bogged down in the bad things that are happening that I forget how bad things could really be and that I need to be thankful that I have the necessities of live that other people don't have.
So today, I am thankful for family and friends. God knew what he was doing when he put these people in my life!
THANKS YOU GUYS! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!
Well it has been a while since I have posted. I think of doing it often, but due to an excessive amount of homework I have not been able to write as often as possible. I am going to have to add it to my schedule of things to do often.
Well as most of you know I moved into an apartment two weeks ago today. I am still adjusting and trying to make it home. It will get there, it is just going to take a little patience and time...which are two things that I lack. Some of you have asked why I move out of the center, so here are my reasons. I am taking 18 hours in school (Marketing, Management, Microeconomics, Spanish, Accounting, Web-Based Design), so that is one of the main reasons. I have had meetings after my classes for assignments, as well as preparing for graduation in December. Working at the center requires me to be on call 24/7, which I do not mind to an extent, but it requires a lot of my time while I am there with meals and bible studies. I like being a part of those things, but with the attendance policy I do not feel that I am being fair to the others that live there by not attending or being involved. I feel by not living there, I can be available during the day after class, but the evening I have to study and do homework and be able to attend activities when I can. Also, I will be graduating in December and they are going to have to find someone to take my position. I was asked if I thought I could do my job even if I didn't live at the center and I said I think so, but I would be willing to try it to find out for sure. So with the school burden, I saw the opportunity to help my work load with school and be able to tell the board if the job would be as effective without living at the center.
I do want to clear up one thing that people have been wondering. I had to go before the steering committee (which is a group of local board members that help with disciplinary issues), for breaking one of the rules. This is not the reason I moved out. I have not hard feelings about the situation. I know that I messed up and had to suffer my consequences like anyone else would have, but this has nothing to do with the reason I moved out. I hope this provides a clarity to the situation, so that assumption with not be made as to reasons why things happened the way they did. I think the center offers great opportunities for underclassman and I hope that it will continue to serve them in that way, even after I am no longer employed by the center.
I have seen God working in my life, so much lately. I always feel like I don't have time, but when I keep him first it all seems to work out. I was talking with one of the college students last night about time and stress. And she said have you notice that when you think that you will never get it all done, something gets postponed or cancelled. We feel like that is God's way of helping us and giving us the time to get it all done. It is up to us to use those cancellations to get things done that we thought we couldn't do. The more we talked about it, the more I notice this happening more often than I ever realized. If I would just not worry and stress so much, but keep in my mind how it always works out..my life would be a lot less draining.
There is light at the end of the tunnel....I will be graduating soon and if I can get through this semester, I think is will be smooth sailing (except for Spanish in summer school) til December. But I am trying not to stress, to give it all to God!
It is about 7 weeks before we leave for Argentina this summer. I am getting excited and looking forward to getting away for a while. But there is still much work to be done, with fundraising, weekly meeting and a training weekend. But God is working in my life so I will get it all done and it will all work.
Today I am thankful for:
family
friends
the opportunity to try new things
God's love
prayer
money to pay my bills
I will try to be better about posting...please forgive me if I don't post as often as I would like...
I am so excited. I love being outside! (when I take my allergy medicine). I see camping, walks in the park, fishing and lots more in my future (in my free time)...before we leave for Argentina.
I am so thankful for spring time and enjoying God's creation!