Not My Will But Yours Be Done

It's been awhile since my last post and it has been mostly because of normal, everyday business. I am starting to get numerous amounts of reading from all of my classes and so that has been taking up a considerable amount of my time. I also started my training to run the Music City Half Marathon! It is definitely going to be a journey.

God is teaching me a lot right now and it is mostly that He has a plan and that my plan isn't nearly as good. Just when I start to take a step in my own direction, God steps in and says, "That's not exactly what I had planned". But I am slowly being able to see the difference between my plans and God's plans. Most of the time,  the only difference is that God's plans are not my natural 'first picks'. He is teaching me to give up control...so that is what I am trying to do.


That's all for now.

God bless!

True Success

It is interesting to me how people get so wrapped up in the materialistic life and what is considered 'the norm' for today's world. Right now I am reading a book series called "Linage of Grace" by Francine Rivers.  It is five different stories about women in the Bible and how their lives fit into the bigger picture. But what has me thinking lately is how different our lives are today compared to the lives of the people in this book. Even just one hundred years ago life was so much more simple than today. Sometimes I wonder how the world got focused on independence and materialism. It seems like all that's important in this life is to get an education, get a good job, make money and climb the ladder of success.The confusing part is, how does that all fit into God's will?

When do we get so caught up in our daily life that we forget God's will and pursue our own will. I wonder if human kind has really been like this since the beginning. Have humans always been more consumed with success, power and money than with love, relationships and peace? I know one person can't change the world, but if I could I would try to help people understand that material things and earthly power isn't what is going to last. Our relationships with people are ultimately going to last.

I don't have it all figured out, but I do know that the world does not offer what humans long for.

God bless!

One Week Down

And so this wraps up a long and very exciting week! The first week of my last semester before being a senior. I can hardly believe it! God continues to amaze me. Last semester was probably one of the lowest times of my life. Instead of being angry with God, I clung to him and I am so glad I did. He has taught me so much and I have grown a lot too. I always new that this year would be a good one, and it has started out in my favor!

So, this week I began as a biology major, had a change in heart, switched to an English major and I now feel peace about my life.

God Bless!

"Press On Toward the Goal"

 This verse really belongs with yesterday's post. It is the verse of my life at this point in time.

"12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." - Philippians 3: 12-14

This is such an inspiring verse. If our goal is Heaven and eternal peace, then why should we worry about the past? One of my biggest weaknesses is dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. I want to live out this verse and make it real in my life.

Pressing On

Commuting with an eight o'clock is proving to be quite difficult. I leave home at seven and I hit rush hour which adds about twenty minutes to my drive. So I get to school with fifteen minutes to class time and I have to find a parking spot ( Ha that's a joke!). But other than the drive in, my Thursday morning has gone very well. It is still snowing, for the fifth day in a row.
Today I bought some of my books, turns out I need a lot of them. I guess I will just slowly buy them as I need them.

The first week is almost over!

Off to chapel!

God bless!

I Wake Up to Find Your Glory Divine

Day 2 of my blog!

This morning I woke up to flurries again. Snow really is just beautiful! It makes me really excited to go skiing in February!

Today is going to be a fun day.  I am taking two English classes, a Bible class and a Photography class! What a great schedule :). I have absolutely no classes in McFarland (the Science building)! God has been so good to me.

More coming later :)

God bless!

Rock My World

My life completely changed today and  here is why! Upon graduation from high school I realized that it was time to decide what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.  So, of course, my first thought was what can I do that will open up the most opportunity. What I didn't realize was that the more important thing is that I do something I am good at and that I am excited about and that I enjoy doing. At the time, I convinced myself that the path of grad school and Biology was the way to go.  After all, I love Biology and there are tons of directions I could go, so why shouldn't I pursue it? Sometime last semester I woke up and realized that I was unhappy with the direction my life was going.  I was enjoying my classes but I wasn't excited about them.  That is when I began to think to myself "Why am I so unhappy? What went wrong?".  I prayed about it a lot and then a few days ago a small voice popped into my head saying "What about English?".  I had always brushed my love for reading, writing and English to the side thinking it would take me no where in life.  But then I began to feel so much happier just thinking of the change.  I knew it was ridiculous but I was finally excited about something and I finally had positive motivation and clear goals.

So, in conclusion, I talked with Dr. Hearn (the English department chair) today about what it would look like for me to switch to an English major.  As the title of this blog suggests, my world has been rocked.  And everything I had made myself out to be has turned out to be a lie.  I talked myself into a future and a major that wasn't what I was meant to do.  I am more excited than ever about being an English major.  There are buckets full of things I can do with an English major and a Biology and Bible minor.  The possibilities seem endless to me and I have never been more excited. I know it seems strange that I am just now figuring things out, but that's what college is all about right?

So that's basically what happened today :)

Time for bed!

God bless!

Beginnings...

So this is my first official blog entry! Lately I have had so much on my mind and I thought "How cool would it be to blog about my life and maybe help someone else out". I don't know if anyone will ever read this but I am giving it a shot :).

I am sitting in the library right now looking out a window and there is snow falling and a sheet of white covering the ground. It is absolutely beautiful and it definitely makes up for how cold it has been lately. It reminds me of how 'cold' life can seem, but in the end something beautiful always comes from it. It has to get cold for it to snow, so life has to get tough before it can get beautiful.

I have one more class today and I am really looking forward to it. It is Communicating in the Gospel and I think it is going to be a great class!

One thing that I have decided as an unofficial New Years Resolution is to know my Bible better. So I am going to choose one verse a week that I memorize and study. So if anyone has any suggestions as to some verses that I should know and commit to memory please leave me a comment!

Now I better get back to some homework.

God bless!