How did I get here?

Do you ever have moments in life where you think to yourself, "How the heck did I get here?" It seems like no matter how much we plan, things never work out how we want them to. We always talk about wanting things to be different, but never do anything different. This has been on my mind the past few days, and then I started reading something I wrote a few years ago on facebook. It spoke to me all over again. I just thought I'd share.

Pursue the LIFE that you were MADE for....

1. The secret to Godliness is hidden in your daily routine....


...Okay yeah, I've heard that before. Read your Bible daily and pray with out ceasing blah blah blah....If we want to be like God we have to spend time with God. Makes sense right? You know how if you hang around the same people for a while then you start saying some of the things they say. I know it is like that with my group of friends....it is kind of like we rub off on each other. That is how I want to think it is with God. The more I spend time with him, the more he will rub off on me. Make sense?... It is not that by going to church we get more of Jesus...by going Jesus gets more of us. There is nothing we can do but become available, and I believe that is when Jesus is going radically change our lives.
2. You DON'T decide your future, you decide your HABITS and your habits decide your future....


...Okay, I definitely NEVER thought about it like that. Especially in college, it seems like everything is about finding our purpose. Every other day I get a prayer request asking me to pray that God would show him or her His will for their lives. We are all here trying to decide our future. It's kind of like, You don't decide what you reap, you just decide what you sow, and what you sow decides what you reap. You can't date wrong now and expect to marry right. You can't live ungodly now and expect to become a man or woman of God later. What we do now is paving the path for our future. Scary, but really cool... Now that I am out of college, I realize that we worry for nothing. We do so much soul searching and seeking God's will that we miss the daily grind. I have started to realize, regardless if people agree, there is always an opportunity to do something good. It is the little things that we do on a daily basis that will shape us into who we become.

3. If you can tolerate something then you won't change it....


...I can see this in my life. I just kind of slide through on somethings. If you can tolerate addictions, then you will never be set free. If you can tolerate ungodliness, then you will never be godly. If you can tolerate spiritual laziness, then how in the heck are you ever going to get spiritually mature? You can't... Wow, this pretty much hit me in the face. I have to know what I want. I have to set goals. I have to work daily to get there. I'm not saying I have to have my whole life planned out with Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome...2.5 kids...and a white picket fence. I'm talking more about issues of character and relationships. I know who I want to be, more importantly who I represent. I also know the kinds of people I need to surround myself with. If I settle for less...I will get less.

Yeah, basically it got me thinking all over again.

God, continue to teach me. Amen.


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Summer Time

It is hard to believe how fast time has gone. I am already done with my first semester of graduate school, and I ended with a 4.0 gpa. I hope every semester goes as fast as this one did! I am glad it is summer. I need this break.

Here lately I have started to realize a few things. Love finds you when you least expect it, and I don't get attached to places. I have the travel bug in me and I like the idea of starting new somewhere. I think that is why it hasn't bothered me too bad to find out that the new love in my life might move 28 hours away. It would be a lie if I said it didn't bother me at all, cause damn I'm going to miss him like crazy. But it is fun to me to think about moving and starting new somewhere. Who knows what will happen in the next year or so...I don't want to get ahead of myself. I'm just saying.

God, Thanks for getting me through this semester. I grateful for the things I have learned, and am excited about the things you have planned for me. Help me stay focused on the things you want for me. Amen.