I want to address some things, but don’t even know where to start…first I just learned that I made a “C” in my anatomy class this semester, yes I know the saying “C’s get degrees”, but not in my book. Up until this semester I had a 4.0 in school. I knew anatomy would be hard this semester, so I took
only that class-fully expecting to make an “A”, but I didn’t b/c I didn’t try. Yes, I am now out of anatomy, but I didn’t study the way I should have. I skated through this semester and really don’t even know how I passed the class (thank God for multiple choice). If you haven’t noticed by now-I am very hard on myself, always have been-as of late (the past couple years) weighing every decision carefully and judging how it may affect my future. I put some effort into this class, but not near enough, when did “just good enough” become ok in my book? Most of my friends just say that I don’t have enough time b/c I have 2 jobs and commitments at church (which are actually the most enjoyed parts of my week), but that’s crap in my opinion b/c I have always had to work through school and I always will-that’s just how the cookie crumbled in my world. Enough.
Onto the next: I wanted to discuss holding patterns and the immense benefits that they bring to your life. As God continues to reveal His many Faces to me-I am mesmerized by the One I’m currently viewing. There is a GREAT deal to be said about waiting-waiting to me is the best tool for growth and discipline, you were taught it as a child and God uses it still. In my own life, there are certain things that I would LOVE to take place, it’s just that I don’t know when. I don’t even pray for things to happen, I pray for things to happen according to God’s Will for my life and especially according to His timing. Let me give you a “for instance”-there was a study that was conducted w/3 year olds, they were each placed in a room by themselves and were told to sit in a chair, in front of them was a table w/a marshmallow on it. They were told if they waited to eat it for a certain # if minutes, they could have 2 marshmallows instead of the one. Most of them ate the marshmallow, but a few waited-when observing the ones who waited they noticed that these children did things to keep themselves busy-trying to keep their attention off the marshmallow. Here’s my point-if you think God is speaking to you about something in your life, and it’s not happening when you want it to or at all, it doesn’t mean that it’s not. It may just mean that He has something even better for you in the future, so stay busy w/what you have now, even if it’s right in front of you, it may not be “time to take it”. It is soooo about God’s timing, I can’t stress that enough.
Ok so the newest thing I’m learning is about being stretched. I believe God calls us EVERY single day to get out of our comfort zones, and it may be something simple-for instance-recently God has been speaking to me about picking up trash that I walk by randomly-at first I didn’t want to do this-especially at the mall I work at-I thought to myself “there are people who get paid to do that”, but the thought wouldn’t stop-so I do. You see, I believe God has to know He can trust us-even in the small things, and I believe God to use me for GREAT things, so I don’t want to disobey in the small. He has been very heavy on my lately and it’s awesome-it was so much to the point that on this past sat nite even before I left work at 6, He was like “you have a date tonite…with Me”-uh-oh. Ofcourse one of my friends calls and wants to go to dinner and I was like umm-I have a date w/God and she was like say no more, I’ll pray for you (that’s how awesome my friends are). Man it was good though-I need more dates like that! Ha! So much to learn…
Lastly I wanted to say how PROUD I am of my brother. He graduated from the Honor Guard in the air force this past Friday, only 48% of his class graduated, right now his job is holding the flags for very important people who have died (like people in the military), he will be at the presidential inauguration too-how cool is that? His sergeant was telling us a little of what the boys had to do through to graduate-it included running a total of 25 miles, 10 hours of standing motionless (stamina training), memorizing over 750 words of things like creeds and history, and 1,000’s of pushups-all this occurred w/in an 8 week period. He said they were up at 3:30 each morning for PT (physical training), and were only allowed to drink water during the 8 weeks, 3 times of “failing” at anything got you kicked out, he said one boy failed 3 days before graduation! Geez. Love you bro! (I can’t believe he’s only 21!)
I’m going to sleep, after I clean my kitchen-a tornado of mashed potatoes hit a few hours ago :o)
(We are all a little frazzled in this pic-up late playing "are you smarter than a fifth grader w/our aunt and uncle-(of which I was out on question two :o)) and the fact that the weather was less than pleasant (on our hair at least, Zach doesn't have that problem)
