Since I'm a noob to this whole blogging thing (I've made it past the 1 month mark! woohoo!) it will take me a while to work out the format to be exactly as I want it.
A friend of mine contacted me saying that she couldn't comment on any of my posts. So I've fixed that! There's now an option to comment as Anonymous if you don't have a Google account or any of the others listed there. Feel free to add your name if you want but don't feel pressured to. I'd love to hear your feedback, believe me I would!
Since that wasn't much of a post I've decided to add this little snippet!
Well I know you're not supposed to hate so when I was little my mom would always tell me that I don't hate anything. So I would always come back with the every intelligent "Fine, I really really really really really dislike ______!" Brilliant right?
I've compiled a list, in order of importance as to how much I really really dislike this particular thing.
Onions. I hate really really dislike onions.
Satan.
You may be looking at this picture thinking 'well he doesn't look to scary, how evil can he be?'. and that's the problem. If the devil looked as dangerous as he is we wouldn't be so drawn to him. He knows our weaknesses and comes after them. He is not going to scare us away by showing us who he truly is. That's one of the reasons he's so easy to hate. He draws us away from our true God and from Jesus Christ. Satan likes to convince us to sin and once we've sinned he uses our pride to tell us that God cannot forgive us, that what we've done against him is too big. Take comfort in knowing that nothing is too big for God to forgive if only you'll give Him the chance.
Missouri.
I actually own the shirt in the picture above. To all of you reading this that are from Missouri. I'm sorry. Please don't stop reading my blog because of this post! :) I've been bleeding crimson and blue for as long as I can remember. I think I popped out of the womb hating Missouri. It's a Kansas thing, it's impossible to like both Kansas and Missouri at the same time, and if you're lucky enough to be born a Jayhawk than God has blessed you!
Sometimes you've just got to take a step back from blogging and live.
I guess you could say thats what I've been doing the past few days. So often I get too caught up in my life to actually live. In what I have to do next and what I'm doing after that and when I'm gonna study for what and who I have a meeting with where and what time and make sure I don't forget!
I get so stuck planning my life that I forget to live it! I forget to take time to be in community and spend time with others. That is after all what the Lord made us for right? To be in union and communion with Him and others!
So this week I've found myself getting out of class early enough twice already to go to Mass and Confession. To be in union and communion with Him.
I've also taken the time to be with friends, watching the KU game, playing Yahtzee, doing hw, swapping life stories and watching you-tube videos. To be in union and communion with others.
This song has been appearing in my life quite a bit lately. Tonight at praise
& worship/adoration we were singing it and the words just really resonated with me. I've bolded the part that really hit me tonight. Sometimes it amazes me the language in which God chooses to communicate, He's so genius. I like to have prompts for my prayer, something which to focus on and the last paragraph gave me this. I've bolded the part that really hit me tonight.
Nothing compares toLife I have in You
Nothing of this world satisfies
So, I want to let go
I want to let You know
All that I have to give is Yours
Here I am
As gold to the fire
I will surrender to Your hand
To this place
Lord, I have come ready for Your touch
It's all for You
It's all for You
I'm letting go
I'm letting go
What is it in me
That hangs on for so long
Why do I fight the tears that come?
I work so hard to
Keep in control when
All that I want is to let go I'll take this life
And lay it down
I'm letting go
I'm letting go
My hopes and dreams
Here at Your feet
I'm letting go
I'm letting go
I'll take this life and lay it down: It's no secret that I've been having troubles with my roommate lately. I'd like to say I've been bringing my struggles with her to God in prayer. I'm trying so hard to make this life work for me the way that Iwant it to work, but maybe He has another plan for it. God put her in my life for a reason and tonight I decided to do as the song said, I took my life and lay it down for God to pick it up and do with as he wishes. I'm going to try and watch Him work through me the way He knows is best.
My hopes and dreams here at your feet: I have hopes and dreams of having a big amazing family of my own, being a fabulous interior designer, creating the home of my dreams and having season tickets to KU basketball for the rest of my life! Tonight I tried to let go of them. If I'm living for my own hopes and dreams then I may be ignoring God's plan for me. Only He knows what I'm called for, and I don't want to be blinded by what I want and miss out on the opportunity He may be handing me. And I know, that His plans will be WAY better than anything that I could every imagine for myself.
Thomas Robinson and Markeiff Morris commentating College Gameday. So Cute! They look so happy.
It's hard to be so upset about things going on in your own life when T-Rob loses both his grandparents and then his mother all within a few weeks and canstill put this smile on his face and enjoy this time with his teammates.
In 1.5 hours at the crack of midnight I will be camping outside of Allen Fieldhouse to get a great spot on ESPN during College Gameday. If Allen Fieldhouse is a rockin, don't come a knockin!
As I've mentioned before I am a DIE HARD Kansas Basketball fan, it's hard to go to KU and not be honestly. I was thinking about a way to tie my love for KU basketball and being a daughter of God together in this post and I got a link from a friend asking me to vote for Tyrel Reed in the Lowes Senior CLASS award.
How does this have anything to do with anything you might ask? Here's a little excerpt from his bio on the Lowes Senior CLASS website:
Reed is a genuine role model for youth with his leadership on the team and in the community. He’s frequently the first one to step up when volunteering for community work and he’s a very comfortable public speaker with the media and in community activities. Reed is active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes on campus and will occasionally speak to FCA groups at local schools. He was also selected for the University of Kansas Men of Merit which recognizes men who positively define masculinity by challenging norms, taking action and leading by example while making outstanding achievements and contributions to KU and/or the community.
It's easy for people in such public roles especially in sports to forget where they came from, GOD! From what I've seen watching KU basketball from the stands Tyrel is the glue that holds the team together, the inspiration, the motivation, sometimes he's even the one guy on the court that keeps us from losing. So who better to vote for? There's30,000 students on this campus, and a WHOLE Jayhawk Nation out there watching him. Talk about a witness.
First and foremost I am a daughter of God our heavenly father. Second I am a daughter to my parents and a sister to my siblings and an aunt to my nieces. Third I am a friend, loyal and true and a great listener if I do say so myself. Fourth I am a second year college student. Fifth I am a Kansas Jayhawk :D
