i am getting better. i'm growing up.

we're going through john in my new testament class and monday we talked about john 3:16 where "God so loved the world..." my professor taught about what the word love means in the bible, and what it means in different places in the bible, and ultimately about love being all about commitment and about God's love being the greatest love of all ( ( Read more... )

last night i dreamt that i was still in high school and that there were precautions being made to protect the student body from a sniper. i kept asking people why everyone thought we were going to have a sniper and they said because there was one on this same day last year. (and then i recalled having a dream about the first time there was a ( Read more... )

help me because i don't understand Your ways ( Read more... )

for freshman seminar (welcome to college no brainer class) we were asked to write a journal answering the qestions who am i?, why am i here?, and what is my plan for the future?, and talk about personal goals, educational goals, professional goals, reasons for attending csu, and the college experience to date...so i finally thought about things ( Read more... )

there's a definite theme God's trying to get me to see, everything i've read and listened to and talked about lately has been about singing God's praises no matter what, an on-going lifestyle of glorifying God, learning to appreciate Him in everything even when life sucks...i'm pretty sure it's the hardest thing ever, but i'm looking forward to ( Read more... )

i'm currently keeping myself from crying and holding off til after tonight's activities and such...so there will probably be a weepy entry later ( Read more... )

we finally did it ( Read more... )

my favorite verse in isaiah 55 says "where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow..." while this is true, life is not always full of thorns that are later completely replaced by trees/new growth/something else pretty...sometimes there are thorns on the new growth, like on a rose...the bad things and the good things go hand in hand, but if ( Read more... )

Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start

--coldplay