Senior year starts tomorrow!
I cannot believe it. It is going so fast. I almost hope that this next year of school doesn't go fast though, because next May I will have to get a real job.
I've decided that I am going to be excited about school and roll with the punches, instead of worrying.
Someone today used John 14:2-3 in a way I hadn't heard it before, and I liked it. That is the one where Jesus says he is going to heaven to prepare a place for us to live with Him forever. But this person used it to say that Jesus has a plan for my life and has prepared a place for me here, for my future. Interesting.
The finish line is in sight.
Praying for favor, wisdom, and peace.
"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2-3
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Can You Say Spoiled?
Right now as I am writing this, I am waiting for a YouTube video to load. The new Verizon internet is slow. It's not even fast enough to play a video without stopping in the middle to load.
So it's kind of annoying. Apparently the internet comes between 0.5 and 1.0 Mbps (we just got DSL), and that they would send however much we needed.
This is what I'm thinking: I need more. I need it faster. I need to be able to watch YouTube without it stopping in the middle.
I'm going to call them and see if they can do anything, but I am thinking that I might have to upgrade to the Internet Enhanced, which is supposed to be faster.
Then I look at myself and I wonder how I got this spoiled. I remember the dial up internet, and that noise. I remember not having Facebook and Twitter. I don't know what I did on the internet before those, but I do remember it. (I just heard that the freshman college class, the class that graduates in 2015, is younger than the internet.) This instant gratification thing is a stressor. I can't have everything at the exact second I want it, but I still want it. I guess I need to relax, and trust my time to God. My time, I need to change my thinking already.
"For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth." Psalm 37:9
Update: So I just called, and I was on hold for too long, so I hung up. I don't know if it is because I don't think I should be complaining or because maybe I really am a part of the microwave generation.
So it's kind of annoying. Apparently the internet comes between 0.5 and 1.0 Mbps (we just got DSL), and that they would send however much we needed.
This is what I'm thinking: I need more. I need it faster. I need to be able to watch YouTube without it stopping in the middle.
I'm going to call them and see if they can do anything, but I am thinking that I might have to upgrade to the Internet Enhanced, which is supposed to be faster.
Then I look at myself and I wonder how I got this spoiled. I remember the dial up internet, and that noise. I remember not having Facebook and Twitter. I don't know what I did on the internet before those, but I do remember it. (I just heard that the freshman college class, the class that graduates in 2015, is younger than the internet.) This instant gratification thing is a stressor. I can't have everything at the exact second I want it, but I still want it. I guess I need to relax, and trust my time to God. My time, I need to change my thinking already.
"For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth." Psalm 37:9
Update: So I just called, and I was on hold for too long, so I hung up. I don't know if it is because I don't think I should be complaining or because maybe I really am a part of the microwave generation.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Return Of The School, Part 4
I'm heading back to school today after being home with my family all summer.
I'm nervous and excited.
I have a car full of stuff, a haircut, and a waxed face because of my Mother. (Literally waxed, she paid for my eyebrows and lip to be waxed yesterday.)
I wonder what this next semester holds. I know it doesn't hold worry though. I learned that in church this week. My only job as a Christian is to not worry so that I can show God's glory.
Off to vote in a few minutes. I hope everyone takes their kids with them to vote. I clearly remember going with my parents to vote when I was little. They had the old voting machines where you had to pull the handle over and the curtain would close. Then my Mother would let me push the little switch over for whoever she wanted to vote for. Then she would pull the big handle again and the curtain would open and your vote would be cast. Then we would all get a sticker.
I think about how fun that was whenever I go to vote and every time it has been a computer touch screen.
But nonetheless, going with my parents inspired me. And I love voting. It's my right and I do it wholeheartedly. Going with them made a lasting impression that made me realize that what is going on on the TV with politics and such, can change when I vote. So, take your kids with you to vote!
After voting, I'm going to the pregnancy center to volunteer. I'm sad about leaving, but so happy I got to be there this summer.
Then off to school. I have some nesting to do.
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God." Philippians 4:6
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God." Philippians 4:6
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Cancellation
Long story short, we cancelled Comcast internet and tv, and switched to Verizon internet and Netflix at my apartment.
We were paying $118 /month for Comcast.
Verizon internet is going to be $24 + tax, and Netflix streaming with one DVD at a time out a month is $15.98. So like $40 /month.
SO MUCH CHEAPER. Like a two thirds cheaper. I just hope we can get over not watching the news or presidential debates, but I suspect we can find that on the internet.
And Comcast is mean.
But I'd like to publicly apologize for asking the lady how "shady" Comcast was. I think what I said was, "I just don't know how shady you are." Referring to if they were going to charge me a early cancellation fee.
They should be open on the weekend and a lot of the recent problems we had with them would go away.
And how could anyone work for Comcast?
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16
We were paying $118 /month for Comcast.
Verizon internet is going to be $24 + tax, and Netflix streaming with one DVD at a time out a month is $15.98. So like $40 /month.
SO MUCH CHEAPER. Like a two thirds cheaper. I just hope we can get over not watching the news or presidential debates, but I suspect we can find that on the internet.
And Comcast is mean.
But I'd like to publicly apologize for asking the lady how "shady" Comcast was. I think what I said was, "I just don't know how shady you are." Referring to if they were going to charge me a early cancellation fee.
They should be open on the weekend and a lot of the recent problems we had with them would go away.
And how could anyone work for Comcast?
"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Matthew 10:16
Sunday, August 7, 2011
My Prayer Time/TCL #3
Maybe it's time to stop looking at my life and start living it.
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." John 10:10-11
I'm am going to do today, and not worry about yesterday or tomorrow.
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Hebrews 13:8
I can ask God for anything because of Jesus.
"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:16
And have nothing lacking.
"The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing." Psalm 34:10
No matter how I feel, Jesus is still there for me always.
"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9.
With the truth being told, I have a hard time remembering all this when it comes right down to it.
I pray over my food and when someone comes to me and asks me to pray for a specific need. I even remember needs people have told me as I see their name on Facebook and pray for them. But when I comes to the important things, I worry.
Or, listen to this, I think I can bank prayer (and maybe even Bible reading).
Like for example, my senior year of high school, I knew I wanted direction from God about what to do about college and what His plan was for me (because "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." Jeremiah 29:11), so I figured I would pray about it and get direction. Then I got it. And I didn't have the urgency to pray as much anymore.
I honestly was thinking - I need to have a good relationship with God now so that in a couple of months when I start needing to make decisions with my life, I can hear God's voice. Because apparently I thought that, you can't just sit in your room one day and pray for awhile and expect to hear God's voice right then. You need to build a relationship. Which I think it true. We do need to "work on" our relationship with God. We need to read our Bibles and pray consistently.
But that idea, that thought process kind of makes it seem like God is going to ignore me because I was ignoring Him. But I don't think God is that friend who you after you've been out of town for a while and you come back and call them up, ignores you for being gone for so long, and you have to coax them into going out with you. God doesn't play mind games with us. God loves us.
I guess there is balance. I just got to ask Him where it is.
I think the point of this is that I need to pray more. But not only for direction, but for relationship. Because that is what Jesus and Christianity and church is all about, relationship.
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26
And: TCL #3 -- Theological conversations.
And and, I shot guns today. So that was fun. And last week we went to a major league baseball game (my first); that was fun too.
And and and, the hardest part for me when writing blogs isn't the actual blog, but the title. I'm not sure why.
"The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." John 10:10-11
I'm am going to do today, and not worry about yesterday or tomorrow.
"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." Hebrews 13:8
I can ask God for anything because of Jesus.
"Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:16
And have nothing lacking.
"The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing." Psalm 34:10
No matter how I feel, Jesus is still there for me always.
"And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9.
With the truth being told, I have a hard time remembering all this when it comes right down to it.
I pray over my food and when someone comes to me and asks me to pray for a specific need. I even remember needs people have told me as I see their name on Facebook and pray for them. But when I comes to the important things, I worry.
Or, listen to this, I think I can bank prayer (and maybe even Bible reading).
Like for example, my senior year of high school, I knew I wanted direction from God about what to do about college and what His plan was for me (because "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." Jeremiah 29:11), so I figured I would pray about it and get direction. Then I got it. And I didn't have the urgency to pray as much anymore.
I honestly was thinking - I need to have a good relationship with God now so that in a couple of months when I start needing to make decisions with my life, I can hear God's voice. Because apparently I thought that, you can't just sit in your room one day and pray for awhile and expect to hear God's voice right then. You need to build a relationship. Which I think it true. We do need to "work on" our relationship with God. We need to read our Bibles and pray consistently.
But that idea, that thought process kind of makes it seem like God is going to ignore me because I was ignoring Him. But I don't think God is that friend who you after you've been out of town for a while and you come back and call them up, ignores you for being gone for so long, and you have to coax them into going out with you. God doesn't play mind games with us. God loves us.
I guess there is balance. I just got to ask Him where it is.
I think the point of this is that I need to pray more. But not only for direction, but for relationship. Because that is what Jesus and Christianity and church is all about, relationship.
"But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26
And: TCL #3 -- Theological conversations.
And and, I shot guns today. So that was fun. And last week we went to a major league baseball game (my first); that was fun too.
And and and, the hardest part for me when writing blogs isn't the actual blog, but the title. I'm not sure why.
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