As I'm writing this, I am on the verge of sleep and downing a cup of coffee. Yes, sitting in my bed drinking some Cups coffee (After Hours, SO good) and getting ready for an hour slumber. So this will be a short post. Heads up.
Classes are back in swing, KIND OF. I've already had a paper due, and will have 2 more homeworks, another paper to hand in and a test to take before Friday. I missed school, right?!
I also just bought the books I'll be needing for this semester.
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Those are my thoughts on that.
::in other news:: I went home for MLK day! (So, Sunday and Monday..) which was fun cause I got to surprise everybody! Well, everybody who was there haha they all had places to go and people to see! Which was fine, I just slept a lot :D It was weird being back cause I JUST left a week ago to come here! So it kinda made school seem like a week long adventure haha :P But at the same time, seeing all my stuff moved out and the room/space that I used over break being taken over by other things and other sisters made it (yet again) feel like I was moved out and moved out for good.
I don't know, I'd like to work here in the summer and continue to live here and only go home on breaks like Christmas and Thanksgiving, because eventually I want to end up teaching here! My heart -and the desire God gave me- is for the inner-city of Jackson elementary schools. I'm kinda ready to start that right now, but, you know, gotta finish this school thing first. Mleh.
Lastly, I shaved the other day. Because you're all dying to know that is why I told you; no other reason. I also might shave tomorrow or the next day.
The end :)
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
New Semester, New Crap!
Guys. This spring semester of 2013 officially started 2 days ago, and I think I'm already of the verge of over-stressing, have a fear of under-acheiving, and could possibly die from the workload.
I kid. But not really.
The break was nice though! It was a nice break from everything school related; I got to work and babysit (money makin!), I got to eat food that tasted good and smelled good and sat well in my stomach, I got to lay on the couch and watch a lot of Netflix, I basically was allowed to be fat and lazy for a whole month -and it was AWESOME.
One of the major (particular) things God talked to me and showed me about over this month of a break was that as far as life goes, and how I tend to see things as getting from point A to point B, He is there for both point and all the micro points in between. Let me explain. In my mind, take last year for example, I saw my being home and working and such as point A. Coming back to MC and starting school and a social life again was point B. I knew God wanted me there at home and here at school and wanted me to rely on Him, but honestly I felt like that I had to tackle all the in-between points by myself! Like, that God had started me and was going to finish me, but it was up to me to do it all. I don't know how long I had that mindset, but I do know that it was present over break. With all this upcoming student teaching/observing stuff this semester, with this being the CRAZIEST AND BUSIEST semester of my college career (as told to me by all of my professors this year), with not having a job, with boy stuff, and about a million and a half other things! And my attitude was knowing that God was going to walk me through it, was confirming that this was where I needed to be and these were the people I needed to be with, I just had to make it work in my power until I got to the end result.
That went all fine and well until it wasn't fine and well anymore. It got to a point over the break where there were 2 nights where I almost didn't sleep, AT ALL, because my mind was racing with what I needed to do/say/act/study/add on/get rid of/etc and I started to get antsy and grouchy and pushy and just yucky. I got out my bible, because sometimes I decide that when I'm out of all my other ideas (stupid, I know.) and I was flipping through when it fell open to Isaiah. I really don't read that much in Isaiah, just cause, but here's what I got smacked with by a holy 2x4:
"You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because He commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You."
Isaiah 26:3 (Amplified Version)
Perfect and constant peace. Doesn't that sound like the chillest, easiest, more reassuring thing ever? It's cause it is. It is so simple and so true, and everything is so easy when you accept and apply that truth to your life and all those stinkin' micro points that you think you have to work by yourself!
Anyway, my two cents are put in, later :)
I kid. But not really.
The break was nice though! It was a nice break from everything school related; I got to work and babysit (money makin!), I got to eat food that tasted good and smelled good and sat well in my stomach, I got to lay on the couch and watch a lot of Netflix, I basically was allowed to be fat and lazy for a whole month -and it was AWESOME.
One of the major (particular) things God talked to me and showed me about over this month of a break was that as far as life goes, and how I tend to see things as getting from point A to point B, He is there for both point and all the micro points in between. Let me explain. In my mind, take last year for example, I saw my being home and working and such as point A. Coming back to MC and starting school and a social life again was point B. I knew God wanted me there at home and here at school and wanted me to rely on Him, but honestly I felt like that I had to tackle all the in-between points by myself! Like, that God had started me and was going to finish me, but it was up to me to do it all. I don't know how long I had that mindset, but I do know that it was present over break. With all this upcoming student teaching/observing stuff this semester, with this being the CRAZIEST AND BUSIEST semester of my college career (as told to me by all of my professors this year), with not having a job, with boy stuff, and about a million and a half other things! And my attitude was knowing that God was going to walk me through it, was confirming that this was where I needed to be and these were the people I needed to be with, I just had to make it work in my power until I got to the end result.
That went all fine and well until it wasn't fine and well anymore. It got to a point over the break where there were 2 nights where I almost didn't sleep, AT ALL, because my mind was racing with what I needed to do/say/act/study/add on/get rid of/etc and I started to get antsy and grouchy and pushy and just yucky. I got out my bible, because sometimes I decide that when I'm out of all my other ideas (stupid, I know.) and I was flipping through when it fell open to Isaiah. I really don't read that much in Isaiah, just cause, but here's what I got smacked with by a holy 2x4:
"You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because He commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You."
Isaiah 26:3 (Amplified Version)
Perfect and constant peace. Doesn't that sound like the chillest, easiest, more reassuring thing ever? It's cause it is. It is so simple and so true, and everything is so easy when you accept and apply that truth to your life and all those stinkin' micro points that you think you have to work by yourself!
Anyway, my two cents are put in, later :)
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