I know it's been a while I have been really busy with school and work and just life in general. Anyways, I had forgotten my password on here and just reset it today, so I decided to post something. So here ya go.
Have you ever sat back and just listened to everything around or even just looked at everything around you? Well, I just slowed down recently after stressing so much about whether school was gonna work out or not, whether I was gonna make the friends I needed to keep my life together. I had so many doubts and worries about moving to this area. I was literally driving myself insane worrying so much about the move. I moved leaving my home behind, my family and friends, everything I knew was there. I struggled so bad with my faith with every road bump God threw at me. My faith faded so much through the first 6 months of my life here, but God has given so much. I started up at college out here and spent about 2 or 3 weeks to myself out there not really being social at all. A couple of weeks into the semester I went down to the ping-pong table and got in line to play. This is where I met a majority of my friends out at the college, yes by playing ping-pong, lol. Driving home from school one day I see someone playing tennis at the park so I pull in to see who it is, turns out it was some guys I met at the ping-pong table, Vic and Zach. These guys are who I partially blame for getting my life back on track. God is the main one responsible. He has done so much for me since I moved here from giving me friends to a great start on school. Isn't He great? I mean He sent His son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins, sins that many might never forgive of a person, all this just to save us a place for eternal life with Him in Heaven. Everyone stumbles now and then; I am so excited that I got back up though. God IS DEFINATELY my 1. I thank Him every day for each day he has given me even for the bad days that he throws in to see if I can handle them. I am so happy to see that my college is actually working out and I than Him for that. I can actually see the plan take form, and I'm beginning to see a little light at the end of the tunnel.
Is this, what I call "plan", that I'm pursuing what He has in store for me? I have no clue and that's the way I like it. One verse I keep looking at is Jeremiah 29:11; "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." What I take out of this is God knows what's going on in my life, and that I don't need to worry because His plans will prosper me and will not harm me, they might have a few curves, maybe a couple nails in the road, but His plans for me will not harm me. I trust God has my life under control and so far, He has done so much. One might sit here dreaming of having that new game system, or a new car, while another gets a new car then complains about the color, or complains about getting a playstation when they were really wanting an XBOX360. Well, I sat back the other day and just took a look at everything around me, and thought about some of the things I have that other kids might only dream of having. I have gone on a couple of mission trips with the Baptist Student Ministry of NTCC and the last mission trip really got to me. We went out of town to partially redo a woman's house. This woman was a single mother of seven children; yes I did say seven children. Two are in college while the rest are still in high school and middle school; one in high school is handicapped. That Friday morning we pulled up and it was like the T.V. show Extreme Home Makeover or something. She was leaving for work, turned around and saw all of the trucks and trailers loaded up with tools and supplies coming around the corner and just broke down in tears when she saw us pull in. We tore the siding off of this house, replaced insulation, put up brand new siding, and a couple other things. The most amazing thing about this mission trip from my perspective was the different reactions on the family's faces. It's trips like these that make you appreciate your life so much more, and just makes you want to do it again and again and again. God is good.
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