"We're almost the same person, but not completely."
That is what someone just said about her and her significant other.
Be separate don't be the same person this is weird.
I'm done.
Trusting God and being dismissive
I dismiss my worries often and I never communicate them to other people. I haven't had a meaningful conversation with someone in a long time.
I wonder about my major and settling.
I wonder if I am trusting God, and what trusting him looks like. Is it not trusting him if I look up missions for Spring Break? Or to trust Him do I need to just sit back and wait? I'm not sure what is right. Is being proactive not trusting is thinking logically not trusting?
I wonder about my major and settling.
I wonder if I am trusting God, and what trusting him looks like. Is it not trusting him if I look up missions for Spring Break? Or to trust Him do I need to just sit back and wait? I'm not sure what is right. Is being proactive not trusting is thinking logically not trusting?
Together we will overcome the world.
I am always so awkward at introductions. Speaking of awkward one of my roommates was telling me about when she was in Guat she was trying to explain to some Guatemalans the meaning of awkward.
I was with a bunch of people, about to leave the school dining commons, and I had this feeling of loneliness rush over me. I'm not sure if it was the fact that I hadn't really talked at all at dinner. It may have been the fact that I noticed that a bunch of people who I hung out with last year are now gone. It could have been caused by seeing that everyone seems to be pairing up and running around gleefully together. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have no interest in doing what everyone that I am associated with wants to do. Because of this I tend to seclude myself. I tell them I don't want to go, which has never been a lie, but then I sit alone in my room. I don't have a problem with this except when I do. I just want to be in the company of someone else without having to work at it. Over the past two years I have poured myself into my relationships with the people that are most important to me, but it feels like nearly all of them have gone out of my life, partly, if not entirely. So now, I am left with the people whom I have shallow relationships with, who haven't left, but also don't really know me (there are a few exceptions). I thought my roommates knew me, knew my heart, until a few recent events that has lead me to believe otherwise.
While having a "roommate sleepover", we're girls, it's weird, whatever, somehow we decided to say one good thing about each other and one thing that annoys us about the same person. One of them said something to me that really hurt me and showed me that she doesn't really know my heart like I thought she did. At a completely different time before that I asked another one of my roommates if she would fill out a reference sheet for a missions trip that I wanted to go on. She looked at me and said, "do you really want me to do this, because I am honest on these things". What was that supposed to mean? I don't know what she said about me on it, but I do know that I didn't get into the trip.
Anyway I feel lonely; because I exclude myself, and because I'm tired of pouring myself into relationships that end. The only person I blame is myself. That is not sarcasm. Seriously.
God is
God is not a man, God is not a white man.
God is not a man sitting on a cloud.
God cannot be bought.
God will not be boxed in.
God will not be owned by religion.
God is love and He loves everyone.
God is not a man, God is not an old man.
God does not belong to republicans.
God is not a flag, not even American.
And God does not depend on a government.
God is good and He loves everyone.
Atheist and charlatans and communists and lesbians; catholic or protestant terrorists and protestants, everybody, God he loves us all.
-Gungor
God is not a man sitting on a cloud.
God cannot be bought.
God will not be boxed in.
God will not be owned by religion.
God is love and He loves everyone.
God is not a man, God is not an old man.
God does not belong to republicans.
God is not a flag, not even American.
And God does not depend on a government.
God is good and He loves everyone.
Atheist and charlatans and communists and lesbians; catholic or protestant terrorists and protestants, everybody, God he loves us all.
-Gungor
A new book
Why is it that most young adult books usually have their main character as a teenage girl who is getting swept off of her feet by a guy. Let's get real, a lot of us get swept up into that sometimes, but that's not what I want to read about. It is so hard to find a book about a college student, and even more rare to find a book about a college student who isn't in love, or falling in love. Dumb.
I want to read a book about a girl who goes to college with a boyfriend and gets her heart broken. And then she heals. A book where she's dumb and makes mistakes. A book where there's heartache and pain, because that's life. A book where it's okay that's she's single, because she's not alone and she's not lonely. In a book like this, the girl doesn't need to be with a guy to feel accepted and loved because she has so much love flowing to her from other people. She has friends who love her and most importantly a God loves her. Now I know what you're thinking, where's the fun in that. Where's the adventure. But I'm sure that if there was such a book there would be plenty of adventure along the way. I want a book that's real, and encouraging, for all those girls in college who think they're alone. I want them to know that there is so much more to life than the romance of a man. These girls should know that they shouldn't be sitting around waiting for their husband to come along, but living life and enjoying every second of it; whether they're "alone" or not.
I want to read a book about a girl who goes to college with a boyfriend and gets her heart broken. And then she heals. A book where she's dumb and makes mistakes. A book where there's heartache and pain, because that's life. A book where it's okay that's she's single, because she's not alone and she's not lonely. In a book like this, the girl doesn't need to be with a guy to feel accepted and loved because she has so much love flowing to her from other people. She has friends who love her and most importantly a God loves her. Now I know what you're thinking, where's the fun in that. Where's the adventure. But I'm sure that if there was such a book there would be plenty of adventure along the way. I want a book that's real, and encouraging, for all those girls in college who think they're alone. I want them to know that there is so much more to life than the romance of a man. These girls should know that they shouldn't be sitting around waiting for their husband to come along, but living life and enjoying every second of it; whether they're "alone" or not.
Learning lessons the hard way
Today, was rough.
In all the little ways that add up. The good news is that I learned so much. No regrets.
So here are a few things I learned:
In all the little ways that add up. The good news is that I learned so much. No regrets.
So here are a few things I learned:
- Never go to Walmart on Saturday afternoons, especially, in December.
- Don't park in the commuter lot... ever.
- It's probably your best bet to skip the opening band.
- If McDonalds has two lies, it's not worth the wait.
- If you're going to be in a spotlight you shouldn't wear a sparkly dress.
I need to stop with all this no title nonsense
Today after class got out a little late I went to go get lunch quickly before my next class. When I arrived at the building I was greeted by one of my roommates. It was bizarre seeing her in "real life" as we like to call it because we never see each other outside of our room, or intentionally hanging out.
Then, we got to discussing something interesting, if we didn't have the same mutual friends we probably never would have crossed paths, or very rarely. This thought lead us to thinking about how many people there are that go to school with us that we never have an opportunity to cross paths with. Different majors, different schedules, and different extracurricular activities make for a lot of strangers.
Thinking about all of those people that you never meet, or even cross paths with when you're in such close proximity to them is interesting. So if we have hundreds of people that we are near that this happens to, think about all the people on the planet you will never know. This was just a thought I found interesting today.
Then, we got to discussing something interesting, if we didn't have the same mutual friends we probably never would have crossed paths, or very rarely. This thought lead us to thinking about how many people there are that go to school with us that we never have an opportunity to cross paths with. Different majors, different schedules, and different extracurricular activities make for a lot of strangers.
Thinking about all of those people that you never meet, or even cross paths with when you're in such close proximity to them is interesting. So if we have hundreds of people that we are near that this happens to, think about all the people on the planet you will never know. This was just a thought I found interesting today.
At what point do you tell a friend that you don't like their significant other and you don't think they should be together? Is there a point that you say it? Or do you just keep it to yourself? It seems to me that if all or most of your friends don't like the person you're dating there's an issue with who he is, or how he is with you. But what do you do? Is it worth risking a friendship? Either way I feel like you eventually lose it...
Strife
Decide
today that there is something great.
Should
I ask you about your love and life;
Would
you rather I talk about your hate?
On
the morrow the day will end in strife.
There
will be a time when you will shine.
By
chance the end will not come in the dark.
There
is one that I know wants to be mine.
When
you got to this place there was a spark
I
wished for this moment of the long day
Where
I could sit and ponder at your words.
Now
that this is the time we shall delay
All
of those times that get cut into thirds.
But
you now are so gone, you are not here
The
person I once knew will disappear.
I miss you.
I am kind of homesick for people. I miss camp, a lot and everyone there. I miss Stephanie, but that's pretty much an ongoing feeling. I miss all my friends in different colleges, and the ones from here that transferred or dropped out. With this feeling come another feeling... I don't really feel like being with anyone here right now. This feeling will pass though and I will get over it, but for now that is how it is.
essentially
"Behold! God is my helper; the Lord is the sustainer of my soul" Psalm 54:4
I feel like I mostly just post about the positive things that are happening in my life, but there really aren't many negative things. Life is just so good because God is so good. This week God has really been showing me how much he provides. Always. The Lord is a provider and healer, at any time God provides exactly what I need even when I don't know it, even when I don't take it. He heals me even when I am unfaithful; through Him I am made whole. He is always faithful. He is always a provider. The best part is that He doesn't just provide for me. He provides for everyone. All seven billion of us, God provides for all.
I feel like I mostly just post about the positive things that are happening in my life, but there really aren't many negative things. Life is just so good because God is so good. This week God has really been showing me how much he provides. Always. The Lord is a provider and healer, at any time God provides exactly what I need even when I don't know it, even when I don't take it. He heals me even when I am unfaithful; through Him I am made whole. He is always faithful. He is always a provider. The best part is that He doesn't just provide for me. He provides for everyone. All seven billion of us, God provides for all.
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