Just Wait...

The best way to study… With Christmas music and coffee :)

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:23:22 -0500

The best way to study… With Christmas music and coffee :)

Decorating for Christmas…

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:02:02 -0500

Decorating for Christmas…

Photo

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 14:19:54 -0500

visualgraphic: Talent vs Genius YES!

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:02:48 -0400

visualgraphic:

Talent vs Genius

YES!

Yummy Parmesan Chicken Flatbread… my own invention. Very...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:34:31 -0400

Yummy Parmesan Chicken Flatbread… my own invention. Very good!! I love Italian food…

"As you pour out God pours in, if you don’t pour out you miss the blessing, the growth, the..."

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:10:44 -0400

“As you pour out God pours in, if you don’t pour out you miss the blessing, the growth, the faith, and the provision.”

- Clark Sneed

Sunday Morning...

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 11:06:00 -0400

So this morning I am sitting in my apartment, I finish eating breakfast and decide to listen to a sermon from my church back at home. I had no clue what I was in for. As I listened it felt like the chaplain knew exactly what I was feeling right now and was preaching straight to where I am. Except this sermon was recorded 2 weeks ago. Right now I am struggling to be content where God has put me. Normally between school and home I stay pretty content and happy, but this summer is starting out differently than I expected. Hear that ” I EXPECTED“… The sermon that I listened to this morning was about how God provides and what we do with his provision in our life. One thing that was said was “We need to adjust OUR EXPECTATIONS and learn to be grateful for what God PROVIDES.” This summer my expectations were to work hard at my research position, get to know my roommate and to have a really fun summer.

So far I have felt insufficient for my research position due to the fact that I am having to design some of the equipment(which feels like it is beyond my capabilities sometimes) and my roommate barely steps foot out of her room during the week. Plus she has been gone for the past two weekends. In addition, the beginning of my summer was a ton of fun, I had a blast, but now everything is turning boring and normal so I am having to figure out how to keep myself occupied. This is not what I EXPECTED for the summer…

This morning I was listening and I realized that God may have other plans and other lessons to teach me this summer. I need to learn to be grateful and content for what God has blessed me with, even though it is not what I wanted … There is a church here that I normally go to, but through my own stubborn pride I didn’t ask for a ride there(even though one of my friends attends there and has a car). God was able to use this though, if he can use one small rebellious action like that I am excited to see what He can do with a whole summer, 7 weeks…

"We need to adjust our EXPECTATIONS and LEARN to be grateful for what God has PROVIDED."

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 10:37:31 -0400

“We need to adjust our EXPECTATIONS and LEARN to be grateful for what God has PROVIDED.”

- Clark Sneed

"Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional."

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:52:47 -0400

““Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.””

- Cindy Gerard, To the Limit

The first real meal I made in my apartment this summer…...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:45:00 -0400

The first real meal I made in my apartment this summer… kind of childish I know, but it made me excited! SPAGHETTI… YUM!

Learning

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:43:00 -0400

Throughout my life I have been playing it safe. Not just like “goody two shoes” kind of thing, but never really opened up to people or tried ‘new’ things until I saw other people take them on. At the beginning of this summer I went on vacation and nothing really changed. I realized that life was kind of boring and I hadn’t really changed since coming to college freshman year. I was tired of “playing it safe”, I mean I still follow the rules and respect authority; this isn’t a total rebellious takeover of myself which I will regret in a few years. It is something more… I have learned ( not just heard, but realized for myself) that you have to risk a little to grow. You have to be willing to bare your true personality to others to become fully confident in yourself.

This is truly a humbling experience, even though it doesn’t seem like it should be. This summer I am realizing how much I was faking self confidence over the past year. For me I am being humbled into confidence, as confusing as that sounds it is true. I used to pretend to know everything and didn’t feel confident in myself at all because I never showed how much I didn’t know by asking questions. I was afraid of looking stupid in front of everyone, but now I realize that I felt stupid from faking. Now I am realizing how much I don’t know by having to ask questions at work and choosing to ask questions which may seem stupid. Even though I feel like an idiot sometimes because I don’t know the answer, it is much better than faking like I know the answer. I am hoping to continue in this path over the course of the rest of the summer. Just Wait…

So First Day...

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:38:31 -0400

This summer is going to be a doozy!