A New Day With Old Thoughts.

Waking up at five always makes me feel like I have already really accomplished something, when I haven't. Yes, I'm dressed and my lunch and dinner have been made but this would have happened by eight ten anyway. At least in this case I have a little time to blog.

I feel like I should start sing, "Back in the saddle again". It's been a while since I have been able to just sit down like this with my cup of coffee and blog in the mornings. Partly due to laziness and partly to the fact that when I was sick during break, the smell of coffee made me nauseous. But here I sit, typing away.

Yesterday for me was just one of those days that ya wake up with the best of intentions to get your whole to-do list completed but only about two out of ten things actually does manage to get wiped off the list. And they practically have to take care of themselves because you just seem inept to do anything that would even possibly be considered productive. But the great thing about yesterday was that I was able to talk if quite a few friends. This assuring me that Facebook is a beautiful thing. While talking to some and thinking about all the other people I know and all the differing situations that everyone is in, it made me think about exactly how big God is.

Monday sitting in Biology lab, we were learning about naming the veins and arteries. I couldn't help but laugh to myself. So many college kids that I talk to think that God is a God who keeps his distance. Maybe that is the view of God they picked up as they grew up or maybe this is a whole new philosophy they have deceived themselves with over the past few years. But which ever, it's wrong. No matter what you think, God doesn't sit there waiting to beat you when you fail and then is other wise indifferent. He is active in every piece and part of your life! This is why I have found Biology so funny. So many instructors tell the students that God doesn't exist and that the only explanation for human existence is Darwin's flawed theory. But then as a student you sit there staring at the board completely confused because of how detailed the most minor of body systems works. If God took so much interest in forming us, don't you think He wants to know us each deeply and personally? I know that I even struggle at times with feeling like I don't want to bore God with all the little details of my life, but in honesty the little detail is really what makes your life uniquely your own. My parents have always taken an interest in me just sitting there talking my problems out. How much more patient and attentive is my Heavenly Father than my earthly parents? He wants me to turn my littlest of life's traumas over to Him, and He is faithful to resolve them but even more to ease my own mind. So easily I can work myself up into a mental mess, feeling overwhelmed, stressed or worried but God doesn't want me to shoulder that burden He wants me to turn it over to Him. Other wise I can guarantee that Satan will eat you alive with whatever the burned he has found that works to pick at you.

1 Peter 5:6-9 (NIV) Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

I really like this Psalm. It makes me think of Biology! :)

Psalm 139:14 (NIV) I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

A Quick Recap:::..

It's already the first day of the spring semester! Holy cow, where did my break go? Oh, yeah, five weeks of being sick, two holidays and a large family visiting for a few days that's where..

I had two sinus infections back to back. It was a thrill a minute! But I did get a lot of pleasure reading done which was a nice break from text books. Sadly I was only able to get together with two friends over break but oh well. I had been kinda bummed about being sick all break and then one of my friends put a new spin on it.. She thought that maybe it was God slowing me down so that I could finally have some time just to rest and do nothing else.. I'm always busy doing something even my summers are filled with events. And it was like God laid me up for a few weeks just to rest so that I could be ready for whatever is coming my way!

Don't tell my Mom but I might kinda, maybe, sorta, actually be excited about the writing class I'm taking this semester.. But Shhh. Don't tell her!

Strangely enough I didn't get all that I wanted to accomplish over break finished but I feel ready for school to start back. I just have to keep focused on God and all will be fine.