it's been a while
I finished the semester with a giant leap into passville. In fact, I made only one C, the rest A's and B's. It's ironic really. I studied more in my C class than I have ever studied for one class in my entire educational career. Educational career?
I have never been more ready to start any semester of my life. Here are a few reasons:
1. It is my last semester!
2. All my friends are already in Toccoa
3. I am student teaching, which gives me creative control to structure a classroom, and not anybody else. That sounds really bad...moving on to #4
4. I am eager for the beauty of Springtime
5. I am currently working at Ulta for break (a.k.a. outrageously rich menopausal women mania)
I made a goal to read 8 books, crochet 2 blankets and millions of beanies, write brilliantly intuative songs, and spend as much time as possible in the Word. "Crooked soul trying to stay up straight." It's ok, I've failed before.
Encouragement found its way to me in my darkest self.
There's a song my Sufjan Stevens called "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." Please listen to it.
I went to Trinity Vineyard the other night with Kristin, and we both wept at the end. God is certainly calling all of us to more and more of Himself, but I am so scared. I know that means obedience in smaller issues, issues I blatantely choose to ignore, issues I allow to feed on my already decaying soul, but I am aware that He has made new life in me. Do I crucify Him again and again, then? Find me drinking from Your well. All He asks of us is that we would follow and believe. I read about Jesus being driven into the desert by the Spirit where He was tempted for 40 days. He let everything of human-ness die right there in a landscape of parched earth and became fully relying on the Father. I have looked over these scriptures a thousand times. But now that life has me on this rollarcoaster, I understand that He came so we can relate, so that He can say, "I defeated every type of temptaion and sin, and I live inside of you, therefore, you have the power of Christ and the Spirit of God to overcome the world...b/c temptation will certainly steal from you, kill your children, and destroy your abundant life." Higher Priest, come rescue us from us.
I have never been more ready to start any semester of my life. Here are a few reasons:
1. It is my last semester!
2. All my friends are already in Toccoa
3. I am student teaching, which gives me creative control to structure a classroom, and not anybody else. That sounds really bad...moving on to #4
4. I am eager for the beauty of Springtime
5. I am currently working at Ulta for break (a.k.a. outrageously rich menopausal women mania)
I made a goal to read 8 books, crochet 2 blankets and millions of beanies, write brilliantly intuative songs, and spend as much time as possible in the Word. "Crooked soul trying to stay up straight." It's ok, I've failed before.
Encouragement found its way to me in my darkest self.
There's a song my Sufjan Stevens called "John Wayne Gacy, Jr." Please listen to it.
I went to Trinity Vineyard the other night with Kristin, and we both wept at the end. God is certainly calling all of us to more and more of Himself, but I am so scared. I know that means obedience in smaller issues, issues I blatantely choose to ignore, issues I allow to feed on my already decaying soul, but I am aware that He has made new life in me. Do I crucify Him again and again, then? Find me drinking from Your well. All He asks of us is that we would follow and believe. I read about Jesus being driven into the desert by the Spirit where He was tempted for 40 days. He let everything of human-ness die right there in a landscape of parched earth and became fully relying on the Father. I have looked over these scriptures a thousand times. But now that life has me on this rollarcoaster, I understand that He came so we can relate, so that He can say, "I defeated every type of temptaion and sin, and I live inside of you, therefore, you have the power of Christ and the Spirit of God to overcome the world...b/c temptation will certainly steal from you, kill your children, and destroy your abundant life." Higher Priest, come rescue us from us.