I'm feeling so blessed today!

Yesterday and today have been exhausting in their own ways, but at the same time, there have been so many blessings scattered throughout! Yesterday, my classes really behaved well, especially considering the temptation there was to misbehave, and then I got to hang out with Bean for the whole afternoon, and THEN see the ( Read more... )

And though you have not seen Him, you love Him,
and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him,
you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory
~ 1 Peter 1:8

So today and yesterday have not been great days...I'm not really in love with the class I'm taking, and getting up to make it to even my 2pm class has been surprisingly ( Read more... )

I love this feeling. Actually, i'm positively basking in it. I don't know what's making me feel better--the sunlight streaming into my CLEAN (mostly) living room, or the smell of the steaming fish that i just set down next to me (lunch/dinner)...or the sapuri soundtrack with it's cute percussion and piano harmonies, or the tired feeling in my bones ( Read more... )

Each day this week, I've felt more and more blessed by the people God has sovereignly placed around me. I am so thankful for my roommates, the GOCers, my friends here in LA, the Nine, friends from home, my family...there is something about my birthday which never fails to reveal to me how much God has given me.

That aside, there's something that's ( Read more... )

i was thinking, lately, about whether i really love people for themselves, or if i love them for their relationship with me, or because i love in some prideful way, the way people think of me. for a little while, i was feeling pretty cynical about the whole prospect--could love exist independent of self? this led down a fruitless philosophical path ( Read more... )

Lord, I am SO thankful for kindred spirits. There's something about even a 5 minute chat with a kindred spirit that can make me feel so joyful to be alive ( Read more... )

bah humbug! i should be way more relieved that stupid mimg185 is over, but why am i so bleh?! somehow i feel that when i woke up this morning i was in a better mood. hen dayo ( Read more... )

sometimes I look at old pictures of friends and just feel...wow, we are beautiful. no qualms, no reservations. just something about seeing us smile and seeing our faces really touches my heart...in a way it really just makes me want to cry. we're so beautiful! it's an amazing thing...

thanks God, I needed that =)

I had such a good day yesterday. Woke up early (ehh?!) to go give my car to the dealer (brakes squeaking = yasmin's ears not happy), came back to our CLEAN apartment, STUDIED for GREs for about an hour, called Melissa U to go eat lunch, ate SUSHI  for lunch (oisssshiiiiiii...and she treated me!!! =D =D) then went to sit in the courtyard of the ( Read more... )

today was really hard. but i'm so thankful that God is merciful and He sustains me in the end. I'm so thankful He has given me with such good friends to make a support network for me when I feel like the world is about to end (yes I'm melodramatic, but seriously.) I'm so thankful that I have my haven that I can escape to and cry my eyes out so that ( Read more... )