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Today is Wednesday.
Therefore tomorrow would be Thursday.
I like Thursdays...they are usually free in the evenings, which is enjoyable.
Two Thursdays from tomorrow, I will be going to see the FRAY in concert.
I am listening to the FRAY right now. (I dont know why i'm capitolizing the FRAY, i guess its just too great of a word to type in normal).
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
Today has been a VERY different day from yesterday.
Yesterday I felt UGLY, and FAT, and SAD, and ANGRY, and just everything evil you could think of. I got a headache, didn't eat well - just bad stuff.
I got lost on my way home from FIU, in a really bad neighborhood.
It was the most scary thing I'd ever experianced in my entire life. I literally almost started crying, but I couldn't breathe, and it's hard to cry when you aren't breathing.
I didn't even stop at the stop signs, because the neighborhood was so bad, and young women driving alone at night in neighborhoods like that shouldn't stop at stop signs.
But I made it, I'm still alive, and when I got home, I found my new ipod sitting on my desk...just came in yesterday!!!
Driving in to work today was delightful because I had an ipod, and I didn't have to listen to stupid radio personalities. I really hate radio personalities. There isn't one of them that I like...well, except for Billy Raven on Love 94 - he has this smooth silky deep black voice. It's amazing...but other than him - ugggg, I can't STAND radio personalities. So, my ipod is like gold to me...pure black gold!!! And getting to be intentional about the songs I listen too, is so much better than just being at the mercy of whatever Spirit FM or whatever other radio station I have on, decides to play.
You know what has made this day so much better than yesterday? well, other than having my ipod and listening to the FRAY? I was setting my mind on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God, not on things that are on this earth. Even important, good things, like my courtship. It was just taking up WAY too much of my thinking, and leaving me dry, distressed, angry, sad, all the other adjectives I already wrote about. But this morning I said NO! NOT TODAY! I am going to set my mind on things above, eternal things that really matter. My trials are GREAT, but my God is GREATER, so I will set my mind on Him, and his majesty and His glory and beauty. What a difference that has made for me today!!!
Praise God. His ways are perfect, and I know this is true. My circumstances don't need to change, just my gaze. If i'm looking where I need to, there is nothing that can bring me down....I'm serious!! Just try it. Push your own problems and the thoughts you have about yourself and your circumstances out of your mind, and just think of how great God acctually is. Look at the sky, the clouds, the sun, the ant, the leaf. Look at the cross, the love, the sacrifice, the glory.
A smile comes on my face even now as I'm writing this.
A great big smile.
Therefore tomorrow would be Thursday.
I like Thursdays...they are usually free in the evenings, which is enjoyable.
Two Thursdays from tomorrow, I will be going to see the FRAY in concert.
I am listening to the FRAY right now. (I dont know why i'm capitolizing the FRAY, i guess its just too great of a word to type in normal).
Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
Today has been a VERY different day from yesterday.
Yesterday I felt UGLY, and FAT, and SAD, and ANGRY, and just everything evil you could think of. I got a headache, didn't eat well - just bad stuff.
I got lost on my way home from FIU, in a really bad neighborhood.
It was the most scary thing I'd ever experianced in my entire life. I literally almost started crying, but I couldn't breathe, and it's hard to cry when you aren't breathing.
I didn't even stop at the stop signs, because the neighborhood was so bad, and young women driving alone at night in neighborhoods like that shouldn't stop at stop signs.
But I made it, I'm still alive, and when I got home, I found my new ipod sitting on my desk...just came in yesterday!!!
Driving in to work today was delightful because I had an ipod, and I didn't have to listen to stupid radio personalities. I really hate radio personalities. There isn't one of them that I like...well, except for Billy Raven on Love 94 - he has this smooth silky deep black voice. It's amazing...but other than him - ugggg, I can't STAND radio personalities. So, my ipod is like gold to me...pure black gold!!! And getting to be intentional about the songs I listen too, is so much better than just being at the mercy of whatever Spirit FM or whatever other radio station I have on, decides to play.
You know what has made this day so much better than yesterday? well, other than having my ipod and listening to the FRAY? I was setting my mind on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God, not on things that are on this earth. Even important, good things, like my courtship. It was just taking up WAY too much of my thinking, and leaving me dry, distressed, angry, sad, all the other adjectives I already wrote about. But this morning I said NO! NOT TODAY! I am going to set my mind on things above, eternal things that really matter. My trials are GREAT, but my God is GREATER, so I will set my mind on Him, and his majesty and His glory and beauty. What a difference that has made for me today!!!
Praise God. His ways are perfect, and I know this is true. My circumstances don't need to change, just my gaze. If i'm looking where I need to, there is nothing that can bring me down....I'm serious!! Just try it. Push your own problems and the thoughts you have about yourself and your circumstances out of your mind, and just think of how great God acctually is. Look at the sky, the clouds, the sun, the ant, the leaf. Look at the cross, the love, the sacrifice, the glory.
A smile comes on my face even now as I'm writing this.
A great big smile.