Day 5515

Well, today is the 5515 day I've been alive. I've been doing well with my Bible reading plan so far. In the introduction to the reading plan, Professor Horner says that once you read 10 chapters a day for awhile, you will feel like you've been starving yourself. It really is true. It's amazing to read 10 chapters from completely different parts of the Bible and see how they all work together.

I am not looking forward to midterms this week at school. Ugh. I guess it's good motivation to do well so I won't have to take finals in June. I have been convicted a lot lately about witnessing at school. It can be hard to stand out in a good way. It seems like people either stand out in a bad way or blend in with the world. I am praying that God will help me to do a better job of being in the world but not of the world

I really need to get back to running. I've only run a handful of times since cross country has been over. Although I'll probably be running this week because that's what I do to relieve stress and midterms will probably create a lot of that.

Well, I should probably clean my room and study now...

Happy New Year! (and a slightly late Merry Christmas;) )

Well, I haven't done near as well as I had hoped with keeping up with my blog. Oh well. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas! I neglected to even do a Christmas post, but I hope y'all had a great time with family and friends meditating on the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. And I also hope y'all have a great New Years Day!
Whenever it's New Years, people usually talk about new year's resolutions. Last year, my main resolution was to read my Bible every day, and I was successful. In addition to that resolution, I have two more scriptural resolutions this year. I would like to try to live according to the character traits in Proverbs 31 and 1 Corinthians 13. Lots of times, we look at other people and judge them according to biblical things, but we aren't living them out ourselves. I know that I haven't done the best job lately. So, I encourage you to look at these two passages and try to live by the traits they list. One good way to do this is to pick one trait each day to focus on.
I hope that everyone has a great new year! (and that no one is too tired to go back to school;) For those of you that don't have to start school until Tuesday or Wednesday, don't take it for granted!)

Happy 2012!!!!!

Better Late Than Never, I Suppose

Well, it has definitely been a while since I've posted. I've been really busy lately, but everything has finally started to slow down. I don't even know where to begin... Cross country season finished, and it went well. I was able to improve on every race, and my last one was about 25 minutes flat. High school has been going well. We just finished our first quarter. I can't wait to get a couple days off for Thanksgiving next week! Which brings me to another point. What are you thankful for? I have thought a lot lately about how much I have to be grateful for. A friend of mine's mom just died, and I realized that I take it for granted that I even have a family. I have so much to be thankful for, and I can't believe that I ever take it for granted, but I do.

I am super excited for the holidays. I have actually been listening to Christmas music, which I normally don't do before Thanksgiving, but I couldn't help it ;)

I have really been meditating on Ephesians 1:3-6, which says, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved." Our Sunday school teacher talked about how everything we do should be done to give glory to God. I was really convicted that I don't think about giving glory to God before I make decisions, but this verse has really helped me.

I hope everyone enjoys the holidays!

Rainbows

Well, tonight we were driving home after a rain and we saw an awesome rainbow. It was probably the best one I've ever seen. You could see the whole entire thing and where it touched the ground on both sides. I always love seeing rainbows because they remind me of the promise God made to Noah thousands upon thousands of years ago. God will never leave us or forsake us. He is with us always, even to the end of the age. No matter what we are going through, no matter what circumstances we are in, God is with us.

So my thought for the day is, no matter what kind of spiritual rain we may be going through, there is always a spiritual rainbow on the other side!

Summer!!

My summer break started last week. It's been so great to have a week from school. I know I will be tired of summer before too long, but for right now, it's really nice. I've been sleeping till noon, swimming, and pretty much doing nothing. In a little while, I'm gonna watch Gnomeo and Juliet. It should be interesting to see after studying Romeo and Juliet last year in English I. My thoughts are so jumbled right now, but I have a hard time wanting to use my brain. Well, that's about all for now...