>I’ve been thinking about what I was thinking about yesterday. I want trials to persevere through. It has been said to me before, “well of course you love Jesus, you have no troubles in your life.” Okay, I believe that I would love Jesus even if He did make me the next Job. I am…
>His sufficiency supersedes my deficiencies… if I let them. (aka: Your Grace is Enough)
>I’m struggling with the adjustment. I have to be honest. I have up days and down days and up hours and down hours. Overall (but not quite overwhelmingly), my joy is in the Lord. I am content, more than content, really. Paraphrase 1 Thess. 5 and Phil 4: “Be joyful always and content in all…
>More on what I wrote yesterday
>I found another verse about following the straight and narrow path. It’s Psalm 32:8. God says, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go. I will counsel you and watch over you.” then he adds, “Do not be like the horse or mule which have no understanding but must…
>The Gift of Singleness
>So I’m single now by the way. As of two days ago, a seven month date is over. I listened to a Breakaway sermon titled “The Gift of Singleness” while I drove to H-town yesterday and that was exceedingly helpful in steering me in the right direction. As exciting as it half-way sounds, I don’t…
>”A woman’s heart should be so hidden in the Lord that a man has to seek God in order find her.” A man’s way should be so committed to the Lord that a woman would have to be hidden in God in order to catch his eye.
>Newest Member of the Pine Cove Timbers Staff 2008!
>I just found out that I am working at Pine Cove again this summer and I am so super exicited! It is a total God thing-I was looking at my calendar and my summer classes end abut halfway throught the summer. So I prayed that God would put me to use and direct me where…
>Don’t whoop on New Years in Austin or you might be pushed off a cliff
>This rates in the Most Spontaneous Things I’ve Ever Done List. Wayne said he was going to Austin for new years. And I missed him too much. So I just decided at about 5:30pm on the 31st to drive to Austin. Packed in 20 minutes and got to downtown Austin by 9:45pm. Stopped once filled…
>An agnostic musician’s explanation of life
>This is how it worksyou’re young until you’re notyou love until you don’tyou try until you can’tyou laugh until you cryyou cry until you laughand everyone must breath until their dying breatheNote this is how it worksyou appear inside yourselfyou take the things you likethen try to love the things you tookand then you take…
>about evangelism
>”The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” Matthew 9:37 and Luke 10.
>Danken Heist Uber Schleiten (To Think Means To Go Beyond)
>You know the old saying, you reap what you sow… This is a cool quote about it. It’s a chain reaction: Sow a thought, reap an action. sow an action, reap a habit. sow a habit, reap a character.sow a character, reap a destiny. -Samuel Smiles And I thought, so, Shakespeare’s Macbeth actually taught us…
>Music Survey 1. What is music? (your personal definition) Music is an enthusiasticizing conglomeration of notes sent as soundwaves from various instruments or vocal chords to our ears to be enjoyed. Sometimes it relaxes, sometime it stirs us to dance, sometimes we make it and offer it as worship to God and sometimes when we…
>Happy Thanksgiving. I’m at Grandmother and Grandaddy’s in Abilene, TX. It was sleeting outside! Now it snowing outside. Sweet tea and pumpkin pie. later…5 inches. and a snowman with a baby carrot nose from the fridge and packing peanuts for eyes, hair, and a smile.
>sitting in starbucks transposed journal entry
>I am sitting at my little starbucks table with a low hanging light over my head. I just got out of my Bible Study Group and now am reviewing for the GRE. Two history teachers (male) share my bench to the right and discuss lecturing and handling students. I might be a teacher someday. A…
>I did a wonderful Bible study right after my accountability group met this morning. I read 1 Peter 2:22LOVE ONE ANOTHER EARNESTLY with a pure heartMatt 9:37PRAY EARNESTLY to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest.Romans 12:11ishNEVER BE LACKING IN ZEAL. BE FERVENT in spirit, serving the Lord.
>I miss Laura.
>I miss my Laura. Too read about Laura Joost’s stay in France (she is teaching there for 9 months) go to http://laurasinfrance.blogspot.com/
>Little bro
>Carter and I worked with horses at Pine Cove together last weekend. What an awesome experience for both of us. I hope we get to do it again. He is coming here next weekend. He says he is craving Aggieland. I said duh. I’m taking him out dancing at Harry’s- I’m so excited! I’ve been…
>Autumn
>It is Autumn! I had my first pumpkin spice latte two days ago and hung some fall decor on my front door. The leaves on the trees in my yard are turning red and yellow. Today, I was straightening up my room when my ears heard an abrupt downpour. I opened the blinds all the…
>About Planning
>James 4:13-16 Semi-ParaphrasedCome now you who [make your own plans], yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring… Instead you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this and that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance and that is evil. Proverbs 19:21Many are the plans…
>I’m in Texas
>That was a crazy rapid adjustment. My brain and whatever subconscious emotional thing had trouble catching up with my body in the rush into school and country change plus intense amount of dancing with high expectations and the other stuff that’s going on all within what 5 days. I’m recovered now though. I just had…
>hub-jub on second from the last night in cambridge
>Tomorrow will be my last day in Cambridge. I am at my desk analyzing the eminent question, Why didn’t Guinevere ride away with Lancelot?A question more urgent for me at 8:54 tonight than for mankind.I set the mood. Moved the yellow bedside lamp to my desk, Or to the shelf rather, that is as far…
>It’s raining here. My hair is drying. It’s a good thing it’s not cold in here. Tomorrow is my last day in Cambridge. I bought some of the cookies that I eat around here. More for Carter than for me, I’ll let Carter sample each one of them. I climbed to the top of St….
>this is an old journal entry
>I read a quarter of shakespeare’s Othello at a pub called The Eagle… “At present, I sit in a fireplace. A long sense heavily used fireplace- I fear that if I lean on the bricks it would turn my blouse black. The Eagle is a famous aviator’s bar and in the back room, aviator’s names…
>Market to Market to buy a…
>Today I went to a tiny art festival in a garden circle. a street guitarist stood by the fountain and sang familiar tunes and I gave him 20 pence. there was a jackson pollock-like painter with dreadlocks painting while he sold his work. lots of wood work and carpentry, pottery, jewelers- some making things while…
>Stratford, home of Shakespeare
>We went to Henry IV Part I at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford on Avon. Good play. I like going to plays. I wish I liked ballets but I dont think I do. I drew a picture of my dinner with markers. It was “bacon”=ham in grease, fried egss, “chips”=fries, fresh green peas, a solitary…
>Alot on Coventry, the Reconciliation Church
>Yesterday I went with one of my professors to Coventry Cathedral. That is where Lady Godiva rode naked on her horse through the city streets. She threatened her husband that she would do it if he didn’t lower the taxes- he didn’t so she rode and then he did. The town was a manufacturing center…
>Russian Girl
>The diversity of people here is crazy. People come here to learn English from all over the world- especially during the summer months because the Universities are not full of regular students. Obv England is closer to most countries travelwise than the western hemosphere but also it is really hard to get a visa in…
>Harry’s Cafe
>Tonight I went to an International Students Ministry in town. There were like 30 students there! They come here for the summer to learn English and this Christian team runs a cafe inside a gothic church fellowship hall and Asians, Eastern Europeans, and whoever else come there to work on their English and learn about…