The beginning of a beautiful end
August 23, 2009...Five years ago I walked into the room that I am now sitting in scared, shy, and incredibly excited. I was a freshman. Looking back on my college experience I am shocked at how blessed I truely am. I made great friends, learned how to handle myself in a disagreement, participated in organizational government, traveled around the U.S. and internationally, made the honor roll, and honestly learned what a beautiful and awesome person God has created me to be.
All week long the thought kept occuring to me...you should blog about this or that. You should post a finialization of the trip to Italy. You should keep people updated on your life. You should do this you should do that. But in all honesty the only thing I should be doing is enjoying the end of an incredible highway in my life's journey. (Cheesy...I know).
Today Douthart, my scholarship hall won Scholarship Hall Olympics. I was pretty stoked. We haven't won the five years I've been here so what a justifying feeling.
Before that I attended an amazing church and heard something that I believe God really wanted me to hear. I am constantly amazed that He continually teaches. Even at the oddest times. The pastor was talking about Abram and Sarai. He said they watched as a window of opportunity closed on them having a child, but they didn't trust God enough to let Him open another door, or rip out the enitre "window," or even build a completely new opportunity.
Sarai took matters into her own hands and gave Hagar to Abram to bear him a son...Ishmael. The only problem, Sarai became jealous, hypocritical, and leagalistic. God's promised her a child of her own, but because she didn't like or trust his timing she made her life twice as difficult.
I realized in a couple of different ways I am a Sarai. I don't trust God to open doors or to do things in his own time and way. But God is bigger than all of that. God's grace is greater than my epic failure. And because of that I can be a child of promise.
There are places in my life where I'm desperately diving through that closing window, not allowing God to lead me. But I must remind myself that God is bigger. God is greater. and God is better than anything I can comprehend or desire. God is.
Just as that scared freshman five years ago I enter the unknown a little scared, a little shy, but incredibly excited. If I could toast I would "To tomorrow, To God and To all that He brings our way. Bring it on God!"
Verse of the night: Galatians 4:22-24, 31 "For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenanat is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are slaves: This is Hagar...Therefore brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman!"
All week long the thought kept occuring to me...you should blog about this or that. You should post a finialization of the trip to Italy. You should keep people updated on your life. You should do this you should do that. But in all honesty the only thing I should be doing is enjoying the end of an incredible highway in my life's journey. (Cheesy...I know).
Today Douthart, my scholarship hall won Scholarship Hall Olympics. I was pretty stoked. We haven't won the five years I've been here so what a justifying feeling.
Before that I attended an amazing church and heard something that I believe God really wanted me to hear. I am constantly amazed that He continually teaches. Even at the oddest times. The pastor was talking about Abram and Sarai. He said they watched as a window of opportunity closed on them having a child, but they didn't trust God enough to let Him open another door, or rip out the enitre "window," or even build a completely new opportunity.
Sarai took matters into her own hands and gave Hagar to Abram to bear him a son...Ishmael. The only problem, Sarai became jealous, hypocritical, and leagalistic. God's promised her a child of her own, but because she didn't like or trust his timing she made her life twice as difficult.
I realized in a couple of different ways I am a Sarai. I don't trust God to open doors or to do things in his own time and way. But God is bigger than all of that. God's grace is greater than my epic failure. And because of that I can be a child of promise.
There are places in my life where I'm desperately diving through that closing window, not allowing God to lead me. But I must remind myself that God is bigger. God is greater. and God is better than anything I can comprehend or desire. God is.
Just as that scared freshman five years ago I enter the unknown a little scared, a little shy, but incredibly excited. If I could toast I would "To tomorrow, To God and To all that He brings our way. Bring it on God!"
Verse of the night: Galatians 4:22-24, 31 "For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenanat is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are slaves: This is Hagar...Therefore brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman!"
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