"I would turn Barack Obama OUT...God BLESS America!" -Me
"I'm not THAT good; I just know how to front in front of parents." -B
"You are taking this thing so cereal." -Magnus
"I'm going to smoke a cigarette wearing nail polish, and then I'm going to take it off and smoke a cigarette NOT wearing nail polish." -Joele
'Maybe you just have chameleon lips--they change to the color of the lip gloss." -Me
"I've been waiting my entire life for this crit topic!" -Beth
"I just go for the shock and awe." -Chet
"Why don't you take a look at your life and then tell me about mine??" -The Wiki Speech Team
"Ugh, now I smell like a woman." -Marcus
"I don't plan, I just react." -Junior
"I want a TOY!" -Magnus
"Did you see how I used my fin???" -Katie
"I just wonder how it's gonna look whenever I get old--a dirty old man talking about prostitutes and strippers and looking up male escorts online." -My Sexuality in Society professor
"Oh. I'm building a deck." -My 11
"How do you expect to get OVER him if you keep getting UNDER him?" -Me
"I have negative boobs." -Colleen
"Hey, don't jab the corn!" -Megan S.
"I'll be glad if I never see another no-bake cookie." -Mom
"I think I'm just gonna eat a loaf of bread and watch 'Gilmore Girls.'" -Katie
"I feel like sometimes I would like to date myself because then I would know what my self liked, and then my self would know what my self liked." -Corn
I'm feeling a bit discouraged today. I ended up owing $300 to the government for taxes, so my paycheck is gone already. It just seems like, no matter how hard I work, I just can't keep my head above water. I'm trying really hard to stay positive though. I want to save some money and go on a vacation somewhere, but that doesn't seem likely if I keep having to hand over all my money to someone else. I know God has a plan for me though.
"Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's might hand, that He may lift you up in due time." 1 Peter 5:6
Three Good Things:
The weather is lovely.
I'm taking the night off from my part-time job tonight--I just need a break.
I should have a pretty nice check from working every night last week.
I've had a problem with trusting God in the past. I'm a person who worries a lot, and I would get so caught up in worrying about everything that could or would go wrong in my life that I didn't just leave it up to God to handle. I was putting my faith in the world and not in the Lord.
I've since been working on giving everything to God to handle. He, after all, is the one who can heal all wounds and solve all problems--all we have to do is ask. I also have issues asking people for things; I always want to do everything myself and never want to depend on anyone. But it finally clicked to me today that God wants to hear from us. He wants us to tell him things that we can't tell anyone else, to ask for things we wouldn't dream of asking anyone else for. The fact that we can bear our souls in prayer proves our faithfulness to Him. He already knows what's in our hearts, and just wants us to be able to confide in Him with our own mouths.
Sometimes God brings blessings to show us that he hasn't forgotten about us. At times when we pray, God doesn't say "no," but instead says "not right now." I've found that blessings like these come when my faith is dwindling. For example, I was stressed about my finances, worrying about how I was going to make ends meet. I was questioning God and wondering why He was letting things go downhill when my life had been going so well. But then I got an email about a job I interviewed for a year ago (which you already know). I have a follow-up interview on Monday, and I'm praying that things go well. This was something that reminded me that God was still on my side, and that struggles are His way of reminding us to keep our faith in Him.
