30.30 | This is the end of the month-a-day of blog postings. I missed one day but made up for it by doing two in a one day.
After about the tenth blog I felt like the rest of them would start to lose their value or content. One, because I don't think I was putting enough effort or heart into them and two, because I think one every day seems to make it a little more like a chore.
Anyways my goal is too lay low for a month. Not post anything for awhile or maybe just change the style of the writing.
This should be my 96th post ever. Post #100 will be a thank you to many people who have inspired blogs or encouraged me throughout the process and maybe even some stats because I like stats and those are fun. See ya again in 2010.
November 30, 2009
The Inbetween
29.30 | I was talking to a friend of mine who was preparing to go to college. They felt the same way I felt when first going to college. They were scared, but excited. I talked to them about my experiences of the college life. I told them it was wonderful, emotional, terrible, yet amazing. I told them about my uniquely wonderful roommates and how lucky I am to have them. They wonderfully described college as the "in between" time. I liked that description. You're right in between that time of childhood and adulthood. I think you could ask any older adult now and they could recount their college experiences very well. I wonder why that is? I guess this is time where you grow and become who you are going to become for the rest of your life. Everything about you gets questioned in college. Morals, opinions, habits, pet peeves, and priorities for starters.
Someone asked me how the whole college experience was once. I thought about it awhile and replied to them, "emotional." I'm not sure why I said that but it was true. College has been an emotional time. My friend described it as a roller-coaster, which I find brilliantly intriguing and true. Sometimes you feel like your about to fall out your seat and other times you feel so much joy that you scream at the top of your lungs.
College has seemed to become a time where you choose who you want to become and what kind of story you want to live. It is a time where we learn to do hard things and make tough decisions. It is where some people get an F for the first time ever and some people do something they've never done before. I like college and what it prepares you for and the experiences it brings to you.
Relient K - College Kids
Someone asked me how the whole college experience was once. I thought about it awhile and replied to them, "emotional." I'm not sure why I said that but it was true. College has been an emotional time. My friend described it as a roller-coaster, which I find brilliantly intriguing and true. Sometimes you feel like your about to fall out your seat and other times you feel so much joy that you scream at the top of your lungs.
College has seemed to become a time where you choose who you want to become and what kind of story you want to live. It is a time where we learn to do hard things and make tough decisions. It is where some people get an F for the first time ever and some people do something they've never done before. I like college and what it prepares you for and the experiences it brings to you.
Relient K - College Kids
Mission Statement
28.30 | My life is in need of consistent refocusing. A constant center for which I can base all other things in life. I want to share with you the mission statement of my life. It's just a chapter out of the Bible and it is usually share when talking about love but I think this chapter is much more than that. The thing that always brings me back to a focus point is the part about the mirror. How when in the low points of the roller coaster of life we are but a poor reflection in the mirror and how we know only a part of who we are, even though we seem to fully know ourselves.
I think of it as if we know what we can become but just have yet to reach it. That in this low point of the roller coaster ride we have yet to reach full potential. I usually ask myself how I got in this low state or why I got there.
It usually all comes back to me putting God in the back seat and trying to do things my own way and in doing this I get my poor reflection. I tend to over-analyze things and that makes things complicated sometimes. I've learned that becoming a reflection of Jesus usually involves a simple task and a leap of faith.
I Corinthians 13:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
I think of it as if we know what we can become but just have yet to reach it. That in this low point of the roller coaster ride we have yet to reach full potential. I usually ask myself how I got in this low state or why I got there.
It usually all comes back to me putting God in the back seat and trying to do things my own way and in doing this I get my poor reflection. I tend to over-analyze things and that makes things complicated sometimes. I've learned that becoming a reflection of Jesus usually involves a simple task and a leap of faith.
I Corinthians 13:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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