swimming pool stuff

So I was reading a friends blog and he inspired me to write a new blog. He talked about how life is like a swimming pool. In the summer you enjoy it and dont think about the winter when you will have to cover it up. It made me think about how life from here on out is just supposed to get less and less "fun". We have more and more responsibilities as the years go on. As of right now, its all school work. More and more my parents hand me responsibilities that they used to take care of. After thinking about how sad all of this is, I then thought about how with these responsibilities we will receive many blessings. In a few years I will be married to the man of my dreams, God willing. I will be able to spend every day with him. Then somewhere down the road another blessing will come in the form of a beautiful baby boy or girl. Then I will be able to raise this child in the way I choose. As Natasha Bedingfield says "Staring at the BLANK page before you...The rest is still unwritten." We can make life what we want to. I choose to let God write my story. He has many things planned. Many more blessings in disguise. Its kind of like the scenario of a caterpillar. Right now the real world may look scary, but down the road it will be marvelous just like a butterfly.

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Thank you Shi for this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTc_FoELt8s

This is a great video, and its something to think about.


Selah

Homesick

So I have decided that I love peppermint white chocolate Mochas so much that in many cases I would rather have one then a meal. MMM. They are great!

This week has been an eventful week. I made an 80 on my accounting test, PRAISE GOD! Me and Allen had a GREAT valentines day. I love him so much. It was the best valentines day Ive ever had. I went to see Bethany Dillon, Shane and Shane, and Starfield last night in Pleasant Garden, NC. It was a really good concert. Today I went to the park with Shi, Lance, his friend, Nate, and Sam. It was pretty cold, but it was a relaxing time.

I'm ready for spring break. I have seen everyones pictures from the beach and it just makes me homesick. I want to be there. I also talked to Jenna today and it made me miss home a lot.

Happy Birthday Alicia!!!

Perfectly perfect

So let me take you back to a time in my life where nothing ever went wrong. Not saying that anything is wrong now, but a simpler time in my life where inspiration would flow from every part of my heart. I could sit by the water and come up with a poem or song that was imaginative and fresh. I thought about this the other day. Where did all my inspiration go? I havent written much since I have been in college, and the stuff I have written just doesnt hit me like the others did. Its like life threw me a paper and it said "real life sucks, not everything is what you will want it to be, and you can't think in that imaginative box you used to."

I used to see the big in the small. When passing a butterfly I would stand still in awe at the creation God made. Now, its just another flying organism... A sunset can still take me by surprise, but what about the days where they would take my breath away and bring me to a place where I fell to my knees and said "God you are so amazing." But words would have been bigger than that....such as "Indescribable." Or they would leave me speechless. I could see all of the beauty in just one work of art that is God's creation. I could listen to a song that would take me to a place of insane imagination. How about Denison MArrs, World Renown for Romance, track 12. Have you ever listened to that? Well its been a while for me. I used to listen to it and I could feel myself floating through space....Not just "Space", but I could see the stars, and feel the cold air on my skin. I could hear the stars. It just all made since in that song.

What about the friendship. The friendship that brought you to other worlds mentally and spiritually. I was challenged daily. That one friendship that meant the world to me and I wouldnt trade it for anything at the time, and looking back I would never trade any of those moments. Riding down the road dancing and singing at the top of our lungs to weezer tribute, while we drank our cherry limeaids and said "from here to eternity!" When every song you heard you knew it described your life. It was perfect.

How about graduation when you were excited about that day. you didnt cry one bit. You looked back excited that its gone and you would never have to go back to those days again. You praised God for the opportunity to miss senior year to do full time dual enrollment.

Then that next week you realize you miss it a little. Then you begin college, you loose that friend and the memories start dissapearing and then it hits you...those moments are just memories...you will never go back to that time again. It begins to look a little rough...

All of your friends begin to get serious boyfriends. Then they begin to get the ring. Then they start getting married. Facebook becomes depressing to get on after a while, you never know when you'll see a new album about a wedding...

But then real life hits again and you realize that you are just where you want to be. Life is perfectly perfect the way it is. Your right where God has placed you and there is reason in your life. And imagine this...the man of your dreams comes into your life. Inspiration comes in different forms than it used to. You just see the world a different way to prepare you for the rest of your life. Music still bring you to a different level, and its real life. Your following God's path. its perfect.