Sunday, November 22, 2015
More Thanksgiving Mushy-ness
So I am a Bible study co-leader, as you know. Essentially, I'm being taught how to lead Bible study by Abby, who led my study last year, and has her fair share of experience doing exactly that. Being a Bible study leader, while completely terrifying, is also absolutely WONDERFUL. I absolutely LOVE my girls! And the beauty of (still) living on campus (with them) is that I get to spend time with them all the time, beyond just Bible study and other Nav events. Right now, for instance, I'm chilling in the lounge in my dorm with a couple of them, just doing homework. I get to live life with them in a beautiful way, and I love it so much! God has really blessed me in this. It's a new experience, leading girls who are crazy and wonderful and beautiful and just as broken as I am. I'm so thankful that God has brought me here. I know He gave me all these experiences, all these moments, and I don't know why, but I'm so glad He did. I'm thankful for every single one of my girls. They're amazing! Every day I'm with them I'm reminded of why I'm thankful for them!
Saturday, November 21, 2015
A Moment of Giving Thanks... for SO MANY things!!
So it's been a bit since I last posted, and for that I apologize! I should be better about sharing here more regularly, but, sometimes life gets a tad insane. You know. But, as Thanksgiving is FAST approaching (4 days, 2 hours and 59 minutes as I'm typing this!) I feel I should discuss some of the numerous things I'm so very thankful for! And I know, HOW CLICHE, right? But still, I'm feeling it, so I'm doing it!
First of all, I'm thankful for my family! I have some friends who are going through some family stuff right now, and I'm realizing just how very lucky I am. Also, I was talking to the guy who works in the university convenience store near my dorm, and he told me about his cousin who was recently put in prison, and he was so glad, because it means that he doesn't have to see her at Thanksgiving. That was a sad moment for me, to think that there are people who DON'T love their extended family! I have an AMAZING group of first and second cousins, along with a handful of aunts and uncles, who I just love so SO much!
Secondly, I'm so VERY thankful for my friends! I have a lot of friends here at school, (thanks, Navs!) and plenty back home, too! Even though I have days, even like today, when I've felt lonely, I KNOW that if I really need someone, there are people here who've got my back. I know that even though a lot of my college friends are all hanging out together and I'm not there, they still love me, and even when I'm not at home, my friends who are back there still care a TON for me. I've seen it time and time again, and it makes me SO thankful for each and every one of them!
Also, I'm really thankful for hot tea! This sounds like a silly one, but sometimes a little hot tea is all you need to revive your downtrodden spirits! And I feel blessed that I can afford such non-essentials as hot tea, and dark chocolate, and non-school books, and movies, and frivolous Christmas blankets, the list goes on and on.
One thing I'm thankful for that may seem odd is that I don't have a boyfriend, or any sort of romantic relationship. Don't misunderstand, I do desire that deeply, even now. But I know that if I was ready to have a boyfriend, if it would be good for me to have a boyfriend, I would have one. I trust that God gives me what is good for me, when it's good for me. And because I don't have one, and have yet to have one, that's also because it's good for me to be single right now. And difficult though that may be to accept some days, I am thankful that God gives me what's good in His time instead of mine.
Lastly, and definitely most importantly, I'm so thankful for Jesus. Jesus, a man who was fully God, completely perfect and righteous and truly good, loved me, not just in some silly feeling, but in genuine action that resulted in His death. He loved me to the point of death. How this can be, I don't know, but I want to live every day remembering that because of his perfect life, I get to come before God on my own, without a human mediator, to say thank you. God really has blessed me in SO many ways! Even in ways I don't fully realize!
First of all, I'm thankful for my family! I have some friends who are going through some family stuff right now, and I'm realizing just how very lucky I am. Also, I was talking to the guy who works in the university convenience store near my dorm, and he told me about his cousin who was recently put in prison, and he was so glad, because it means that he doesn't have to see her at Thanksgiving. That was a sad moment for me, to think that there are people who DON'T love their extended family! I have an AMAZING group of first and second cousins, along with a handful of aunts and uncles, who I just love so SO much!
Secondly, I'm so VERY thankful for my friends! I have a lot of friends here at school, (thanks, Navs!) and plenty back home, too! Even though I have days, even like today, when I've felt lonely, I KNOW that if I really need someone, there are people here who've got my back. I know that even though a lot of my college friends are all hanging out together and I'm not there, they still love me, and even when I'm not at home, my friends who are back there still care a TON for me. I've seen it time and time again, and it makes me SO thankful for each and every one of them!
Also, I'm really thankful for hot tea! This sounds like a silly one, but sometimes a little hot tea is all you need to revive your downtrodden spirits! And I feel blessed that I can afford such non-essentials as hot tea, and dark chocolate, and non-school books, and movies, and frivolous Christmas blankets, the list goes on and on.
One thing I'm thankful for that may seem odd is that I don't have a boyfriend, or any sort of romantic relationship. Don't misunderstand, I do desire that deeply, even now. But I know that if I was ready to have a boyfriend, if it would be good for me to have a boyfriend, I would have one. I trust that God gives me what is good for me, when it's good for me. And because I don't have one, and have yet to have one, that's also because it's good for me to be single right now. And difficult though that may be to accept some days, I am thankful that God gives me what's good in His time instead of mine.
Lastly, and definitely most importantly, I'm so thankful for Jesus. Jesus, a man who was fully God, completely perfect and righteous and truly good, loved me, not just in some silly feeling, but in genuine action that resulted in His death. He loved me to the point of death. How this can be, I don't know, but I want to live every day remembering that because of his perfect life, I get to come before God on my own, without a human mediator, to say thank you. God really has blessed me in SO many ways! Even in ways I don't fully realize!
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