Hey all.
Sorry I haven't posted in a long time. I've been keeping busy, but I thought I'd take a few minutes to catch you all up this morning.
As you all know, I finished highschool! Very exciting, but now I'm sort of in this nervous stage about the whole university thing. I am very much a perfectionist (and I fully blame my mother for this :P, as she is one as well) and I am constantly worried if I will do well at university etc. Everyone keeps telling me I'll be fine as long as I work hard and do my best. Very cliche, but I'm hoping it's true.
Regarding the whole working thing, I decided to just stick with Pier 1, with some babysitting and tutoring on the side. Turns out the manager at my work who I didn't think liked me wants me to tutor her 6-year-old 0ver the summer. Weird. God has a way of surprising people. I think it was my little lesson to not judge people too quickly, and to not assume people are mad at me, or don't like me. See, I tend to think people are upset with me a lot. I have no idea why this is. I'm often worried that I'm causing issues, etc. I'm sure it has something to do with my perfectionist nature. I know it's not healthy for anyone involved, however, and I think God's trying to help me change.
Another thing I've been coming to grips with yet again is how much more time I need to spend in prayer. I've always known prayer is important, and I try to pray frequently, but it's always been one of those areas where I've struggled. I get distracted, and then I get discouraged when I can't pray for half an hour at a time like some people I know.
Anyways, I was doing my regular "end of school, beginning of summer" closet cleaning, and came across about 4 journals all filled with my prayers from when I was a kid. When I was a lot younger, my mom suggested I write out my morning devotional prayers to a) help me stay focused, and b) help me be able to go back and see what prayers had been answered, etc. It was really a great idea. I thought I'd share a parts of a few of them with you.
God, I'm still mad at Mom for not letting me talk. Maybe praying to you will clear things up. It often does.
God, help me to be ready at 7:30 to start school.
Help Mom to have your strength today and teach really well. Help her not to miss me!
God, thank you for today. I know this might sound really weird, but thanks that Joel did both bathrooms yesterday. Help me to do my chores fast and get on to my book report. Could you maybe influence Mom to take me shopping today?
God, thanks for a beautiful day yesterday... if it's your will, could you make the temperatures stay up? Thanks so much! *wink*
Lol...and it goes on. Some of them are more serious, but some, like those above, just blew me away. I actually prayed about that? Lol. It was actually a good reminder of how we can pray about petty things like the weather, and God doesn't care. He just wants to hear from us. To hear about our day. To hear about the amusing customer at work. I know this is all pretty basic stuff, but but sometimes it's easy (at least for me) to forget. Interesting how God reminds us too.
Anyways, I'm off. Thanks for reading. :)
4 comments:
Thanks for letting us know what's going on :)
Also, I hear ya on the whole struggling to pray thing. Somtimes it's easy to think that God knows what we're thinking anyways, so why pray? But we're told to pray, so I hope you're encouraged to.
And if I can do fine in University and I don't really do much more than the minimum, then you'll have it easy man!
hey... ditto that, thanks for updating! i feel like i havent talked to you for forever... well i havent talked to you for forever... im almost done school... then we will catch up on like 5 months of williams dates :)
so youre worried about university... well i cant say much cuz 1) im not going next year, and 2) i have pretty much the same fears. but i pretty much just think about all the people who have gone to university, and the percentage of whom have failed... and its pretty small i think. and i highly doubt youd be in that percentage.
so pier 1 and babysitting and tutoring eh? sounds nifty. how do you like tutoring?
prayer... humina, very interesting. i love it when kids pray... not rote-prayers, but real from-their-heart prayers. they are the best ever.
and... thats it. sounds like youre doing pretty good! we shall talk soon. much love.
BTW - I'd like to know why my 2 blogs aren't in first and second place on your blog roll...
That would be because you haven't updated them in weeks. :P
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