Homework

Sorry it’s been so long since I last posted, I haven’t forgotten about you guys, honest, I’ve just had tons on my plate. I just finished programming this code that takes text like ‘This is so much fun’ and turns it into something that looks like ‘asdfkljweofijlsakdjf’ haha. Its so cool that I can do that now. Programming is a lot of fun, and I think it’s what I’m gonna change my major to. Last night we had our first intramural flag football game, saturday we had the georgia game, sunday I started work. I’ve just been so full of things to do I keep pushing aside the stuff like this until one in the morning. Which is a slight disappointment.

Anyways, I am really enjoying this place. I don’t know how many times I’ve told you that. I also really like stumbling upon random people that just happen to be musicians. Like this kid in the floor two floors below me. He’s this blind kid who is a phenomenal singer. And this girl on the floor above me is a great guitarist, singer, and songwriter. I’ll try and post one of her songs if she has a recorded version online anywhere, probably not. Try this page, I couldn’t get any luck with the music player, but maybe you can. I really like the song, red post it. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lena-Stein/53449489426?sk=wall

So lately I’ve just been given a lot of time to think and realize things. Like the love of God. I like just sitting and thinking about it for a while, cause you sit there, and you think, and think, and think. And then you realize. It’s not coming. You won’t understand, but you feel this immense feeling of comfort, joy, and sadly, regret. Comfort in His unfailing presence. Joy at being loved. Regret because you know, whether you say so or not, you know that you have turned that love away from you many many times. You have denied it. And it breaks my heart to think about all the times that I have gone and decided that His love could be outweighed by something so trivial, that it causes me to lose it, even for a moment.

His sovereignty and His love are two of my favorite traits about God, but God likes mysteries, and I feel like seeing a new part of that mystery every day is something no one should go without. Sadly, there are those that do. Some reject Him, and some don’t want to even hear about Him. Just try and share that love with them anyways through YOUR actions. Anyways time to peace out. I’m ready for bed…. lata!

----Walking Man

Down with the Sickness

Hey so two things,

One, I’m so so sorry that it’s been so long since I’ve last posted, I’ll get better, but balancing life in college is a difficult thing to master. Ha but I think I’ve gotten it down. The navigators retreat that I just got back from really helped me kinda put stuff in perspective and helped me re-evaluate where I place my priorities.

Two, do you like this new view on my blog? Comment and let me know so I can change it accordingly.

Anyways, at the moment, I am down with the sickness. I have a very loud cough, and a little bit of excess phlegm built up in my nasal cavities.

This, however, is where I got to spend my weekend. It was wonderful. Ha despite my sickness, I had a wonderful time listening to Fran Shocca talk at various meetings as well as enjoy the wonderful scenery of cohutta springs alongside some Birmingham buddies Rachel Albright and Christina Glass.

We had a great time and we learned about God’s will for us. A lot of what we learned though, was focused on the fact that God doesn’t need to come into our story. We need to realize we are in GOD’s story and we need to focus our lives on adapting to Him. We do what we have been gifted to do. If you’ve been gifted with the ability to be a doctor, you don’t bring God into your upperclass dreams with three cars a giant mansion and 2.8 kids. You follow God where He leads you. It’s your job to find out where God wants you to practice medicine, not where you can fulfill your dreams of being the best and most well known.

He talked about three things, the identity, the purpose, and the mission. You must first find out who you are. If you do not know who you are, then who you are will be dictated by where you are. Once you find out who you are supposed to be, you move onto what you are supposed to do. From thence you discover where you are supposed to do it. And it must come in that order. You can’t find out what you are supposed to do after you start your mission, nor can you determine what you are supposed to do if you don’t even know who you are. Its all based on the fact that there is a story. His story, and we must all find our places in it. My prayer for you guys is that you will find your role in the plot and fulfill it, so that when that judgment day comes, you can say, “I have completed the tasks you have set before me.” and God can say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Good luck!

----Walking Man