God Bless the Broken Road

If you haven't noticed by now i really like to think about the words to songs i listen to and i normally find some way to apply them to my life. "Bless the Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts:

I set out on a narrow way

many years ago

hoping i would find true

along the broken road

but i got lost a time or two

wipe my brow kept pushing through

i couldn't see how every sign

pointed straight to you.

Life is like a broken road, but one thing that i know is that God blesses every step i take and with God on my side i will not stumble or fall. Life can be hard sometimes and we wonder why God is letting this happen, but one thing we can be sure of is that God has a WONDERFUL plan for our lives, even if we can't see it right now... Everything we do everything we go through is just preparing us for where God is taking us in life, whether it be right here where we are doing what we've been doing. Or maybe he is teaching us a lesson so we can go out later and affect someone else's life for God. Sometimes i wonder what God has planned for my life, but on the other hand, i really enjoy living life from day to day. Cause someone once told me this little poem:

Yesterday is History
Tomorrow is a Mystery
Today is a Gift

That is why it's call the Present

So treasure today cause it's a gift from GOD!!

Amazing...

I'm almost done with my undergraduate work now... only two more months..... Three and a half years ago i came down here to find myself and well i guess get a degree... but it has taken almost the same time to truly understand who i am... I wanted to get away from everything i ever knew and start over, and that's exactly what i got... i think it really showed me that we are only what we are.... cause moving almost four thousand miles away and not knowing anyone and making all new friends, life seemed to stay about the same...
Now looking back on these years, I've realized that we can be mad or upset at life, or we can accept what life has given us and CHOOSE to be happy each day, cause each day is a gift that God gives us to spend. I've learned that even though we run away looking back to see if anyone is following there is always one person that is standing there next to you... just like the poet who wrote "Footprints" tells, God is always right there with us, sometimes we dont see him, but he always is there for us, even when it seems like there is no one else.
Finally last bit of rambling for the evening.... I've come to believe that if you choose to be happy with what God has blessed you with, then life becomes happier and you learn to find joy in everything that you do! So for those of you that are looking for who you are, spend a little while looking back on all those blessings that God has so graciously given you, and i hope that you find a new light to brighten your day, cause when you do, everything just becomes to much better and life truly is worth living again!

In her eyes im prince charming....

In his eyes im just some fella,

Riding in stealling Cinderella

.......

Ain't she something son

Yes she's quite a woman

and he just starred at me

and i realized that in his eyes

she would always be

Playing Cinderella

If you ever really thinkg about it, it really does hurt to know that your stealing some guys little girl, his little Cinderella. Love is just a wonderful feeling but at the same time i creates so much hurt somethings.... why does life have to be so hard sometimes... why can't love be just love, the happy feeling that a guy and girl get googly eyes for and ride off into the sunset. Sometimes i wish that life was a little more "enchanted..."

Running Away...

Just the other day someone sent me this really interesting quote... it said, "Sometimes people run away, just to see if anyone cares enough to follow" and it really made me think about a lot of things. One of main reasons for coming to Harding four years ago was just for this reason. A lot of people back home said they were friends, but underneth it all most of them were just friends to the extent that they could get something out of the friendship. Over the years i've seen who really wanted to be friends and who just was acting it out.... at first it kind of hurt to realize this but when i thought about it for a while, it brought me joy to know that there are people out there that really do care.
True friends are hard to find and when you do find one take hold of them and never let them go. For true friends are like precious gems, they come around only once in a while, and are worth more than you can afford. True friends bring a joy and happiness to your life that can't be found anywhere else.
Sometimes i wonder what things will be like in another four years, once im gone from Harding. How many of my friends down here will i still stay in contact with? I hope that it would be all of them, but i know that it won't be very many. "We all know reality, don't mess with a dream, don't mess with a dream, man.... " This is another quote from an oldies movie i watched this summer, and i think it fits well here... i hope and pray and "dream" that everyone i meet will become a true friend and stay in contact for the rest of our lives, but reality sets in and we all realize that, things just dont happen like that.

Humility...

Some times there is times in life where you just have to sit back and really think about what is going on... Monday night was one of those nights for me... God really touched my heart, and showed me some humility. There has been a lot going on this semester and i have taken a lot of things for granted.... i dont think it was said, but the verse that just stuck in my head all night was when Jesus was saying, "If you wanted to be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven you must first humble yourself like a child" and a while back i did a lesson on the childlike heart, and how we are to find the child of God inside all of us, and not act childish in the process....

Today i got a new lens for my camera, a complete surprise from my parents. This has truely become a wonderful week, and i have so much to be thankful for in life!! Friends and family both mean so much to me, and sometimes i know i dont show the appreciation / humility to these people who have done so much for me. It is my goal for the rest of this semester to show these people how much they truly mean to me and show the same kindness that has been afforded me over the past years.

Wisdom of Friends!!

As a parting gift at my high school, it is tradition that at our last chapel of the year each junior selects a graduating senior and prepares a little encouraging thought for them. A great friend of mine, looked me in the eye that day, and repeated some words from Winston Churchhill, "History is lived by people, but it's important people that write history" and he went on to say that he has always thought of me as one of those important people.

Sometimes we loose touch with who we really are, we get caught up in the mundain drama of life, but we all must realize sooner or later that we can only be who we are. For some reason i found myself hiding everything these last few years, i dont know if it was just me not wanting to be known as a nerd or as the one that can fix anything... that everyone comes to for help... but i've realized that even though sometimes those things can really stress you out... that its within those instances that you truly find yourself, and you find the joy of life.

I've come to realize one thing though over the years, that its not the people that have the fancy titles or have a lot of money or a perfect body, but its those people that truly enjoy life, that are those important people that churchill was talking about. And i am going to go back to being happy again, with no one to tell me other wise. I've spent so many years just wasting away trying to make other people happy, that i've forgotten that sometimes you have to make your own life happy!!!

The Truth Shall Set You Free!!!

Every have one of those days where you know in the back of your mind that something just has to be true, but when you go and ask that person about it, they tell you with out a doubt that its not. Then a while later you find something, be it a letter or a picture or something, that confirms everything you been thinking... well i just had one of those days....

Sometimes i wonder why i ever trust anyone, its only hurt me so many times in the past, and im sure it will in the future. But i believe that trust along with honesty must be the core to every relationship if it is to last. Maybe im just a little old fashion, but its the way i was brought up... and what is life if you dont life it the way you want to ... it just becomes a movie script that you are living/acting out and thats no way to live your life...

The Value of Time

Imagine....
There is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out ALL OF IT, of course!!!!
Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.
Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow." You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success! The Clock is running. Make the most of today!
Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time.
And remember that time waits for no one. Yesturday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!!!

Examination

One thing if you go to college you learn that every four weeks you pretty much just loose all social contact every four weeks when every single on of your teachers decide to give you one or more tests in a single week....Trying to get out and about, is one of the biggest tests of it all... trying to balance life with class.

My last semester here at harding as an undergraduate, and getting to go change everything up. It has been fun so far to go and do just about everything that isn't normal. Its fun to finally live life to the fullest.

~Friendship~

"Sometimes people run away just to see if anyone cares enough to follow" this quote really made me think this week... we all have friends, those we hang out with, those we eat in the cafe with, or have the same classes with, but thats not truly what makes a true friend. A true friend is always there for you, whenever you need help, and it doesn't matter what is going on, or what time of day it is. Someone that is willing to sit and listen when all you need to do is talk something through... or just to be there with you, even if you dont say a thing or do anything, but just the fact that they cared to come and be near you.

Friends can really make your life come alive. Friends make life worth living. Friends will always be there no matter what happens, cause true friends dont let anything get in between each other.

Thanks to all my friends those near and far away, i hope that one day i can be as great of a friend to you as you all have been to me!