So I’ve been going through some battles, mostly just trying to discern what God’s plans are for me, and battle the lies Satan keeps throwing at me. It has created a sort of chaos and confusion in my life for a while now. Recently, God has really been showing me some things that have been convicting, but needed. I keep falling prey to Satan’s lies, and it just makes it so easy to blame God for everything that doesn’t go my way. I keep blaming God for the fact that I don’t understand what I am supposed to do with my life. But recently God has been showing me that I don’t understand because instead of listening to His plan for my life, I let Satan lie and tell me my plans are better. He keeps showing me that my plans aren’t going to work if they aren’t in line with His plan for my life.

“For God is not a God of confusion, but of Peace.”—this verse in 1 Corinthians 14:33 just stopped me when I read it. Recently there has been so much confusion in my life, just trying to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing and who I am supposed to be, and I have been trying to figure out why God is bringing it, so this verse just made me think, and keep reading because I knew there was more to it. God made it simple—Love God, Love People. Every other command can fall into those in some way or another. He came to conquer sin and death so that we can live with Him in peace. Before sin entered the world, Adam and Eve lived in Peace in the garden. It was Satan who came in and tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, and Satan who continues to tempt us all today. I know I fall prey, but I also look back and see that every time I have fallen short, God has been there to pick up my broken and confused pieces. God has been there to restore joy and peace to my crazy life, even though I continually mess up and don’t deserve anything He has done for me. So when I was reading this it was like He was just reminding me that my sin is what brings the confusion to my life, and His glory is what redeems me, so instead of blaming Him when things go wrong, I need to humble myself and surrender to His will instead of my own selfish plans.  Instead of getting upset when things don’t go my way, I need to stop and listen to see what it is that God is calling me to do, so that when His plans are revealed to me I can live out that life of joy and peace.

I’m convicted, but I’m so thankful that God never gives up on me and continues to show me where I go wrong and just how big and wonderful He is. =]

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All I can say is I have been so blessed. God carried me through one very long week, and I have had an amazing weekend; I’m not really ready for this week to start up again, though I’m thankful its looking much less stressful than last week was. Last weeks schedule:

Monday: 4 Classes-all lectures—not too bad, and Chapter

Tuesday: 2 Classes and Lab—Had a presentation, a lab report due, and a reading quiz, and Complex Council meeting later that night

Wednesday: 3 Classes—Had an exam and a presentation, and then had Bible Study later that evening

Thursday: 2 Classes—Had a reading quiz, assigned reading for Music, a Paper due, and then TechCru 

Friday:4 Classes—Had a paper due for history

It was a long, busy week, but I am so thankful that God carried me through it and also blessed me with a wonderful weekend, and warm weather, and I look forward to the great things He is going to do in the week to come :)

beautifuladoration:

I found a dead cat on the side of the road and I took it home with me and I put it in the oven and I cooked it in the oven and I put some honey on it is that bad? Do Do Dooo Dooooo!

daredtodaydream:

prongspadfootmoony:

lost loved ones with Harry.

cried with Hermione.

fought with a best friend with Ron.

fought for a loved one with Sirius.

pulled pranks with Fred and George.

made bad decisions with Draco.

stood up for what was right with Neville.

found true friends with Luna.

never stopped loving someone with Snape.

tried to forget bad memories with Dumbledore.

stuck with Harry Potter until the very end.

this is sweet

alexsparks:

This is absolutely beautiful. Life is wonderful. People are doing incredible things. I’m so jazzed right now. Tell your friends/me about other beautiful things.

A picture began circulating in November. It should be “The Picture of the Year,”… or perhaps, “Picture of the Decade.” It won’t be. In fact, unless you obtained a copy of the U.S. paper which published it, you probably would never have seen it.

The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if removed from his mother’s womb. Little Samuel’s mother, Julie Armas, is an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta. She knew of Dr. Bruner’s remarkable surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section and makes a small incision to operate on the baby. As Dr. Bruner completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the surgeon’s finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally immobile.

The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect clarity. The editors titled the picture, “Hand of Hope.” The text explaining the picture begins, “The tiny hand of 21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother’s uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the doctor for the gift of life.”

Little Samuel’s mother said they “wept for days” when they saw the picture. She said, “The photo reminds us pregnancy isn’t about disability or an illness, it’s about a little person.” Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful. Now see the actual picture, and it is awesome…incredible….and hey, pass it on! The world needs to see this one.

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Hollllller.

I had to reblog this solely because of Tina Fey.

I agree. I just like this “single dance”

Have I really been in college a whole semester? Where did the time go? As class wrapped up I think about where I was even just a few months ago, and all I can say is wow. God has done so much in the last 4months, and I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around it all. I have been more than blessed to be at a place where I can see family I haven’t seen in forever, but still be far enough away to be on my own, and I have been blessed to have been brought to a wonderful group of girls in Phi Lamb that I can proudly call my Sisters in Christ. I can’t even begin to imagine my semester without all of them. As amazing as the semester has been, there is probably more beauty in the tough times because that was where God worked most in my life. There were times where I questioned if I was in the right place, doing the right thing, and I was frustrated with how things were going. But God is always faithful and he carried me through and opened my eyes to things I never would’ve considered in the past. So as I look back over the semester, as short as it was, I really couldn’t ask for more. It has been an amazing experience, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I have loved being here, and the last thing I have to say for now is Wreck ‘Em Tech and  I hope everyone has a blessed Christmas and break from school.