Thursday, October 30, 2014

Fatal Condition

"If the doctor said you have a fatal condition, and unless you take this medicine every night from 11:00 to 11:15, and swallow these pills, you will be dead by morning. If that was the case, she said, you would never miss. You would never say, I was too tired, or, I didn’t get to it, or, I was watching a movie, and I didn’t leave time. You never would do that. 
And so when people ask: How am I going to get to prayer? How am I going to deal with [distractions]? I say, maybe you don’t believe you need prayer. And that is a theological, spiritual problem, and there is nothing I can do except tell you to get your heart and your mind straight on that."
-10 Questions on Prayer by Timothy Keller

 
 

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Let's start getting real

So this is senior year, and I look back to how long I've had this blog for, since sometime in high school when Penn and Sandra started their own blog lives, and I thought why not? Then, there was little I wanted to share except for the random daily events and large Godly parts of life that were impossible to not share. 

I still want to share random daily events as well as large Godly parts of life (or hopefully all parts of life), but the difference is that now in college, I'm not (as) afraid to say more things about myself, because I actually know what some of those things are now. I want for this blog to be a place where my cell group members can see how I've grown throughout college in Christ, where my friends can still see where parts of my heart are even when I haven't contacted them, and where any friend of a friend can be encouraged perhaps because they go through the same things and look to God because of it.

To do a quick update. Since creating a concept for the Disney ImagiNations Competition last year, I have oriented myself to seeking a job in the themed entertainment industry. There are other practical options, teaching, pure engineering jobs, manufacturing, which I intend on applying for as well and can be perfectly happy with. I've missed a chance, so many of the same chance, that I wish I had taken, so am going to take more risks. I have had to yank myself out of my own selfishness regarding time and see the beautiful way God works when I give things I hoard up to Him. Honoring the Sabbath has been one of the most beautiful ways to obey and be blessed by the Lord. I've been able to pray for safety with a sincere heart while driving in Houston and arriving in one piece. He has matched me with a great cell group leader in Spencer who fills my weaknesses with his strengths. I'm still struggling with non-face to face communication, but after being broken down last year about it, I'm still being rebuilt. 

Most of all, especially those who are brothers and sisters,

Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

    and let us exalt his name together!
-Psalm 34:3