Just to clear things up.
I didn't make it obvious.
My last post was titled "Pavarotti."
When I wrote it was when I should have been doing homework.
Pavarotti was part of my homework.
For my singing class.
We had to watch five singers our prof gave us.
On youtube.
And write two paragraphs about each.
Pavarotti was one of them.
Goodnight.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Pavarotti
I have been kind of overwhelmed by everything going on in my life lately, but I am trying to remind myself to take it one step at a time and focus on God.
I think I am getting better at the one step at a time thing, but I still need more work on focusing on God.
Today I read about David's mighty men. They did some sweet stuff. They were devoted.
We took out trash for people tonight. It was really cold but also rewarding. It was cool to meet people. They were a little surprised at what we were doing but were overall very welcoming.
We took out trash at apartments with mostly international students both to serve them and to invite them to a thing we are starting next week. Tomorrow we are doing the same thing exceppt at a dorm with international students instead of apartments.
I realized how easy it is to serve people. We just had to take a couple hours out of hour schedule, get some trash bags and go from door to door asking people if they wanted their trash taken out and it was a good way to serve and to meet people. I hope to look for things like that more often rather than focusing on all of the stuff i "need" to do.
Speaking of stuff I need to do, I should be doing homework right now, so I guess i will do that.
Have a wonderful night.
I think I am getting better at the one step at a time thing, but I still need more work on focusing on God.
Today I read about David's mighty men. They did some sweet stuff. They were devoted.
We took out trash for people tonight. It was really cold but also rewarding. It was cool to meet people. They were a little surprised at what we were doing but were overall very welcoming.
We took out trash at apartments with mostly international students both to serve them and to invite them to a thing we are starting next week. Tomorrow we are doing the same thing exceppt at a dorm with international students instead of apartments.
I realized how easy it is to serve people. We just had to take a couple hours out of hour schedule, get some trash bags and go from door to door asking people if they wanted their trash taken out and it was a good way to serve and to meet people. I hope to look for things like that more often rather than focusing on all of the stuff i "need" to do.
Speaking of stuff I need to do, I should be doing homework right now, so I guess i will do that.
Have a wonderful night.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
A New Semester, My Last ; )
Well, this looks to be an interesting semester. I am looking forward to it...well, I guess I am already in it, but looking forward to the rest of it.
I am mostly looking forward to being done with my senior research project. I have been able to motivate myself to do little pieces of it each day, which seems to be working out well.
I need to get used to doing that with my other school work as well.]
a few stories.
I only have classes in the afternoon, mondays and wednesday from 1-3 15, and tuesday and thursday from 2-4 45, along with my internship which I need to meet with Eric about and the class meetings for that on 5 fridays throughout the semester.
Monday-
Spent time with God and Kassie in the morning, walked Kassie to her noon class, got lost because she didn't know the room number but eventually found it.
on my way to the library to do some things before my 1:00 class I met up with Chris Cadogan who was lost because he didn't know where the ET building is, so I took him there
I then got lost because I couldn't remember numbers 5 seconds after reading them. In the music building I went to the classroom next door to the one I was supposed to be in for both of my classes. the first one a girl came in and asked her friends who were already there if it was the woodwind tech classroom, and they said yes to which she replied that she was in the right place and i realized i was not. so I slipped out and went to the classroom next door where i found Matt Harris, my old roommate in in the class with me, along with Joe V., one of my current roommates. I need to pick out a song to sing for that class tomorrow.
the second class i was off by one number but then looked at my sheet before actually going in. that one I entered to find that there are only 4 people, including the professor and I, in that class. when we introduced ourselves and were supposed to mention something fun about break I told the class that I got engaged. the prof said he hopes I did it better than him. he then told us his story. it's a pretty good one so if you want to hear it, let me know.
so then I went and met with Brooke and we talked in the Rotunda because the rest of the UC was really busy and then went to her house where she cooked me a delicious vegan mexicanish meal.
today, I had family studies classes, both with my friend Carla, one also with Ashley Sneary. that was interesting and mostly fun.
I felt kind of popular in the first one because our prof was going to split us into groups and allowed us, if we wanted, to choose one person that we would like to be in our group. I decided not to choose anybody and leave it up to the prof but both Carla and Jaime (sp?) chose me.
since then I have been hanging out with Kassie between classes. I met her in the UC as I was going by on my way home and decided to walk with her to class. then I decided to work in a computer lab on my SRP while she was in class so I could hangout with her in the 40 minute break between the two classes and also get some stuff done on my SRP.
so then we hungout and she went to class and I came back to the lab to do some more work and now I am taking a break and decided to write something here.
it is getting long now.
anyway, God is great and I am excited for what he is doing/will do this semester
I am mostly looking forward to being done with my senior research project. I have been able to motivate myself to do little pieces of it each day, which seems to be working out well.
I need to get used to doing that with my other school work as well.]
a few stories.
I only have classes in the afternoon, mondays and wednesday from 1-3 15, and tuesday and thursday from 2-4 45, along with my internship which I need to meet with Eric about and the class meetings for that on 5 fridays throughout the semester.
Monday-
Spent time with God and Kassie in the morning, walked Kassie to her noon class, got lost because she didn't know the room number but eventually found it.
on my way to the library to do some things before my 1:00 class I met up with Chris Cadogan who was lost because he didn't know where the ET building is, so I took him there
I then got lost because I couldn't remember numbers 5 seconds after reading them. In the music building I went to the classroom next door to the one I was supposed to be in for both of my classes. the first one a girl came in and asked her friends who were already there if it was the woodwind tech classroom, and they said yes to which she replied that she was in the right place and i realized i was not. so I slipped out and went to the classroom next door where i found Matt Harris, my old roommate in in the class with me, along with Joe V., one of my current roommates. I need to pick out a song to sing for that class tomorrow.
the second class i was off by one number but then looked at my sheet before actually going in. that one I entered to find that there are only 4 people, including the professor and I, in that class. when we introduced ourselves and were supposed to mention something fun about break I told the class that I got engaged. the prof said he hopes I did it better than him. he then told us his story. it's a pretty good one so if you want to hear it, let me know.
so then I went and met with Brooke and we talked in the Rotunda because the rest of the UC was really busy and then went to her house where she cooked me a delicious vegan mexicanish meal.
today, I had family studies classes, both with my friend Carla, one also with Ashley Sneary. that was interesting and mostly fun.
I felt kind of popular in the first one because our prof was going to split us into groups and allowed us, if we wanted, to choose one person that we would like to be in our group. I decided not to choose anybody and leave it up to the prof but both Carla and Jaime (sp?) chose me.
since then I have been hanging out with Kassie between classes. I met her in the UC as I was going by on my way home and decided to walk with her to class. then I decided to work in a computer lab on my SRP while she was in class so I could hangout with her in the 40 minute break between the two classes and also get some stuff done on my SRP.
so then we hungout and she went to class and I came back to the lab to do some more work and now I am taking a break and decided to write something here.
it is getting long now.
anyway, God is great and I am excited for what he is doing/will do this semester
Friday, January 9, 2009
In Love
These past few days have been pretty great.
I came back to Mount Pleasant on Sunday, and since then I have been spending more time with God each day than I did for much of the break and it is pretty sweet. I hope to continue to be excited about getting to know him more and seeing how he works in and around me.
I am in love with God.
I am also in love, in a different way, and with a love that comes from God, with Kassie. I am very thankful for her in my life and the honest conversations we have had lately and the ways we have been able to encourage each other love God together.
I have been reading Captivating for my senior research project. I can't say the research is the only reason I was interested in reading the book. There are definitely parts of it that I don't like, parts that say things like boys don't do this or all women need this or things like that. I don't like generalizations, in general ;)
However, there are also definitely some good thigns in it. I haven't gotten very far but one thing I read today was talking about beauty and how beauty is part of who God is and is definitely something he values. It mentioned that we often get caught up in accomplishments and other things that could be good or bad that we don't spend time enjoying and appreciating God's beauty. I think it is also possible to get too focused on beauty, but maybe the problem isn't the amount of focus but it is what the focus is on, maybe not real true Godly beauty but what the world has called beautiful. Anyway, I thought it was interesting and it made me want to play guitar and sing because I think music can be a beautiful way to express my love for God, not that the music I make is beautiful, but I know that God thinks it is beautiful when I use the gifts he has given me as a way to worship him.
Another thing cool I thought about God today was how he orchestrates things. It is definitely plain to me that God has orchestrated, in many ways, my relationship with Kassie. That is something I think about often. Today, however, I was talking to Katie Bennett and realizing how God has orchestrated my relationship with her, as well. This made me think a little more, or made me think about it differently because while it is common for me to think about the things God has done between Kassie and I, it is less often that I think about friendships.
As Katie and I were talking today, we were both realizing how cool it is that even though we don't spend much time together or talk to each other regularly, there are certain times when we "randomly" meet and have a really good conversation. Last year we spent quite a bit of time together for some of the year but then kind of just stopped hanging out after a while. Now, it is sweet how we can have great conversations so "randomly." We know each other to a certain extent from the time we spent together last year. And it is also cool that there are no obligations and no hard feelings, for example, if I forgot about her birthday or something, it wouldn't be a big deal and we would still be able to talk like nothing happened after that.
Anyway, I think that type of friendship is cool and I also think it is quite rare.
God does some pretty amazing stuff. It is kind of sad how much we miss of what God does when we don't focus on him. I often have the problem of focusing on myself. But it's the times when I focus on God that I realize how good he is and how much he is doing.
I came back to Mount Pleasant on Sunday, and since then I have been spending more time with God each day than I did for much of the break and it is pretty sweet. I hope to continue to be excited about getting to know him more and seeing how he works in and around me.
I am in love with God.
I am also in love, in a different way, and with a love that comes from God, with Kassie. I am very thankful for her in my life and the honest conversations we have had lately and the ways we have been able to encourage each other love God together.
I have been reading Captivating for my senior research project. I can't say the research is the only reason I was interested in reading the book. There are definitely parts of it that I don't like, parts that say things like boys don't do this or all women need this or things like that. I don't like generalizations, in general ;)
However, there are also definitely some good thigns in it. I haven't gotten very far but one thing I read today was talking about beauty and how beauty is part of who God is and is definitely something he values. It mentioned that we often get caught up in accomplishments and other things that could be good or bad that we don't spend time enjoying and appreciating God's beauty. I think it is also possible to get too focused on beauty, but maybe the problem isn't the amount of focus but it is what the focus is on, maybe not real true Godly beauty but what the world has called beautiful. Anyway, I thought it was interesting and it made me want to play guitar and sing because I think music can be a beautiful way to express my love for God, not that the music I make is beautiful, but I know that God thinks it is beautiful when I use the gifts he has given me as a way to worship him.
Another thing cool I thought about God today was how he orchestrates things. It is definitely plain to me that God has orchestrated, in many ways, my relationship with Kassie. That is something I think about often. Today, however, I was talking to Katie Bennett and realizing how God has orchestrated my relationship with her, as well. This made me think a little more, or made me think about it differently because while it is common for me to think about the things God has done between Kassie and I, it is less often that I think about friendships.
As Katie and I were talking today, we were both realizing how cool it is that even though we don't spend much time together or talk to each other regularly, there are certain times when we "randomly" meet and have a really good conversation. Last year we spent quite a bit of time together for some of the year but then kind of just stopped hanging out after a while. Now, it is sweet how we can have great conversations so "randomly." We know each other to a certain extent from the time we spent together last year. And it is also cool that there are no obligations and no hard feelings, for example, if I forgot about her birthday or something, it wouldn't be a big deal and we would still be able to talk like nothing happened after that.
Anyway, I think that type of friendship is cool and I also think it is quite rare.
God does some pretty amazing stuff. It is kind of sad how much we miss of what God does when we don't focus on him. I often have the problem of focusing on myself. But it's the times when I focus on God that I realize how good he is and how much he is doing.
Friday, January 2, 2009
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