In His Time, All Things Are Made New

I am absolutely loving how God is showing me all the great things about why He wanted me to be here at Huntington. One of the first things that I learned was that I needed to be away from home, so that I could experience what it truly was like to live in a Godly environment and that I could grow from this. The second thing is that there are so many people in my life just from this school year that have made a huge difference in my life. After seeing those two things from God, I didn't think that things could get any better. Lately, I have been having doubts about being here because of all of the health issues that seem to want to bring me down. For my discipling ministries class, I had to make a spiritual practice plan for a friend and meet with them one on one to work with them. I honestly don't like ministering to Christians because sometimes they can act like they know it all, or because they are Christian they expect their lives to be perfect. This project, obviously, had to be someone who was a Christian and would follow the plan. Of course, I found my way around this and decided to use my friend Ashley as my partner. Ashley was not a Christian, but she was strongly searching. I totally forgot after meeting with her two times that I was even doing the project. Then, I get to class and he says that they were due that day but he extended it (thank goodness!). So, I decided to actually do it and not bs it. We spent 3 hours talking, and finally, Ashley decided that she was ready to fully commit her to life to Christ. Another amazing reason as to why I am at Huntington, to be the best friend that I can be for Ashley.

I Love To Run!!

I really do love to run, but I'm pretty sure a blog about my daily running schedule is not something that everyone would want to read. Of course this has a deeper meaning behind it (or else it wouldn't be a blog)! Truth be told, I love to run, but in more than just the sense of physically running. I love to run away from problems. I would rather run clear across the world than have a confrontation. And, if something is too hard for me to deal with, you better believe I am running out of it extremely fast! This past week some things happened and I just wanted to run away from it, and in a way, I did because I got to go home the next day. And of course, I didn't want to come back to school! I didn't want to have to face my mistake or anything else, and when I came back, I just wanted it all to go away and to act as if nothing ever happened. It didn't go away (not that I really expected it to...wishful thinking though!) and I still had/have to deal with it now. At times you think that your life is going so great and that you are doing everything right and its just awesome! But, then, we mess up (speaking mainly to myself here) and its as if the world has fallen. Okay so that was really over exaggerating, but you get the point. So, for the next couple weeks, I suspect that I will be running. Feel free to come and stop me and/or join me if you want to!

Because I Love and Care

Its 4 am and I still can't get to sleep. At least I was able to learn something while being awake this entire time. I am going to just get straight to the point since I am kind of tired and am kind of wanting to get to bed. Tonight (or should I say early this morning) one of my closest friends really let me down and kind of hurt me. At first, I was absolutely set against forgiving her at the moment. After we talked some more (which is another amazing thing because with her, I usually avoid the conflict and completely shut down), I found myself in a position where I was able to forgive her. A complete change of heart within a couple of hours. I got off of the phone, and started to think about what really helped me to forgive her. One thing that came to my mind while I was talking to her that I didn't get to say while on the phone was that God gives us so many second chances. I know what she did was not intentional, and I know she is truly sorry for it. Isn't that kind of how God is with us? He knows our heart, and if we are truly sorry, and even if we did do something intentional, He is willing to forgive us. After we hung up I finally made the connection of why I was able to forgive. Simply because I love and I care. It was hard for me while we were on the phone not to say what I was really feeling in a way that would only hurt her or make her feel badly. That was not my motive, so I didn't want that to show. God forgives us for the same reason...because He loves us and because He cares!