Hello! Look at me posting pretty close to other posts!
So recap of my days:
Yesterday I was drug to work out! Literally I feel soo bad for my wonderful friend kerry I complained pretty much non stop the WHOLE way to the gym. Which is weird cause I use to enjoy working out but idk it just wasn't very appealing yesterday morning at 830 when I didn't have class till 12:20. I think it will work out well though she will be my enforcer making me participate in something that I will love later down the road! We planned out our little schedule we work out monday and friday at 8.30 and then tuesday and thursdays around 4 and saturdays whenever we find a convenient time. I like it and hate it at the same time! Like today I already slacked off. Poor Kerry I had way to much homework so I didn't go but diligent Kerry took her lonesome self and worked out! So what do I have to attempt to do now.....wake myself up at 830 and go to the gym alone...ugh this sounds way more depressing than I was thinking...I might just end up sleeping in...You can see how desperately I need Kerry! Then I went to my classes which weren't bad at all! Spanish is absolutely my favorite class ever! He is hilarious and the class picks me up! At home it use to be going to aftercare and seeing my kids now its spanish class! But he has been using puppies on is power points which has really really made me want to play with puppies! So it was depressing cause I was like ugh I'm not in Memphis where I can go to the Puppy Corral! But ALAS I was talking with this sophomore guy named, Jordan, who informed me there is in fact a puppy corral in Knoxville! So just a little helpful hint to all those boys who are reading this blog (doubtful there are any lol) a cute date idea would most defiantly be taking the girl to play with puppies or kittens. She pretty much would fall in love with you! Or at least most girls I know would! Then after class me and Katherine went to cheer on some flag football with some guy friends we had met...really guy friends of katherine's that I had met. Then after that we had a Chi O meeting! Which we have one every monday night and every night we have to dress up! I am quickly realizing I am running out of cute dressy/ casual outfits! I need cute tops, cute dresses, cute skirts, cute shoes,. Yep pretty much a new wardrobe so if anyone wants to offer to donate I would be more than pleased to be your charity case! I have a new Owl Pal this week! She is really sweet I don't know her at all but I can't wait to get to know her! There are so many girls I can't wait to get to know! We have our pledge retreat weekend next weekend! Then we came home and crashed! Or at least We had Hoped to crash lol me and Katherine stayed up talking! We seem to only talk when we have 8 O'clocks! Now on to today!...
Today:
Well today I got up for my 8 o'clock class, not fun at all. NEVER take 8 o'clocks! They are complete death no matter what kind of morning person you think you are! It's also political science which isn't really my favorite. Then went to biology and to lunch and then back to the dorm to do homework and sleep! Then I went to my math class where I do not understand a word my teacher says. Well I guess I understand the english he is speaking but the whole math concept just goes way beyond me! It's crazy, he showed us 4 ways to show data and I was like what is the point. I like to know what I am doing when I'm doing math and why I am doing that...he doesn't really explain that so I just stare blankly and hope my tutor that I hopefully get soon will shed some light on my very dark situation! Then I came back to the room where I did homework instead of working out and then got ready for dinner. Went to dinner with some ruf girls and then walked with them to ruf. Ruf was really good tonight! I really enjoyed it! They played some songs from this irish couple (i think) who I absolutely love! The message was really good. We are in a series on relationships. Like relationships with man and God and where we misinterpret them or how we have the wrong idea about them. A lot of things were said about how we go to things of this world or people in this world and we ask them to tell us who we are. And if we don't get the answer that we want or that doesn't match up to what we want ourselves to look like we move onto something else asking that/them to tell us who we are. I find it awful how I do this way to much. For so long I would go to other people, friends or family and ask them to show me who I am. And really only God will be able to do that! This is a hard struggle for me because for some reason I like holding on to the misinterpretations of who I think I am. I did a study with my mommy and sisters this summer, Its called Me, Myself, and Lies. Best study ever please do it! Even though it is the best it was really really hard for me. I still haven't finished it because all of it hits so close to home for me. The study is about going through your thought closet and cleaning it out. First you learn to see what you think about and how you view yourself. Then it shows you what God sees and teaches you to make God the center of your thought closet and how to make those negative lies leave you mind! Ugh It's soo good! But I keep putting it off because I know there is a lot of hurt in some of the things I have to go clean out. I think horrible of myself and to get those thoughts out I'm going to have to go through old hurtful memories and destroy the lies I have let sit in my closet! There is really no excuse for not wanting to do it but I claim soo many every time I go to open it back up. The other day I was thinking about why is it easier for humans to love other fallen humans more than they love God. For example I find it easier to work on my earthly relationships and yet I find it hard to work on my relationship with God. And as I thought I realized that it's because I know that the other human being is going to mess up and I think that because they mess up, they have to love me when I mess up. But with God he is never going to mess up. There is nothing for me to be like okay I will forgive you because you forgave me. Which is soo amazing yet awful to me at the same time. It's hard for me to grasp the concept of grace. How amazing is His grace! Then upon telling this thought to a friend he told me that yea that makes sense (prolly just saying that to make me feel better) and then went on to say that it could also be because we don't understand God's ways. We don't know why He does what he does all the time. And I was like woah yea. Human people are here now and most of the time we can grasp of understand why they do what they do. But yea I'm not sure if any of that made sense but it's just my little bit of being philosophical.
After RUF tonight I went with my Chi O sisters and we painted the rock which looked soo cute! It was a blast. Maybe I will upload pictures one day if I ever figure out how on my computer! Oh and to explain the title tonight in ruf we were in Genesis 2 & 3 and we were discussing the relationships between god and man and eve and adam! We also discussed what happened between those relationships at the fall! So nothing creepy! Well now it's off to bed for me! XOXO
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Fire Alarms
Today I was awakened at 8 o clock to the most horridly high pitched sound I have ever heard. The fire alarm went off in our building and though I knew it was a false alarm I wanted to get out of the building just to save my precious ears! So all 6 floors of humes stumbled out the door in towels and the likes. Hah there was even a loverly male coming out of one of the rooms in our hall. Im sure he felt really awkward. I visited Cedar Springs Church today. Katherine, Kerry, and I caught a ride with Nathan who is a sophomore and friend of Katherine's from church. It was very interesting to say the least. It's presbyterian and well I'm a pretty die hard baptist lol well maybe not die hard but it's what I have been raised in I don't know anything different. I maybe got a little bit of it from ECS but not too much. The worship was a lot like bellevue's and I liked it. The church building wasn't as modern as bellevue but i kinda liked its older look it had. The pastor was really passionate and really got into what he was saying. He preached about how we say we love God but really we are only doing enough for Him to come and bless us. It was a really convicting message that is so true about my life. There were a few times were I wanted to raise my hand and ask some questions, but no worries I refrained! The weirdest thing for me was that they have communion every week and you have to walk to the front of the building to get it. It didn't come to me in cute little cups and I had to dip my "bread" into a cup....It was really funny all three of us looked at each other before our row stood up and were like what do we do? Katherine ended up asking Nathan who chuckled and just told us to follow him. I personally like bellevues lord supper better. Not to say anything is wrong with the way it was done but I just feel like at Bellevue you have more time to reflect and pray about what we are doing. It isn't something that happens every week so it seems more special. Having it every week could easily become another move in the biblical motions for me. But then I can't exactly say they don't focus on it as much as bellevue does cause I was most likely preoccupied with wondering what I was suppose to do and being weirded out by my unfamiliarity. Ah they also would respond to certain phrases the pastor said! It weirded me out. No one warned me before we went in. I even asked is there anything I should know to do or not to do and everyone said i'd be fine. But overall the church was really nice. It was soo cool to see old couples and families! HAH only two weeks at college and I already miss people older than like 24 or so. I miss little kids though too! The other day I saw little kids playing on a playground for day care and my heart legit skipped a beat! I really wanted to go play with them! I want to get involved kinda with a nursery group at a church that would be nice! I liked Cedar Springs but I still wanna look around and find somewhere I will hopefully feel a little more at home with! For the rest of our sunday me and katherine cleaned our room and then went out to dinner with some of her guy friends and their friends. I miss having friends that I can force to come hang out with me. But with time I sure I will find those people I can call at anytime! Well I need to get to bed Im going to work out in the morning with my "whip me into shape friend" kerry! ahh im going to die but it will be worth it right?
Friday, August 27, 2010
Rush
Wow whoever decided to call recruitment for sororities rush was a genius! Rush is the perfect adjective for what happens during that short one week period! Although it was a rush I don't think I've ever seen a week feel soo long or five minutes feel like an hour! It was not as bad as I was expecting there was no hazing and no evil girls. Nothing shady went on ever! It was just a time of getting to know girls in different sororities and trying to find where you would fit in. It was also a time to meet other girls who were rushing. Boy did I meet a LOT of girls! The whole rush experience was great it forced me to get out and meet people and taught me a lot on small talk. I don't think I will ever be afraid to talk to a random person ever again and I'm looking forward to my speech class because I feel like I wont be as afraid to get up in front of a class and talk.
Some details on the week: Girls are placed into about 65 or plus groups with a Gamma Chi. A Gamma Chi is a sorority girl who has been disaffiliated from her chapter and is there to lead a group of about 10-12 girls throughout the week. She would give us our invitations and see us to our parties! My Gamma Chi was name caroline and she ended up being a Chi Omega! She was soo sweet she wrote us a letter the first day telling us a little bit about herself and included fun places to go out to eat, good churches, radio stations, and malls. She had us go out to dinner with her on the first day of classes (cause we had a night off from rush) and was always willing to answer any of our questions or come look at our outfits! I loved her and am soo excited that she is my sister!
My sorority! I am a Chi Omega! Our flower is the white carnation. Our symbol is an owl! (which is just awesome now i get to have an excuse to fall into the fads of owls these days!). Our colors are cardinal and straw! Which is pretty much red and yellow! Such a plus since yellow is one of my favorite colors! This is our creed and I think it is amazing:
To Live constantly above snobbery of word or deed; to place scholarship before social obligations and character before appearances; to be, in the best sense, democratic rather than "exclusive," and lovable rather than "popular"; to work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choose thoughtfully that course which occasion and conscience demand; to be womanly always; to be discouraged never; in a word, to be loyal under any and all circumstances to my Fraternity and her highest teachings and to have her welfare ever at heart that she may be a symphony of high purpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant notes.
~ Ethel Switzer Howard, Xi 1904
Chi Omega's Six Purposes are:
Friendship
High Standards of Personnel
Sincere Learning and Creditable Scholarship
Participation in Campus Activities
Career Development
Community Service
Ahhh I love it! I was really beginning to get worried throughout the week that I was being really selfish wanting to do a sorority and that I should be doing something better with my time and money. But I was quickly shown otherwise. I have had so many more opportunities than I would have ever found on my own! I have opportunities for service, leadership, to further my witness, sisterhood, accountability, sisterhood, tutoring, and a lot of fun! I never thought I could get this much out of a sorority! It surprised me and made me soo happy! I was really worried that I wasn't going to find other girls and people on campus who had my same beliefs (no drinking, christian morals) especially in sorority and really thought I wasn't going to pledge or join one. It shocked me how many people I would talk to who I thought of as nice girls who would casually claim that they weren't crazy partiers but yea its college they were going to drink. BUT then I talked to a dozen Christian girls in Chi O! It was such an encouragement! I was reassured that I would never be pressured to drink or do anything I didn't want to do. That yes there are girls in chi o that will drink but the cool thing is we can hang out with them and not judge them and they don't look at us like we are condemning them. I talked to seniors, juniors, and sophomores during rush who had the love of Christ radiating from them! Ah i was in love! and now I've talked to so many of my pledge sisters who share the same values!! Throughout the whole week I always felt at home in Chi O. There were other sororities that I really enjoyed but being in the Chi O room was like i wasn't in rush any more! I could just relax, be myself, and feel at home! It's great! I really would encourage girls to go through rush even if you don't pledge its just a nice experience and you get to meet a lot of people! I can already tell that Chi o is going to make me a better person and I cant wait for that to start happening! I feel like with Chi o i can be in the world but not of it. I love our non judgmental atmosphere. Chi O offers soo much I can't even put it into words. Im sure I will find words later on. like even with school things! They have tutors and a place where older girls can give you notes and tests from their classes! Its like in every aspect of life Chi o is there to help you along. So don't judge me to much that I joined a sorority. I wont be changing into some partyier who goes out and drinks and is crazy or is sketchy with them men friends lol! Okay I'll stop talking about Chi O now.
School has been good! I like some of my classes! I'm taking 16 hours. I have english 101, spanish 150, political science 102, biology 101, biology lab, statistical reasoning 123 or 115. I really don't enjoy math, political science or biology lol. Sad I know. But they are important to being a rounded person so I will make myself enjoy them! Spanish is completely awesome though! If you haven't watched the show community I urge you now GO WATCH IT! It is most defiantly my favorite show and the first day of my spanish class I sat in the room making people the characters from the show. I haven't decided who can be star burns yet though lol. My teacher is a bald native mexican! He is hilarious and energetic and makes spanish really interesting! He is big on volunteers and talking in spanish rather than learning the grammar. I look forward to that class every time i have it! Im not quite in the school mood yet though. Its a bad thing. I think high school has burnt me out. I don't want to do any work. I need to buckle down this weekend and actually get ahead in some stuff. And figure out math because we had a pop quiz the other day that yea I pretty much failed because I feel like my teacher is speaking a different language and I use to like math!
I miss my family! I also miss my friends. people who i can be weird with and don't have to wonder about how much abby people can handle. My wonderful family sent me a package that was heaven! I feel like a fatty with all the reeses pieces i have and life savers lol! And all the essentials i forgot. I love you mommy thank you soo much for getting that box together for me! I had my first I miss home break down on wednesday. I broke down into tears pretty much every hour at random times it was really annoying. I knew your eyes could get huge and puffy but I never knew your face could swell too! I promise you my whole face was swollen and my eyes didn't go down till like thursday night! But Im doing much better now! Keeping myself busy so I don't have to think about it! Which is really easy to do because UT is huge and there is always something to do! The cafeteria food is really good! But me and my room mate don't eat that much so I'm hoping this means we don't have to worry about the whole freshman fifteen! Also we Walk everywhere! So pretty much I'm going to have some awesome legs by the time I come home! Well I better stop typing this is what happens when I don't write for a week! I will write soon! Tootles!
Some details on the week: Girls are placed into about 65 or plus groups with a Gamma Chi. A Gamma Chi is a sorority girl who has been disaffiliated from her chapter and is there to lead a group of about 10-12 girls throughout the week. She would give us our invitations and see us to our parties! My Gamma Chi was name caroline and she ended up being a Chi Omega! She was soo sweet she wrote us a letter the first day telling us a little bit about herself and included fun places to go out to eat, good churches, radio stations, and malls. She had us go out to dinner with her on the first day of classes (cause we had a night off from rush) and was always willing to answer any of our questions or come look at our outfits! I loved her and am soo excited that she is my sister!
My sorority! I am a Chi Omega! Our flower is the white carnation. Our symbol is an owl! (which is just awesome now i get to have an excuse to fall into the fads of owls these days!). Our colors are cardinal and straw! Which is pretty much red and yellow! Such a plus since yellow is one of my favorite colors! This is our creed and I think it is amazing:
To Live constantly above snobbery of word or deed; to place scholarship before social obligations and character before appearances; to be, in the best sense, democratic rather than "exclusive," and lovable rather than "popular"; to work earnestly, to speak kindly, to act sincerely, to choose thoughtfully that course which occasion and conscience demand; to be womanly always; to be discouraged never; in a word, to be loyal under any and all circumstances to my Fraternity and her highest teachings and to have her welfare ever at heart that she may be a symphony of high purpose and helpfulness in which there is no discordant notes.
~ Ethel Switzer Howard, Xi 1904
Chi Omega's Six Purposes are:
Friendship
High Standards of Personnel
Sincere Learning and Creditable Scholarship
Participation in Campus Activities
Career Development
Community Service
Ahhh I love it! I was really beginning to get worried throughout the week that I was being really selfish wanting to do a sorority and that I should be doing something better with my time and money. But I was quickly shown otherwise. I have had so many more opportunities than I would have ever found on my own! I have opportunities for service, leadership, to further my witness, sisterhood, accountability, sisterhood, tutoring, and a lot of fun! I never thought I could get this much out of a sorority! It surprised me and made me soo happy! I was really worried that I wasn't going to find other girls and people on campus who had my same beliefs (no drinking, christian morals) especially in sorority and really thought I wasn't going to pledge or join one. It shocked me how many people I would talk to who I thought of as nice girls who would casually claim that they weren't crazy partiers but yea its college they were going to drink. BUT then I talked to a dozen Christian girls in Chi O! It was such an encouragement! I was reassured that I would never be pressured to drink or do anything I didn't want to do. That yes there are girls in chi o that will drink but the cool thing is we can hang out with them and not judge them and they don't look at us like we are condemning them. I talked to seniors, juniors, and sophomores during rush who had the love of Christ radiating from them! Ah i was in love! and now I've talked to so many of my pledge sisters who share the same values!! Throughout the whole week I always felt at home in Chi O. There were other sororities that I really enjoyed but being in the Chi O room was like i wasn't in rush any more! I could just relax, be myself, and feel at home! It's great! I really would encourage girls to go through rush even if you don't pledge its just a nice experience and you get to meet a lot of people! I can already tell that Chi o is going to make me a better person and I cant wait for that to start happening! I feel like with Chi o i can be in the world but not of it. I love our non judgmental atmosphere. Chi O offers soo much I can't even put it into words. Im sure I will find words later on. like even with school things! They have tutors and a place where older girls can give you notes and tests from their classes! Its like in every aspect of life Chi o is there to help you along. So don't judge me to much that I joined a sorority. I wont be changing into some partyier who goes out and drinks and is crazy or is sketchy with them men friends lol! Okay I'll stop talking about Chi O now.
School has been good! I like some of my classes! I'm taking 16 hours. I have english 101, spanish 150, political science 102, biology 101, biology lab, statistical reasoning 123 or 115. I really don't enjoy math, political science or biology lol. Sad I know. But they are important to being a rounded person so I will make myself enjoy them! Spanish is completely awesome though! If you haven't watched the show community I urge you now GO WATCH IT! It is most defiantly my favorite show and the first day of my spanish class I sat in the room making people the characters from the show. I haven't decided who can be star burns yet though lol. My teacher is a bald native mexican! He is hilarious and energetic and makes spanish really interesting! He is big on volunteers and talking in spanish rather than learning the grammar. I look forward to that class every time i have it! Im not quite in the school mood yet though. Its a bad thing. I think high school has burnt me out. I don't want to do any work. I need to buckle down this weekend and actually get ahead in some stuff. And figure out math because we had a pop quiz the other day that yea I pretty much failed because I feel like my teacher is speaking a different language and I use to like math!
I miss my family! I also miss my friends. people who i can be weird with and don't have to wonder about how much abby people can handle. My wonderful family sent me a package that was heaven! I feel like a fatty with all the reeses pieces i have and life savers lol! And all the essentials i forgot. I love you mommy thank you soo much for getting that box together for me! I had my first I miss home break down on wednesday. I broke down into tears pretty much every hour at random times it was really annoying. I knew your eyes could get huge and puffy but I never knew your face could swell too! I promise you my whole face was swollen and my eyes didn't go down till like thursday night! But Im doing much better now! Keeping myself busy so I don't have to think about it! Which is really easy to do because UT is huge and there is always something to do! The cafeteria food is really good! But me and my room mate don't eat that much so I'm hoping this means we don't have to worry about the whole freshman fifteen! Also we Walk everywhere! So pretty much I'm going to have some awesome legs by the time I come home! Well I better stop typing this is what happens when I don't write for a week! I will write soon! Tootles!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Suprise...
So Im not sure why but for some reason I expected I'd change a lot when I went to college. Like all the sudden I'd be transformed into this new adult person or I'd go a little crazy. You know become more mature, say smart things, have a slight edginess, something different. But I wouldn't like the same things I did in high school and looking back I'd be glad I did them but be glad I moved on to better things. I know your all probably thinking "abby you've had three days in college, none of them consisting of learning things, you haven't had time to change"! I agree I guess maybe one day I will look back and read this blog and realize how silly I was for saying this but tonight I realized I'm still Abby Espy. Sweet little smiling abby espy that everyone knew from high school.
I realized as I go through rush that I still have a passion an yearning for things I did in high school. One, leadership. I was for sure that going into college I was going to be satisfied with having my little part but being more of a follower having thought I had my fill of leading from my little bit in high school. The four years were going to be all about me and I wouldn't have to cater to anyone else. I could pretty much do everything in my 24 hour day all about little ole me! I would also be able to justify my lack of major leadership by saying I go to a huge school where it is impossible to find a leadership roll! BOY was I wrong. Just two days of rush stuff and I'm already planning on how I can get involved on campus in a major way. I'm going to apply for SGA. I wanna have a leadership if I hopefully pledge! Im no longer satisfied to just sit here and let all these opportunities pass me by! I'm talking to my RA about being this cool hall monitor thing and working at the desk. It's crazy here I thought I'd come to college fall back into the scene and just live a happy little four years all about me. God is soo good and amazing! He has uniquely given me the desires of my heart to fulfill His will.
Two, I realized I still have the biggest passion for serving. I cant wait to get involved and serve this knoxville community! Im soo excited! Ill most likely go into detail about this more when I can talk about it next week!
All I know that in this short week so far is that God has got surprises hidden in every small corner of life for each and everyone of us and if we aren't careful we are going to let them slip past us with out even noticing. So I pray today that I will not let the little things slip bye.
Surprises that have happened at loverly knoxville:
1. It randomly monsoons! Without warning the flood gates open and you are drenched as you run to take cover!
2. Last night I was taking a late shower. My room mate had already gone to bed so i was already trying to hurry and be quiet. I was gathering all my shampoo, conditioner, loofa and the works when all the sudden a little black buddy runs right past my shoe!! AHHHH! but of course I cant scream bloody murder and call for assistance because everyone is asleep. So here I go in a towel to battle this ugly little cockroach! How he got in our enclosed shower I dont know nor do I really want to find out. I grabbed the door stopper and tried to kick him out. See I dont like killing beetles because I hate that crunchy sound they make. So just picture it I'm standing there trying to hold a towel on my body for you never know who might walk in the door! but I succeeded and actually killed it! So yea college bathrooms!!
I realized as I go through rush that I still have a passion an yearning for things I did in high school. One, leadership. I was for sure that going into college I was going to be satisfied with having my little part but being more of a follower having thought I had my fill of leading from my little bit in high school. The four years were going to be all about me and I wouldn't have to cater to anyone else. I could pretty much do everything in my 24 hour day all about little ole me! I would also be able to justify my lack of major leadership by saying I go to a huge school where it is impossible to find a leadership roll! BOY was I wrong. Just two days of rush stuff and I'm already planning on how I can get involved on campus in a major way. I'm going to apply for SGA. I wanna have a leadership if I hopefully pledge! Im no longer satisfied to just sit here and let all these opportunities pass me by! I'm talking to my RA about being this cool hall monitor thing and working at the desk. It's crazy here I thought I'd come to college fall back into the scene and just live a happy little four years all about me. God is soo good and amazing! He has uniquely given me the desires of my heart to fulfill His will.
Two, I realized I still have the biggest passion for serving. I cant wait to get involved and serve this knoxville community! Im soo excited! Ill most likely go into detail about this more when I can talk about it next week!
All I know that in this short week so far is that God has got surprises hidden in every small corner of life for each and everyone of us and if we aren't careful we are going to let them slip past us with out even noticing. So I pray today that I will not let the little things slip bye.
Surprises that have happened at loverly knoxville:
1. It randomly monsoons! Without warning the flood gates open and you are drenched as you run to take cover!
2. Last night I was taking a late shower. My room mate had already gone to bed so i was already trying to hurry and be quiet. I was gathering all my shampoo, conditioner, loofa and the works when all the sudden a little black buddy runs right past my shoe!! AHHHH! but of course I cant scream bloody murder and call for assistance because everyone is asleep. So here I go in a towel to battle this ugly little cockroach! How he got in our enclosed shower I dont know nor do I really want to find out. I grabbed the door stopper and tried to kick him out. See I dont like killing beetles because I hate that crunchy sound they make. So just picture it I'm standing there trying to hold a towel on my body for you never know who might walk in the door! but I succeeded and actually killed it! So yea college bathrooms!!
Monday, August 16, 2010
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
The above quote was said by the wonderful Martin Luther King and I love it!
I chose it for the title of my blog for two main reasons. One I'm a Freshman at the University of Tennessee and I moved in two days ago. So Im taking my first steps into a whole new chapter in my life and the quote just went along perfectly! Second from the many years in SLU I have been taught to look at the whole picture. As humans we usually take habit in only look at what is right in our face. We don't realize that we are only seeing one piece that fits in to a 3billion piece puzzle. As humans we don't have the physical capacity to see the whole picture so faith is needed. We rely on God trusting that He will continue the good work he has begun in us. The quote is a daily reminder to me that I have to remember to have faith in God and that I must always remember that there are more steps in the darkness that I cannot see. That I can have hope to know that through the rough or scary times in life God is always by my side and there to show me what the next step is.
I hope you enjoy this blog as you watch me embark on the many steps in life!
I chose it for the title of my blog for two main reasons. One I'm a Freshman at the University of Tennessee and I moved in two days ago. So Im taking my first steps into a whole new chapter in my life and the quote just went along perfectly! Second from the many years in SLU I have been taught to look at the whole picture. As humans we usually take habit in only look at what is right in our face. We don't realize that we are only seeing one piece that fits in to a 3billion piece puzzle. As humans we don't have the physical capacity to see the whole picture so faith is needed. We rely on God trusting that He will continue the good work he has begun in us. The quote is a daily reminder to me that I have to remember to have faith in God and that I must always remember that there are more steps in the darkness that I cannot see. That I can have hope to know that through the rough or scary times in life God is always by my side and there to show me what the next step is.
I hope you enjoy this blog as you watch me embark on the many steps in life!
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