Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Sunday, January 19, 2014
Monday, January 13, 2014
IT'S AMAZING WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN YOU JUST LEAVE THINGS ALONE
IT'S AMAZING WHAT CAN HAPPEN
WHEN YOU JUST LEAVE THINGS ALONE
God's voice doesn't always sound the same. So much
so that I won't even give examples of the different ways they can sound as it
might differ for everyone. I will just give examples of ways that God was
working in my life and speaking to me before I met the man of my dreams.
If you had talked to me a couple of years ago
about the type of man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, my answer
would've been an athlete who had very defined muscles, a FULL head of hair and
he didn't have to be all that smart, but who definitely was a Christian. Over
the years, things changed. I ended up sitting right behind a man and his wife
at Church. That man ended up being, the pastor who was available to talk to me
(oh yeah, I might've requested him) when I had issues that I needed to discuss
with someone so he knew what was going on in my life-- most of the time we just
ended up talking about life situations. A was so interested in how he met his
wife because they are so happy it's unbelievable! By the way, this man is
completely bald.
One day in church (of course I was right behind the
bald man), the pastor mentioned how there are often things that Christians
argue over that aren't necessarily a heaven or hell issue (something that will
keep the person from heaven with there being one ultimate heaven or hell
issue-- do you accept God as your Savior or not. Each Christian has different
things that he or she would consider a heaven or hell issue, so I will refrain
from mentioning anything further. After sitting behind the bald man for a few
weeks, unbeknownst to him, he was assisting in God changing my heart-- I was
beginning to become fond of bald heads hahaha. Or at least I was beginning to
appreciate them and not think they were so bad after all.
Not too long before this while I was still at
school and on campus all the time, I would often go sit in the math lab. Yes, I
would definitely be getting the much needed help on my homework and I also enjoy
doing math for fun, but after getting my homework completed I would just sit in
there and listen to the "nerds." They would talk about math, science,
physics, ?metrotronics?, and all sorts of other topics. As I would hang out with
these friends, I decided that I would love to fall in love with a nerd.
Then one day when I was not in school and was able
to really process the events taking place, I began thinking about how much of
my concern over finding the right person was very superficial. Indeed, I did
have being a Christian, as one of my top priorities, but I'm not sure what I
was thinking when I was making the "checklist" per se. I know that
God had the absolute perfect man designed for me and I was finally settling
into the idea of waiting for God. Ef it took 1000 years, I would be fine
because then I wouldn't have to worry about the man meeting my superficial
criteria-- God's criteria is far beyond anything I could think of as
"perfect."
During my period of singleness, I would constantly
talk with friends who were married or in a serious relationship about their
relationship. One that I specifically remember that correlates quite nicely
with the relationship I'm in was when a friend and I were discussing her
long-distance relationship. She described how she handled dating a person who
was not in the same town, and how it actually made things much easier. At the
time I could not understand that at all but now I can't understand how I would
ever date a person in the same town. I have no idea where this relationship is
headed, but realizing how alone I have to be while doing schoolwork, is what
God knew about me and is why He put me in a long-distance relationship.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Just Want to Be Heard?
Just
Want to Be Heard?
A few years ago my mom and I started a brain injury support group for the
younger crowd, as there is a wonderful brain injury support group through one
of the local hospitals but the crowd is mainly older adults. The newly created
support group soon died out as all of the members went their separate ways (off
to separate colleges, getting married, having children, and so forth). Now, as
I am among the college crowd and young adults. I have found that many people,
brain injured or not, just want somebody to talk to. Granted I have had brain
injured people who enjoy talking to me because there is a commonality between
us, but I have also had all sorts of people talk to me just because they want
somebody to talk to and I totally enjoy listening. There are sometimes when my
friends just want to vent and really don't want me to say anything and although
that is hard for me (anyone who knows me understands that I have my two cents that
always seem to get put in somewhere). I can just listen. I think that at some
point I want to open a non-official practice where I just listen.
Right now I have no clue where to start with that
and I have a semester or two left of school (to earn my teaching license),
however I just want to note in my blog this fabulous idea that one day may come
to be.
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