Great is Thy Faithfulness

Great is thy faithfulness! Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hand hath provided; great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me.

Sometimes, we wait for morning. Now that isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes it is. It can be bad if you wait for morning for new mercies. Sometimes, when we realize that we've failed, we hide. We try to cover ourselves up, wait for morning, for a change in scenery, to accept mercy and make a new beginning. We don't seem to realize that there is the rest of the day left to work. When people fail around, say, noon, there is still a good 12 hours left in the day. It isn't like, oops, you had your one failure for today, now go sit in a corner and wait until tomorrow morning. Then you can try again. It doesn't even matter if you continue messing up anymore, because you haven't been forgiven for that last thing you did. That isn't how God works.

Ok, this might sound a little weird. But haven't you ever done it? Am I really the only one who has said something along the lines of "Well, yes, I do slack off with my homework. But it's ok... I'll wait until next semester, then I'll keep up on my work. Honest!" We wait for something big or dramatic to happen before we change our behavior. Maybe it's "Yes, I have been behind on my Bible reading, but I'll catch up... once this season of Psych is over". I don't know what it is in your life, but I know I have a few places in mine where I am waiting for "morning" to receive the new mercies, to begin anew.

But people, let's keep in mind here that this is God we're talking about! God, who is faithful through all of our failures and mishaps. Even when we fail, He is willing to pick us up immediately and offer us a second, third, ten-thousand-fifty-ninth chance. He isn't a God who waits for morning to provide us with exactly everything we need. He's willing now. Are you ready to accept it?

Winter Break

Now that Christmas break is here, I suddenly have much more free time. That means reading books, finishing the many blog posts I've started, sleeping more, and lots of other things. Important things, like hanging out with my family.

So not a very long post today, nothing that impressive, but just a heads up that I might start going crazy on this blog (once my laptop charger that I left in my dorm gets here). Well, merry almost Christmas! Expect another update soon!

Finals Week/ BOOKS

Finals week is upon me! Fortunately, for my first semster of college, the load has been (sorta) light. I only have to take one test that requires any studying. Of course, I also have 1 take home test, 1 open book test, 3 papers, and 1 presentation. 1 of the papers has been turned in, and these other 2 just need to be edited (if anyone wants to read through them, let me know!). I gave the presentation last week, so all I need to do now is finsh editing this paper before 2pm today, study for Old Testament, edit the other paper for tomorow, and finish the 3 short essay questions for my take home history test! Then Wednesday morning I get to fly back to Kansas!

I am super excited for Winter Break. Five weeks off with no work to do? I haven't had that since middle school summers before I got a job! In high school, finals were 2 weeks after break, so we speent all break studying. Blegghh.

My plans for break are fantastic! I will be chilling in Kansas for a while with the family, seeing friends and reading books. I'm so excited to have time to read lots and lots of books again! My family will be going to Colorado for a few days, then my older brother and I will head up to Chicago for a little while. Long car rides= more time to read books.

I have a list of books to read over break, but I also want some suggestions.

Here's what I have so far:

Northhanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
A Grief Observed (C.S. Lewis)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
(Francine Rivers)
Wild At Heart (John Eldredge)