snow

This past week has been interesting enough, considering after 4 years I got to experience my first full snow day in college! I remember walking out of the house and it was really like a winter wonderland! What wasn't so wonderlandish was that it took me 45 minutes to uncover my car from the layers of snow and ice. I can't say that I have seen campus look so pretty. Just another way I remember what a beautiful place God has created for us. This semester has been tough so far, not academically, but life wise. I continue to constantly think about the end of the semester and what it is I will be doing. I want to end up in Louisville, but I look at myself now, and realize all the things that have to change between now and May. I just wish I could wake up one day and have it figured out for me. However I have realized that the best things that I have experienced in my life have come unplanned and as a surprise. I know that is how God works sometimes, and I just need to continue to trust him and know that he is looking out for me.



I think my goal for this coming week is to really focus on being content. I know I am so restless because I am not content. It isn't that I am not appreciative of my life, I just can't seem to find peace within it. I am constantly trying to change and fix things with myself and those who are in my life, but the thing is even if there was a problem, I don't think I have taken enough time to look at my life to let an answer come. I need to focus on being content with my situation and with myself. I feel like sometimes I have lost that peace that I had which resulted from just loving myself and loving the situation in which God has placed my life. I think this week I just need to be still and not try to fix anything or anyone, and just really listen to what it is that God has to say to me. I just need to rest in the knowledge that I am living for something bigger than me, something heavenly.



I am excited about going home to see my family this Saturday for my mothers birthday! I love my mom and she is one of my best friends, who I know has spent many nights on her knees in prayer for my sisters and I. I can only thank God for putting such a wonderful woman in my life, a wonderful example of how a Christian woman should live. I can't wait to celebrate her birthday with her. She is absolutely unbelievable.



This past weekend I found out my cousin was in the hospital because of muscle spasms which had turned into paralysis, it appeared that he may have had a spinal stroke. However thanks to much prayer from family and friends, he and his wife are both at home, and he is slowly gaining his motion back and was able to walk earlier this week. I am so thankful for answered prayers. I will continue to pray for them as he adjusts back into his daily routine, and that this wonderful miracle bring them and our whole family closer to God.





for love, peace and contentment.

Busy Bee

So, it has been so long since I last posted anything! I have been so busy with school and everything that I haven't had time to think yet, and it is only the beginning of the semester! I am taking 12 hours this semester, and I am really excited about all of my classes. I am also on UK's National Student Advertising Competition Team, we will compete in April nationally against other schools to see who can put together the best advertising campaign. Also another class that I am really excited about is a TEL class, in this class I am going to learn how to write/design software for computer games, I am so excited, I love learning new things about the computer! I am also working about 25 hours a week this semester, so as usual I will have a busy semester!

Church this week was amazing. Southland is doing a series called Explicit Lyrics, and it is based on the book Song of Solomon. It is a six week series and we are halfway through. I can't explain how much I needed to hear the message that Southland is teaching now. The series is all about relationships, dating, marriage, and sex. It has been so wonderful to hear, and has reconfirmed the fact that God has a plan of what he wants for my life, and that I need to be still and listen, because I know that his plan is the right plan for me. The message has made me so excited for marriage and all that things that I will get to share with my future husband. I seriously can't wait for Sunday to come!

Also I am starting to send my resume out so please pray that it is received well and that God is going to lead me to where I need to be. I keep finding myself getting more and more nervous about what I am going to do for the rest of my life, and for some reason I have had such a hard time just giving that over to God and letting him take care of everything. I can be a control freak, and generally it is over things that I really can't control. So lately I have been praying for patience and understanding, and to realize that God will always take care of me no matter what.

first day of my last semester!!

I can't believe that tomorrow I start the first day of my last semester! The time has gone by so fast! However, some things have changed, I remember my freshman year I think I spent 200 dollars more on books than I do now, what a waste of money, now I have resorted to ordering many online which is so much cheaper! I only have 12 hours this semester which is awesome, the least I have taken ever. I love the fact that I have no classes on Fridays and that my first class on Tuesday/ Thursday starts at 11! I just think back on this time here at school and I am so thankful to my family who has kept supporting me through everything, making me try harder to be a better student and a better person. I am also so thankful for wonderful friends who have made my college experience so amazing! I know that I am going to look back on these four years and smile at all the memories I have made while here.

Also this semester I will begin job hunting, my goal is to have a job lined up before I graduate in May, hopefully in Louisville. Right now I am making adjustments to my resume, and brushing up on my interview skills, hoping that I will be prepared enough for that first interview!

I hope that God continues to prepare me for the workworld as I will be moving into that stage of my life in just a few months. I know he will lead me to the right job, and just need to continue to trust in him a know that whatever happens it is his will.

Seeing as it is 12:30 and I have class tomorrow, I should probably get some much needed sleep.

I added some pictures from my freshman year! One with my sister, my roomies from freshman year and some of my friends from home!

Morning workouts and girls night out!

So tonight I am going to go the movies with my best friend from high school , Dez. We both decided to ditch the boyfriends and have a girls night. We are going to go see Bride Wars, with Kate Hudson and Ann Hathaway. (not that the boys would have wanted to see that anyway!) I am pretty excited to see the movie, and spend sometime with Dez.

Also this semester I took a telecommunications class and I learned how design websites! So, my work, Dance Biz, asked me to design a website for the store! I actually started today, and so far so good. I am however using an older version of Dreamweaver,( the software to design sites) than I . used in class, so it took me a little while to get used to the different software, but after about 30 minutes I was working right away! I am hoping to finish the site soon, and I will put a link here when it is done so that you can check it out!

Before I went to work today I did something that I usually never do, I WORKED OUT! In the past I have never been much of a workout person, but if I did work out I worked out at night. However after I worked out for an hour this morning I had so much extra energy! I felt so much more energized and ready to take on the world. I am thinking that as much as I am not a morning person, that I would love to fit morning workouts into my schedule! I suggest you give it a try too, a great way to start out the new year. Also I didn't take my IPOD with me, and it was just me and my thoughts, which was so relaxing. I was able to workout and talk to God this morning while I was exercising, plus it is so calm in the morning and there are hardly any distractions! I was actually pretty proud of myself that I made it an hour!

I just want to thank you God, for giving my such wonderful friends, and for giving me those moments during the day that remind me that you are here always, and appreciate me for the woman you have made me. Thank you for accepting my just the way I am, and putting it in my heart to become a better woman, a woman of God.

A Same Kind of Different

Today, while I was reading at work today, I began thinking about what the book I am currently reading has to do with my life. The book is "Same Kind of Different As Me". The book is a true story that revolves around two main characters Denver and Ron. Denver is the product of modern day slavery and eventually a hobo, and Ron is millionaire art dealer. These two characters lives cross when Ron and his wife begin to serve at a homeless shelter. The friendship that these two strike up really makes me wonder if I have ever gone out of my to befriend someone who is not in what I would consider my 'comfort zone'. I am wondering and asking God, if he could use me in such a way. The difference these two make in each others lives is monumental, and I would love for God to use me in such a way.

The life that Denver lived as a man of the streets really reminded me of how blessed I am just having the everyday necessities I take for granted; like a warm shower, a warm coat to wear when it snows, and to always know that no matter what I always have a home to return to. I realize that many homeless end up in their situation because of addictions and so forth, but as I have discovered from this novel, that not all have found themselves in such a situation because of negative choices. For many, this was just the card life dealt them. This book has really made me think of so many things that have plagued our country and how many innocent people who have fallen into the cracks because of poor education. I hope that God continues to help remind me of how blessed I am to have all the things that I do. (At the top is a picture of the book I am reading, I encourage you to pick it up sometime and read it. Not only is it a good story, but a true story at that!)

Also today, Rock my kitty is no longer homeless :) A few days ago he lost his personalized collar somewhere inside the apartment, and luckily after some searching I was able to find it, and he is no longer homeless.

New to blogging.....

So I am new to blogging, but I thought this would be a fun way for my family and friends to see what is going on in my life, as I finish up my last semester of college and then head off into the real world. Right now I am enjoying my Christmas break and getting to spend lots of time with Christopher and my two kittens Rock and Emma (they are getting so big they are almost 6 months old!) I have finished reading 90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper. It is a must read and an easy read as well. Currently I am reading Same Kind of Different As Me. It is a great book so far, and an interesting story at that. I am going to post some pictures of Rock and Emma for you to enjoy.

Emma is the first picture and Rock is the second. They are both so well behaved, so far no accidents! They enjoy playing with each other, kitty treats, and their fishing toy which no longer has any feathers on it! Chris just bought them a kitty play place which they love to spend their lazy days in!