Thanksgiving . . . Giving Thanks

It being the weekend following Thanksgiving, I would like to list some of the things that I'm thankful for.
I am thankful for a God who loves me and sent His son to die on the cross so that i could spend eternity with Him.
I am thankful for godly parents and grandparents who want to see me follow in God's way.
I am thankful that I have the Sweetest boyfriend that anyone could ever ask for.
I am thankful for the many friends that i have, who encourage me, and help me grow.
I am thankful for the work environment that I work in.
I am thankful for my supervisors who desire to see me excel at my job.
I am thankful for my teachers who sacrifice by teaching me and my fellow students.
I am thankful that I have a warm bed to sleep in when i go to bed.
I am thankful that i never go hungry, and that there is always extra food in the house.
I am thankful that I live in a country where I can still worship God without the fear of government interference.
I am thankful for the men and women who have given their lives for my freedom.
I am thankful for the men and women who have and still are serving to keep my freedom alive.
I am thankful that God never gives up on anyone, even when everyone else has.
I am thankful that God knows exactly what is going on, especially when I do not.
I am thankful that I have a job when so many right now do not.
I am thankful that in this country I can protect myself by owning a gun.
I am thankful that I can have a blog to share with people what I am thankful for.
I hope that thanksgiving day is not the only day that you are thankful for everything you have. Be thankful all year long. 

It's been a while since I posted (if you hadn't noticed). I just kept forgetting. I hope to resume my regular posting on Saturday mornings. Until next time :-)

Taylor the Latte Boy!

Any of you who know this song, know that it is a song of love. If you have not heard it I suggest that you go look it up now and then read my post. As you know this is really a song about and infatuation of a girl for a boy that was sparked by COFFEE!!!!! The Starbucks part is irrelevant. Coffee in my line of work is the nectar of life. My line of work is school, a part time dispatch job for my school and entertaining and encouraging you with my posts :-) i hope i have been doing a good job of all three. Any way, coffee. I drink a lot of it. My boyfriend would say that i drink way too much. I disagree. Some would say that I am addicted to it, but I am most certainly not! I have cut caffeine out of my diet multiple times. Each time was successful and I have had periods of 2-3 months with no coffee. Anyway, if you don't like coffee, I encourage you to try some. It tastes good, and it's not really bad for you. If you're skeptical about the taste, try something with coffee in it, like coffee ice cream, or a mocha. There's just enough coffee that it will introduce you. Anyway, Kitty out!

Focus? On Who?

Despite what you may think, my life is not all roses, chocolate and smiles. This week was particularly discouraging. I wont go into any details, but let's just say the end of my week was completely and totally horrible. I felt like i was loosing someone. I felt rejected and used. I was also tired. A hug just wasn't going to fix everything! (believe me, I tried that). I was focusing on ME, MY problems, and how hurt I was. I didn't leave my focus on the God who is in charge of everything and, despite how it feels sometimes, want's His children to be happy serving him. A good friend pointed this out to me this evening. I really didn't want to admit it to myself, but I had lost focus. It was on the horribly fallible me, and not on the incredibly infallible God. I needed to see that I'm not really what matters in the scheme of things, and that God is, and what I do to draw others' attention away from me and toward Him. This is a lesson I am constantly learning, and re-learning.
So those are my thoughts for this weeks post :-)     

Oops!

I realized after posting last week that it was 9/11. I felt kind of bad, but then I realized, every blogger who is a loyal US citizen probably wrote something about it if they wrote that day. So, today I will talk about 9/11 since the day has passed, and probably too few people think about it on days that are not 9/11. Now some of you are probably thinking "great a 9/11 rant." I wont do that to you. all I have to say is I am grateful to those who have served our country and have tried to right the wrongs of that day. God bless America, and may she never forget the times of sorrow that she has experienced and think that she is immune from pain and grief and does not need the help of the great God who created all and can destroy anything He has created.

That's all for today. Sorry it was short. Next week I will try harder to wax eloquent.

School . . . BLARGH!

Yes, I am blaming the fact that I did not post on school. Sorry! But I'm on now. I have decided that i will be posting on Saturdays. I will try to have it done by noon, but sports for the girls societies are often in the morning. So, Saturday it will be!

While I am not really looking forward to the school year i am looking forward to some structure and routine. I don't know about you, but I feel like i get a lot more done when i have the restrictive structure of classes, and a regular work schedule. While it is "restrictive", when I think about it i realize that restrictions are what keep me from not doing things that i really have no need to do, and help me do what is right. While I don't really like restrictions, I know that they are necessary for us as flawed humans to work together and to get anything done. I mean think about it. If there wasn't a governmental law, Biblical command and/or societal expectation that people should not kill each other over petty or even serious offenses, there would be a lot more murders today. While most of us would say, "i would never kill someone over something," there have been those times in the past that we really wish that our conscience would not bother us as we desire to make someone pay for the wrong they have committed against us. Rules, restrictions and other such statutes are in place to make life with others possible. I know that i have in the past (and probably will in the future) complained about a rule that i thought was stupid. We must keep in mind that when we do that we are only thinking of ourselves. So, next time you think, "I don't understand why I can't do this!" relax, it's probably just to make interaction with other people go more smoothly.
And that is my thought for the week :-)

****WARNING**** MUSHY POST AHEAD****

I didn't want to be all mushy in my first post, so I didn't tell you much about my boy-friend. Today, however, I'm going to tell you how we met.
I met him in Life of Paul, with Dr. Hand. He was that short guy that I sat next to in Bible class. We didn't talk much, just the occasional "Hi, How are you today" and other casual conversation. Neither of us saw the need for any further development in the relationship at the beginning of that semester. And then, late September,  it was time to find a dating outing date. I wanted to go, but couldn't find a guy friend that would be free that weekend and I was starting to freak out a little. Each guy that my friends tried to set me up with ended up having something that weekend and my chances of getting a date were looking slimmer by the day. I decided to take matters into my own hands and decided I would start asking the guys around me in my classes if they were free and would like to go with me. He was the first guy I asked. His response only made more frantic to find a date. His society was also having their dating outing that weekend, and the times were overlapping. I figured he would take it as just a "I need a date to this, help please?"  but I had accidentally sparked his interest in pursuing something further than a classroom "Hi" relationship (I did find a date to the outing, just not him). Soon after I missed class due to fatigue from work. He e-mailed me and asked me if I would like the notes since I had missed. I told him that I would really appreciate the notes and left it at that. I missed a couple more times and each time he sent me the notes. We started to e-mail back and forth about just random things. A couple of weeks later he asked me if I would do lunch with him. I figured, "hey, just lunch . . . right?" and tried really hard to convince myself and my friends that it was just lunch. Then he asked me to lunch again and there was no denying that he was interested in more than just casual friends. I started to get nervous. I had decided at the beginning of the year that I would not get into a dating relationship, and that I would just do the casual take-a-friend-to-artist-series thing. (I'll just tell you now, that fell through pretty fast.) After the second lunch he walked me to class and asked me if i would like to go to artist series with him. I said yes. So we went to artist series together and he got me a dozen red roses. I was very surprised and impressed, and I was starting to fall for him. This made me panic just a little. I wasn't looking for a relationship and this was what was beginning to form. Not long after he brought up that it was obvious that there was a mutual interest and asked if we could go out. I told him that while I was interested, I didn't know him well enough and that he would also have to meet and get to know some of my friends. After about two or three weeks (he says it was more like four) on December 10th he asked again, and I said yes. He has helped me draw closer to God, and i hope that i have done the same for him. I believe that he is the man that God wants me to marry. I look forward to our life together, and i pray that God will keep us humble and open to those around us who reach out and want to help.


On another note. I will try to post once a week, for anyone who is wondering. I still haven't set a day to actually consistently post, which may make this harder once classes start up. When i decide a day of the week to post i will mention it in a post. Until next time, Later!

Why do I do this again?

This morning I got up and went to the kitchen. I got the corn flakes out of the cabinet, grabbed a spoon from the silverware drawer, and proceeded to get a bowl, noticed that I grabbed the last one and thought, "Hmm. Last bowl," and went and sat down at the table to eat my cereal.  After I finished eating I went back into the kitchen, rinsed out my bowl and stacked it with the rest of the already highish pile of dishes in the sink. I then went back to my room to so some cleaning up, put on my glasses and gather my stuff so when Dad was ready we could just head out the door. Once I finished that, I realized that I had used the last bowl and maybe I should put another load of dishes in the dishwasher. There are numerous reasons that I decided to do that. The first was out of obligation. I had taken the last bowl, therefore I should wash them so I can have a bowl tomorrow for my cereal. The second was to keep the peace. My dad is not fond of a pile of dirty anything lying around the house. While neither of these are bad reasons, they are not the reasons that I should have had. The basic thought was, "If I don't do this now, I'll have to do it later."
As a Christian, God has commanded us to be servants. We should strive to serve others in any way possible, as long as it is glorifying to God. Thinking, "If I don't do this now, I'll have to to it later," and not wanting to get fussed at are selfish reasons, and not the reasons that God would want anyone to do anything. If Christ could stoop down to wash his disciples feet, as the creator of all, for their benefit only, then you or I, as his followers should be not only ready and willing, but eager to help and serve those around us. I pray that I will remember this every time i see something that needs doing, or someone that need's a helping hand. I'm not on this world for me to start with. God made me to glorify, praise, and serve Him, and the best form of service to God is for me to serve my fellow man that they may see Him through me.

Hello

This being my first post, I will tell you a little about myself.

 

Religious Beliefs

I am a Christian. I believe that man is sinful and in need of a savior. I believe that God loved us enough, that 2000ish years ago He sent His only son to die and pay for the sins of man. I believe that Jesus (God's son) was born of a virgin, by the act of the Holy Spirit, and that He was and is perfect. I believe He rose from the dead, completing the atonement for man's sin, and that Jesus is waiting for the day that He will call His saints up. I believe that the only way that man can get to heaven is by faith in the work of Jesus Christ.

  

Family
I am the oldest sister in my family. I have a younger sister, two younger brothers and an older half brother.My Father is a hard worker, and a man i look up to very much. My mother has MS, a disease which i may expound upon in some other post.

 

Me

I love music, and have a very diverse taste. I also enjoy all things Star Wars. I enjoy reading, sewing, air-soft-ing, watching movies, wasting time on face-book, and hanging with my friends. My friends are very important to me. There is little i like doing better than hanging out with them. There is one friend, though that i like spending time with more than the rest of them and that is . . . 

 

My Boy Friend

Let's just say he's amazing. I don't want to scare anyone off by talking about him too much in the first post, so I'll  just tell you about him later.

And that is me in a nut shell. Well, sort of.