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| I've spent all my time waiting for the chances to come to me I've hoped that someday someone would realize how amazing a talent God has given me.... But it finally dawned on me that no one else will see the potential until I cannot only see the potential but believe in myself enough to act on it. So believe in me I will...and in the dreams God has placed in my heart. Sitting around day- dreaming will accomplish nothing without the work of my feet. Here I step into a place and time I have never been. I am running after the dream, chasing the chance to be who I was created to be No longer will I wait for the dream to come to me, but now, I will go to the dream. To SING is to LIVE.
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| Yesterday, your love was so sweet, your care so strong, your dedication so true.
Yesterday, you were so full of joy and laughter and your direction so clear.
Yesterday, you would let me know how much you loved me and how much I meant to you.
Yesterday, you let me believe in hope and Tomorrow and the Future.
Yesterday, I loved you with all of my heart but all i could think about was Tomorrow.
Now Yesterday, Tomorrow is Today and I want you back.
Today is filled with tears, loneliness, and pain.
Today is a load almost too big to bear.
Why Yesterday didn't you tell me that Today would be so hard?
If only Yesterday I had enjoyed every moment, every gleam of sunshine, every smile.
For Today is cruel and the smiles are few, but none-the-less, I will squeeze every last drop of beauty out of today and in my heart I will bottle it like a priceless perfume.
Everyday possesses beauty.
It's easier to see in some than in others, but it is always there.
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| It's been awhile my fellow xanga faithfuls...but fear not, as long as I am blog capable, I will be on xanga. :)
Life has been full; trying at times and pressing at others. But, I am pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed but not in despair, and persecuted but not abandoned.
I am in school at Oklahoma Christian College. It is a rigid Church of Christ university...yeah...it's been interesting. But, I have met some of the most amazing people here. I love that God let's me meet the people that I do. They aren't always the people I think I want to know, but when I meet them, they are amazing.
I am applying to the Forerunner Music Academy at IHOP in Kansas City. I am excited to see what happens. Even if I don't get accepted, I am still pondering a possible move. As much as I love this place of my birth, I crave a fresh start in a place where I am free to be me and not what others expect me to be.
Life is good. :)
I am reading an AWESOME book...listed above. Everyone should read this book. It will challenge your heart to be more true in your walk with Jesus. It is challenging me to BE what I want to see.
I am learning to be content with today. I have spent so much time worrying about what I am going to do with my next step in life, I find myself missing the beauties that God has given me today and I am tired of that. Matthew said, "Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Amen brotha man...lol. No more worrying...just trusting and being obedient.
I love Jesus so much.
God is teaching me that if my heart is truly his and my desire is truly to reach the lost, than it doesn't take a foreign country for me to act on my heart. Right here, right now...for such a time as this.
:) Comments are nice...have a beautiful day. | | |
| When did this happen? When did I begin to care less about others, less about the gospel, less about Jesus, and more about ME? I know I haven't always been this way because I hardly recognize the man I've become. The words that pour forth from my mouth speak not of truth and grace, but rather fear and personal gain. I don't look to see how I can be of service, but rather how I can be served. I don't consider others better than myself...I simply allow them to take the ride along my road of comfort and self indulgence. Jesus gave his life as a RANSOM for many. For some reason I have become blinded, or deceived, or distracted from who I am meant to be and what I am meant to do. He becomes greater, I become less. I don't know who this man is that I've become, but I still see the faint light of destiny flickering in my tired heart and I will not rest until I have served tirelessly and humbled myself to be used to be Jesus to those He loves. I am but a man, but He is mindful of me.
Oh God forgive me for my wicked selfishness and vain conceit. Purify my heart that I may be one-minded with one truth and one focus.
In Jesus' name...amen. | | |
| Alright ya'll! My first english writing assigment was today!
A minimum of 200 words on Hot Weather...sounds boring right?
Well, my mind a got to thinkin and I decided that I would write a nice little fictional story...and then I traveled to one of my favorite movies of all time...Fried Green Tomatoes and wrote from that point of view...let me know what you think!
Hot Weather
There are many different things that people do to cope with hot weather. I remember one summer long ago and what we had to do to survive the blazing heat of the Deep South. It was one of the hottest summers we had ever seen in the South. The sun beat down so hot during the afternoon there was no sense even putting ice in Mama’s sweet tea because unless you gulped it down like a cup of cough medicine, that ice was going to melt within minutes. Papa said that he had never seen a summer so hot and humid as this one and Mama and Aunt Jesse did all they could to keep us shaded and cool. But no matter what lengths they went to, we were sweating bullets just waking up in the morning. Daddy put sheets over all the windows in the house to keep out the sun and my sister Ruth made paper fans for everyone to keep the air in the house circulating.
I remember one day in the middle of July. It was possibly the hottest day of the whole summer and that day Daddy brought home a horse trough full of ice! We let it melt a little which didn’t take long seeing as it was over one hundred degrees outside and then we would jump in and out until the ice melted and we had ourselves an ice-cold tub to soak in. Although the coolness of that water only lasted about thirty minutes or so, that was one of the most precious moments of that summer. Hot weather maybe hard to cope with at times, but that summer it sure did bring our family closer together.
Holla!!! Have a great weekend! | | |
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