Stop being ridiculous

I've decided to make a new year's resolution. I usually don't make any resolutions. But I notice something that I must fix in me in order to take my maturity to another level.

It's simple. And that is to stop being ridiculous. Countless nights trying to figure out pointless things, such as games for my DS or watching family guy episodes. Little things that kill my sleep time. I should just read and do something productive from now on, like sleep when im supposed to.

And although this blog is very self condemning, i think it's necessary to share for accountability.

Happy New Year Everybody!

"post finals" syndrome

Finals, are a time of stress, studying, sleepless nights, and of procrastination.

but now that finals are over, i definitely feel that i am in post-final syndrome, where i don't want to do anything but the opposite listed above. All i find myself doing is sleeping, watching TV shows, relaxing, and still procrastinating on things that need to be done. It's funny how procrastination sticks with you at all times. I want to get rid of procrastination in my life. I want to be able to finish assignments earlier, know material a week before the final, be punctual wherever i go... so i guess im saying, i pretty much want to live in peace of mind and spirit. Although living life as a rush may be fun at times, it is overwhelmingly stressful.

I think I'm going to put myself through a self-made program of discipline. I don't know what it entails yet, but I really think I need this right now. So, starting today(since i'm trying to kick procrastination out of my life), I'm going to make a schedule/list of what needs to be done in my life Spiritually, Physically, and for life in general. it's funny because this is what self-disciplined people do on a regular basis. I want to be self-disciplined but at the same time, I want to fully rely on the Spirit who will give me the strength to become a disciplined child.

Lord, help me.

:) wish me luck or just pray for me.

In the Light

I want to be in the light as you are in the light.

Help me study with precision, focus, and haste Lord.

And may I live daily taking up my cross, as if I am losing my house today, so that someone else can gain a mansion.

Amen.

Google Gadgets

I discovered Google gadgets recently and I love it. I love how there are gadgets that will tell you randomly chosen Bible verses that can encourage you tremendously. like this one:

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

But something about this verse struck me for I am always feeling weak, weary, feeling academic hardships and difficulties, but then I don't feel strong. Aren't I supposed to feel strength starting to flow through my very veins, and from there throughout the rest of my body? I am supposed to feel strong. No?

And then I realized that I always do something with scripture, that I stumbled upon doing again. I overlook important words. THIS IS WHY WE MUST ASK FOR A CONSTANT FILLING OF THE SPIRIT, ESPECIALLY AS WE READ THE WORD OF GOD.

This word DELIGHT.I'm supposed to delight (def: take great pleasure in) weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, difficulties... Boy, I don't know whether I take great pleasure in sucking at school or not... (this is where revelation hits me at 2:35am)

But God, BUT GOD, has plans for me regardless. Plans that are good, plans that are to prosper me and not to harm me, SO I WILL DELIGHT in Him and in my weaknesses, because it is not even my strengths that will take me places or great grades or degrees. But it is God alone who will take me places. This is what it means to DELIGHT in my weakness, that even in my weakness I will delight in it and suffer through it in order for God to be glorified.

When the disciples in Acts got flogged and persecuted, they didn't give in to the floggings or just lay there DEAD or acting dead, but they REJOICED because they got to suffer for the Lord. I want to rejoice(thes: be delighted) in these things that try to bring me down by all means, because it is in and through HIM, I do all things.

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Happy 7 Months Beautiful!

Hand that Holds the World

Have you ever had someone you loved disappear on you for a day, an hour, or even minutes?

Each second feels like a throbbing knife of anxiety and worry to the heart. This happens because you have no knowledge of what is going on with that loved individual. Sir Francis Bacon says that, "Knowledge is power," and I would completely have to agree because if you had knowledge or a personal GPS tracker attached to that person, you would have no rush of senseless thoughts or silly scenarios running through your mind. You would have total control.

But that's how God is, He has total control, He knows exactly where we are physically, spiritually, mentally, even though we are running away, trying to disappear from God, He is still there. God is omniscient, He is power. That is why when we feel powerless and weak, we should come before God and put all my hope and trust in Him. When I put my life and people I love most around me, in His hands I need not worry because He has hand that holds the world.

good days

there are good days and bad....

today was definitely one of those GOOD days.

Gloria a Dios!

Gracias Jesus (Hey soos)!!

JUMP

I was looking through www.1000awesomethings.com and came across...

awesomethings #708 Jumping as many stairs as possible

I remember jumping off the flight of stairs at my old house when I was like 7 years old. I felt invincible as I dashed down those stairs without injuring myself. And then one day, I was playing tag with my sister, climbed up our bunk bed and jumped off and broke my ankle. From that day on, I don't jump unless its for a jumping picture.

This blog was inspired by RML