a MUCK w/change

3 great things to celebrate

1. Spring 2011 semester is over! AND I maintained my 3.0+ average gpa
2. Summer semester is over and I got an A!!!! my first 4.0 semester!
3. Im starting a new Job July 1st at a church (I cannot make details public at this
moment but I will post about this job as soon as I can. this is THE job Ive been waiting for since I started seminary HUGE deal for me!)


LOTS of wonderful things happening in my life! God truly has heard my prayers and has answered them! I am SO grateful!

2 BIG changes happening soon:
1. Nate and I are moving into a smaller apartment on campus, he sleeps in my room (in his own bed) most nights anyway so, I decided it would be best if we downsized. (its cheaper and less space to worry about cleaning) I would LOVE to make this move organized and orgainze my apartment better than my current one so that when life gets stressfull my place isn't a Muck. Anybody have ideas on how to orgainze a small space and keep it orgainzed??? I'd love your help! I am an utter failure at being a housemaker person so I need all the help I can get.

2. New JOB, I am nervous about how N will react. Im tossing up the idea of finding a babysitter for Sunday's so I can give 100% to my congregation, but that is quite difficult. Any volunteers? (lol!) Does anybody know of a Single Mom and Preacher?? I'd love to meet with you and chat with you and get all your secrets of how you do it ALL???!!!?!!!!

I pray that God gives me the Grace to take this fear of change and these nerves/anxiousness away from me, fill me with faith strength and energy to do it all, and do it well. I also hope that I can move and get 100% settled in the new place before July 1/the new job starts. Your prayers and help is highly welcomed!!!

I hope you all are having a great summer so far. I plan on taking N swimming several times this summer and will hopefully have pictures to post soon.

WAR

Hi Blog fans...if there are any?!

I think its sad that it has been nearly 2 months since I've posted, I apologize to those who check my blog regularly, now you have something new to read, yippee!!!

Well I've finished my spring 2011 term! I am guessing that I'll have B's all the way around, which for me is great! Those who don't have to work two jobs, raise a young child alone, are more sane, can have those A's they're all yours. I will however stick with doing the best I can with the resources and time I have, and praise God for the B's I earn!

SO you may now be wondering what my title of my blog is... yes seminary or grad school is like War because we are all battling the books, papers, sylabi and time, but I read a devotion today and was enlightened and would like to share this with all of you who may be struggling with 'War'.

Truly Human:
In addition to the battle to "get ahead," there is another:
this other war is the war not to conquer but the war to become whole and at peace inside our skins. It is a war not of conquest now but of liberation because the object of this other war is to liberate that dimension of self-hood which involves the capacity to forgive and to will the good not only of the self but of all other selves. This other war is the war to become human being. This is the goal that we are really after and that God is really after. This is the goal that power, success, and security are only forlorn substitutes for. This is the victory that not all our human armory of self-confidence and wisdom and personality can win for us-not simply to be treated as human but to become at last truly human. --Frederick Buechner---

The questions that remain for me are:
How much Longer will this 'War' Last?
Am I truly Human and
Are You Truly Human?


JUST MY THOUGHTS...BE ENCOURAGED...STAY ENCOURAGED!

Tenth Avenue North - You Are More

OK

SO I've gotten on this song kick lately... this SONG ROCKS!... I think about my sisters, all of them blood related and not... we all struggle with past decisions, thank you JESUS for remaking all of us, please allow us to step into this new life you have created for us and thrive in your love, and please God regardless of where our paths take us please please please allow us to remember Who and Whose we are!!!



Thank YOU!

Love,
~B~

Laura Story - Blessings

This SONG rocks my socks off! Read the words, Listen to the song, Apply it to Your Life. I'M bout to SHOUT up in here! waaaa!!! OH but N is asleep I gotta watch myself!



The words:

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not our home

What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise


JESUS! LORD JESUS! YOUR MERCY! WOW!

~Bec

Countdown

It's MARCH! AND ITS FRIDAY!!!

The spring semester is just about half way over all though it doesn't feel that way because of the slow start we had due to snow. I have a few countdowns that you all might think are interesting to know (especially the last one)....

There are 16 days until the first day of spring!




There are only 15 days until SPRING BREAK (or reading week, I prefer the former)




There are only 70 Days until the end of the semester!




And here we go drum roll please... there are only 805 Days until Friday May 17th The projected day of my MDiv Graduation!!



OK so I may have gotten a little out of control with the graduation countdown thing, but HEY at least now I know!!!

Well I'm signing off for now... hope you ALL have a blessed and relaxing weekend!

final post LOVE IS:

dear readers
I apologize for the lack of posts the last 2 weeks or so. Today is the last day of February and so this will be my last post about "LOVE IS..." so I will leave you with a few pictures to look at and ponder.



May you always know that YOU are LOVED!



and I pray you NEVER FORGET:

LOVE is:...

Well I must say that I am impressed with myself. This is the third blog this week. and once again its ALL about LOVE! I think once the semester really hits hard I won't be blogging as much...

Tonight I am reflecting on African American History and how they have played a vital role in my life. My son is black. If it weren't for his father (my ex husband) I would not appreciate black history as much as I do today. I also find it very, very important to keep educating N on his background and history.

So tonight I share a quote from the wonderful, late, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.



It is a very fine line to walk between power and love!



only one thing can drive out hate...love... humph maybe instead of hating our jobs or our laundry or our homework, or the mundaneness of life we should figure out how to put some LOVE in there?!! Lord Knows I NEED to Love more!!



AWW KITTY CATS!!



yea I just had to throw this one in here! I really do love Black People! I love hearing their stories and how each of them are unique and I love, love, love, love, love that Jesus loves us ALL, and that in heaven we're ALL family!!

~B