Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Open Hands


Well, i just might post something now... i have a pic i wanted to post that was inspired by the sermon on Sunday at church. I put it on my Flickr 365 page also...

Here's what i wrote on my Flickr page about it...

The stress of life. You feel like you are being squeezed. You're holding on to everything so tight that you don't know how to let go. When you finally do let go, it is difficult. It is a painful process. But then you let go. You give all your cares and worries over to God. He wants to take them, if we'd only let go. He's big enough to handle all of our stress.

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These thoughts are mostly from the message that Pastor Jerrell gave at church the other day. Today it's sinking in. It's becoming a doing thing... something more than just reflecting on what i heard on Sunday, but taking it into account into my own life, and really going in to talk to God and let go of everything i've been stressed about lately: Greek, finances, self-image, the summer, campus housing for the fall, and anything else that my worried mind can conjure up to think about... I've allowed many different footholds for the enemy in my worrying over different things. I'm going to go to our prayer chapel tonight and spend some time listening to God. He already knows what is worrying me. Maybe i should just shut up and listen for once...

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Well, it's about time i started using this thing... I might be posting on here to put up photos or just randomly post things i find interesting or whatnot. I am not sure. My blogs tend to evolutionary in nature. They start as one thing, grow to something else, then i start a new blog.

This blog, however, is under my most used username on the net, i guess. So here i am. Blogging for the sake of blogging.

I recently, just yesterday in fact, drove back up to school from home. It was quite a drive. Long, and slightly boring. Well, mostly boring. I did not stop much. Once at my usual stop, a little Sunoco station just past Vincennes, to get something caffeinated to keep me awake, and another time at a Chick-Fil-A to get something to eat in Plainfield right before i got on the loop to make my way around Indy. I took some pics on the way up 31, but didn't stop anywhere until i got to my friend's apartment here in town. Here are some pics from yesterday that i hope you enjoy...

[due to some technical difficulties... the pics will have to wait...]