What God is Teaching Me

This summer has been one full of adventure but with the adventures I have had, God has been teaching me over and over to be humble. And I don't just me the sweet person humble. I'm talkin' biblical humbleness: that NOTHING I do if for my own glory. That my works don't make an ounce of difference in how God sees me. I like to think that I don't have a pride issue but obviously I do because every time I think I will get even a tiny amount of glory from something I've done (today it was being interviewed by the local news for our S.A.V.E. 5k- S.A.V.E. is a whole different blog post in itself) He takes the glory away from me (my part of the interview being cut). I know that's a silly thing and although it stinks I'm so thankful that God would keep reminding me and disciplining me to know that everything I do should bring glory to HIM: NOT TO MYSELF. God is so good. All the time He is good.

Less Than One Month

I decided to start this blog about a year ago so that I could write about my senior year and then proceed to write about my upcoming years of college.. And I barely wrote my senior year. At all. But it's never to late to start right?! Especially since I am t-minus 27 DAYS away from moving into my dorm! THIS IS INSANE. I want to be alright, to feel content in who I am before I head off on this adventure and lately this has been a dreadful task. I don't want to worry about fitting in and not being enough anymore. I AM enough. I am completely WHOLE in Jesus Christ and I can laugh at the days to come because He has already won. He is stronger than any of my doubts, worries and fears. He already has friends and passions and adventures laid out for my on campus. He knows the life were going to walk together through the next four years (and I'm sure he already knows how often he's going to have to pick me up and carry me). I'm ready for this moment even though most of the time I feel ready to go crawl under my bed and have a good cry. I can do this. I WILL do this. It's going to be the adventure of a lifetime. Here we go.


Also, I have found great encouragement in the song "Age of Worry" by John Mayer (Born and Raised). Here are the lyrics:


Close your eyes and close yourself
Danger hiding in all the world
Soothe your tears, your innocence
While you do everything wrong

Don't be scared to walk alone
Don't be scared to like it
There's no time that you must be home
So sleep where your darkness falls

Alive in the age of worry
Smile in the age of worry
Go wild in the age of worry
And sing Worry, why should I care?

No you fight is not within
Yours is with your timing
Dream your dreams but don't pretend
Be friends with what you are
Give your heart then change your mind
You're allowed to (throw) it
Cause God knows it's been done to you
And somehow you got through it

Alive in the age of worry
Rage in the age of worry
Sing out in the age of worry
And sing Worry, why should I care?

Rage in the age of worry
Act your age in the age of worry
And sing Worry, get out of here!


*Lyrics copied from Elyrics.net
**The bold phrases are those which have brought the most inspiration