Billboard's Top 100

I was driving home from thanksgiving break--[side note: break was totally amazing filled with family, food, sleep, coffee, football, awesome Christmas festival, a shop completely comitted to selling hot sauce--NEED I SAY MORE!?]--and I passed by a billboard that was amazing. It read:

Do not ever worry about the future because I am already there.
--GOD

Yeah totally fantastic. I have been fretting about the future. Which I totally understand is unproductive and quite frankly, annoying. However, I love that God took the time to remind me that He has got my back in the most stellar way! Thank you billboard for reminding me of the truth and promises God has given me! --PHILLIPIANS 4:6!



Note to self:
-Not allow this week to overwhelm me!
-Enjoy the season of Jesus' birth!
-Bundle up because baby...IT'S COLD OUTSIDE.

I'm thankful for...

November...the month of thanks. As a good friend has been reminding me that thanksgiving is made of 2 words--thanks AND giving. <-such a great reminder! I can think of countless way I am thankful and how God has exceedlingly blessed my life up until now. However, there is a verse that has been on my heart since Sunday. It comes for the book of Zephaniah (I'm not gonna lie...I had to look in the table of contents for this bad boy!)

For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With His love, He will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. -Zephaniah 3:17

Bottom line: I am so thankful I have a mighty savior that takes delight in little ole me! I am thankful for His love that chills me out, and for heavenly Father that sings happy songs over me!

Note-to-self:
-Consistenly be thankful for whatever is thrown my way.
-love always.
-Make an apple pie from scratch for thanksgiving.

Home is where the heart is.

Isn't it peculiar how on Thursday you cannot wait to escape from the ordinary, every day city and then on Sunday you cannot wait to come back to the comfort of home?
[I love that feeling of walking back into your home and smelling that scent of your HOME. (that is if you remembered to take your trash out BEFORE you left...otherwise it's not such a pleasant aroma.)]

Isn't it peculiar how traveling to your hometown is sometimes viewed as a chore, yet when you return from the trip you catch yourself feeling homesick?

Isn't it peculiar how you can be so ready for change (e.g., graduation), however in the same moment you can be scared to the point of tears?

Isn't it peculiar how you need to be doing a task that is very crucial (e.g., studying, writing a paper), yet everything else in the world seems to trump the task (e.g., painting nails, cruising around on facebook, BLOGGING)?

Isn't it peculiar how we allow minuscule or gigantic failures come between us and our relationship with God when He just wants us to remain faithful and obedient?
[He will take 999 steps for us to take just 1.]

Note-to-self:
-write my paper
-hope saturday comes quickly so I can travel home to my family!
-try not to get grossed out by the snotty kids at my internship.