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i’ve been loosing my mind 2ith 20 credits this semester but….

it’s coming!!

Dr. Ward spoke this to our Deuteronomy and Ethics class this past week in his morning devotion. Since I wasn’t in class due to being sick, my roommate thought it was especially pertinent since she and I have finally chosen which graduate school we will attend in the Fall….

It’s Not What or Where, but How

“Today, I realized that the questions of where to live and what to do is really insignificant compared to the question of how to keep the eyes of my heart focused on the LORD. I can be teaching at Yale, working in the bakery at the Genesee Abbey, or walking around with poor children in Peru and feel totally useless, miserable, and depressed in all these situations. I am sure of it, because it has happened. There is not such thing as the right place or the right job. I can be happy and unhappy in situations of abundance as well as poverty, in situations of popularity as well as anonymity, in situations of success as well as failure. The difference was never based on th situation itself, but always on the state of my mind and my heart. When I knew I was walking with the LORD, I always felt happy and at peace. When I was entangled with my own complaints and emotional needs, I always felt restless and divided.

            It is a common truth that comes to me in a time when I have to decide about my future. Coming to Lima for five, ten, or twenty years is not a great decision. Turning fully, unconditionally, and without fear to the LORD is.” -Henri Nouwen when trying to decide whether he should go to Lima, Peru or not.

What have I been doing with my time? you might wonder. To be honest, I oftentimes ask myself that same question. When I’m at school my minutes seem to turn into hours which turn into days which turn into months. I’m not really sure how it got to be nearly January but it has and I’m thankful for it. This past semester was by far my hardest, academically, and I made it through…with my best “report card” to date. Go figure.

Beyond academics, though, it has been a busy semester. Between all of the homework and papers I try to find time to sleep, be with God, be with my friends, figure out what next year is going to look like for me–a college graduate, yikes!–and you know, the normal stuff that goes with “college life.”

I have been blessed beyond measure, though. Despite the long nights, and hard conversations, it has been sweet. Being a senior has made me a bit nostalgic as I tell the freshmen on my hall what college is like. Remembering all of the times I got into trouble with student development, the craziness that I was my freshmen and sophomore year (and still am?), and the friends that have accompanied me along the way. It really is ridiculous when I think about all of the people I have met, loved, and done life with at Covenant. Some of them have graduated, some are younger than me, and some are in the battle of senior year with me.

I am so SO thankful. This time of the year always seems to make me look up from my homework and busy-ness and to reflect on how gracious God truly is.

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From all of the Perry’s and Allen’s, Merry Christmas. May you be refreshed and renewed not only in rest but much more in your heart and walk with Christ.

This song from Shane & Shane has been on repeat in my car…may it encourage you and draw you further into His love

See you in 2010!

i’m coming home!!

leaving at 4:30am maybe insane. i think its warranted, though, because it’ll put me back in the arms of my family….eating mexican food for dinner.

yes, please

   Maybe its the weather. Maybe its just me. Maybe its the combination of a drizzle rainy day and it being early in the week but I have the strong tendency to slip into a reflective or contemplative mood. Whenever I get into one of ‘those moods’ I love sitting inside a coffee shop, next to a window, with a good cup of coffee, my favorite pen, molskine journal (a.k.a. my sanity) and/or my laptop. Reading, writing, and reflecting. I love it.

Holidays also have this effect on me and this Thanksgiving break wasn’t necessarily any different. As I talked to family and friends I couldn’t help but think of the ways in which the Lord has changed me. The way He has changed my family. (continue reading…)

hope you all have a restful week and a lovely thanksgiving….

Be Blessed

i’ve been working–pretty diligently, might i add– on my senior thesis, this past weekend. trying to finish up some of the research before i go back and get more. the never ending cycle.

wanted to share some insights/thoughts on what i am reading through, currently. for the time being, i am working through Skye Jethani’s “The Divine Commodity.” I recommend it as it portrays where our culture is and how it does, and doesn’t, speak to the claims that Christ has called of those who say they “follow” Him.

enjoy!

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Either I’ve been completely oblivious to it or so inundated with it that I have become numb to it.

It seems “normal.”

I think if you and I were honest with one another about where were we’d been, we’d soon learn that while we have said (or maybe are saying, currently) we believe in God…we have lived life as if we were functional deists. Yes, God is there. Yes, I believe in His existence. Beyond that….I. Don’t. Care.

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   “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did  most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” –C.S. Lewis

Have the perspective of  Heaven in everything.

May we be effective in what the Lord has for us.