One year since real world&me

Has it really been a year since graduation?

10 lessons I’ve learned this year

1. There is nothing more important than loving God with ALL that I am. It’s true that relationships with God and people aren’t always black and white…but actually, they kind of are.

2. You can’t date a jerk and expect to turn them into a good person. God really does change hearts according to His will; although it wasn’t pretty..thank You for that hard lesson learned. It’s time i date someone who strives to love Jesus and carries that conviction for himself without my continual nagging.

3. Phil 3. learned what it means to suffer for the sake of the gospel. learned a glimpse of the unexplainable love Christ has for us as he went to the cross as i suffered for my yg girls….There were so many times and reasons I wanted to just quit and never come back..but nothing other than His Spirit in me that carried me this far for them. Jesus, thank You for helping me stay faithful til the end.

4. After stressing over what career, what path, what school I need to go to to make it in this life…I finally came to one final epiphany: IT DOESN’T MATTER! Without love and Him, it’s all empty promises. i love my completely underpaid job…because it expands my heart in ways I never thought possible :)

5. I need to stop consuming 3,000-3,500 calories everyday (I wish I was exaggerating). It starts with taking away the chocolate&icecream I consume daily…I need to start watching my sugar level….

6. God definitely has a sense of humor. i don’t always like it but darn..He definitely has a sense of humor.

7. i love my close girlfriends who are so loyal and have been so much more good to me than i have been to them.

8. Past is past. I’ll always have questions if i made the right choices, but regardless..past is past and choices were made prayerfully.

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10. I’ll always be learning. I’ll always be living in oxymorons in this life time. i’ll have my happy days…that are also sad days. He’ll always be redeeming me. Thank You.

Posted on May 25, 2012

the truth of the gospel always remains.

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If grace has really changed our hearts, we don’t ultimately care if life goes the way we want it, as long as we have him.

Dr. Tim Keller (via theoldnewchurch)

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Posted on May 25, 2012 via Breath of Life with 264 notes

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/25-things-ive-learned-in-my-twenties/

Can’t say i agree with everything 100% but there are few lessons written here that i have learned the past few yrs :)

25 Things I’ve Learned In My 20s

MAY. 21, 2012

By RYAN O’CONNELL info

You can’t date a jerk and expect to turn them into a good person. Jerks are fully committed to being unpleasant. Those brief moments of tenderness they give you are designed to trip you up and give you false hope. It’s best to stay away altogether.
The rumors are true: your metabolism does slow down as you get older! (T.T a recent lesson learned) That means if you’re still eating whatever you want, there’s a good chance you’ll start to gain an awkward amount of weight. It won’t be too drastic but your clothes will start to hang differently on your body and you’ll feel an overall feeling of unattractiveness. Start to be conscious of what you eat and strive to live a healthier lifestyle if you want to get your teen body back. (Let’s be real though, that might not ever come back.)
You’re going to lose touch with a lot of your friends. With some people, it will be expected but with others it will feel like a punch to the stomach. No friendship is truly safe in your twenties. You’re undergoing so many personal and professional changes that there’s bound to be some casualties along the way. Don’t worry though. You’ll end up with the ones that matter. If someone’s no longer in your life, it’s for a reason.
You’ll be jealous of everyone who’s more successful than you. That’s okay. Just transfer that jealousy into something productive, like working really hard so you can one day eclipse them and make them feel jealous of YOU.
You’ll question every decision you make and never feel completely certain that you made the right choice. It’s pointless to wonder though. You’re here now so you might as well make it be the right decision.
You’re going to give your heart to a few people who don’t deserve it. Then, one day you’ll come to your senses and ask them to give it back.
You’ll see your parents get older. You’ll come home during Christmas break and see new lines developing on their faces. One day it’ll just hit you that your parents are old and going to die. There’s nothing you can do about it, besides treat them with kindness and visit as much as your budget permits.
You’ll have a boss who makes you feel like you’re nothing. It doesn’t have to be in a Devil Wears Prada way. The cruelty can be much more subtle. Don’t let them get to you though. They have no idea who the hell you really are and you’re probably going to have their job someday so…
Doing drugs is fun until it’s not, until it starts affecting your life in negative ways and leaves you feeling guilty and wrecked. If that happens, you should stop doing them.
You’re going to puke in public. It’s fine. No one cares. Just puke.
You’ll know how to make twenty dollars last an entire week because you spent almost all of your paycheck on groceries at Whole Foods and drunk cab rides. This lesson in frugality will serve you well.
You’re going to betray your convictions. You’re going to feel shame. You’re going to continue to put yourself in situations that aren’t good for you. And then, slowly but surely, it will become less frequent. It might not ever go away completely but it won’t be as bad. In the meantime, stop shame spiraling about it. It gets you nowhere.
Loving yourself is hard. Hating yourself is harder.
You’re going to hook up with someone who you would never touch in the daylight sober. Just don’t freak out too much about it. Consider it to be your good deed for the day.
You’re going to have people in your life who are toxic. They may say that they love you, they may say that they have your back, but they don’t. Get rid of them.
You’ll have moments with someone that are so intense, it’ll feel like you’ve been electrocuted back to life. You’ll hold on to these moments for a long time. They’ll give you hope when you’re going through the motions.
You’ll always care about your first love. That doesn’t make you crazy, it just makes you human. When relationships end, it’s not so cut and dry. You carry everyone you’ve ever loved into every relationship thereafter.
You’ll enter your twenties as a fashion disaster and (hopefully) leave them looking fantastic. If you don’t know how to put yourself together by then, I really don’t know what to tell you.
You’ll realize that the Internet can be a cruel son of a bitch but, you know, www.whatever.com.
So much of what you think matters doesn’t actually matter at all. It’s kind of rude. Like, thanks for making me believe in things that are ultimately so inconsequential, you jerk.
You’ll treat someone terribly. Whether it to be a lover or your friend, there’ll be someone whose feelings you take for granted. We focus too much on whether or not someone is hurting us. The reality is that we might actually be the one who’s hurting someone.
Doing “grown-up things” doesn’t make you a grown up. Shopping for housewares, buying a plant, embracing domesticity — these things don’t create maturity. If you’re still a baby who hasn’t figured things out, you’ll remain a baby, no matter how many times you pay your rent on time.
Don’t force yourself into loving anyone. If it’s not working in the beginning, it’s probably not going to work ever.***** hard lesson learned.
You are so lucky to have everything that you have.*(Yes i am!) Stop crying about an unreturned text message and get some perspective.
Don’t go too long without having sex. Ever.

Posted on May 25, 2012

The Spirit…

“For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.” 2 tim 1:7

Thank you Jesus.

Posted on May 5, 2011

selfishness.

“And then I realized how many stupid times I used the word “I”. In fact, all I ever do is think about myself. And how lame is that when there’s like 7 billion other people out there…”

Posted on April 25, 2011

courage

impossible is not a a word. it’s just a reason not to try

^”His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; ^and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters,make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

1 peter 1:3-11

Posted on April 21, 2011 with 1 note