ONE Nonsensical Sentence For Your Reading Enjoyment
- While knitting your chocolaty lips towards the leafy doorknob’s kitten was bulbously superfluous, I was obstinately glazed by the oven’s back foot, allowing for the entry of those fluent toasted weather balloons.
TWO Serious Summaries Of This Year To Follow That Strange Beginning
- Engineering is difficult.
- God transcends my petty affairs and has renewed my life in every way that was needed, while providing challenges that were much overdo in my life.
THREE New Year’s Resolutions
- Break big tasks into small pieces (or else I won’t do them at all!).
- Remember to compliment people OUT LOUD (and not just admire them in my head).
- Work on resolving self-destructive criticisms (and in turn become a saner person).
FOUR Things I’m Thankful For
- A return to reading for enjoyment (this semester alone I have finished classics including Jane Eyre, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, Count of Monte Cristo, and The Color Purple, which may not seem like much, but when coupled with mind-numbing engineering courses, I’m proud of myself)
- Animals (you know me, I can’t live without them, and coming home to two obstinate stubborn cats every day feels AMAZING)
- Increasingly good social life at Purdue
- A change in outlook (I am NOW considering the possibility of going into real estate…that is, I REALLY like the idea of buying old rundown homes, restoring them, and selling or renting them for affordable prices to help people out)
FIVE Ways God Has Worked In My Life This Year
- Living situation – apartment, roommate, cats…they all add up to an incredible experience that I wouldn’t trade for the world
- Church community – living with a roommate that works with the church I attend has allowed me to become much more involved with my church DURING the college semester…I can only attribute this to God’s continuing work in my life, since I have always failed miserably at connecting with a church near my college in the past
- Placement – this is related to my living situation, but I think that I may have been brought to Purdue so that God could introduce me to the community of Lafayette…with the extraordinary examples of Victorian architecture and the bright festive town community, I’ve found somewhere that feels like the right place to be for at least the next couple of years
- Peace – I certainly break this peace very frequently with panicking and fretting about God’s plans for me, but God has already brought me to my knees and shown me that He is COMPLETELY in control of my life and has plans for me, and I am finally accepting defeat and learning to submit control to Him (key word – learning)
- Forgiveness – He has given this to me every year, not just this year, but this year I have been much more aware of my faults and failures and how sinful I am…after condemning myself for years about my mistakes, it is unspeakably joyful when my pathetic presentation of my sinful nature to God is covered with Christ’s free grace.
So, if you’re reading this because you received my message on Facebook, I repeat, I have (sort of) updated you on my life…now it’s youuuuuuur turn! If you just are reading this for fun or your own personal edification, more power to you; you probably know more about me than you ever wanted to know. Woohoo!
