God has a reason

Quick blog before going back to studying. The last few days I've been in a music mood so I've been listening to a ton of music on my laptop. And I have a playlist I created a while ago so I was just letting it play through that while reading/studying/writing or whatever. It started playing a group of songs that someone had given me a while ago and it made me think about a lot of stuff. Specifically this past year or even two years. You forget how fast time flies! It is 2008...I think I keep forgetting that.

It is so funny how things change. Two years ago I would have never imagined I would be where I am right now. Yes, I knew I would be at UW, as it was my dream since I was a little girl. But I never thought that I'd be realizing UW is probably not the school I should be at but rather an art school (although I'm still finishing at UW before art school...). Or that I would have not gotten into the school of Journalism (although, I am applying again!). And that I'd be doing 3 weddings this year! Or that I would be playing guitar and loving it or...just all these little things. That I would be playing a song I wrote in front of the entire church this Sunday! That my mom would have Diabetes, but seeing her handle it with such joy! Life is funny sometimes. But God is amazing! And he definitely has a purpose for everything. Even if we never know the purpose or it just takes a while for us to find out.

I keep thinking about this little story Evan read from a sweet awesome book I need to get while we were canoing. It goes something like this and I'll probably get a ton of it wrong but...here goes nothing. There is a man walking down the road one day and he feels the urge to yell "Jesus Christ is Lord" (Or maybe it was...Jesus Christ is the Son of God...something along those lines) and so he does. He yells it. And...nothing happens really, people look at him strange but that is obvious. And a second later he gets the urge to yell it again. So he does. Well, he finds out years and years later that it turns out there was a woman in an apartment above where he was who had just asked the Lord who he was. And then she heard the man yell. And so she said...ok...tell me again. And then she heard the man yell it again. How amazing is God?!? I mean, if only we did all those little things that God gives us the urge to do! It may be the most simple task but we chicken out. Or, maybe we do it but we never know why! So what if we don't know why! We should do it because we don't always have the answers and God has a reason!

Anyways... :-) Back to my homework. Almost done!!! I cannot wait till tomorrow around 10:30am when I am DOOOOOOONNNNNNNE!!! :-) :-)

~Rebecca Anne~