Burned Out …Isaiah 40
I’m just going to be honest… I’m really burned out. I’m ready to be done with school for a while, and I’m ready to go home and see my family.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
But those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
Published on Apr 9, 2008 at 9:09 pm.
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Study Study
My brain is fried and my hand hurts. I’ve been writing out all my notes, as well as a bunch of review terms, definitions, theories, etc., for my Business Management test tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. I just finished, and I have ten solid pages of small hand-writing… now I just need to pace the halls of the academic buildings and memorize them.
My head hurts. Accounting is done, but I still have Management and Finite Math to get through before I can breathe again.
I’m excited to sleep tonight.
Published on Apr 8, 2008 at 8:07 pm.
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Integrity Above Reputation
I struggled a lot with my reputation and the reputation of my family growing up… My family, particularly my parents, were well-respected in the church and overseas as missionaries. Everyone liked my family, and people would always comment on how “well-behaved” my brothers and sisters were. I guess you could say we had the “perfect” family. I struggled a lot with that. I thought that I had to live up to this reputation that my family supposedly had… no one was allowed to see my faults, my struggles, my downfalls. What would that do for the reputation of my family?
Published on Apr 7, 2008 at 8:46 pm.
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Accounting and A Single Scoop
It’s a beautiful Sunday evening. I just got back from grabbing dinner at Taco Bell with a couple of the guys in my Accounting class. We’ve been studying most of the afternoon for our test tomorrow. I don’t like to study on Sundays, but sometimes it’s hard not to. The leadership conference was going on all weekend, so most of my day yesterday was taken up with that… and I don’t have more than an hour or two to study tomorrow before the test. I’ve been pacing around campus with a thick stack of note cards — all accounting terms, definitions, ratios, computations, and little tidbits of information that I’m responsible for. I feel more ready now than I did (probably a good thing, considering I put about three hours of studying in this afternoon)… but I still have a lot of material to cover. (more…)
Published on Apr 6, 2008 at 6:16 pm.
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Quotes on Trust
Trust is a really hard thing for me. I don’t trust people readily… in particular when it comes to people that want to get close to my family or friends. I guess you could say that’s me being protective. I want to write more about trust… I’m still thinking a lot about what I really think about it. For now, I just wanted to leave you with a few good quotes that I thought were insightful.
“Trust is like a vase… once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.”
“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they’re not, we cry.”
“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
”To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
Published on Apr 4, 2008 at 9:46 am.
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Memories
I couldn’t find the motivation to study tonight. After finishing my Business Management presentation this morning, I’m too exhausted to think about doing any more school. I went down to the computer lab to just check emails and facebook. Jess was down there, and she pointed out a few old pictures on facebook from way back… like when I was in 8th grade or something. I laughed. It’s funny to dig up old pictures and remember those special places and times that meant so much to you growing up. Jess found this old picture of me and my cousin Mike when we were 12 and 13 years old… the date on the picture was August 15, 2000.
Published on Apr 2, 2008 at 9:19 pm.
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Rising Junior
Three and a half weeks of school left. It’s hard to believe. I was looking at my planner earlier today, and from here on out, every day is going to be filled with studying, hard work, and maybe a few shed tears… I can’t believe that I’m almost done my second year of college and that I’ll be a junior next year.
A month and seven days from now, I’ll be in the air on my way to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’m so ready…
Published on Apr 1, 2008 at 7:10 pm.
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Last Thought
This is one of my favorite quotes… thought it would be a good one to end out the month of March with. Another month and I’ll be in the air on my way to spend a summer in Wyoming.
“The only lasting freedom from self-consciousness comes from a profound awareness that God loves me as I am, not as I should be. He loves me beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity. He loves me in the morning sun and the evening rain without caution, regret, boundary, limit or breaking point; that no matter what I do, He can’t stop loving me. When I am really in conscious communion with the reality of the wild, passionate, relentless, stubborn, pursuing, tender love of God in Jesus Christ for me, then it’s not what I’ve got to or I must or I should or I ought; suddenly I want to change because I know how deeply I am loved.” -Brennan Manning
Published on Mar 31, 2008 at 9:00 pm.
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Dumb Squirrel
Here’s a picture of that dumb squirrel I was talking about earlier… the one who was naive enough to run after an empty nut shell. That’s like me chasing after an empty snicker’s wrapper? Who does that?
Published on Mar 30, 2008 at 11:43 am.
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Throwing
I went down to the Art Barn with Jess and Corban earlier this afternoon. Corban took Ceramics I last year, so he was heading down to do a little throwing on the pottery wheel. I went down there with him and grabbed a ball of clay and a wheel. It’s been a few years since I’ve touched a pottery wheel… it felt good to feel the wet clay move between my hands and to see it take shape depending on where I put my hands and fingers. It took me a long time to remember how to center the clay. It was frustrating at first. I had forgotten how much of your weight you have to put into holding your arms still and keeping your hands firmly around the clay while the wheel spins.
I didn’t end up making anything - the clay got too wet to form anything after about an hour of me trying to make a bowl then a mug then a plate then a bowl… :)
It was fun though. It definitely takes a while to get back into it. Pictures soon to come.
Published on Mar 29, 2008 at 1:05 pm.
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