It's exactly one week until Thanksgiving. I'm not ready for it yet. It still hasn't hit me that I don't have class after Tuesday, next week. I'm trying to get my work done so that I don't have to work on it all through the break. It's looking good...I've gotten a lot done, but I have a big paper to write about Seabiscuit.
Ah, Seabiscuit. You gotta love that little horse. For my English class, we read Laura Hillenbrand's book, which was quite interesting, even though I'm not really interested in horse racing. And then, my professor had the bright idea of us researching a topic that was mentioned in the book but not fully developed. So, based on one paragraph, I'm trying to research THE STORY OF SEABISCUIT which was a movie made in 1949, starring Shirley Temple. Interestingly, it is unanimously considered a bad movie, and it was Shirley Temple's second to last movie, made while she was going through a divorce. Who knows...I might just spend all of break working on it, but I hope not.
Speaking of Thanksgiving break, I think it will be fun to go to my brother's house for Thanksgiving. Then, the day after Thanksgiving, Bill is going to be playing the piano in a mall in Columbus. Yay! I'm hoping my family will go see him.
Lately, I've had some great time with God. On Wednesday, at chapel, I mimed with Acts of Faith. Then, the speaker was awesome. He talked about how we often try to put God in a box and just take him out when we feel like having a little bit of God. He also talked about how we try to limit God by our emotions - "if I'm feeling good, I want to spend time with God, but if I'm not, then obviously God isn't around." I think the thing that hit me the most was when he talked about how we often approach worship waiting for God to show up, when instead, he is waiting for us to show up and drop all the crap that gets in the way. It hit me that I often do that. I felt for so long like God had left me, and yet it was more that I had just turned away. God is always there - in Hebrews, it says that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever." I think that is an amazing thing to know...that while I change my mind all the time, God never changes.
I was reading a book by Madeleine L'Engle...I forget the title right now...something about icons and golden calves. She keeps writing about how we've lost the wonder of God, about how he is a great mystery, and yet we want it to be laid out for us as black and white, right and wrong. Yet, we don't really know, and that God is so much more than we can imagine...but how awesome is that! God isn't limited by what I can think of...great stuff! Yippee! Alleluia! :)
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