5.14.2004

Another day...another job

So today I started my summer job. My hopes of finding employment with great pay and high wages skidded to a stop as I drove my car up to Romano's Pizza. Now I guess there are jobs that could be worse, and I don't need to complain, so I won't. Just keep me in your prayers so that I can look though the dirty dishwater and see the money God is providing until the end of the summer. He's put me there for a reason, I know that. Not really sure what that reason is, but thats the way God works most of the time. A little shorter this time, I'm tired and want to sleep. Until sometime later...

Nathan

5.09.2004

My First

So this is my first time to do this. Here's a couple of things that have been on my mind lately. First, school is winding down and I just realized the other day that I will be leaving in a matter of days to go back home. Kinda strange, really. This semester has gone by so fast I can barely recall what I've done...it seems to be a mix of insomatic nights and studying. And now it's almost over with just one more final to go. I've made a few awesome friends this semester, and I'm gonna miss talking to them everyday. I'm gonna miss the college life of spontanity (a word?) and doing whatever I want, and instead having to live with my parents again. But change is a good thing, and there is a time for everything, so I'll just have to wait and see what God has in store for me this summer.
God has been revealing himself to me so much in the last couple of days. I'll start at the begining. I've been reading a lot of financial books about starting buisnesses and investing, and all of them talk about goals. They say that to have goals that acually permeate through your mind and into reality you need to write them down and look at them everyday. Now, I know that these are secular books and don't say anything about any spiritual issue, but I thought that I should incorporate my goals in Christianity. So I decided to make a goal of reading my bible at least 15 minutes a day. Pretty simple, but I've been struggleing with this for awhile. So I started...first with the book of Jerimiah. And even through that first chapter God showed me something. God was telling Jerimiah to go and prophesy in the local church, but he didn't want to because he was too young and couldn't speak well. God reafirmed His love for him, though, and Jerimaih went anyways. What's cool is this is what I have been convicted about myself. I know God, but I don't really know God. It's hard to explain and maybe impossible to explain. Moving on though...
So I started reading my bible everyday, and God filled me with his joy everyday of last week. I'd get up excited about that day and what it held. So then God started showing me more of his plan. Well, I guess just that there is a plan for my life.
On Saturday my Upstream group was supposed to meet for an end of the year party at 9 in the morning. I had been up late the night before but I still wanted to go, so at 4 I slid under my covers and dosed into dreamland. As the alarm went off 5 hours later, my fatigue-ridden eyes haphazardly slapped open as my alarm buzzed in the background. I had overslept. I thought that I should get dressed real quit and hurry onto the party, but something happened. As I thought, I really felt God telling me not to go for some reason. If this had happened a week earlier, I might not have thought anything about it. I decided not to go and curled back into bed. Shortly afterward, I was playing pogs with Colin Powell and The Olsen Twins when Ryan opened the door to my room. "Are you naked?" he asked. With a shake of my head and a strech his finger motioned outside the room for everybody come in. Ten people, acually. My whole Upstream group had come over to see why I didn't show up at the party. It was really cool. It's nice to have friends in a bible study that are around more than just at the bible study, so that you really know them. Anyways, so they stayed awhile and it was cool, we played Halo and then they went on their way.
Nathan Harvey, though, asked me to come to a free lunch, with just a little bit of work involved. Since I have no money anyways, i thought what the heck. So I drove to this lady's house to find that we're helping her move to Bryan. I didn't really mind cause I'd probably just end up getting on IM and not doing anything with my Saturday. When I was helping pack up some books, I found out that she's into alot of the same finanial books that I like. After talking for awhile, she really likes financial things and was really open about her business ventures. So it's really cool to find someone here at college that I can talk to about those things.

So you're asking, what's the point? Well...because God told me not to go to the party, now I have a great memory about my Upstream group and have gained a new friend, along with the experience of helping her move. It's just one of those things that just kinda works out that you could never have planned or even imagine. And in those times when I'm struggling with God I can look back on this Saturday and know that he does have a plan for my life and he's watching out for me. I've still got some more stuff but that will have to come later. God's done some awesome things lately and it's hard to put them in just one post.