Nothing to prove

This semester my small group and I have been talking alot about what it means to fully trust God. To trust in God means to live out of who God says we are, which for me recently has been easier said than done. The world gets to me! It's a journey I'm taking in maturing to be all that God has made us to be.

So my small group and I decided to do a little project this past week. Our book brought up this point that if we truly trust in God, our lives are no longer about proving our worth to others through what we get to do (name of the book in case you're interested - TrueFaced). So, this brings me to facebook. How? Well here we go...We were talking about facebook and how deceiving it can be and how fake it is. I was saying how sometimes I feel like the only reason I post pictures or do anything on facebook is to prove that I have a life, and a cool one at that! Maybe it's true that I have a cool life, but I don't spend time enjoying it but rather I spend that time worrying about my life and how it is in comparison to other people's and it is all based off of facebook. A pretty unreliable source I'd say, but it's an obvious source. So now for the project...we decided to document one day and make a facebook album called "A day in the life of _____". It is to show our true lives. Anything from the most mundane chores to really exciting things we find in life. Nothing to prove. I secretly hope it starts a huge revolution on facebook hehe maybe it will catch on, who knows?! Here are a few pictures from my day in the life album...

I found the other parts to my socks yay!! Exciting stuff!

Locking my car to go to school!

Walking to class!!

Class!

Making copies and faxing things...woo hoo!!

Now this was only until like 12:00 and that was pretty exciting stuff huh?! It's great!

Little craft : )

I just wanted to show another little craft I made recently...it was for Faculty and Staff Appreciation week. I told my friend Katelyn that if making these sorts of things could be a career I'd do it! I just love taking several different pieces and putting them together in a new unique way. The club I am a part of, Family Studies and Human Development Ambassadors celebrates the faculty and staff with gifts and thank you notes so here was a little gift I made for them one day. By the way the theme of the week was "Thank you from around the world" so hence the Great Britian theme of biscotti and tea...Cheerio!!

Comparison is the thief of JOY

So it has been awhile since I've posted anything mostly because I was trying to figure out if I was a blogger or not...I was acting like it's something that you either can or cannot be. Well, I've figured out it's not so black and white and I might as well try. Sometimes I think who will want to read this stuff, but I've decided I don't care!

Today is a GORGEOUS cloudy day and on my way to school I was thinking how happy I was it was like this. The more layers the better. The more days with scarves on the better. The more days I can wear my favorite jacket the better. The more days where I don't have backpack sweat the BETTER!! I just have this inclination that maybe I was made for more Mountain-ish surroundings than I currently am, I'm not sure but it was something to ponder. I love finding these little nuggets out about myself, it's like discovering something that has always been there, I just never realized it before.

Recently I've been reading this book that has been teaching me alot about trusting who I am in the Lord and actually believing it. He says I am in him and that I am a saint...why do I not believe this sometimes? I think it's because I listen too much on what the world tells me and recently this has been very true! It's as if the world is screaming at me and the Lord is gently whispering to me. If you know me well, you know my new favorite mentality is the saying "Comparison is the thief of joy"...well it's true, for me at least! Comparison, comparison, comparison...man does it get to me! When I get in that mind frame it's all downhill. My new journey is to believe in what the Lord tells me I am and to live like that. Living like that I think will give me even more joy and contentment in who I am and what I'm doing in life. There's no more competing, there's just living!!