The View From Here

Sorry for the lack up updates recently. I have been really busy with school, work, and other random assorted things. I promise to give a full update this weekend. Quite a lot has been going on, so you have something to look forward to. Until then.

Brian

This was a pretty good day. I got to sleep in a bit which is something I was in great need of and then I went to school. I got a test back in my NT class, which I got a 97 on. Yea!!!!!! I like that class alot. I think that the intructor and I think along the same lines. I don’t even have to study much for his tests and I do really well on them. It seems that many people in the class have a hard time with his style of test, but I like it. I had the rest of the day off and that was great. It seems that I havent had a day off in a while. I know I have, but even my days off seem too full to be considered days off. I need a day off from my day off. Really looking forward to summer when a day off from work will mean a day totally off from school and work. That will be nice.

So, it was a pretty productive day today. I finally got started on the massive amount of homework I have for my cost accounting class. It feels good to finally be putting check marks by some of those problems. I still have a test to study for tonight so that is what I will do next. Wow! aren’t you glad you just spent the last couple minutes reading about my day? I know I am!! Well, have a good rest of the day, whichever day you are reading this on! And don’t forget that this is the day the Lord has made, so rejoicing is in order!!

Brian

Do you ever feel like you have it down? Your life, that is. Do you ever feel like everything is going smoothly in your walk with the Lord? Well, that is where the bumps come in. Complacency is a dangerous thing. Casual disregard of things so important to our spiritual walk(reading the Word, prayer, fellowship, worship) is so easy to fall into. You think to yourself, “Hey, I’m ok! Things are going great! Others can see God in me!”…………and then you fall flat on your face. Not because others couldn’t see God in you, but because the core things our spirit needs to be effective in our lives is absent. Outwardly we are ok, but inwardly we are letting our spirit starve.

That is me these last couple weeks, and it all culminated last night. I thank God that he can use even our worst moments to brings us back into submission to Him. That he is faithful to us even when we are not faithful to Him. And that when we feel farthest from Him is when He is closest to us. Thank you, Lord! I pray that all of us would watch out for complacency in our spiritual walk, because that is the very thing that can destroy us.

Brian

Well, the end of the school year is nigh and the homework is piled high. But it is my fault. I have put off my Cost Accounting homework until I have…..well……a lot to do. I know that I need to do it but I really don’t have any motivation to. I really like my professor. He is a great guy. I just don’t like his class all that much. Oh well, all that to say that I have a lot of homework to get done before the end of the semester. I pray that God would give me the motivation to do it to His glory.

On another topic, well, another school topic, I saw the light at the end of my school tunnel vanish yesterday. I was registering for classes and I had it all figured out. I would have two classes this summer, five classes in the fall and five more in the spring and I would be done!! I would finally graduate and have the rest of my life to figure out and struggle through. But no. It would not happen this way. The big, bad HSU computer saw fit to end my hope by telling me that two of the classes I needed were already full, effectively squashing my dreams. But I won’t despair yet. I think that since these classes are really all I need to graduate, my advisor will find a way to get me into them. They wouldn’t keep me an extra semester over two PE classes would they? They might, but not without a fight.

Ok. Off the school subject now. I had an interesting revelation the other night. I was playing poker with some friends. I hadn’t won a hand all night so I found myself thinking about praying that God would give me a “hand”(pardon the pun). And as I sat there I found that I just couldn’t bring myself to pray that. I have had some issues with playing with these guys before in that their conversation is not at all pleasing to the Lord. I do not participate in the conversation with the hopes that my non-participation will be a testimony to them, and I don’t doubt that God can and does use things like that. When I first started going, I really felt that God wanted me there for just that reason and I don’t doubt that feeling. But I feel I lost that focus and so God wants me out of the situation now. My being there became more about the than about the game than the one who sent me to it as His ambassador. I realized this when I, all of a sudden, could not pray a blessing over the game . All that to say, that if I am in a situation where I don’t feel that I can pray that God would bless me in it, maybe I shouldn’t be in that situation anyway. This is not to say that I won’t go back. I believe that at the right time when my focus is firmly back on Him and He feels the time is right for me to be a witness for Him there, I will go. If that doesn’t happen, I won’t go back. I am just glad I realized this before I got dragged down into sin by the very people I was being a witness to.

Well, I think I have rambled enough. Until next time.

Brian

I was thinking the other day about who I am. That is a tough quesion. What makes up who I am? What influences the decisions I make, my choice of words, the kind of humor I use, what I enjoy…..the list could go on and on. Then I started thinking about what objects I could put into a time capsule so that if someone were to look at them 10 days or 10 years from now, they could get a good idea of the things that mean the most to me and influence me the most. Here is a shot list I came up with:

My Bible
A picture of my family
A picture of my friends
My guitar
A Calvin and Hobbes book
The Star Wars movies

This is a pretty short list and I am sure I could add alot more to it if I thought about it some more. So there you go. These are some of the people or things that you would need to find out about if you wanted to know some about who I am. So what would be on your list?

Brian