A Wrinkle In Time

  Wow, I haven’t wrote in this thing for a few months and it’s not because I haven’t had anything to share it’s just that I’ve been so busy/stressed that I haven’t had the time.  School is overwhelming and teachers erk me and as far as work goes I really do like my job at the nursing home, but because of school I can only put in so many hours.  I can’t wait for school to be over with forever.  Work is so much less stressful I think.  This year I’ll be graduating with my generals and I’m kind of disappointed with myself for only accomplishing my generals after 3 years of college, but I don’t regret my year at Prov.  I’ve been thinking a lot about my future lately.  After this year is finished I have no idea of what I’m going to do with my life.  I wish God would just tell me and maybe he has I’m just not listening or maybe my fear is getting in the way I don’t know.  I don’t even know why I dwell so much about my future here on earth anymore because I was thinking about how our time on earth is a lot shorter than the time we will spend in heaven/hell.  Our life on earth is like the preface page of an unending text book.  Maybe I should be more focused on my eternal future and think more about storing up treasures in heaven rather than what I’m going to do after college. 
  Anyways, last week Devils Lakes water was tested positive for e coli.  This kind of freaked me out a bit because I usually take a bottle of water from home and then just continually refill it at the school’s water fountains.  Here I was thinking I was being so healthy drinking all this water.  So much for that thought.  Pure drinking water is just one of the many things that we take for granted.  I mean ya we say a prayer for our food before we eat it thanking God for it and asking him to bless it, but do we ever pray over a glass of water?  It’s something to think about I guess.  They did a restest of the water and reported that the findings of e coli was a mistake.  I’m not sure if I believe this.  It sounds too weird to me.  In some parts of the world dealing with contaminated water isn’t an uncommon event.  We should be grateful for the simple things in life.
  Last Saturday my cousins Laura and Scott got married.  It was a beautiful fall wedding.  I enjoyed my time being with family and eating delicious cake.  My cousin Laura had asked me to read this prayer during the ceremony and I agreed to it thinking I would have no problem with speaking in front of my family, I sort of forgot about everyone else that was going to be there.  When I got up there to read I got so nervous my voice was shaking, I was standing on my tip toes in order to reach the mic., and I laughed twice during the whole thing.  The first time I laughed was because I thought I heard one of my relatives laughing at me so I joined them.  Laughter is contagious and once I start I can’t stop.  The second time I started to laugh was after I read the line “…and good health until a ripe old age…”  I even heard Laura laughing at that one.  I will never understand that.  What age is a ripe old age and why wouldn’t you want to wish good health on the couple for the rest of their lives and not just up to the ripe old age?  Goes to show you that the college speech class I took did me no good.

Tip of the day:
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”