Today marks my 52nd post. One full year has gone by since I began blogging. I have taken some time to look back through my posts over the past year. I can't believe how fast time is moving. Furthermore, I cannot believe how much I have grown in a year. I have been blessed with countless incredible memories and life lessons.
From one of my first entries, grocery shopping was a $30 trip in which I brought home 5 items that I thought I could stretch out 2 weeks! Now I realize that I'm still a growing man, and I need at least 3 square meals every day. That is one of the more simple and superficial lessons of the year. As you have read over the last couple of months especially, my faith life has really taken to strong roots and is blossoming like never before. This has been the most important development over the past year. Nothing that I have done could have happened without His grace. I have learned a ton this year and so this next series of, incidents you could say, I believe to sum up what this year has been for me.
I have had the pleasure of a few late-night pow-wows with my mom over the past couple of weeks. In those conversations she has told me that I am, "Wise beyond my years." I don't know how much truth there is to that, but the comment stuck with me for a few days and I formulated what I thought to be a strong quote which encompassed my sentiment: "The limit of my wisdom reaches only as far as the extent of that which has been revealed to me." Now, the third tier of this learning process comes from the book of Proverbs 2:6. "For the Lord GIVES wisdom." Wisdom is a gift. It's interesting trying to figure out why God has taught me the lessons that I have learned over the past year. What am I supposed to do with all of it? What does it all mean? Well, the fact of the matter is this: God has us all on a "need-to-know" basis. Most of the time I would say that the majority of people don't particularly like this system. We're all about security and knowing what's going to come next. That is where faith lies. Faith is a KNOWING, not some long shot hope, it is a knowing that all will be taken care of. That is the greatest thing that has been revealed to me in the past year. Don't get me wrong, I still worry a fair amount - about bills, my family and friends, what I'm going to do after college - but more often than not anymore, my heart is at peace with that knowledge that God will provide everything I need when I need it.
Here's to another great year. I look forward to sharing my "wisdom" over the next 52 weeks. God bless.
From one of my first entries, grocery shopping was a $30 trip in which I brought home 5 items that I thought I could stretch out 2 weeks! Now I realize that I'm still a growing man, and I need at least 3 square meals every day. That is one of the more simple and superficial lessons of the year. As you have read over the last couple of months especially, my faith life has really taken to strong roots and is blossoming like never before. This has been the most important development over the past year. Nothing that I have done could have happened without His grace. I have learned a ton this year and so this next series of, incidents you could say, I believe to sum up what this year has been for me.
I have had the pleasure of a few late-night pow-wows with my mom over the past couple of weeks. In those conversations she has told me that I am, "Wise beyond my years." I don't know how much truth there is to that, but the comment stuck with me for a few days and I formulated what I thought to be a strong quote which encompassed my sentiment: "The limit of my wisdom reaches only as far as the extent of that which has been revealed to me." Now, the third tier of this learning process comes from the book of Proverbs 2:6. "For the Lord GIVES wisdom." Wisdom is a gift. It's interesting trying to figure out why God has taught me the lessons that I have learned over the past year. What am I supposed to do with all of it? What does it all mean? Well, the fact of the matter is this: God has us all on a "need-to-know" basis. Most of the time I would say that the majority of people don't particularly like this system. We're all about security and knowing what's going to come next. That is where faith lies. Faith is a KNOWING, not some long shot hope, it is a knowing that all will be taken care of. That is the greatest thing that has been revealed to me in the past year. Don't get me wrong, I still worry a fair amount - about bills, my family and friends, what I'm going to do after college - but more often than not anymore, my heart is at peace with that knowledge that God will provide everything I need when I need it.
Here's to another great year. I look forward to sharing my "wisdom" over the next 52 weeks. God bless.
