i'll take a Venti Bittersweetened Transcript, shaken please

so who out there in blog land can solve this equation...

3-12 hours of rehearsal 5-7 days a week for 2.5 months
+
turning in 0 hmwk assignments in PHIL and a handful in MUS
+
skipping class way 2 much
=
?


Correct Answer:
Music = B
Logic/Reasoning = B-
Rehearsal/Performance = A

If you got it right, give yourself a gold star.

It's kind of bittersweet. I'm glad I didn't fail like I had thought I was going to, but the sad thing is, there should've been no reason for me to even consider failing as a possibility because these classes were ridiculously easy and I could've gotten 100% if I had actually turned in all the assignments and gone to class more often.
I hate being lazy.
From here on out, no more ditching. No more B's that could've been A's.


Amen.
mjl.

dona nobis pacem

God is our refuge and strength,

an ever-present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way

and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,

though its waters roar and foam

and the mountains quake with their surging.....

“Be still, and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth.”

The Lord Almighty is with us;

the God of Jacob is our fortress.


- Psalm 46: 1-3, 10-11



Amen.
mjl.

gather my insufficiencies and place them in your hands

You know how they say God works in strange and mysterious ways?

Totally true.

He never ceases to amaze me.

There've been a few things weighing heavily on my heart lately, and it seems like every single time I've felt that way and then gone to church the next Sunday or read an online devotional, the topics I'm reading or hearing seem to be totally personal and directed towards me, which sounds kind of creepy, but it's truly awesome.

It's like, I know these messages I'm reading/hearing were not written by their authors specifically to help me out with my problems at that particular moment, but God works through them to make it personal and helpful to me, which is such a cool feeling, cause I know that same message is helping someone else with completely different circumstances.

So even when things seem to be going to pot, and I truly cannot see how God can make something good out of my crappy situations, he manages to do so. So my advice to anyone out there in blog land who may be reading this is simply to hold on and have faith. Honestly, it's the best (& often hardest) thing to do. Go to God with your problems; He truly wants to help, even though it doesn't seem like it sometimes when we're stuck with really awful situations, He really, truly does.
Even though I've only been on this earth for a very short 19 years, I've endured a lot of death and sadness, some of the worst being the deaths of my little sister, Hayley, and my grandpa, and yet there is not one single situation I can think of where God did not pick me up, carry me through it, and help me learn something from that situation.

So please don't lose hope. Like it says in Matthew 28, "And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." God is there with you and wants to help, you just need to make the small effort of asking Him for it.

So praise be to God in his awesome power and wisdom for, yet again, blessing my life, and I'm sure your's as well.

Amen & Amen.

mjl.