I haven't really kept you guys up to date on my life but I'm sure you are used to it. Well summer is almost over and school is approaching. I never really got out of school mode because I'm currently taking two summer classes. We'll see if I'm burnt out on school by the fall. I can't say that I'm dreading going back though. It's my senior year and I plan on graduating. I also plan on getting married around August 28, 2010. So many big events coming up in my life. I'm kinda nervous. I hope I am prepared for both. I don't want any suprises. But I guess thats life.
As always I'm a working in progress. I'm trying to change my demeanor. I need to be more patient, not quick to anger, and less selfish and more selfless.
I found this definition of patience online: bearing or enduring without complaint. This totally is the opposite of me. If I wait for long periods of time I complain, if things don't happen as soon as I want I get mad. This is not a good look.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 1:2-4 KJV
It seems that I get mad easily. It's those little annoyances that make me so mad. Most of the time its passive aggressive anger but I can get hostile. People don't want to be around someone who is angry all the time and it just causes undue hostility where there was none. And this ladies and gentlemen is definitely not a good look.
Slowness to anger makes for deep understanding; a quick-tempered person stockpiles stupidity.
Prov. 14:29 Message
Last but definitely not least. I can be really selfish. I mean I could make the excuse that I can't help it because I feel like I have to put myself first or no one else will. But that is no reason for me to be selfish to the people I love and who have given unselfishly to me. Needless to say, not a good look.
Don't be misled: No one makes a fool of God. What a person plants, he will harvest. The person who plants selfishness, ignoring the needs of others—ignoring God!—harvests a crop of weeds. All he'll have to show for his life is weeds! But the one who plants in response to God, letting God's Spirit do the growth work in him, harvests a crop of real life, eternal life.
Gal 6:7 Message
This is just the stuff that has been on my mind.
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