breathe

This week has been slightly insane. It was a lot busier than most of my weeks this summer, yet I didn't DO anything. I volunteered, went to class, went to the doctor (found out i'm sick, yuck!), and laid in bed. yeah sounds like i was overwhelmed right?! well actually i was! it was so weird. I did nothing, but it was so tiring. Probably due to the fact that I was sick all week and didn't know it, or maybe because I was catching up from all the sleep I missed on my fabulous July 4th weekend (yeah that was probably it). That was such a good weekend. Blessings were uncovered that I had completely overlooked in my life. Blessings that are so small and seemingly insignificant, but when you discover them you are awestruck with their magnitude. Good, godly friendships are definitely something that I've taken for-granted my entire life. Growing up in the "bubble" I grew up in, it was definitely a shocker when I got to college and everyone hadn't been raised the way I had been raised. Oddly enough, some people's backgrounds don't define where they end up and who they are at this point of life and we had tons in common. This led to a blooming frienship, one in which was, I believe, ordained solely by God. The things that I have learned in the friendships of my short lifetime are just so amazing and awe inspiring. They lead me to the Lord each time I am reminded of them. I constantly turn to God and say, "Wow, Lord you had this planned from Day 1 and I didn't even know." God's plan. Its something that we as Christians often flippantly say. Such as, "Well, it was God's plan I go to Panera today because I had a free pastry on my rewards card!" But the type of God's plan talks I'm talking about it are the ones where that moment in your life, that desert road of a time, that lonely place you thought you would never leave led you to the most joyous and God glorifying place in your life. This plan is GOD ORCHESTRATED.

This summer has had an overall theme of "contentment in Christ" for me. Everything that I wanted for this summer simply did not turn out the way that I wanted to AT ALL. But i've learned to find beauty in the broken-ness and Joy in pain. Because GOD has orchestrated this for me and it is beautiful.