Trying To Keep Going

Ha, I posted once on here and then ignored it forever. Like I said, I'm really bad at this stuff. The family is leaving on Friday to go up to North Carolina and then on to Pennsylvania to visit family.... and Bryant! I'm excited to get away and have a vacation, not to mention see my favorite brother. I'm also excited because I may get to see some Covenant friends while I'm up in the area.

Speaking of Covenant, I miss the place and the people. My mom told me the other day that I have been happier than I was for two years ever since I went to Covenant. I believe that all of that is the direct result of being where God wants me instead of where I think I want to be. For awhile there I was trying to make my plan into God's plan and do whatever I wanted. Also, I was staying where it was "safe" and "normal" instead of braving forth and trusting in God to care for me. When I finally put my trust in God's plan and took a leap of faith I was so much happier. I've found a place that I belong and a place where I believe God will use me.

Every night I pray that God will use me as a blessing for others and as an instrument for his will, but that can only happen when I stop putting all of my focus on myself. It's hard to be a blessing to others when you serve yourself. And doing things for others just to make yourself feel good is just as bad. I've always had a bad habit of doing such things, but it's also something that I'm trying to work on.

On a lighter note, I've thoroughly enjoyed watching HBO's Band of Brothers. Why is this? Pretty men and that guy from Office Space. Ahem. World War II awesomeness, that's why! This series has strengthened my desire to hop on a plane to Europe and track the 101st Airborne's involvement in the European campaign all the way to Germany. I kid you not, the history geek inside of me is doing back flips and squeeing like a small child on her birthday. I always tell my mom that the thing I love about history is the people, and Band of Brothers focuses on the people who fought WWII, hence my love for the series.

I've also watched some of The Big Bang Theory, and while it is not near as awesome as The IT Crowd it is entertaining and gives me my dork fix for the day. I don't have a ton of new interests as of late, besides Merlin which is a great, mindless, BBC show Mom and I watch now.

I'm psyched about our trip and hope that the history geek inside me has a field day when we visit Gettysburg. My family will probably become so exasperated with me running around shouting, "And this is where Pickett got his men slaughtered! And this is where those people from Maine and the Gettysburg movie stood and killed a bunch of Confederates. And this whooooole place is where an absolute bloodbath took place and everybody was all sad, but also kinda 'yay,' or at least the North was, because it turned the tide and all. And this!......" Yeah, my family puts up with a lot. Bless. Also, the excessive use of italics? Yeah, that's because I will be super overly excited about this stuff.

Anywho, I'm going to close this rather lengthy and pointless post up and bid everybody farewell..... farewell.