lately

"Father, forgive me for letting my difficulties ruin my attitude. I want to be a blessing to others no matter my personal circumstances. Convict me with your Spirit when I begin to focus too much on myself and my situation. Expand my heart with your grace so that I can use my inconveniences, problems, struggles, and challenges to be opportunities to share and to display your grace. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen."

good thing verseoftheday.com knows i'm acting bitchy and more like a child every day i get closer to moving in to college.

i'm all at sea.

it isn't even just that some people are leaving and some people are changing and some people are staying and some people are doing all of the above. it isn't even just that this part of my life is ending and a new part of my life is starting. it isn't even just that i'm nervous because i'm out of shape and i don't know my music and i think nobody's going to like me. it isn't even just that it's all of those things on top of everything. it's that, even though i'm still me and you're still you and my family will be right here when i come home, everything is changing. everybody's lives are changing. everything is changing.

"some people look back on high school and think, 'oh, i'd really like to go back to that,' but really, the best years of your life haven't even started yet."

peaces.

""Goodbye" is a song and dance that has become so familiar in this summer of ends and beginnings. In a lack of proper perspective, I have had some tearful farewells--there was too much focus, at least on my part, on the end."