New Mexico Mission Trip

The gospel of Matthew gives an account of a man afflicted with a crippled – “withered” – hand.  Jesus, upon encountering this man, commanded him to “stretch forth” his hand.  Consider this man’s options:

1)  Extend his strong, healthy hand to Jesus while explaining why reaching out with his crippled hand would be impossible, difficult, painful, etc.     OR

2)    Act in faith and will his seemingly useless, crippled hand to reach out for Jesus.

This man chose to give Jesus his weakness, and thus his hand was “restored whole.”  

            ** I could offer God my strongest efforts and abilities (trusting in my own knowledge, experience, opinion, whatever), but my pride would prevent His fullest blessings OR

            ** I could give my weaknesses, inabilities, shortfalls and uncertainties and allow Him to develop areas in me while He supplies the grace and meets the needs for His love and light to reach the lost *most effectively.*

            Surrender yourself – it’s not about what you can do, it’s about what Christ can do through you.

In your weakness, Christ is indeed made strong.

I'm being told again I need to update.  Since I last posted I officially reached completion of 70 college credit hours.  I also got a new hair job:

And I hung out with these girls lots and lots. . .

Oh, and Lauren and I cooked dessert . . .

When we brought it to church we decided just to keep it on our table instead of putting it out for potluck.  LOL.

So that's my life.

Currently Watching A Walk to Remember By David Andrews, Al Butler, Peter Coyote, Clayne Crawford, Lauren German see related

So Tyler says I need to update.  Mister, this is just for you!  LOL.

     Life has been a blur for a few weeks now -- every day and activity running into each other.  Burnt-out blues almost got me yesterday, but the thought of completing 70 credit hours exactly 3 weeks from tonight refueled my fire so to speak.  Hurrah!  And there's only 27 days of working before and after school left -- I am very much ready to leave all of that behind and for good.  Ya, after 3 years with BISD childacre, I'm happily moving on.  I'm applying for a job in the FWISD admin. doing some marketing, editing, and etc., but am not sure that they'll take me because I can't begin work till July because I am a definite for the mission trip this year!  It's about time, right?  All these years and I've never been -- we'll fix that soon!  I'm also putting my car up for sale later this week; I am totally pumped about getting a Trail Blazer.  The Rambler has two more issues this semester; looks like next fall I'll move into Managing Editor (who automatically does double duty as Opinions Editor also).  That should be cool.  I may keep Campus Life too . . . it's to early to tell.

     Golly, that's for sure an update of events!  It's crazy.  I'm pretty much too tierd and brain-dead (no comments on that please!) to write much of anything, so I suppose this is it! 

[Tyler, how'd I do?]

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OMG!!!

     The mail came half an hour ago.  I received a letter.  I was afraid to open the letter and read my fate, for my fate indeed it did contain.  The course of the next three years of my life balanced on this letter's content.  I stared at it, slowly opened it, took a deep breath and . . .

I AM NOW A HATTON SUMNERS SCHOLAR!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Translated, the rest of my time at Wesleyan is PAID FOR!  I am still in shock.  Only 3 students a year receive this award -- it is called the "highest honor" at our school.  There were 8 others in the final round of elimination -- the individual interviews with 6 trustees.  That was a miserable experience -- pretty much all of us were sick with stress, nervousness, and pressure already, but then we were intensely grilled over all kind of hard issues.  I was sure I had bombed -- but God had other plans!!  All of this is His doing, for I know I don't deserve it.  He is amazing!!  Another part of the scholarship is we all have paid for tickets into conferences and stuff like that.  I am still in a state of excited shock.

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Weekend Outing: the old-fashioned drive-in

 This scary duo could not stop laughing!   

  Self Portrait! 

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