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Getting The Schedule Down…

My days seem to be busy with trying to get the right schedule down before school starts…trying to figure out what works best…what doesn’t and so forth. One of the things I have noticed is that a nap at work is huge! Without it my day just seems to slowly roll by, I’m more tired and feel like I can’t get anything done…my sleeping goal is trying to get five hours in a day…which works great when I haven’t been up all night…then you have to get the workout schedule to fit in there…then time for school…my calendar seems to be constantly changing  to get things to work out just right. All I have to say is come the 29th of September…things are just going to be nuts!

What About Right Now

My heart has been heavy the last few days with an interesting thought process…I have all these what if’s right now going on…things that I want to do by this time period…wishing I could be some where else, doing something else…you get the idea. Yet today something hit a soft spot in my heart…what am I doing right now that could benefit, help, or encourage others. I think I have been given this amazing opportunity and have been looking over it for too long. I work in a field that is full of opportunities not only with the people I see but with the people I work with. What am I doing to not only encourage the people I work with but also the people I see. Why do I have stopping caring for someone as soon as they get out of the ambulance…or why do I stop praying for people  at work as soon as I am no longer at work.

Sure there are other places I want to be at some point in my life but here in this moment…right now what is it that the Lord wants me to be doing. How can I be lending more of a hand…then…then when I open my eyes even more I see how he has been putting the same question on others hearts…the Lord’s plan…how I wish I could see it but how excited I am to just watch it slowly unfold.

Wake Up Call

So my roommate got into a bad car accident this morning and I am extremely happy that she is okay and has no injuries…when you look at her car you can’t believe that no one got hurt. How it happened…she fell asleep at the wheel coming home from work. Both her and I could not believe that it happened because we only live a few miles from her work and I can say the same about my work. We are both guilty of pushing our limits with how much sleep we get, we both work a lot and like to hang with others just as much and often forget how important it is to get sleep.

I am guilty of getting into my car and driving home when I am exhausted because I tell myself that it will only take a few minutes…but it would be a lot safer for me to take a nap in my car before I tried to drive home. I think it was a wake up call for both of us to be more alert to our bodies and how tired we are; before we decided to try and get into our cars and drive. It is also a reminder to us that we can’t skip out on sleep, that it is something that we have to put into our schedules no matter what. I am so glad she is okay and nothing serious happened to her and hopefully both of us will learn from it.

This Is Who I Want To Be

There comes a time when I start to think…I start to question where it is that the Lord wants me. I may even start to push my boundaries a little too much just to see if it is a for sure fact that I shouldn’t be going in that direction. One of the things that I love about the Lord is the fact that he knows our hearts so well and knows when we need to be shown why it is you don’t want to travel that path. I have had a couple of those moments come up in the last few days and it has made me very grateful for the reminder of where he wants me to be and who he wants me to become.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today the world better look out…cause it’s her 22nd birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRL

Went Fishin’

One of the best adventures I have ever been a part of…and I went with a great group of people.

She Is My Mini Me

Had the joy of spending the last couple days with my sister…love her to death

The Life Of A Basic

Step 1: Get The Rig Ready To Go

Step 2: Drive….

Step 3: Stand On Scene With Hands In Your Pockets Trying To Look Like You Are Doing Something

Step 4: Drive…

Step 5: Clean The Rig

Step 6: Drive

These Steps Can Then Be Repeated For The Next 12 Hours…I Only Remind Myself Of These Steps Every Time I Think I Don’t Want To Go Back To School To Become A Medic…

J.O.Y.

This summer has been such a growing summer and I can look back at the first part of it and just smile with joy when thinking about just some of the little things that I have been through; the things I have learned and continue to learn because of them is awesome. One of the things that I have noticed though is the amount of pride I have…which of course I can sit here and say that a small amount of pride is good…but is it really?

I consider myself to have a strong personality and because of it I think my pride grows a little too much and when that happens the walls seem to go up and the outside world has a hard time coming in. So how do you learn to continue to be a strong person, continue to have your positive traits but let the pride…your guard down to become that much better of a person?

A friend of mind brought up a great point and the point has been brought up a lot in many of my studies lately and it’s about having the right mind set. Where is my mind when I’m building my walls…I know for a fact that I don’t want it to seem like I can’t handle it, I don’t need help…but what if I switch my mind set and think of what Jesus would be doing and what he would want me to be doing…it no longer becomes about me, about the (I) but instead it becomes about Him and then it becomes about others.

I don’t remember who had this in there car but it was something they used all the time. JOY…Jesus, Others, Yourself…and when it is in that order, joy is in the air in every aspect. For me, it is not only important for me to have that mind set but it is also important to allow others who want to have that mind set to have it… and not rob them of that. I want others to feel an instant joy when around me because they see the Lord, they feel loved, but they also feel that I except their love too. I want the mind set of Jesus and to do that he has to always be first.