I have a blog...well the last time I did anything like this was when xanga was the cool thing to do back in Jr. High and High School. And back then I wrote about my Friday nights and the guys I was crushing on. Honestly, I don't know if my life has gotten that much more interesting. When I found out my roomie and best friend, Erica, was writing a blog I thought that was so neat. I love to journal and write down my thoughts but I just didn't think I would have anything to blog about that anyone would honestly care about. But then I would find myself thinking my thoughts through and coming up with ideas based on thoughts I had in class, bible study or just on a random late night QT run with the girls. I kind of started to feel like Carrie from Sex in the City...except with cleaner topics than her. :) So I suggested to Megan and Emiley that we blog about our lives...just for each other to read since we would probably be the only ones to find it all that entertaining anyways.
But just for this first blog I suppose I will do as I did on xanga and tell you about my Friday night. I am currently at work (shhh...I don't know if blogging is really what I am supposed to be doing right now) and I will be here till 11pm. Eight hour shifts can be pretty long but I know when I get my paycheck it will be all worth it. The Lord truly has blessed me this semester. I find myself complaining sometimes about having to spend my weekends at work when I would rather be at home or out with my friends but then I have to stop and remember that last semester I was complaining about not getting enough hours at work and a lack of money in my bank account. Isn't it crazy how we always want what we don't have? It is like we can never fully be satisfied with what the Lord has blessed us with. I find this in my relationship with Him as well. I think that there are many times that I find myself not being satisfied with God alone. I look for joy and fulfillment in other things of this world. Things like school, friends, family, money, clothes and shopping...temopary satisfaction. Emiley and I were reading in Pslams 4 today. Verse 7 says, "You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound. " God even promises that He will fill our heart with great joy. He is more than ENOUGH for us. Why do we look else where? That is just something I have been thinking about lately.
Well I think that I should probably get back to work. I will leave you some more love later.
Jess
ps-oh and I have grown since Jr. High and I don't crush and tell the whole internet about it anymore...sorry. ;)
