Gratitude

I love God and I love friends. Depressing thoughts have been circulating around my head recently, esp. last night. I cannot emphasize more on my desire to be someone I can live with, someone that wouldn't look back at my life in regret, wishing that I had participated in more meaningful activities. It's the desire to be a likeable person and an effective leader as well.

Mel is a godsend. Your prayer and your cookie (uniquely you), made me feel so much better. I couldn't have gone through today without you, Mel. I would have been really grouchy.

I thank God for friends, and most of all I thank God for carrying me out of that darkness, snapping me out of it.

I know all the trials and tribulations that I'm have gone through, am going through and have yet to gone through will allow perseverance to "finish its work so that [I] may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." (James 1:4) Though these trials are inevitable and a by-product of a fallen world, I am an overcomer and I will pull through. And listening to Francis Chan speak, I am reminded that I have a choice in temptation, not to lift my eyes from the goal. It's interesting- he mentioned how the greek words for trials and temptations differ. Trials approach you while the greek word for temptation is actually a luring away such that you become the active person in choosing to succumb to that temptation.

Okay off to study now. Will be updating more frequently in the near future, oh the books and movies I will explore after the exams.