It's a long road from which there is no turning
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: school days are back
Life's highway is kinda like I 95, always under construction. As far as I know, I'm supposed to graduate in May of 2004. Phew, that's a relief. Maybe now that I'm graduating I can actually start teaching other than as a student.

Looking back over the past two years, the Lord has blessed me greatly. When Christ says "Ask and it shall be given unto you" He means it. When I met Amanda, I was praying for someone in my life who could be a true help-meet. God sent me this and more.
So what is the "more" part? When I began dating Amanda, my higher education situation was in shambles. I had completed the requirements for a degree, but I knew not where to go from there. I prayed for guidance. When you turn your life over to God in where your life is to go, and ask Him to open the doors he wants you to go through, and close the doors He doesn't want you enter, you can rest assured that exciting things will happen. Where I had attempted to get a teaching degree before, doors closed in my face faster than the turnstile at an airport. When I transferred to Southern, those doors that had closed suddenly opened as if by an unseen hand. Those doors are still opening before my eyes, and I see God's work each day in mine and Amanda's relationship.

I asked God for someone I could simply get along with. He sent me someone I fell completely in love with, no regrets, no wondering if I could do better, just complete thankfulness that when I turned it over to God He sent me better than I had ever expected.

It seems like only yesterday, but it was 1992, when a pretty discouraged 18-yr old prayed, "Lord, give me this mountain." I spake then only of higher education. Five years thereafter I began to climb, and I've been climbing ever since. Well it looks like I'm nearly to the top, but I've learned this along the way: there are pitfalls avoidable only by holding fast to the hand of God, there are rocks that cut your feet along the way. Press on, for while the dreams we have on this earth can come true when we entrust them to God, our dream is eternity with God. Press on, looking ever upward, there are thorns along the path but there are flowers. Press on and take the hand of those who stumble beside you. A song from the past says, "hold on, we're on our way." I believe in a different version, the one where God says, "Hold on, I'm on my way." He's coming, let us be ready.