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Today has been one of those days… 

You know one of those days that everyone has, that no one wants. The days where it seems as though all the realities of life slap you in the face, all at once, so that you can even turn you head in the mist of getting hit from every which direction. Here has mad today, “one of those days”:

1.So today one of my closest friends and confidants left to go to where God wants him to be. Over the last few days he has been dealing with some stuff that God has placed on his heart and in those moments he has truly tried to seek his face. Up today I was completely content with the idea that he was leaving, but this morning it truly hit me and even now as I m typing this out it is weird for him to not be with in feet of me, he is now several hundred miles away.

2. I have been trying to cleans myself of all that I am. All of my shortcomings, temptations, fears, and self-centered desires. Needless to say that today one of them showed up to play. So for part of the day, I was fighting with myself to over come the temptations that effect me the most. Those things that I struggle with in the moments that I don’t want to the most. I can honestly say that today, even being,“one of those days”, I over came the temptation. Not that is was by my strength, rather it was by the grace of God. 

3. I have been going through a bit of a different life not knowing that many people. This is something that is new for me. I have made some new friends and it is not that I didn’t want to be with them or that they did not want to be with me rather it is that, I feel as though I don’t need to be consumed with them. I have always been around others, while this is not a bad thing. I believe that part of the season that God has me in at this point in time is for me to be alone with Him and Him alone at point in time. 

4. I have always been the one never to worry but today I have been thinking about what is going to happen if I do not get a job. I know that everything is going to work out, but at the same time it is hard. I have a job that I was told I will be starting next week, but I haven’t heard back from them after the interview and thought that I would have by this point in time. 

I say all these things for a reason. So many times we fill our lives with other things, not all of them negatives. But the idea is that we have to come to a place that are giving everything to God, and even on, “one of those days”, days. 

Blessings. 

today has been a remarkable day… It stated with a very good morning it the Bible, prayer , and then my now normal morning tea on my front porch. Today I was reading in psalms I will cover that in the morning tomorrow, I am still giving myself to process all of my thoughts on the passages before I write something brash that I shouldn’t. So after my morning time, conversations, and refection. I pulled out some of the leftovers from the pad thai that I cooked last night. I was very surprised to find that it was not as spicy as last night. The last time it did the same thing, I am guessing that the chillies used in pad thai are different than the ones I use to make tom kha (thai soup), because that is alway spicier the next day… So I enjoyed a good meal for the second time today. After I finished my lunch I received a phone call informing me that I need to be downtown later in the day to meet a friend of mine at the bank to take care of some important plans for the future (details not yet public). After we left the back we stubbled upon a person of great importance and that we would not really have bumped into other than if God could orchestrate. So after a few minutes of conversation and some exchanging of information . We walked away full of excitement for the things that God is setting in motion in our lives only as He could do. After this I departed from downtown and went to area of town know as NODA. I decide to park my car for a few minutes and walk around that area and look for a store that one of my friends had informed me about. 

When I got home I talked to my roommate Jordan and convinced him that taking a walk would be the best way to spend the dusk hours of our day. So we left our house and went a little walk and on the way home we stopped by the local REDBOX and rented a movie with the infamous Clint Eastwood, I am not endorsing the movie. This was a great movie, I had heard mixed review about wether it was a good movie or not, but my vote it that it was amazing! 

So now I am sitting here writing you if any who will read about my life and my day. I am still looking and applying everywhere for a part time job so please pray that God will open the door at the right place. 

Blessings.

So I went downtown today to apply for a few places that I would really like to work downtown. There is a parking lot on 6th street in uptown that lets you park for free for the first 90min. Which was more than enough time for me to go to the two places that I wanted to apply for. So as I was riding the elevator down I set my alarm a few min to before I would need to be at the parking deck. So I went to the two places that wanted to apply filled out to applications, then headed back to the parking deck even before my alarm went off telling me that I should head to my car so I was feeling pretty good, or so I thought. As I was getting on the elevator I reached into my pocket to pull out the ticket, but there was no ticket, so I looked in my other pockets and still nothing… so at this point I was experiencing a few different “emotions” and wanted to express them in a few, well lets just say “colorful” words… So I thought to me self maybe the teller will be a nice old lady or someone that I can “charm” into letting me go or just pay a little bit extra. However noting against the nice teller lady, but i was charge the full $15 dollar fee, but the worst part was that I could see in her eyes that she wanted to let me go… However just as much as I wanted her to let me go she had a job to do. Now that I think about it she most likely signed or at least agreed to not let people go with out paying because they had a story or the are young and hansom. If she would have let me go it would have made my day better but at the same time it would have made her compromise her standard… 

After thinking about all that has been happing in my life and then my little lost ticket incident today it made me think about the time where I have compromised my beliefs and some of those times I might have been helping someone else out but that doesn’t really justify my actions. Honestly the more I continue to type this entry, I am thinking about how hard it would be for me in so many areas to not compromise. Now I am not talking about major areas, I am thinking about the little things. But in reality the way we start off in the begging is something that we will never get back, and the small things that we compromise in we will never get back….

So as the sun sets in Charlotte, I am sitting in my living room with one of the best fellows alive, Jordan Vale. We are both at a beautiful place in our lives. We are chasing life as fast as we can, no matter what the sacrifice, be it small or large… which brings me to the reason for this entry. Tonight we are have macaroni for dinner which is in itself is not the worst thing, truth be told we both throughly enjoy a good macaroni meal, but this was the first time that we have ever made it with out milk.At first I was very unsure whether or not it would taste the same, but honestly it is pretty good with out milk. And an even positiver (not really a word) the good thing is that we have to macaroni and that we know that we can trust and know that God s going not only going to supply are needs, but do even more that we could hope or imagine. Because that is who GOD is… He cares for us, he loves us, and he will NEVER forsake us.  So no matter where you are, what you are doing, even if it is eating milkless macaroni, thats not even Kraft, God is there and He will never leave or forsake you.