Changes

I was really bored tonight... and I spotted my journal from my senior year of high school on my shelf. I read through the entire thing in one sitting... Oh my goodness. I feel like I don't even know the person who wrote the words in that book. I was so naive; my worries were so trivial. It makes me wonder, though. Will I, in four years, look back at this year's journal with as much disbelief at my thought processes? Or am I pretty well set in my ways now? I suppose only time will tell. Beside the way I wrote and thought, I could not believe the difference between where I thought I would be at twenty-one, and where I actually ended up. I don't like thinking about four years from now and how nothing may be as I am planning it now... but I suppose everything has indeed turned out better than I ever imagined.

Motivation

I'm having one of those days.

I want to be skinny, but I'm all dressed to go run, and I don't want to walk out the door. Oh, and I want to eat some cake.

Perseverance

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything... Blesses is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him."
James 1:2-4,12