Lessons from Nature

Here I am to worship
Here I am to bow down
Here I am to say that you're my God
You're altogether lovely
Altogether worthy
Altogether wonderful to me

God took the opportunity to teach me something this morning. My day hadn't started out well, and since Greg was riding with Mom, I determined that I would rant to God on the way to school, you know, let off some steam. I stepped outside and instinctively glanced over to Eddie and Melissa's yard. I stopped. The sun was shining through the trees and reflecting off the dew on the grass and highlighting the flowers. I dropped my stuff off in my car and ran back inside to grab my camera. I knew that it wouldn't completely capture the beauty, but I wanted to try. After that I walked around the front yard and took more shots of God's creation. I was enjoying myself basking in God's beautiful glory.

When I got into the car I didn't rant. I was ready for a worship experience. This is the first song that came on. I just kept singing and pouring my heart out to God, and at one point I was so into the worship experience that I almost forgot to move forward! I think that God showed me that I have nothing to complain about and everything to praise him about. And I found that I let off all the tension of my bad start through worshipping my Creator. What a way to start my day, huh?

College Essays

Yes, it's that time of my life. I need to come up with an essay topic for my college applications. Here are the choices:

1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, a risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you.
2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.
3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence.
4. Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence.
5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that illustrated the importance of diversity to you.
6. Topic of your choice.

So, to begin my essay process, I thought that I would make a list of potential topics under each topic and leave them to your criticism. I may add to this list later.

1. Speaking out for my faith in Spanish class
Initiating a petition for the eighth grade day/dance
2.
3. Kim and her influence on living my faith outwardly
4. Jane Eyre (book or character)
Left Behind series
5.
6. Favorite meal--tomato soup and grilled cheese tied in to family reunions
My love for sunrises--description of beauty outside tied in with breakfast and my family

I'll post more when I'm not so exhausted after Spring Break.