MercyMe - Greater

A great reminder for today.

God Bless,

SDG

Joy

Something Fun

The fae won't go into the sea, 

Where dragons and mermaids be. 

The elves wonder the distant shore, 

Telling of the others' folklore. 

Me, I sit here watching on, 

For this is all too much fun.

Music is a Blessing

Yesterday, a friend of mine introduced me to the group The Digital Age.

This is what I listened to this morning.

Our God is good!

God Bless,

SDG

Joy

Gifted

I've been home from college for almost a month now.

God has blessed me, and made my life a roller coaster since coming home.

My home church doesn't feel friendly to me right now, making it hard to concentrate on the real reason that I am going to church.

I'm so busy helping my parents around the house and working on other important stuff, I completely forget to look for work.

Yet God is good.

God is wonderful.

God is my provider.

A good friend of my mom's started to talk to my mom about an opportunity that she was able to join a few months before. 

Karat Bars International.

http://karatbarsintro.com/

My mom joined it, and I joined it about a week ago now.

It is a company that allows you to switch your money from paper money (that easily drops in value, making it harder to pay bills, taxes, etc.) to gold money (that moves with inflation instead of dropping).

This is not investing.

I would never recommend investing in something, as I'm not a professional.

In fact, I do not think I would be able to recommend anything to anyone except for Jesus.

I'm serious.

The only thing that I know 100% will work, no matter what, is Jesus Christ.

You see, history does not repeat, but it does leave patterns that we can see.

And the patterns are clear.

Fiat Currencies all fail eventually.

Our system is showing signs of collapse soon.

This is sounding a lot like fear mongering, but this is not.

This is the truth.

This video explains much better than I ever could (yes, it is for Great Britain, but like I said, it explains better than I ever could): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIt-qP1gdy8

If you have any questions, feel free to comment.

If I do not have the answers, I will go to the people who do.

Thanks so much for at least reading through this if you've reached this by now.

God Bless

SDG

Joy

April Showers

This is becoming sad.

I have at least been able to keep this blog going at "a post a month" basis, and this month I didn't have anything prepared. 

Well, here's just what's been going on up here in northern Wisconsin.

College life has been, well, busy.

For one of my Bible Classes I had to read 300 pages of commentaries on Old Testament books over the entire semester, and they are due this next week.

Being who I am, I put it off until the last minute, so I'm busily trying to read about 200 more pages. 

Speech class has actually began to be easier.

Slightly.

I still sway and talk fast, but I'm not nearly as nervous now as I used to.

I'm happily sitting on a solid B.

To top it all off, my piano lessons have gone a bit haywire.

My piano teacher's wife had her baby, a little boy, on the day of my piano lessons.

I'm happy for them, it just complicates everything more.

But tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Founder's Days here at Northland.

A day of no classes for us students, it will be much more relaxing and happy for me.

It'll end with a concert by Andrew Peterson, which is very happy.

*Side Note: I didn't know about his music until they sent out information about this year's Founders Day.

I looked him up and love his music.

I especially like his Life for the Lost Boy and Counting Stars CDs.*

Moving on.

God is good.

He's given me strength to get through the last few weeks.

He hasn't brought snow down on us in the last week.

The grass is turning green.

The sun was out yesterday.

Today was restful.

God is good.

SDG

Joy

I am Ordinary

I am Ordinary.

Nothing special.

I'm overweight.

Quiet.

Short.

I am Ordinary.

I read books.

I write books.

I geek out over books.

I am Ordinary.

I waste time on the computer.

I wisely use the computer.

I dream away on the computer.

I am Ordinary.

I am quick to judge.

I am quick to ignore.

I am quick to grudge.

I am Ordinary.

But in Jesus Christ,

And by Jesus Christ,

And through Jesus Christ,

I am ExtraOrdinary

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; The old has gone, the new is here!

2 Corinthians 5:16-17

God is Good

Time and time again, God surprises us.

As in.

WHAM.

There.

The surprise.

Completely unexpected.

Here's the surprise:

I'm going to OYAN Summer Workshop 2014!

You heard me.

Unless something else is dropped into my lap, that's what I'm going to this June.

I'm right now bouncing and swaying and crying.

What with college payments and scholarship search's/essay writing, I never expected to be able to afford it.

Now.

Oh beautiful Lord above!

Story:

An anonymous donor had given a good friend of mine from England the money to pay for an OYANer to go this year to the summer workshop.

When she asked me if I was going on Facebook and I told her I couldn't for financial reasons, she told me about that and offered to pay for my registration, meals, etc.

Right now I'm waiting on information from my sister so I can finish up registering.

God is so good!

God is so good!

He's so good to me!

God Bless,

SDG

Joy

Jesus Son of God - Chris Tomlin & Christy Nockels - Passion 2012 - White...

The Cross is Enough.

There is no way around it.

This week is week three of a new
semester and God won't let me be.

Again and again He's been shouting at
me “I'm enough”.

The Cross is Enough

He's blessed me by suddenly giving me a
grant that I didn't even know I could get that is worth $2,900.

He's blessed me with a week of in depth
Light showing me who I am through His Words and works.

He's blessed me with seeing my family
for the first time in almost three weeks through a video chat.

The Cross is Enough.

I'm worried about whether I can afford
to come back to college next semester.

I'm worried about my family possibly
moving twelve+ hours away.

I'm worried for some of my siblings
because they don't personally know Christ.

The Cross is Enough.

Trials will come and make me stronger.

The years ahead will be
filled to the brim with them.

I have the perfect map and help in God's Word.

The Cross is Enough.

God Bless

SDG

Joy

Some Days. . .

Some days I feel like an idiot.

That's when I have to restrain myself from face-palming every few minutes because of something I forgot, or said, or did. 

Today is one of those days.

I forgot to order the textbook for one of my classes, and I'll need it by next Tuesday.

And the textbook is out of print.

So I'm going to have to have quite the chase looking for it before hand.

On top of that I'm taking a block class this week, with up to 5 (maybe 6?) hours in the classroom PER DAY.

Yup.

I'm going to be so worn out by Saturday. . .

Well, what I'm learning I'm loving, so that's something to look forward too at least!

As an added bonus, it's very important to know as well!

God is Good, ALL the Time!

God Bless,

SDG

Joy