be encouraged

let me know when you have a night off again.

it won’t be until after my trip

that’s ok. i will wait :)

haha. i appreciate your patience.

i think you’re worth waiting for.

omg lol did i wake you?

yep. it’s ok. i can go right back to sleep. it’s a skill.

well goodnight. but since i made it up so early i want to say.. Goodmorning Erin, I’m thinking of you and I hope you have such a great day!

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic. – George Carlin

Dear Brothers & Sisters,

Whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.

God blesses the people who patiently endure testing.

(paraphrased from James 1 – I found this in an old journal from exactly three years ago, but it’s a mish mash of different versions of scripture and perhaps the person speaking to me.)

... not for me. I tried twice. it’s hard.

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What God calls us to cannot be definitely stated because His call is simply to be His friend to accomplish His own purposes. Our real test is in truly believing that God knows what He desires. The things that happen do not happen by chance – they happen entirely by the decree of God. God is sovereignly working out His own purposes. – Oswald Chambers

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. “Which road do I take?” she asked. “Where do you want to go?” was his response. “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it doesn’t matter.” – Lewis Carroll

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost

sometimes when things seem terribly wrong or i’m highly offended or life seems to be falling apart, i try to remind myself that “surely this is not the best God has planned for me.” and then i breathe a little bit easier and make a plan to move forward.

worry about nothing. pray about everything.

“Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

- Barack Obama