Bicycle

So I totally rode my bike to school today for the first time ever. So excited about that! It was a really great work out... oh yeah, my bum may be sore tomorrow. But I have really been wanting to do this for some reason, so I decided this morning that today was the day because I only had one class and would not be coming home late, which is dangerous and sketchy on a bike. No worries. And it really was a great day to pioneer my personal new adventure because the weather is very accommadating today--not violently and sickly hot. I'm actually so totally blessed by today's weather! It's a lovely day. It really has been cooling down here in Fresno, I have to admit and be thankful for! For reals, at least now I can walk across campus without suddenly breaking into a panic in my fit of overhwelming hotness that did, a couple of times, become so intense I honestly thought I might have to resort to stripping and jumping into the fountain or running into an air conditioned building for a pit stop between point A (on one side of campus) and point B (the other). haha... Just between you and me, right?

This bike thing may become a dangerous thing to my pride-I can already see myself falling-just in time, a Godsend, before my head gets so big it detaches from my neck and floats right into the clouds... you see (after one day) I'm already thinking, "Oh yeah, I'm so green," or "I'm totally saving gas money," lol and "I wonder if people think I'm like, one of those people that's really concerned with recycling and the environment?" Yeah, I know--I'm so ridiculous. I can't believe I just admitted that. But no, for reals I honestly enjoyed aspects of it between my heavy breathing in that other bikers totally smile and give you that, "I know because I ride a bike too" look! haha and I look at more instead of driving by quickly, and can take so much more time to just think and talk to God. It's pleasant, eh.

Life here lately has been so good. Having so much fun with Lizzy and Amy! We just went grocery shopping last night after Lizzy and I shared a day together carpooling for school and having a really funny class together--we pretty much proved to ourselves why we may have been kept from having any classes together in high school. We just can't handle it. lol It's a really really really good can't handle though- such an incredible interruption to the expected in all of my other classes! It was also Amy's birthday last Thursday, so Lizzy bought her a delicious carrot cake from this local French bakery and we sat around and ate and talked! It was nice. I was in class while the girls Mindy, Lizzy and Amy went to dinner at this Korean restaurant because Amy is wants to go to Korea and loves the nation and people.

Well, I'm off to read. I'm overwhelmed by the amount of homework I have to force myself to do--but it's good. I really feel like I'm learning so much. It's good reading, just intimidating. But I have to force myself to do it! I can do it!

I will soon be applying to Starbucks as both of my past waitressing jobs are not really in need of me. I'm excited and thankful that the Lord has opened up this new opportunity for me to look for something else! :D Have any suggestions? Love you guys. My advice for today: Look up Brian Regan on you tube and watch one funny vid of him. It may just bless you. Take luck.

Today

It hit me. Today while sitting in Starbucks reading for a class called Social Class and Inequality, I became overwhlemed. Mind you, I had only read the first four pages of chapter one, lol, so it wasn't exactly just the reading itself... it must have been that combined with some of the stuff I've been hearing in classes. But all of this is besides the point and not what I wanted to blog about...

I became sad and was just thinking... like, this world is full of such incredible inequality and corruption, selfishenss and oppression. What help is there? NO ONE has it figured out. Where is the greater good and what is it doing and what does it count for and does it help? How are we igniting change to look out for those who need advocates because there is no power in their hands to match their voices! I started freak out and get scared. Like I felt this sense that nothing is right or ok in this world.

But as I hung up my phone in attempt to call a friend to just like, pray and spill and get prayer in the midst of my fear and confusion... it began to sink in that the only HOPE and reality in this world for REAL CHANGE in anyone's life-the ONLY IMPORTANT TRUTH that could ever matter, is the LORD! The only true piece of imperishable and most important possession that truly matters in this world is the Gospel. Amen.

This is where it truly starts. And the gospel is the goal, purpose and aim for anyone in this world. And we live life being moved from there! Amen.

Thanks for reading... I'm only just starting to remember this and see this importance in the this new light. Because I have been saddened by the crap I've been hearing in school-but God is showing me to look to HIM as the HOPE! The Hope of nations. My hope. My purpose. My truth. My Father. My God and Lord and the author of salvation. Amen. May He be given to the nations. To the people we encounter everyday and in other countries throughout the world. But we must start with Him and look to Him as our one and only Truth! May we give Him! Amen.

In Jesus Christ's Holy Name, be blessed and loved and nurtured in the Spirit and in Him and together may we be ignited in Him to see further Him as our HOPE and the one and true significant hope we could give to people. Jesus please help us. Thank you for this family in the Kingdom. And help us to bond and unite! Amen.