Priority Check

Wow. God is so amazing!! I was reading over my last post and the comments I received and was kind of discouraged by some of the things I said. Sorry for sounding a little negative for the up coming school year, but this has been my biggest worry lately. Anyway... I've been subscribing to Campus Life Magazine for the past couple of years(awesome mag. by the way) and I just got the new one today. Taking a break from my summer reading(fun fun), I decided to flip through and see what articles are in this edition. Talk about an awesome "God-thing": one of the last articles was appropriately titled I Took on Too Much. It's like I was reading my life. This girl was involved in cheerleading, band, the play and wanted to be able to do more. In the middle of the page they had a quote from the story: "I was physically, spiritually and emotionally drained. I knew something had to give." She also mentioned that if she decided to give up some activity in her life, she felt as if she was letting other people down. This is often why I do things(sometimes I have a hard time just saying "no"). If I have been doing it for a while, I feel the need to continue doing it forever and ever so I won't let certain people down and make myself feel better. Shouldn't I be doing this with my spiritual life? I do cheerleading and band and everything else because I'm committed to the team and don't want to let them down. What about my commitment to God? Aren't I letting HIM down every time I add one more thing to my busy life, pushing Him farther and farther way?

I've always made a list of priorities before each school year and putting God as No. 1(naturally). But do I really put that into practice? I really do want to put God as my first priority, which is why I've decided to not to any more sports after this season. I went into my freshman year thinking that I had to be involved in everything during high school to make a name for myself and to put something on my college applications. Now it seems my involvement in school has become my life. I'm overcommitted to the things that aren't as important to me anymore. I want to get involved with things that are going to benefit me more in the long run. I want to spend more time at church and with my friends there and do a lot more volunteering at different places and spend more time with my family. Well I should wrap it up with that...I could go on forever talking about how much my priorities have changed over the years. Thank you, God, for showing me what's important in my life!! Isn't God awesome?!

Quick news: I'm getting a car!! No joke. My dad has been looking for a truck, but then that kind of fell through and we didn't look for anything for a while. Then my dad was talking to this guy that he knows from Gage and he told my dad about these new cars that just came in a couple days ago. We went today and test drove it and the price is right(haha), so everything looks good. I should be getting it tomorrow or Friday. It's a '98 Mitsubishi Galant:




Pretty sweet, eh?