Easter Sunday

Today is the day that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ rose from the dead after dying on the cross for our sins! I just feel so blessed that I serve a God who is capable of all things!!! I hope you all are having a delightful Easter and enjoying the time you have with family and loved ones :)

Lewis was able to come back in town for the holiday weekend after going back out to work, which is great for us because we get to spend that much more time together! We attended early service this morning so we have just been lounging around every since then. I did a little bit of school work for my clinical and now I'm trying to figure out what I want to do with some potatoes for dinner...... I should hurry up and figure it out because it won't be long before my little bear comes out of hibernation searching for food lol.......

Just wanted to wish everyone a very lovely Happy Easter!!

Week re-cap

School this week was something like a breeze! I can't really figure out why though, just seemed to flow very well and speed through. I think the fact that my Love bug came home for a few days had a lot to do with it :) Gosh I missed him so.......

I had a pretty busy week at school. I had to present my teaching project in clinical and I'm so glad I made the right move to go first among the presenters! I say that because the other people had handouts in COLOR ink and poster boards with animations while all they had to look at for my presentation was my beautiful face lol. There was no way I was topping that if I let them go before me..... Whew! Dodged that bullet.

I had an exam this week also. I felt pretty confident about the material, so I felt really confident about the test. Thankfully I passed that with no worries! A lot of the other students weren't too thrilled with the exam or their grades..... Blessed that I wasn't one of them.

Our church is studying from a book that talks about finances and how to set yourself up to become wealthy. It was written by one of our own church members Bro. Arthur Toole III. I think it has some valuable information worth looking into, especially for the growing young adult- like myself. It's not a how-to book per se, but it does put ideas in your head that you hadn't thought about. The book is called Don't eat from the F.I.G tree, I think everyone should definitely look into it!

After all the hustle and bustle of the week, I decided to take Friday as my day to just sort of mellow out. I didn't have work or school so I was pretty much free to do whatever........I ended up being very unproductive lol. I filed my taxes that morning (E-file with Turbo Tax!) and then I sort of awkwardly walked around the mall for about 2hrs trying to shop. I think I walked into about 8 or 9 stores in total and bought nothing! I was disappointed in myself. I hate shopping, but I want clothes! Crazy right? After that I had a datenight aka "girls night out" with my friend to a burger joint followed by heading to a Spoken Word event. I'd never heard Spoken Word live before then and although my friend told me the show wasn't all that good, I really enjoyed just getting dressed up and being out of the house. The things we look forward to......

Today, I plan to start studying a little bit and also gathering information for my NEXT presentation that is due in 2wks...... Followed by doing a bunch of NOTHING lol

I love weekends, the only time you can turn your mind off during different times of the day and everyone is okay with it!

Make the rest of the weekend a good one :)

21-day fast

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Last Sunday the message at church had to deal with fasting and how it helps bring you closer to God. I had heard of fasting but before then I never knew the reason why people did it or what it ultimately was supposed to accomplish. Also while at service I became aware that our church is offering a 21 day fast to for anyone to participate in that runs Jan 6th thru Jan 27th. They don't require anything specific like giving up food entirely, skipping meals or anything to that effect; it's more like you are free to give up anything you want (and be serious about it) and get closer to the Lord. That could be surfing the web, greasy foods, sweets, shopping, anything you enjoy....... 

I decided to do it.

I wanted to do because for one: like I stated before I had never fasted and I am intrigued by it. Two: I wanted to focus my attention more on God and what I feel He has in store for me this year ::I don't know if you guys are aware of this but this year has some BIG things going on for me::  And really I have nothing to lose from this experience, I can only gain knowledge, patience and discipline. My Pastor printed off some materials for us to read on fasting like how it originated and the different types of fasting that are out there. 

For my fast I will giving up sweets. I am a sugar FANATIC ya'll. I love all things gummy (worms, bears, those little cherrys and gummy letters they sell in the candy stores) I love kids fruit snacks and fruit rollups, I also enjoy skittles......whoo, look at all that candy I just named lol! This will be really hard for me because I have a major sweet tooth ( I got the cavities to prove it) and it really comes alive after I eat a meal. But I know for a fact that I can definitely make it through this fast if I stay diligent and practice strict discipline! Every time I crave something sweet I am going to definitely pray about it lol..... And just to be completely true to my "no sweets" fast I will also only drink water or milk for the next 21 days...... I'll definitely need the Lord on speed dial lol

I feel as though I am really starting this year off the right way...... I will strive to continue to be blessed!
Wish me good faith in my endeavor :)