Change is a Choice

I'm happy that God has given us the command to love others. In recent events that have taken place in my life, God has showed me that He commands us to love others to teach us many things about Himself, ourselves and others. In the big picture, if we really think about it, helping others can be done in 2 different ways: 1. For the sole purpose of self-satisfaction or 2. Because we want to show God's love through us. When it comes down to it, if you are helping others to please yourself you are not going to be satisfied in the end because we as humans fail, but if we do it in want of pleasing God, satisfaction will occur because God will not fail us.

Recently, God has shown me that the best thing to do in helping others is to love them with a Christ-like love and don't try to change them. People will change on their own and must make their own choices. That's why we need to lead by example through our actions.


A challenge I give to everyone this week: Love others and help them because you want to please God, not because you want to satisfy yourself.

Three Little Days

I am pleased to announce that it is officially Friday. After struggling to get by this turtle like week the weekend is finally here. I never appreciated the weekends as much as I do now until I got to college. College has taught me that weekends aren't just three little days of the week,but something much more. To participate in a full week of classes, work, socializing, and homework without a chance to breathe can help you appreciate the weekend a lot more. It's refreshing to finally get the chance to sit, relax, do some homework here and there, goof off with friends and get a spiritual recharge. I'm urging you to take advantage of weekends and cherish every second of them because they normally are the recharge for your upcoming week.

Speaking of weekends, I thoroughly enjoyed last weekend. A couple of my Gould friends and I went to a little town we'd like to call, Delafield. As college students, we got creative and took advantage of the fact that we had a camera, a car and a group of crazy girls. Unlike most college students, our weekends don't consist of parties, but of joyous adventures and crazy picture taking. I am pleased to announce that we find different ways of having fun and have fun doing it. I bet no one would have ever thought that Best Buy could be a fun place to hang out, but our group of girls begs to differ. Taking pictures with a Best Buy worker, playing video games, getting on laptops, making new friends (Angelia and Sophia), watching big screen TV's and testing out the latest stereo systems proved to be one of the most exciting weekends yet. I don't know if anything can top that. I can't wait to see what this weekend has in store.

The Ice Ages

After many grueling hours of hard work, sweat, and almost tears the film that swept across the Gould dorm was born. The plotting of this epic film all started about a week back. My dorm supervisor and the two RA's schemed to make a dedication video to the much needed heat that we have not had in the Gould dorm for the past years. Once they established that a video presentation would do the trick they called me into action. Somewhere through the grapevine they heard I was supposedly a "techy" person so they asked me if I could put together a little video for the dedication ceremony. Little did I know that a six minute video would take over six hours of hard work and determination, but  this hard work has paid off in the end. I am glad that I could have the  privilege of putting this video together for the better of the people.

In the end, when given a hard project to do, don't hold anything back. Do it to the best of your God-given ability and for the people. It's not about who will be rewarded in the end, it's about the heart behind it.

The New Girl on the Block

Obviously, most people wouldn't take interest in the new girl on the block unless she was absolutely beautiful and had all the 'neat stuff', so I don't expect anyone to read my blog and find it fascinating. I am starting a blog simply because I would like to voice myself. Not because I want people to take interest in my writing or to please the public,but simply for the selfish reason of talking about my life. I wouldn't count myself to be the best of writers,but I know how to sit at a computer and pour out everything that's going through the surface of my head. So where do I start? The beginning? Or do I want to defeat the purpose of being a unique individual by being clichè? Not really, so I choose starting with this week. 

I'm not sure if I'm alone when I say that this week is going by ridiculously slow. I'm sure most people can relate when I explain that it's one of those weeks where time is going so slow that you get all of your days mixed up. I really did think yesterday was Friday. It became a fact to me that it wasn't Friday when I realized that I had two tests coming up this week. (Obviously you normally don't take a test over the weekend.) I'm happy to say that my internal clock is starting to catch up with me though.It's Wednesday and hopefully by the end of the week my time will be back on track.