| Well today was interesting day. After staying up to 3 doing homework i then had to get up at 7 to log in and get ou/tx tickies...success. I got to see some of my younger guys today, i hadnt seen them since may...they are getting big and they're in 7th grade...sigh
after my classes which were pretty standard, i came home and chilled out watching some tv, drinking some Dr. pepper and just messing around. i did a little light studying, ok so all i did was a survey for my CS class.
Then i went to club, which we had to kind of switch gears because again not many kids showed up. yeah there were some contributing factors but those are for the most part excuses. I need to reach more kids, to know them not just give them a flier, a challenge to step up to. I know so far the Lord has blessed me in this ministry, you do it for the Lord and he fills your cup. it means the world to me that i cant be on IM five minutes without getting a message from my guys or what i say plastered on their profiles, or that they started the "D. Sloan" chant(not in a cult way, ask and i'll explain it to you sometime), and that they ask about the next taco bueno run all the time, or playing capture the flag with napkins as flags, sharing my life with them, and sharing the love of the Lord with them. Alot of them have moved up to highschool but their still my guys, i still have some guys in 7th grade, but i want to know more. Something happened recently that made me realize just how much these guys mean to me, that they are almost like younger brothers to me...i've been sitting here for 5 minutes trying to better explain this more but i cant. And i cannot find the words to express the joy that i get to hang out with these guys and when i think how its all a gift from God, it just floors me...
I ended up at OU for reasons i couldnt understand and by a purpose i couldnt see at the time, i questioned this repeatedly my first semester, and i felt a nudge to stick around during my second semester. so i stuck around and i'm glad i did.
"Not that i have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but i press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." - Philippians 3:12-14
I did not set out planning on writing this much...but it just kept coming, hope you enjoy it, i know i loved writing it. Bedtime!! |
