late night talks.

Today was a lazy/productive/happy/fun day....that is a lot in one day! I started the day off with a delicious pumpkin spice latte from starbucks, spent the morning and early afternoon doing not much of anything. I feel like I was kind of wandering around doing really random things....anything that allowed me to put off starting the huge pile of homework I had waiting for me.

By evening, I still had no homework done. I went to dinner with a couple of my house mates. We ate at Chili's...we had a coupon for free queso...score! It was delicious. We had good conversation and slowly made it back to the house. Taylor (one of my 14 housemates) and I had plans to have a homework party in the dining room....we were both lacking the motivation to do homework so we hoped that if we were in the same room and both working on homework we could be productive....it worked!! She finished her paper and I made a dent in my homework! I have a homework date with another housemate (Lindsay) tomorrow at Barnes and Noble to make that dent a little bigger! :)

After I got to a stopping point with the homework, I sat down with some housemates and watched the Big Bang Theory which is always a good time....that show always makes me laugh. Sheldon is my favorite! (bazinga!) After everyone had headed upstairs to go to sleep, Lindsay and I were downstairs. We ended up sitting at the dining room table and talked for a while.

From the conversation we had, it got me thinking about how well everything works out when we give it to God. His planning and His timing are absolutely perfect. You never know when He is going to use you or how He is going to use you....whether you are aware of it or not. You (and I) may have impacted or could impact people in ways that we may never know. We are a light in the darkness. When we give ourselves to God and when we pray that He use us....HE WILL USE US…and sometimes in ways or situations that we could never think of. He is a beautiful and powerful God. So let that light shine! Pray for boldness and courage. Pray that He will put somebody on your heart to reach out to. And I don't say all this to tell you what to do...because those are my prayers too. I struggle with this. I like to be comfortable but God loves to bring us out of our comfort zones. But....if we have faith, He will NEVER let us fall. 

This is why I love late night conversations! They make my heart happy! They always seem to be the best conversations I have with people. Even though it means less sleep, they are SO worth it. We didn't exactly talk about what I wrote above, but from that conversation, these thoughts came to mind as I came upstairs to get ready for sleep and I wanted to share with you guys. God is SO awesome. So all in all....today (i suppose it is no longer today, but yesterday!) was a wonderful, relaxing and productive Saturday! :)

P.S. I promise not all my posts will be like this necessarily…I don’t want anybody to feel like I am preaching to them because that is not at all why I am doing this blog. It is more of what is on my heart and how God is working on me. This is a way for me to kind of process those thoughts and write them out. And if someone gets encouragement from them in some way….then that makes it even better.