[Change]

2010 is a big year of change for me...and as you probably know even hearing the word "change" freaks me out. If you know me well, you all know when plans change, or when things get off track, or when I have to do something out of my normal routine, I tend to go haywire--So much more now that I am graduating and leaving my life as an undergrad student. I'm moving out of the dorms and into my own apartment. I have to enter the "Real World" [cue girl screaming from horror movies].

This is the one thing I am asking God to allow me to have strength in. I need him to give me strength to be flexible, changeable, malleable, and faithful in knowing that whatever situation I'm placed it whether it is ideal or not, God is in control and I need not worry. I need strength to realize the changes I need to make in my life and then the strength to make those changes. There are way too many things in my life [habits, personality traits, etc] that need improvement and I need to stop sitting idly by as I watch them corrode my life.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.


Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.


By the way, I know I have yet to Blog about Urbana, but that will be for another date when I have fully processed the entire experience... and as of now, I'm still fried and trying to cool off.