Chapter Books

I know I feel like writing right now . . . I've actually had the urge for a couple days . . . I'm just unsure of what to write about. I guess I'll just let it flow and see what comes out (that's what she said).

I was looking at my blog and my last post was be babbling about pretty much nothing and the one before it I posted in December 2010 when I was in this blissfully happy state where I felt like my life was perfect and nothing could go wrong . . . too bad that didn't last very long. I'm not saying my life changing was a bad thing . . . well maybe temporarily it was . . . but overall I am a better person because of it. A more wise person. That much closer to being a grown up. There are certain firsts we all have to go through, so at least I've gotten a couple more over with so I can move on with my life.

I keep looking at my puppy, Kodi, and thinking about how much bigger and more grown upy he has gotten since I saw him over my easter break from school.  When I was home for easter break I could not even sit down to put my shoes on without him being all over me and he was constantly on the move.  Believe me, he is still one crazy pup, but he has definitely matured over the past month or so.

Then I think about me.  How much I have changed from the time I graduated high school, pretty much exactly two years ago.  If I had only known then what a different person I would be as I head into my junior year of college.  It is still shocking to see that in writing. A JUNIOR IN COLLEGE?! I am halfway through my undergraduate career? When you think about your life plan you say, "I will graduate high school, then go to college, find a job, get married, have kids, and be happy." We say we will "go to college" like it isn't a big deal . . . but as we graduate high school we never think about how much growing up we actually do from the time we start our freshman year at the age of 18 to the end of our senior year at the age of 21.  You think, "It's only four years . . . " But in that four years you have experiences (good and bad) that will change you forever. You have relationships (good and bad) that will change you forever. It seems you learn more in those four years outside the classroom or the lecture hall that you pay thousands a dollars a year for . . . much of the learning and growing you do has absolutely nothing to do with your major, or you gpa, your community involvement, or the awards you win . . . and everything to do with the paths you choose.

If I have changed THIS much and experienced THIS much in my first half of college . . . I can only imagine what God has in store for me in the second half.

I'm very excited to see what He has in store for me in this next chapter of my life . . . because God knows it's about time I end that last (horrible) chapter that was drug out much longer than it should've been (kind of like how Hawthorne writes his sentences in the Scarlet Letter) and start a new one. So far the chapter is VERY eventful . . . and this is only the beginning.

So here's a question: How is your book looking? Is it about that time you end one chapter and start another one?