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It's beautiful today. The weather is gorgeous and the temperature is FINALLY high enough that I can comfortably enjoy being outside... and I'm really wishing I was still in Auburn. I just spent the past couple of days there for honor band and pretty much was ready to stay and just start college right then. Now I'm back home and have to worry about all the make up work from the days I missed...sad. but it's okay. I've got plenty to look forward to.

1. Spring Break trip to SOUTH AFRICA!!!
2. Graduation!!!!! whoop whoop!
3. Summerrrrrrrrrrr....New Wind trip to New York, Summer Camp, 18th birthday....last summer before college...
4. going to Auburn in the fall!!!

exciting stuff :)
hopefully these things will help me see the bright side to all of the work I have to go through right now. Disney music always helps too... :)
So for all of you who are struggling with focusing on something now, think about the things you're thankful for/looking forward to that are coming up and you can get through it.

I don't know if this passage really relates to my blog post, but it's a passage that's really been dear to my heart lately so I wanted to share. It is a passage from 2 Corinthians, which Paul was writing to the church of Corinth.
The God of All Comfort
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behlaf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many." - 2 Corinthians 1:3-11

I'm just really impressed by how Paul handled the situation he was in. He could have complained about SO many things that were going wrong for him, but instead he chose to say that God was using that situation to test his faith and strengthen his trust in Christ. Amazing.
This is definitely my motivation for the "sufferings" I am enduring. (I say "sufferings" because I don't feel like I can call my struggles "suffering" compared to the struggles Paul faced).
I hope this passage gives you motivation to turn to God during your struggles, too.

Grace and Peace.