title: To prevail against My parents left for Australia. We took them to the airport at 6am this morning and exchanged a round of final hugs and goodbyes. I miss them already, and I hope they have a safe trip.
I already stuck labels on my books and notebooks and I don't feel like wrapping my books yet. I know I should be doing it, but I decided to just laze around for awhile. I'm a normally busy person, but today seems like a very perfect day to just relax and do nothing school-related. I watched Meet the Robinsons on TV, and I have to admit that it's one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. It's about family and success. It's very motivating, and one thing I learned from the movie is to keep moving forward. We all have failed so many times; but with failure comes success. Failure helps us build our character, and it just pushes us to keep trying until we get it right. I'm inspired by this quote:
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." -- Walt Disney I've also been reading a fantastic book entitled Hinds' feet on High Places. It's basically figurative, in the form of an Allegory. It's a Christian book. The book is all about surpassing fear and eventually achieving strength. I can pretty much relate to the protagonist of the story because she went through a lot of trials. She was hated by her family. They tormented and taunted her but she was able to overcome all her problems with so much realizations. She experienced the love of God in her life. In the book, it was said that she began to understand quite clearly that truth cannot be understood from books alone or by any written words, but only by personal growth and development in understanding, and that things written even in the Book of Boooks can be astonishingly misunderstood while one still lives on the low levels of spiritual experience. God does not give us problems he KNOWS we CANNOT handle. Entering a section with no close friends is nothing compared to the BIGGER challenges that I will face sooner in life. Therefore I realized that the Lord purposely allows us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that he wants changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin, sorrow, suffering, and evil are present, so that we may let God teach us so to react to them, that OUT OF THEM we can CREATE LOVELY qualities to live forever. |
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