Dear Ginny,
Another semester. This one is making you the most nervous, and excited, of any semester (thus far). You're gonna have homework, tests, quizzes.... laundry, cleaning, meetings, relationships to maintain, relationships to begin, conversations to have, moments of silence to sit in. You're gonna get tired. You're gonna have to abstain from fun when you really don't want to. You're gonna have to go have fun when all you want to do is lay in self-pity.
Girl.... these are BLESSINGS. Rejoice. You know who you are- God's daughter. You can handle whatever comes your way because the King of Kings, He is with you and He cares for you.
Don't you let yourself give in to laziness or sloth. When that creature begins to slide into your life, bash it and do the opposite of what it beckons with yellowed claw for you to do. Go run, go make artwork, go read and study in a quiet place, go say hi to people.
When fear begins to breath foul breath on your neck, you jab it with you elbow and run towards what it told you to flee from. This will be hard, harder than ANYTHING. You don't like discomfort, do you?
You will NOT sit back and let fear or laziness keep you from doing what God made you to do or what living truly is... to care for others, to live life full as I can, to adore and spend time with my King, to honor Him in all I do.
GO! LIVE!
GO!
LIVE
I will furiously love others.
Oh, How I need You, Lord.
wrote this around when the semester began.. went ahead and decided to publish it now.
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