Amazing.

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How can I keep from singing Your praise
How can I ever say enough
How amazing is Your love
How can I keep from shouting Your name
I know I am loved by the King
And it makes my heart want to sing ….

Some time this week, between the Alligator, the Herald, and work, I realized something. I mean, I've always known it, but it really hit me this week.

I am amazingly and undeniably blessed.

I have a job--two actually.
I am getting experience as a journalist--with both The Alligator and The Herald
I am getting experience as an editor--at work
I am doing pretty decent at the previous two things.
I have a family that loves me.
I have a wonderful church where I can worship God.
I get to be around kids.
And I have a wonderful, amazing, loving God that I can turn to and ask for help, and whether I deserve it or not, he will.

It's funny how you can keep waiting for God to answer something and just keep getting frustrated, without ever feeling like He's listening. And then one day…..everything works out. I don't mean there's an easy fix--that never happens--I just mean, things fall in to place. I get the answers to my questions.

But after all of the things God does for me, there's still nothing I can do for him that would thank Him enough. Because despite how much I love God and how much I want to be like Him, I still sin all the time.

So, I try to do the only thing I know to do…..

"Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living an holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of Worship," Romans 12:1.

The only thing I figure I can do is to pray hard and try to follow God's word the best of my abilities.


Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord--Psalm 89: 15

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in his ways--Psalm 128:1

Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at my doorway--Proverbs 8:34