Moving Forward

So many things really...

Only 3.5 weeks until graduation! So much to do, so little time. I cannot wait to be done with school... but if you've read any of the past couple of entries you know that, so I'm gonna stop here. It's actually been a busy couple of weeks with lots of work, but I've been having fun. Two weekends ago I went home to my sister's and which is always a good time. It was really nice to just relax... usually when I go there I have a full schedule, but this time I only had two things set to do. My cousin's son had his 6th birthday party which made me feel really old! And I got to hang with Carley for a while. Good times.
this past week was crazy busy. I had stuff due every day, plus a fundraiser I was in charge of was on tuesday, then on thursday night Carley and Matt came to visit. It was so nice to have someone from home here... it's been forever since anyone has been able to make it down. They stayed until friday night. Friday afternoon an old friend, Tim came to visit. It was really cool to hang with him... he graduated from IWU in '04 and I hadn't seen him since then. We played guitar forever friday night and it was amazing because I never get to play with anyone who's decent enough for me to play around on my own. (maybe if Trent would actually practice *wink*). I always forget how nice it is to just sit and talk to someone you don't talk to much. Good convos are fun.
Anyway, last week I had to make a decision that affects my future (in a way) and that was hard for me, but it'll be good, I'm sure. It's so crazy to think that decisions I'm making now have the potential to affect the rest of my life. That's huge! Up until this point in my life I don't know that I've made any huge decisions that directly affect the way my life may go. Deciding on a college was a huge choice, I guess. And actually my choice of college has directly affected this other decision that I've made. Confused? Yeah, me too.
As a result of a recent conversation I've been thinking about how people sometimes change their life plans because of others and I've always been against stuff like that. I hate when people are set on doing something or going somewhere and then they change everything because of someone or something else. I think that we need to do what we want to do, when we want to do it and other people can wait. That is, until I decided to put something off that I had already had my mind set on. I can't credit this choice completely to one person because lots of stuff has changed since I set my mind on doing it, but I'm a little disappointed with my change of heart. I never understood how you could be so passionate about doing something and then just be willing to put it on the back-burner. I've thought about this a ton and as much as I hate when people do this, it's something I feel like I have to do. Sometimes new things present themselves and priorities change, and that's ok. Great justification, I know. Does this make sense at all? Probably not to most of you, but I'm kinda just rambling to ease my own mind and since this is MY blog I can do that. If you wanna know, just ask.
Anywho... is it possible to go through the motions and live your life in a Christ-like way without ever really doing God's will? My thoughts to come at a later date. Right now it's time for the Cub's season opener! GO CUBBIES!! (I realize that sounded horrible... in no way do I think the Cubs game is more important than this subject, but I want to have some time to think and I want whoever reads this to have some time to think as well.)
~Chris~

posted by Moving Forward @ 2:18 PM