Fellow Readers,
It has been TOO long. How have you all been? I hope everyone is doing good. I have been doing good, thank you for asking. So, you all are wondering: What have you been up to Andrew? I am so glad you all are so interested in my personal life. The truth is, I have been really busy as of late. School finally picked up. I had a test in all my classes in a span of a week and a half. How did you do Andrew? Well, I did pretty well on half of them. The other half...not so much. (Here comes some insight from the college student's perspective.) I have never been the one to study for, well pretty much anything ever. I know, ya'll are thinkin: how has he made it so far without ever studying and achieved such success in his schooling career? Good question, I guess you could say that I am what they call a "gifted" student. School has never been hard for me. It's okay, I'm allowed to brag, ITS MY BLOG! Anywho, test time comes around for these other half's and I take the usual course of action-not caring. I start to take my Differential Equations test(Diff EQ-upper level math class) and realize, "Dang, I have not a CLUE what is going on." The same thing ran through my mind while taking my Educational Psychology test. I understand the irony in that, being a potential educator, I should know that stuff. Well, it was a lot of material to cover and me being me, I did not study it. Anyways, I'm not here to ramble, I'm here for insight! So, test scores come back: 47/100 on the Diff EQ test...and a 34/50 on ED-PSY test(after 7 point curve...). Here's the insight: an equation I did learn from Diff EQ- Tough classes + no studying + not caring = college just got real. To those reading who will potentially have more tests, take it from someone who never studies; STUDY! The good that did come out of this, though, is that I will now study for those classes. Also, by the grace of God, my Diff EQ teacher decided to offer a, one-time only, re-test and I studied HARDCORE for that one and am awaiting my improved grade. Don't bank on this happening that often. Get a good grade the first time. So, what else has happened since our last convening...well, we got to celebrate another year of the world's GREATEST mom, and a person I am so proud to call madre. I will not mention the age of which this birthday was being celebrated for she would be very upset if I did-mainly because I always exaggerate it and say she's older to get on her nerves. It was a fantastic evening, and a delicious one at that! Love, love, LOVE our grandmother's pot-roast! Oh so delicious! On top of that, we had some of the world famous Birthday Frosting. No, we did not have that on top of the roast, I used that phrase meaning "in addition to." You have not lived until you have tried this Birthday Frosting-it's a secret recipe. Thanks to @ashlee_robinson for that by the way, she made the cake and frosting. Shout out, woot woot! It was an awesome night and am so blessed to have Gena in my life. Love ya ma! Other than that, nothing too major has gone on, just hangin out with friends and stayin busy. Oh, and "Psych" started back up tonight, so I am super stoked for that! So many great quotes already and so funny, and it's only been one episode!
The message:
Sin is all around us, plain and simple. Tough concept, I know, but seriously; we all know it's there. The problem, then, comes from us just accepting this. We accept that it is there, thus not trying to fight it. We don't fight temptation. We don't avoid lusting as an attractive man/woman walks by. We use provocative and cursive language without hesitation. We do all these things without hesitation. We have to avoid accepting it. We have to break the cycle. If this means we have to completely overhaul our lifestyles-who we hang out with, what we watch, what we listen to, etc- we have to do so. Jesus uses the parable of the sower: He says that when the seed was scattered, some of the seed fell into thorns and grew up and was choked out, and some seed fell in good soil and grew up to yield a crop a hundred times more than sown. Now the Bible then gives the meaning of this parable, but that's not all I take it as. Check this out: think of the seed as your being and you the sower. If you plant yourself in a group of sinners(e.g. thorns) after a while you will be choked out and die. However, if you plant yourself around people who are right with God and live their lives for Him, you will be yielded a hundred times more as when you planted yourself in that group. Make sense? Why make it harder on yourself by hanging out with people who do bad things and things you are trying not to do? I know it's not so easy to just drop your friends, but the Bible says, "If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off..." a bit drastic, but if you have to, drop your friends. I will probably be talking about sin on here a lot. It's just so relevant to, well, everyone. We all struggle with it, I struggle with it. College is a place filled with it. That is why we must stay in the word, and continue to pray throughout the day, keeping an open conversation going with the big guy upstairs. If we constantly are having our eyes fixed on God, we are closing the holes that sin can sneak in on. Thanks for reading.
Signing off.
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