9.19.09

I haven't blogged in a couple weeks. Actually I shut down my blog for a couple weeks. I've been kinda going through this thing where I really did not want people in my business. It was really crazy cuz like, for the most part, the people that read my blogs are my friends, and I didn't even want them to be able to read my blogs anymore. SO I was like...forget it, i'm deletin this crap.

*Isn't is crazy how you allow the enemy to play tricks on your mind, lead you to isolate yourself, and then divide up what you and God have built?? But then again that is his job...so what else would he be doing. I hate the devil! DEVIL YOU SUCK...KICK ROCKS*

But I couldn't delete it. I felt like I'd be losing something if I deleted it, so instead I'm changing it. My blogs have become too personal. I'm not comfortable anymore sharing details of my personal life where all can see and judge. I'll save that for my personal journal. This blog is now about school...and God.

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So Lipscomb right? I've been talking to current Lipscomb students about school and many of them have some serious complaints. The first one being "its too expense!" I look at it this way. It's all an investment. If you didn't think it was worth it, you wouldn't be here. My experiences thus far with Lipscomb have been excellent. Not only are our minds pushed to be cultivated and exposed to different schools of thought, but our spirits are being built right along side it. It is not uncommon for a professor to add to a point about the nature of man and find support for it in the bible, as well as the text book. Y'all, science does not disprove God, but it shows Him strong and orderly.

I am expecting to graduate with a Master's in Counseling in December of 2010. That is a whole year and some from now, and at the moment, it seems like a long time, although I know it really isn't. I'm sure there will be plenty of the good and the bad issues of life and of the heart to fill the time in between. After graduation I plan to apply to a Ph.D. program (again), choose deferred enrollment, and take a break from the USA for a bit. I have two options, both of which would take me across the world for a while. I have plently of time to work it out, so I'm starting now so when the time comes I'll have no reason to stay (unless BLU21 blows up!! Funny right? Not really.) After my stint overseas, IF I decide to come back to the states, I'll begin working as a counselor and working toward my Ph.D. Yup, Dr. Crawford is about to become real official....in like 5 years LOL

So that's the plan, but Lord knows a person's plan can change. I was accepted into a Ph.D. program a few months ago and even traveled to the school for a tour and to meet the faculty. I chilled at their houses and really got to know them. Then I realized something; this wasn't the path God had for me at the time. That was my "fast track to a paycheck" plan. I'd be getting paid crazy cash to go to school for a degree that would put me in the way of more crazy cash. But I'd be missing all of the developmental stages in between that God means for me to experience and grow from. So I put the fast track plan aside, and said "ok God...I PRAY that this is you I hear. I won't go...not without you."


*I just realized something. I can't talk about God without being at least a little personal. But trust me when I say "a little."*

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Father, I am so grateful for the people you've placed in my life. EACH person. And the enemy will get no victory in those relationships, but your purpose will be fulfilled, we will have the victory, and You will have the glory. I am grateful for the opportunities you have given me. I am grateful that your blessings add fuel to my hope for the future. I am grateful for the trials that prove my faith.

I haven't done this is a while but the words of the day are....grateful and virtue.

Grateful: warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness
Virtue: excellence; goodness; righteousness

Matthew 5: 48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect


~Anjelica~