Through the Darkness: Life is grand

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Life is grand

Life is so grand. School is going great for the most part...it may be a challenge but it puts me to the test of my faith. So many times I feel like quiting but then I see a glimmer of hope. Just the other day I got an A- on an essay, I totally wasn't even expecting that. In class the teacher says "okay, it is now about that time that I finally hand you guys back your essays. But first I want to read 3 of them...the best 3 in the class, a B-, B, and an A-. I will read the lowest one first then make my way up, saving the A- for last." The whole time I was sitting there listening to the essays I was thinking to myself that I wished that that A- was me but thought that it was nearly impossible, especially hearing how good the others were. Then finally...the teacher says it..."And now, the last essay I want to read is Monique's." I felt like my heart stopped for a second- I was in complete shock! My first essay of the semester and I got such a high grade. I thanked the Lord over and over again for allowing me to do so well; for inspiring me.

I have been having so much fun preparing for the Marine Corps Ball coming up. If I haven't made it clear yet, Phillip (my boyfriend) is in the military. He asked me a few weeks ago if I would be his date to the ball...so of course I said yes, of course all this was after he asked my parents for permission. I finally found my dress last week...it is BEAUTIFUL! It is black, which isn't exactly the color I wanted but after all the searching I did it was the perfect one for me. It is floor length and ties behind the neck. It has little diamonds in a row going down on one side of the waist. It is like a sheer material and it parts in the front. Just today I bought a diamond bracelet to go with the dress. I finally decided on an up hairstyle...this morning I talked with the girl who will be doing my hair about it and she helped me settle on one of the many hairstyles I found. The ball is scheduled for the 29th of this month. I will post lots of pictures of everything!

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The rainy Day

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past,But the hopes of the youth fall thick in the blast,And the days are dark and dreary.Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Lords Way

Isaiah 55:8-11~For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Wings as Eagles

Isaiah 40:28-31~Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.