Keep Calm

This is what I keep repeating to myself as this point. BREATHE and just graduate. I am really fed up with school and I'm ready to start the next exciting chapter of my life. But in the meantime I've been really enjoying my senior year! I am so thankful for all of my wonderful friends and family that have helped me get through school and life.

And... as for exams, I keep thinking about this scripture. This has to be one of my favorites.It applies to our lives in so many different ways at different times.

I Can Do All Things Through Christ Who Strengthens Me – Philippians 4:13

This is so important to remember at difficult times because no matter what happens in life, there is nothing impossible for us with God. 

Next Week

I haven't blogged in a little over a week because I haven't had much to reflect on. But I am definitely feeling the need to blog this rainy afternoon because I just received some sad news. As you may or may not know, I am a server at a local country club and I absolutely love my job. The biggest and maybe only downfall to my job is that I have to be away from my family on the holidays. I have to work on Thanksgiving day, and last year I was able to make it home (home is 2 1/2 hours away from school) in time for Thanksgiving dinner with my family by the skin of my teeth.

So my bad news is that my sister also has a job in Raleigh this year and unfortunately our schedules clash. Long story short, it is beginning to look like I will be enjoying a lonely Thanksgiving dinner in Raleigh with me, myself and I.

This is only made worse by the fact that my holidays are already going to be drastically different this year because my mother just moved to New Jersey. For the first time in my lifetime this will be the first set of holidays without my mom and now it is looking like this will be my first Thanksgiving without my family at all.

I am trying very hard not to be upset over this but it is very difficult. We will see what happens but for now it is not looking good. I even looked up an article on how to deal with being alone on Thanksgiving and it actually had some helpful tips:

• Examine your feelings (yay for blogging!)
• Be good to yourself
• Rethink your expectations
• Cultivate gratitude
• Give to others

Interesting suggestions that I will definitely be utilizing.

Confidence

Ever have those times when you think to yourself "why are you doing this?" I definitely have had a couple of those moments recently. I catch myself in the middle of my own thoughts, stop and think "you are crazy." I find myself exaggerating situations in my own head and a lot... if not all... of the times that I do this are connected to confidence. (This is another item on my self work list. :) ) So tonight I am reflecting on confidence!

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate.- Henry David Thoreau