Checking In

Last night, I was thinking, "hey, it's been a while since I've updated my blog. I should get on that."

Recent things that have happened that didn't get blog coverage, but were either important or cool:
1) Switching major from News Writing/Editing Journalism to Social Studies Education
2) Seeing 60 percent of the financial support for my missions trip to Nantes, France come in.
3) Grassy Knoll Fruit Shooters
4) The Red Sox's continued dominance of the Yankees this season.
5) Moving out of the dorms.

So, long story made into slightly shorter story, I decided to write about a road trip. When I got online to write about my recent adventure to Charleston, WV for a minor-league baseball game, I realized a friend already wrote about it, and included video!

So, after violently shutting my laptop in disgust over being scooped, I walked away, still no update. Sorry, readers, I've dropped the ball.

But today, I came across a verse as a part of a new Bible in a year plan my bible study leader is having me do, and I thought "hmm ... this could be the makings of a new post."

Hosea 13:6
When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot me.

God convicted me with this passage. I know that not all of you will be, but I think it's a profound message being conveyed here. What do we look like a week after God has granted us a "yes" answer to a prayer? Are we still giving thanks in satisfaction, or are we growing prideful, and forgetting the Lord?

This was a wake-up call that I can glorify God more than I have been. My pride was driving a wedge between the Lord and I. What else is new.