Spectacular Sunday.

I am getting the feeling that as this blog progresses you're going to see a lot of Sunday night blogs regarding Apex, so we're going to call this Spectacular Sunday. Soon I'll probably think of a more catchy and cute name for it, but for now that is what shall remain. Josh's message had a lot of truth in it tonight. It always does, but he hit so many great points that it's hard to pick just one to focus on. He spoke about the future. He had us close our eyes and imagine graduation. Then he had us fast-forward to six months after graduation. Where would we be? For that I had a pretty solid idea. Then he took us even farther and had us imagine where we would be three years after that. What would we be studying? How many times will we have changed out majors by then? It was cute. Then he asked us about five years after that? He asked if we pictured ourselves married? White picket fence in the suburbs? 2.5 kids? (at which point I lean over to Mallory and say married to Scotto...) But his point was that our futures can seem so blurry. We may not always know what the ultimate goal for our lives may be.
People in our lives have a tendency to put our futures in a box. Our parents, our guidance counselors, etc. tend to tell us that if we got to the right college, get the right job and marry the right person then we'll be happy in life. The truth is, God's plan for our lives is probably so much bigger than that little box society calls a future. Tonight, Josh told us to follow God in our daily lives, and take small steps toward a goal rather than attempting to leap into the future.
What I got most out of his message was to have faith. How, even though we can't see five years ahead I can still follow God in the present because the bible says "You are a light onto my path." God doesn't always show us what the ultimate goal for our lives is, but rather shows us the way to get there, step by step. That way, when we get to the final goal, we can say God did it, and the glory is His not ours.
God can do so many great things in our lives if we just let him.

Other than church, my day was pretty spectacular. Last night I was in bed and my stepmom texted me and asked if I "had any plans for tonight" which was strange because it was already about 10:30. She needed me to go and chill at home with my brother and sister because she was going out. So, I got out of bed, packed up and left for my dads. Pretty spur-of-the-moment, but it's all good because we went to cracker barrel this morning and stuffed our faces. The rest of the day was basically just like any other Sunday. Practice, then Apex (which was a party, as usual.) Well, my laptop is getting pretty hot now, so I think that's an indication I should get off the computer.

P.S. My mom is getting me a gym membership this week. :) And I ordered some stuff from TWLOHA. Can't wait until that comes in. :)