An update to end all updates.

Hello, my lovelies.
I am SO sorry I haven't blogged pretty much the entirety of February. BUT I promise that I will be back again March 1st. That is my goal. During my accidental hiatus, I also have failed to read daily (this is your time to chide me). So, my goal is to catch up on reading and return to all of you lovely people in March 1st. Please, hold me too that. And also, forgive me for all of this. Though to be fair, I did warn you at the beginning that something like this would probably happen. But I'm trying to get on track, so bear with me please!

<3 MG

Walk 32

Oh man,

I'm going to have a really hard time now numbering these posts.

Well,

until I open up my Bible.

I'm so used to just naming the walk whatever the date is,

but now I can't do that.

Today is February 1st, 

but Walk 32.

This is going to mess me up.

Good things on the 1st of February:

•  Feeling like I did pretty good on my Stats quiz.
• Drinking some Cranberry Pomegranate Green Tea on my way to speech class today. I like that stuff! However, I always end up letting it steep too long and it gets SUPER bitter.
• Getting to be the receptionist ALL afternoon today. I don't know why they let me do that, because I'm not a very good receptionist. Ha, I either redirect all my questions to someone else, or tell the person that I just straight up don't know. But it's still fun! Also, I made random videos to send to Josh! By the way, they're extra creepy and weird!
• Drawing the official beginning pages of the coloring book I told my friends Celeste and Paige that I would send them... LAST SEMESTER. Yeaah, I gotta get on that.
• Going to Mondo Subs on campus and running into my friends Rachel, Mandy, and Laura. It was nice to eat with them :)
• After struggling with the internet, it finally decided to actually connect and work after about 9 p.m.

Guys,

my flower pot things that I bought

aren't sprouting yet.

Should I be worried?

Does it have something to do with them being from the dollar section?

Probably.

Let's not tell them that though.

Okay,

seriously,

I have been listening to this song

all afternoon.

I think it is absolutely 

ab-

so-

freaking-

lutely

gorgeous.

I think,

I think I want to dance to this at my wedding.

You know,

the bride and groom's first dance?

Wouldn't that be the most

romantic

gorgeous 

scene 

you could ever imagine

beholding?

It  better be,

because it is for me.

And yes, 

I like Glee.

This song was on a couple episodes ago.

I loved it then,

and I love it now.

I know I tell you this a lot,

but 

please

please 

please 

listen to it.

For me?

Guess what!!

We've made it to Leviticus! 

This is probably the most of the Bible I've ever read, sadly.

But it's good that I'm doing it now!

So in Walk 32

God describes how He wants the Israelites to make sacrifices to Him.

I guess it's interesting,

but to me it's a little sickening 

because of all the descriptions of the parts of animals that had to be cleaned and cut and killed, etc.

 But I liked one quote from the devotional part of it:

"A drop of praise is unsuitable acknowledgement for an ocean of mercy."

 I really like that.

It reminds me that

the Israelites had to give these complicated sacrifices/offerings,

because it was their way of expressing more than just a drop of praise.

The devotion of going through the process of killing and cleaning the animal,

and then picking out the part for the altar 

show the dedication that they needed to have to God.

It sets a good example 

for us to give more than just the minimum in praising and sacrificing to God.

<3MG

Walk 31

Tuesdays are BCM days!

It makes me really happy to be going to a Tuesday night worship thing again.

Well,

really,

I just like to worship God. :)

SO,

we sang this.

It is

by far

one of my favorites.

I have loved it,

I think,

since my church first did it at Easter last year.

SOOOOO
AMAZING.

If you did not click,

you are a loser.

Good things on the 31st of January:

My perfect Chem quiz!

•  Doing really well on my first Chemistry quiz. 105 BABY!
• Having yet another easy day of work.
• Doing my stats homework. Honestly, I detest stats. But doing the homework was a good thing because I finally got it done instead of procrastinating on it.
• Going to Common Ground (the BCM Tuesday night worship). It was in Derryberry Hall tonight instead of actually at the BCM. It was a different, yet fun experience!

So Walk 31

was all basically a big summary of the past few days of reading.

Well,

actually,

it was about Moses telling the Israelites God's instructions

and them setting up the Tabernacle.

So,

basically a repeat/summary.

However, 

one thing that struck me

was the Israelites generosity.

If you remember,

I told you some time ago

that tithing is/will be an issue that I'll have to conquer.

In the final parts of Exodus,

the Israelites had to be told to stop giving God their supplies and money,

because the builders were receiving too much.

Isn't that awesome?

Shouldn't we all be like that?

So willing and wanting to give of our resources to the church,

that we have to be told to stop.

That would be amazing.

And honestly,

it doesn't even have to be money or material supplies.

God wants us to give our time,

love,

and prayers too.

Anything you can give that would be pleasing to God,

we should give it all to Him.

After all,

He does deserve it.

<3MG

Walk 30

Ooops...

I did it again...

Yeah, 

sorry,

I did it again. 

I forgot/ got to lazy

to blog. 

I'm a bad person,

I sowwwy :/

Forgive me?

Love me?

Okay.

I see how it is.

;)

Good things on the 30th of January:

•  Having an easy day of classes.
• Having an easy day of work.
• Not having an awful chemistry lab.
• Going to the school's art gallery for my art appreciation class. I really like art galleries. They're peaceful and moving. :)
• Playing racquetball with Savannah, Justin, and Travis. Well, we played for like 5 minutes but apparently someone had that court reserved and the others were full. So we ended up messing around the gym for like half an hour. Basically we played on the "rock wall".
• Josh and I posting ALL over each other's Facebook wall. Haha my brother and I are ridiculous :)

Yeah,

so my Ipod has been dying a lot this week.

Mainly,

because I keep forgetting to charge it fully.

So I don't have any pictures for January 30th.

I am,

yet again,

sorry.

So Walk 30 

was about 

"The Incident of the Golden Calf".

Basically,

while Moses was up on Mt. Sinai,

some of the Israelites decided that he had died.

So,

even though they had been instructed not to,

they decided to make a golden calf to worship to.

The calf god had been one of the Egyptian gods,

so they were referring to what they thought they knew.

When Moses returned to them,

he was so mad at them,

he broke the two stone tablets full of rules that God had given him.

Breaking the tablets

symbolized them breaking their covenant with God.

So,

Moses had to go back up the mountain 

and get new tablets and enter into a new covenant with God.

There was one sentence that kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

It was Exodus 33:3:

"'Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.'"

Like,

this sentence got me.

I wondered how God could be so...

cruel I guess.

I sent this message to my dad after I read it:

I'm still getting the impression that God is an angry, strict God. And it's still bothering me. Is it just because the Israelites are being really stupid that God has to be like this?

I didn't even wait for his response before I sent this:

I guess I get it though. I can relate it to myself. I understand God being frustrated with the Israelites. I mean, I get mad at Josh, Joel, and Chloe when they don't do what I tell them to do and want them to do, because I think I know it'll be good for them. God was doing the same thing with the Israelites. However God actually does know what's perfect for us and can see the best path when we can't. And I guess it makes Him really angry when we and the Israelites directly defy that and break promises we just recently made to God. Because He knows the best path for our lives but we think we know it, but really we don't.

 Yeah,

I know it kind of rambles.

But,

I guess I had a little breakthrough.

I understand why God was so upset with them,

that He thought He might destroy them if He had to continue on with them.

I kind of get the same way.

Sometimes,

I just want my siblings to do something so bad

because I think that I can see that it will better their lives.

However,

I come across bossy,

and they don't listen.

And honestly,

I just feel like slapping them in the face sometimes.

But God is the only one who knows what's best.

I guess He seems so severe to me,

because He is on 

so much more of a grander and majestic level than I could ever dream to be,

so naturally,

He needs a bigger reaction.

It makes sense,

to me at least.

<3MG

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