Squiggly Fire

Welcome to Monday, my fine friends. I hope it's a fine Monday for you, and that your perusing of the internet has brought you here with a smile on your face. No smile? Okay.

CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE. Say it out loud...Eupp....ehehhuppp....there it is! I'm so proud. Now you've smiled for the day. Bueno.

Today has been a beautiful day on campus, as I have walked from the library, to the coffee shop, to another study building, to the cafeteria, and now back to studying (or blogging I suppose). I have to say, studying is becoming increasingly difficult to focus on, especially when it is so nice outside.

But studying it will be for the next three days...until move-out.

I'm chilling with my two friends, Jill and Christi (who named today's post by the way...pyromaniac), right now, and that two pound bag of twizzlers is seriously haunting me. These crazies can make me laugh even when my brain is throbbing from over-studying, and I'm really going to miss them this summer.

Today, all I can say to myself is 1 Peter 5:7....or, if you don't have a Bible handy, I'll just tell you: "Cast all your anxiety on Him because who cares for you". This is my absolute favorite Bible verse, and some days I want it tattooed on my forehead. Okay, maybe not the forehead. Maybe more like the wrist or something.

But anyway, this verse is a lifesaver. Because, even when anxiety is raging like a sea in a storm, I can give it all to Him. I can hand Him absolutely everything, and let Him take the reins. I don't have to worry about what plagues me here, because He loves me more than I worry about anything.

He loves me more than deadlines matter, He loves me more than my finals matter. That doesn't mean they don't matter; it just mean that His love and His power is so, so much greater. So I don't have to worry about the outcome.

As long as I am working for the Lord, the day-to-day struggles are infinitesimally small. Because He is so big. And for that, I am blessed.

So, if you are struggling today, my Squiggly Fires, just remember He cares for you, and He wants to take your anxiety. Let him take over; He's got this. And so do you.