story time

so while i was reminiscing tonight about fun stories i decided that I don't want to forget these stories so, i'm going to blog them... for the next a lil bit.... my stories are very random and probably better heard in person but just read it and think of my voice, in all it's great hickness, telling the stories...... the first one takes me back to freshman year of college.....

So I had a crush, I'll admit it, I was a new lil freshman, he was a tremendously tall freshman with the nickname "Timber". We had a mutual friend and we hung out some. It never was anything serious but one night after a lil trip to walmart that we shared he came up to my room and we hung out (innocent fun) he wasn't there long, just checked out my dorm for like 20 minutes and had to leave to do some homework..... nothing big, it was a good night.

Later on that night after he was back in his room we were talking online... he asked me if i was sitting at my desk and i said yes, why do you ask? he said take a look to your immediate right, i slowly and timidly turned my head only to see my dry erase board with big black letters that said "Lauren loves Timber!"

I immediately recognized the hand writing and turned red and screamed, "JESSICA HEAD!!!!" she came in thinking there was a fire or something and then realized what I was looking at and died laughing... I was so mad, so embarassed. I frantically typed to timber telling him that I was not a freak and that my roommate had done it thinking it was funny and never thinking he would actually see it and I babbled on and on apologizing and so distraught over the incident.... he was fine, thought it was hillarious, it wasn't until a few weeks later that i found it funny...

but now looking back on it, that moment in B3 dorm, freshman year, seems so innocent and fun. Oh to be a freshman again, oh to be so scared of college and having a fun innocent crush with no drama. I feel like life has become so much more complicated now. Go to bed early instead of late night walmart trips for no reason, looking for jobs instead of planning fun summer trips. college should be 5 years, and if it was 5 years I would probably wish it was 6, so I guess you can't stop the next stage of life, it's gonna come wether you like it or not, so i'm gonna embrace it, hopefully i'll have to open my arms real wide for this one, hopefully it will be just as great or even better than college.

maybe.

sunday school

so on sunday mornings when I am in Spartanburg (home) our family attends First Baptist Spartanburg.... we go to the worship service first and then to sunday school. Background: Our family went to Cowpens First Baptist my whole life until I went to college so I have only been attending First Baptist for a few years and only while i'm home from school. With that being said, I do not know many people. For weeks my sunday school teacher asked me my name every week and every week I had to tell him my name and who my parents were and he made the miraculous connection, again, every week. And pretty much college sunday school is not the "cool" thing to do. There are multiple amounts of different classes they have to divide up for high school because of the large amount of youth in the church but for some reason that I can't figure out, the college sunday school class averages about 7 or 8 and it's usually a different 7 or 8 every time. There are only two regulars that I notice are there without fail. So I always kinda dread sunday school, and I really only go because our whole family rides together so I can't really leave after the worship service while they are in sunday school.

But something was different this sunday.....

I walked in and the teacher says, "Hey Lauren!" (He knows my name?) he continues, "I am so excited you are here this morning, I really feel like you are just really going to enjoy this lesson and it is just perfect for the stage of life you are at right now cause I know you are graduating in May and planning to moving to Columbia. I really hope you enjoy it." at this point i'm thinking, what? He remembered my name, and everything i told him like 2 months ago?, and not only did he remember it but this lesson made him think of me and what I had told him.

God humbled me that sunday morning.

He used that so "un cool" sunday school class to teach me things and show me answers to questions I had been praying about and stressing over for a while.

He used the people in that class to amaze me and challenge me to get into his word every day and surround myself with him.

These are some important things I took away from that class....

1. God is intentional.

2. Don't depend on your ability to hear God as much as you depend on his ability to get through to you.

3. If we do not spend intentional daily time with God we are going to miss out on the awesome regular familiar time with God.

4. God always equips those who he calls.

God help me not to underestimate you or question your calling in my life. You will provide my needs and you will show me the way. My faith is weak but your abundance of grace is all I need. teach me to rely on you and surround myself in your word so that I can walk in your will daily.

lg.