Have You been Sleeping In?

I thought it was high time for me to make my grand appearance on this blog. I would like to thank Barb for making me part of this opporation, even though I don't do very well with keeping up with blogs.



I wasn't really sure what to write about for this first post of mine. However, I know a lot about music, and songs. I love Christian music, and often find good quotes from songs. Thus, deciding to use this knowledge and passion to form this post.



A increasingly popular song has caught my attention in the past month, and helped me through a hard time. The song is called "Sleeping In." Listen to it here.

The lyrics are actually very powerful, if you really think about it. The basic concept of the song is that this person doesn't want to face the problems of the world, so a simple solution is to sleep, because otherwise they think about all these problems. But this person realizes that he's not the only one, and God let's him know that.

I feel like sometimes I get so caught up in the bad stuff around me, or things in my life that are going wrong. Lately that topic has been how the heck I am planning to pay for college. I've been really stressed by thinking about it, and thinking about everything I need to do before I leave for college in August. Even though it's a worry of mine, I just let it build up until it became unbearable. Did you know that stress can cause sickness? I knew that, but didn't think that was the reason why I didn't feel like myself. Since the beginning of 2009 I hadn't felt well. I had a cold, that was on its way out. But my stomach still didn't feel right, and I stopped eating, and wasn't drinking as much water as recommended.

After a few days I felt weak. Eventually it got to a point where I just wanted to feel better. Thankfully since that time, just a few days ago, I do feel better. Although, now that the second semester is starting tomorrow, I am feeling some more stress. I'll have three new classes, and so it's almost like the first day of school. Also, I'm honestly a little worried at what's to come with our country. Not in a good or bad sense, just a unknown thing. I've found that one of my biggest fears is the fear of the unknown. If I don't know what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, I get unbelievably scared.

God still loves me in spite of my weird fears. Sometimes it takes awhile to let go and trust, but when I do, everything gets brighter and lighter. As it says in the Bible, "Perfect Love casts out fear," and it's true!

Like it says in the song: "And I get carried away like I'm the only one/ Who's ever felt the way that I do/ But I can hear you say, 'you're not the only one./ 'Cause everybody hopes to get through,'" It can get to a point where it feels like we are all by ourselves on this journey. But God is here to remind us that we don't need to go through this by ourselves. There are also other people out there wanting to help, and share the burden. I've been thinking about this part of the song a lot lately.

I encourage you to bring your stresses to God. He'll know what to do with them, and He'll show you want to do with them. Because God is Love, and God won't leave us, this means Love won't leave us either. transitive property.