to the girl with the impatient heart

Many girls, like myself, have an impatient heart. Whether it's about love, school or anything in between, I personally have found my heart has been impatient for love lately. My impatient nature is nothing new, but my recent struggle with an impatient heart wanting to find love has been a struggle. I'm not talking about love from family or friends, because I am surly blessed with lots of love from them, the love my heart has been looking for is from a boy. I look around and see people getting married or having a wonderful relationship and instead of being happy for them, I find myself feeling jealously towards them. The Bible says in Philippians 2:3-4 "do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." We should not be jealous of others for finding that significant other they want to spend the rest of their life with, we should instead be showing humility and having sincere joy and happiness for them. Ladies our time will come one day, the fear of the unknown and the impatient feeling will go away and our prince charming will change that feeling into love, joy and happiness. I recently read a blog post over on the Odyssey's website called "To the girl waiting for him to text back" and she did a fantastic job of explaining what we should be doing instead of sitting around waiting for "the ideal guy" to text us or love us back. It's so hard to live in this society where our main focus is to obtain the comment #relationshipgoals underneath our adorable candid pictures with Mr. Right. However, we must remember it is better to wait for the actual Mr.Right to come along and show us that what we've been waiting for was worth it. Waiting gives us the ability to find the man who is not going to help us obtain the "relationship goals" comments under our pictures but instead obtain a love for God and helping each other strive for the ultimate goal, which is a home in Heaven. But until then we must remember that God has such a bigger plan and knows exactly what the future holds for our impatient hearts. Until then remember these three Bible versus and apply then to your daily life.

1. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 gives an example of the type of love we should be striving for

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away."

2. Philippians 4:6 tells us not to worry about things of this world but to pray to God about our worries

^"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

3. 1 John 2:16 tells us not to strive for things of this world but for greater things that have yet to come
"For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world."

XOXO MOE

"New year, new me"

It's a new year and like most people I have gotten into the mindset of "New Year, New Me." Not that this is a bad thing, but most people claim this is going to be their year, they are going to save money, lose weight and become a better person. However, it never ends quite how they expected. At the end of 2016 people will wonder what they did wrong and what they could have done different in order to reach these new year resolutions. I have decided this year I am NOT going to be that person. At the end of 2016 I want to be able to look back and say that I have saved up some money, lost weight and became a better friend, sister and daughter. In order to keep myself accountable to these goals I am going to get you to help me. I plan to post at least once a week about anything but I will be sure to update you on my goals for 2016. These goals include:

• Meeting my goal weight
• Save enough money to give my family what they want for Christmas 
• Become a more kind and understanding person
• Become the best Christian I can be

While these are only my "major" goals of 2016, I feel like they are the  most important things I need to focus on in the new year. What are some of your major goals for 2016?

In this post I also wanted to share with y'all my highlights of 2015:

January: I got to go see my Gators play with Dad, Uncle Ryan and Blake  

February: Took Cap and Gown pictures, I got to observe my mom in her classroom for the day

 March: SPRING BREAK with my best friend, Florida College visit, asked my best friend to be my senior prom date (bc going with friends is always better then guys) I competed in a Early Childhood Education contest and won first place with a letter to nationals

 

April:  Beach incident and hospital visit, Senior prom, my "little red rocket" died and I was without a car

May: GRADUATION, I received an outstanding student award from my Early Childhood Education class

June: 3rd annual Grand kids weekend in Missouri, Kenny Chesney Concert Atlanta Weekend with mom, I started my first real "adult" job at Guardian Credit Union

July: I started my weight loss journey, I had orientation at AUM

August: I started my first semester of college, I decided to make the best decision ever to rush a sorority

September: I TURNED 19, I accepted a bid to the best sorority out there Delta Zeta

October: I ran into the arms of the best big around, My best friend surprised me with tickets to an Auburn game for my birthday

November: The family went on a Thanksgiving trip to Snow Mountain,  I was surprised with yet another pair of tickets to an Auburn game by another best friend of mine, I cut my hair and added the color red

December: I ended my first semester of college with a 3.5 GPA, My not so little sister turned 16, I became an official Delta Zeta

Here's to the fun adventures that 2016 holds for not only me but also all you amazing readers!  

xoxo moe