Enough.

I just want to start by saying how great God is! Since my last post, I have turned in my memorandum and I'm beginning to prepare for finals. The past week, I have felt so exhausted and depleted, but the Lord is so faithful to uphold me with His righteous right hand! He is so wonderful in so many ways. It amazes me how I get to the end of each day and feel so depleted, and the next morning my only prayer is selfishly for the Lord to bring me through, to help me get my work done, and to not fall asleep in class. Yet, I am so amazed when He does not only that, but more!

Fall is such a beautiful time here in Virginia. The trees are green, yellow, brown, red, orange, and purple. They're absolutely beautiful, but they're in transition! They change on the outside because of the change that's going on within. The chemical changes within a leaf are taking place constantly until fall when they finally change with the weather and the season. Then, they fall.

This is kind of what God is doing in my life, and in everyone's life really. There's so many things I want to change about my life and so many things that need to change. God is so good to make us so beautiful. I am realizing the blessing the Lord has given me here. I do a bible study with about 5 other 1Ls, and they are amazing. The Lord has really been changing each of us completely. Our bible study this week was about God being enough in our lives. I am often discontent with my present life and my present circumstances. My contracts professor gave a devotion in my class that reminded me of a Jim Elliot quote, "where ever you are, be all there." Lately, I've not been satisfied. The grass is not always greener on the otherside, even though it always looks it from a distance. No matter where I'm at discontentment can be found, until I realize that God is enough. The sad thing is that we can allow satan to cloud our minds with everything we don't have even when God has placed so many wonderful opportunities, people, and things around us! Good thing we have four seasons, and they come around again every year (at least if you live in a city that has 4 seasons!). We're always in transition. Always changing. Always becoming more like our Father.