Snow – Adventure With Brendan

Every year for Lent, season before Easter where I get to prepare myself for Christ’s sacrifice, I either give something up or add something to my life that is meant to bring my closer to my best friend (ie. Jesus). This Lent I decided to read the Jesus Calling Devotional by Sarah Young. I typically do all of my reading and journal writing at night, but I figured Lent could be a little different. So here is what I read on the 14th of February:

“Give yourself fully to the adventure of today. Walk boldly along the path of Life, relying on your ever-present Companion. You have every reason to be confident, because My Presence accompanies you all the days of your life-and onward into eternity.

“Do not give in to fear or worry, those robbers of abundant living. Trust Me enough to face problems as they come, rather than trying to anticipate them. Fix your eyes on Me, the Author and Perfecter of your Faith, and many difficulties on the road ahead will vanish before you reach them. Whenever you start to feel afraid, remember that I am holding you by your right hand. Nothing can separate you from My Presence.”

Hebrews 12:2; Isaiah 41:13

After a long afternoon of classes I was on my way home when the most unexpected thing happened. My car spun out and I ended up off the road, in a parking lot, facing the other direction. Snow had just started to drift down to the ground, and my path home was very icy.

I walked away without a scratch. I wasn’t planning on this being my adventure for the day, but I know God’s hand was on me. I felt very blessed by all of the people who responded to the wreck very quickly.

The true purpose of Lent is to remember that God must be first in our lives. Well, if this wasn’t a reminder, then I don’t know what is.

I don’t believe that God makes bad things happen to us, as I was just reading in James, He’s the giver of perfect gifts. He has a plan for all of this and I guess the true adventure will happen next.

I’m excited to see what happens!

I spent the last two weeks pounding away on my computer. It’s getting a little old and the delete key isn’t working all the time, but for now, it is helping me get through grad school. Funny enough, two weeks ago, when I was celebrating Hobbit Day, I did something very stupid.

Acting on little, to no sleep, I decided to go check out the new iPhone 5, it had just been released that day. As I had expected, the Apple store was packed with people trying to upgrade their phones. I didn’t really want a new phone, just wanted to look at it.

The iPhone 5 is sleek and remarkably light weight. It was very compelling, but what really caught my eye was the new Macbook Pro. My old Macbook only has 80 gigs and the battery has a life of about 30 minutes, though it still works.

Now, let me explain myself a little bit. On Friday September 21st, I was still feeling the after-effects of completing my first masters level class the day before. I’d been up since 5:30, already hard to work on the reading for my next class.

Still, NEVER go shopping when you are super tired. Or you might walk out with a 2,000 dollar computer that you can’t afford. That’s just what I did.

Fortunately Apple has a gracious return policy, which is what I took advantage of after I went to the gym and thought things over.

Now back to the present.

I spent all day yesterday typing away on my old computer, being very careful not to make any mistakes, as the delete key is being very tricky. Kind of funny that I was able to delete my big mistake when I bought a new computer, but my old computer wont let me delete the wrong words I type. Anyway, around 4:00 pm yesterday, I turned in my second big paper, which interestingly enough focused on the importance of sleep and how it correlates to learning.

I should have talked about sleep and how it can stop you from buying expensive Apple products. But that wouldn’t have been scholarly, just realistic.

If you can’t tell I’ve learned I need more sleep! So I decided to take this morning off, which was very nice. When I woke up around 9 am, I was surprised. A fresh coat of snow on the ground.

I love snow, especially the kind that only sticks on the grass. So in celebration of the first snow I am going to share the pictures of my yard with a fresh dusting on it.

I think it’s awesome that it snowed today. It reminded me that sometimes we make mistakes, but we can’t do anything bad enough that God will not take it back. He covers over our sin and makes our lives as white as the fresh snow on my lawn this morning.

I hope you enjoy the pictures of the first snow in Denver. And remember, it’s not bad to sleep in every once and a while.

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