winter makes me violent

I'm not even kidding. I am seriously plotting how to go to PA and murder Phil for predicting another 6 weeks of winter. Oh, Happy Groundhog Day! Seriously, how can it be happy when we are talking about another 6 weeks of miserable cold and general awfulness?!?!

It's a good thing I have coffee and pandora right now...otherwise things might get ugly. You think I'm kidding, but no, I'm really not. I was looking at cheapcaribbean.com earlier to see if I could find a cheap way to escape to somewhere warm--and then forget to come back until May. I am fed up with cold. The End.

However, there is no one who can chase away my blues like Frank Sinatra...sigh...thank you pandora. Okay, well, Jesus is actually the best for that, but Frank is a close second. ;)

I really didn't want to get out of bed this morning. I hate days that I really don't want to get out of bed and yet I have to because I have things to do. The fun part was getting to wake up early enough to have time with Jesus before crawling out of bed for the day. I'm trying this new thing because I've been struggling to give God my first time in the morning.

In John 4 Jesus and his disciples were having a converstaion that went like this,
"Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, 'Rabbi, eat something.' But He said to them, 'I have food to eat that you do not know about.' So the disciples said to one another, 'Surely no one has brought Him something to eat?' Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work.'"
Jesus said that His food was to do God's will. Our true food, our true nourishment each day comes not from the meals we eat, but from the Living Word of God. So I have decided that until I am properly nourished in the morning I will not eat breakfast. We'll see how this goes. It's funny...I did that this morning, and I had plenty of time to do everything I needed to do. Usually I run out of time...hmmm...

Well, I'm gonna sign off of here and work on my poem about the beach before I head to my next class. Just because I'm physically stuck in winter doesn't mean I have to be psychologically stuck here to. Peace out yo!

Comments

  1. Connally02 February, 2010

    dude, right there with you on the whole "hating winter blues and cold", my friend. def not a fan of Phil. stupid groundhog.

    PS if you go to the Caribbean, i will totally go with you!

    i woke up ridiculously early this morning and to keep from going back to sleep, i prayed for your husband. it made me happy. loves!!

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