Lessons.....

I'm sitting here, its far too late to still be awake and I'm thinking about what I could talk about and I'm getting absolutely nowhere!
Of course I have my options but I don't particularly feel like talking about any of these topics! I could talk about the injustice of making university students who don't have an income pay for going on prac. Or I could talk about the large amount of terrible drivers that I have encountered in the past 6 or so months, but that would be complaining and whining and I'm trying to do less of that these days. Then again I could talk about my friends and my family, how much i have missed them abd how much I love them and the love that they have shown me. Or I could talkk about home, but these are all emotional topics and could end up making me sound like a complete hippy and a sap or could just send me to tears, in which case the blog would never be finished!
Instead I am going to outline a few things that I have learnt recently. Some of these things I already knew and other things came unexpectedly but all of them have one thing in common, I learnt them the hard way:

• There is no point in feeling like you are losing control of your life because the control was never yours to begin with
• If you want others to love you as you are you have to love yourself as you are
• God has the ultimate control, He is Sovreign and He knows what He is doing
• Trusting and having faith in God is something that has to be worked on everyday
• Trusting and having faith in God isn't always easy, in fact, at times it will feel like its easier to simply panic
• Praying does work!
• It isn't easy to be a Christian
• It isn't easy to be a uni student
• It isn't easy to be a Christian uni student
• You have to work at finding joy in the little things in life
• Joy is not the same thing as happiness but it does help it along
• Once you've found joy your job isn't over
• When you've found joy you can survive anything
• When you have faith in God, you have found joy
• When you have faith in God you can do anything
• God gives better bear hugs than any created man ever could
• God's hugs DO solve the problem
• Through the strength and joy that can only come from God life really isn't that hard

Hopefully one day I will find the words to explain everything that I have just said but for now that is as much as my mind can do.

God bless