Choosing Joy: and STAYING busy.

Soooo,
If you read the title of this blog then you can guess what this might be about.
Also, if you are one of the few people that keep up with my blog then you will notice its been almost a month since my lost post and I said I was going to be better at this.
So far, not soo good but it has crossed my mind to blog so that counts for something.

Staying busy can sound like a complaint and I will be honest in the past month, when talking about being busy, I have said it with a negative attitude and it has usually been followed with a complaint:

-Why don't they get it? I have no patience!!!
- I have noo free time/ I have no life
- Not another meeting
-I don't have time for this.
-I don't want to be an adult...this responsibility thing is overrated. (Yup, if you know me well enough you will probably get a laugh on this one and you probably completely understand when I say it's been my favorite one to say over the past month)
                -If you don't know me, I apologize, but I can assume this also makes sense to you because I
                 can guess at some point you might have said these same words and if you haven't stay tuned
                 because more than likely you will at some point (if not more than once) in your life.

However, not wanting to grow up and be responsible is NOT the point of this blog. Thats too easy.
The point of this blog is to come to terms with the fact that the complaining you and I do in our lives gets us next to nowhere.

I am a glass half full kind of person so looking back on the past month and realizing negativity has been coming off my tongue so quickly makes me cringe and has made me desire to get back to the person the Lord made me, the person many people know me as, the person so many of my students have told me that I am: a positive, joyful, glass half full kind of girl. It is who the Lord made me to be so therefore I pray it be what my heart desires.


**Side Note: NO, I am not saying you can't be mad, you can't be sad, you can't complain, and you can't get angry, you can't get impatient, you can't lose you're cool....thats NOT it. Please, do these things. It is because of these things that I have this blog post. Its because of the tears, the negative comments, the times when I raised my voice from impatience, its the venting and the miles and miles I have ran from a bad day that brought me to blog about my new realization.

Will this blog post fix all my problems? Will I be back to same ole me after I hit PUBLISH? Probably not but being aware is a huge step in spirtual growth.

So some of you dedicated readers/family/friends/brothers and sisters in Christ may be wondering (I hope youre wondering) how you can pray for me and my life here in Ecuador.

So I am putting away the complaining, forgetting about the checklist, and sitting down to write to you: for the one thing I hate asking for: HELP!

Help me in praying for:
-Patience
-Supernatural Energy (each day and each week)
-Wisdom (as someone in a position such as chaplain I don't feel equipped for decisions I am faced weekly and those to come)
-My relationships ( I feed off of social interaction)- so my relationships here with faculty, students (HIGH school and ELEMENTARY), people of Ecuador, and people/friends back home.
-Anxiousness
-Thursday Chapels
-Upcoming Spiritual Emphasis Week (October)
-CHOOSING JOY

My turn:
Encouragement for yall at home.
I decided to write this blog right after I finished my presentation for chapel this week so I wanna leave you with the verse I will sharing with the kids this week:
JOSHUA 1:5
" ⁵ No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

Thanks, 
Choose Joy, 
Saved by grace, 
Kb