Too Keyed Up

Usually I try to keep my posts kind of focused but tonight I have way too many thoughts. First, update about school. It seems I always find out something really important the night before my class. So I thought my English class was at Annandale (because...I signed up for a class at Annandale) but I asked Karen where the HE building was and she was like "what?" So I looked at the map of the campus and couldn't find it anywhere. It turns out it's a special OFF CAMPUS location in Springfield. That's great for me because it's closer but what if I had gone to Annandale just looking for the HE building?!!! It's all good though because i get to sleep later. and less traffic.
I finished the paper. Well, the first draft. But that's the hardest part.

My KJV Only Controversy book is amazingly interesting. Working in a christian bookstore, I get a lot of people who want only the "Holy Bible" or the only "Inspired" verson, meaning the King James. Being an avid supporter of the ESV, I am not a fan of the KJV only people. As the author James White says, I am not against the King James Verson. I am against the thought that it is the ONLY version. I have to write a book report in the next two weeks and will probably post it here if anyone is interested. I have found it incredibly awesome. I am so happy to be getting a Christian education. I am so happy to be getting a Biblical Counseling degree. I don't even care if it becomes a career and I make money from it. I want God to use me in healing His people. I want to be able to reach out to my husband and have open dialog about our struggles. I want to train my children up in the Lord and teach them about relationships, addictions and our true purpose here on earth.

I just wrote out a long paragraph about a book Kim and I are going through right now but I can't collect my thoughts enough to give the subject matter justice.

I had a hard time focusing at Frontline today. I kept being reminded of things that I am grateful happened but caused me a lot of pain. But then at the end of the service I was reminded that Jesus came and saved me from my sin and that caused Him a lot of pain too. He knows how we suffer. He came as a human. He knows what it's like to be tempted, to be mocked, to be unloved, to be misunderstood, to be forsaken.

If God uses me through my failures, that's what I want to do. If God uses me through my sufferings, that's what I want to do. If God uses through me through my humiliation, that's what I want to do. If God uses me through my death, that's what I want to do.

My daddy's bumper sticker says this: Set your affections above on Jesus.