Multiply the Victories

Written on September 10, 2018
This was not the greatest weekend I’ve ever had. My roommate left for a tourney, I missed my family a whole hecka lot, and I looked at my schedule for the week and foresaw an endless amount of studying/assignments, a lot of hours at work, and a serious lack of sleep. All of this meshed together to form a mental breakdown with a decent amount of tears. 

I told one of my friends that I was having a rough day, and said person then asked why, so I proceeded to mention all of the things listed above. After I finished, my friend said, “Katie, I’ve been struggling too. But let me tell you a secret, you were not created to go through this on your own. Lean on the Lord.” And then added that missing your family is perfectly okay because God gave us our families for a reason so it is natural to miss them(that really encouraged me because for some reason I had been feeling like not a lot of people understood the struggle). 

While this so called “secret” seems pretty simple, it was just the reminder that I needed to hear. If Jesus wanted us to live this life alone, He would’ve made us like that; extremely introverted, isolated people that can cope with emotion internally or don’t feel emotion at all. 

But He didn’t. 

He created us as unique individuals, with emotions that can be crazy out the roof, and a lack of capability to deal with them all on our own. So He gave us Himself as the primary option, and a community of other believers as the secondary. He knew what He was doing. He had a plan. Going to Jesus with our burdens brings Him so much joy because He is a loving Father who cares so so deeply. 

Make use of the community that God has graciously given you. If you don’t have one, go find one. Investing in people is hard, but life is not meant to be lived on your own, so it’s incredibly worth it. Find people who will laugh with you and cry with you. Find people who will encourage you in Christ when you’re having a rough day. And then you do the same. You laugh with someone when they are laughing, and cry with someone when they are crying. You be that encouragement in Christ to someone else who is having a rough day. 

Multiply the victories and divide the sorrows; it’s what we were created to do. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thanksgiving

For thanksgiving we went to my cousins house in Parker which was really fun!  My Aunt and Uncle from Canada came to town also! They said it was really special for them because they always celebrate Canadian thanksgiving but it had  been a long time since they celebrated the American thanksgiving with a lot of family.  We ate lots and lots of food that day.  I was really excited for thanksgiving because it was the first day we could have sugar in 3 weeks. I know it doesn't seem like a long time but it was for me! While we were at my cousins house we played air-soft in the dark for an hour and a half! It was really fun.  After that we played cranium and then watched the movie despicable me 2.  I wish I took some pictures, but I didn't :( 
Read more

SCHOOL IS OVER!!

So obviously its been a while since I last posted....but I am back!! So this last week was our finals for Omnibus.  We had to study.....and study.....and do more studying.  We had two exams that each took about 3 hours.  Or somewhere around there, it was a really long time! And we had to write two full essays in each and answer a bunch of other questions :( But we took them and now we are done!!! I still have to do a little math and Spanish during the summer, but that's okay. But we are going to be rather busy during the summer so I don't know how much I am actually going to get done :P Well anyways, I am so happy that my regular school is over! We are about to go camping at Chatfield for two weeks!! That should be really fun especially since we are going to have a lot of friend over to hang out with us!  This is a sunset picture I took the other day! It was beautiful!
Read more

Civil War Ball

Image
On Saturday was the Civil War Ball! I had been looking forward to that day since the last one ended(which was a year ago:). It was so much fun! It was better than I had hoped it would be! :) Here are some pictures of it. These are most of my friends who were at the ball! Except for the girl on the far right in the light blue, I have absolutely no clue who she is or why she in our picture :) But that fine! This is me(right), Alyssa Monk(left), and Noah Otto. We were doing the hat dance, which is a really fun one :) Carter dancing with one of my friends! Me dancing with Justin Trout :) Fun, Fun, Fun!!! Getting all pretty!! Look at the pretty hair! :) Aubree in the process of getting her hair done! Me with my cousin, who did a really good job on my hair!! Thanks Jaclyn! :) Everybody looks so beautiful! =D
Read more