Long Time No See...

Hi everybody :)

I haven't posted a blog in a while, and I apologize for not keeping you all more updated on what has been going on in my life lately. Well, I am still here at college and learning new things everyday. The beginning of the year started out a little rocky for me, trying to adjust to all the new things and people that God has brought into my life. But it has also been an amazing blessing. I have been blessed by God in ways that I never expected to be :) I am now blessed to be in a relationship with my friend from school last year, Caleb, who has become my best friend. I definitley never expected it to happen but he has been such a blessing from God. He walks alongside me and encourages me to live Biblically, and we have lots of fun at the same time :)...definitley lots of laughs involved! I hope to encourage him everyday as much as he always encourages me.

This past semester, school has been a lot more difficult than I thought. There are so many papers to write and articles to read, but I am thankful that I have the opportunity to learn so much! I am taking 18 credits this semster and its a lot harder to tackle than before. It requires a huge time commitment, but that's what I'm here to do. And all the classes I've been taking are really interesting--especially human anatomy! Caleb has helped me study for it a lot....I mean we've been to the lab hours and hours a week! Another way that God has blessed me recently is that I get to be a Biology Lab TA next semester! I'm so exctied. I love biology. I get to help people do what I had so much fun doing last year. And in my Writing About Disability class, I've had the chance to learn about disability in society and how lives can be affected! Some of you may know how interesting disability is to me! Speaking of, I even get to work at a camp for kids with disabilities next summer! It's a class I'm taking for spring semester. I get to spend 2 weeks at a camp this year. It will definitley be an opportunity to love and learn!

School has been rough and balance has been challenging but God always reminds (me with a little poke) to look to Him who can deliver me through any trial. At times I feel like I'm stuck. Stuck in my own mind and in the trappings of this world. And my racing and panicky thoughts keep me at a standstill at a crossroad. In the last few months I've tried relying on my own knowledge and my own "wisdom" and even the words of others, but I have found that nothing satisfies or gives me peace like the word of God. It is what I have hope in. It is the very inspired word of my God. He has been teaching me to seek Him and His word first. Took look up to Him and cry out for help. And let me tell you that He has been unbelievably faithful. Although little things haven't happened in the time I thought they would or the way I thought they would, but in the end God shows me that He has great plans for my life. Ones that I may not realize or even have thought about before. "Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes 3:11

I can absolutley say that I am glad my life story is written by the hands of God and not my own hands. Because if it was, I would never learn so much about love, trust, faith, and God's amazing power on my own. I would not change a thing. There have definitley been some points where God has called me to do something that I have been so afraid to do. I always afraid of the unknown. I'm scared to trust God. But when I think about it, I remember all the times the Lord has been faithful. He has been faithful before, and I am confident that He'll be faithful again. Things may not work out exactly how I want, but I'm okay with that. His plan and His way is greater. This is a verse I just keep coming back to: "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans for good and not for evil; to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11.

So with this, and knowing that there will be times that I--and you too, I'm sure--am afraid to take a step or leap of faith, I will be doing my next blog on obedience. It's something that God has been teaching me about lately. I will be looking at verses that talk about these topics: Why should we obey God? What is the big deal about obedience? How do we obey? And what happens when we obey?

So, I hope you keep your eye out for my next blog! It's the first time in a while that I've really been inspired by the Lord to write again! :) Thanks for listening! And I'll try to post more pictures with my next blog...the uploader wasn't working real well this time!

All the glory to Him! ~Kasey