Create Your Own Life & Then Go Out & Live It

GAHLEE!
PRAISE THE LORD!
So, I'm taking an Intro. to Computers & Applications class and the unit we're on is Access.
WELL let me tell YOU...
I have been fighting that STUPID thing for WEEKS!!!!!!!!
I could not figure out for the life of me how in the heck to do the homework.
Like serious stressing.
Almost in tears at the library.
It's an online class and my teacher is MIA most of the time.
The homework is due this Saturday so this week I knew I had to buckle down and try to figure it out.
I prayed for help, because I seriously could not do it.
WELL yesterday AND today I finished the homework and got an A on the test.
WA! BAM!
Thank you Heavenly Father.
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.
Soooooooooo glad that's over.
Now I'm on to Power Point.
That one is in the baaaaaag ;).


Also, I'm a little obsessed with this song right now...


I don't really know how I got here
But I'm sure glad that I did
And it's crazy to think that ONE LITTLE THING
Could have changed all of it

Maybe it didn't turn out like I planned
Maybe that's why I'm SUCH a lucky [woman]


For every stoplight I didn't make
Every chance I did or I didn't take
All the nights I went too far
All the [guys] that broke my heart
All the doors that I had to close
All the things I knew but I didn't know
THANK GOD for all I missed
Because I led me here to this


Like the [guy] that I loved in High School
Who said [he] could do better
Or that college I wanted to go to
Until I got that letter

All the fights and the tears and the heartache

I thought I'd never get through
And the moment I almost gave up
All led me here to you

For every stoplight I didn't make
Every chance I did or I didn't take
All the nights I went too far
All the [guys] that broke my heart
All the doors that I had to close
All the things I knew but I didn't know
THANK GOD for all I missed
Because I led me here to this

I didn't understand it way back when
But sitting here right now it all makes perfect sense

How I cried when my [grandpa] passed away
But now I've got an angel looking out for me today
SO NOTHING IS A MISTAKE

For every stoplight I didn't make
Every chance I did or I didn't take
All the nights I went too far
All the [guys] that broke my heart
All the doors that I had to close
All the things I knew but I didn't know
THANK GOD for all I missed
Because it led me here to this
IT LED ME HERE TO THIS

-This, Darius Rucker

I LOVE THIS SONG.

I think I have listened to it twenty times already today.

It's just so true that little things change our course of direction and lead us to where we are supposed to be.

Where we will be most happy.

I think back to events and choices and situations and happenings and small moments that have led me to where I am today and like the song says, 'it all makes perfect sense'.

I have really learned not to complain too much when things don't go the way we planned.

It happens for a reason.

Trust me :).

Things DEFINITELY DID NOT go the way I planned but hey, I am the happiest and most satisfied I have been my whole life.

Heavenly Father has it under control.

He knows what He's doing.

Trust Him. 

My sister shared this note with me one time. 

I absolutely love it.

Please read it. 

Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, they serve some sort of purpose, to teach you a lesson or help figure out who you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be - your roommate, neighbor, professor, long lost friend, lover or even a complete stranger who, when you lock eyes with them, you know that very moment that they will affect your life in some profound way.

And sometimes things happen to you and at the time they may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles, you would have never realized your potential, strength, will power or heart. Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and sheer stupidity - all occur to test the limits of your soul. Without these small tests, if they be events, illnesses or relationships, life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. Safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet who affect your life and the successes and downfalls you experience - they are the ones who create who you are. Even the bad experiences can be learned from. Those lessons are the hardest and probably the most important ones.

If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being cautious to whom you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.

Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either. You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life and then go out and live it