Peace Out!...and In!!

Graduation season has come and almost gone, and honestly I struggled to get through it. I saw picture after picture of people that graduated high school the same year as I did graduate from college this year. In a perfect world I would have been one of them. In the last four years my life has had several unexpected turns...one after the other, after the other. They have been some of the most challenging years and experiences of my life to date. I have yet to see the rhyme or reason to it all, but still I am here.

I have had my moments over the last few weeks as I watched people graduate where I wallowed in self pity which, ironically, led me to a realization that brought so much peace to my heart.

My life is NOTHING like I imagined it would be at this point, but somehow I have this overwhelming peace within that I am EXACTLY where I am SUPPOSED to be. Sometimes it feels like I'm nowhere hoping to end up somewhere, but the truth is that God knows my eternity. Someway the experiences that have brought me here are all pieces of the puzzle. While that fact alone is not always comforting, it doesn't cease to be truth.

For the first time in my life I am beginning to understand what it means when the Bible says in Phillipians 4:7 "And the peace of God that transcends all understanding will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus."

They used to be just words on a page. Now they are living, breathing, life-changing. There is no explanation for me to have peace that I am in the right place at the right time when nothing around me points toward answers. Nothing tells me where I am going. Nothing on the outside says I'm going anywhere. But yet I know that I am somewhere now. Beyond any answers I have...I know that I am exactly where I need to be for whatever it is that is next for me.

In the middle of an ongoing storm, in the middle of a desert surrounded by unanswered questions, in the middle of a world at war...

I have peace. My heart is at peace. When my mind struggles to be at peace my spirit takes over and keeps me at peace. Beyond my understanding I have peace and I am trusting that God is guarding my heart and mind from the voices inside that tell me I am on a road going nowhere. More than anything a college degree could give me right now...I have peace.

Peace Out!

SOOOO Excited!!!

I stumbled upon this yesterday....and since I'm such a HUGE John Mayer fan (what with my blog name being inspired by him and all haha), I thought I would share.

He is currently working on his fourth album. He has turned an entire house into a recording facility. Which, lets face it, is pretty awesome. :) Anyway, he has dedicated a whole page of his website to serve as a blog where he is writing pretty consistently on how things are progressing and posting videos and teasers on what we can expect to here on the new record. I was really excited and had a lot of fun catching up with it, he started it January so I was behind. Anyway, its lots of fun and in case you haven't gathered it...I'm SUPER excited that I can now look forward to some new music from John Mayer :) Plus I think its awesome that he's letting his fans in on his creative process.

Here is one of my favorite videos from the blog, as an example of some of the fun you can expect to encounter on it :)



Click here to check out his blog for Battle Studies.

Today:

I am grateful for my friends.

We each have our own definition of what a friend is but, I decided to look the word friend up in the dictionary. Some of the definitions were -

1. One attached to another by affection or esteem.
2. One that is not hostile.
3. A favored companion.

Now here is my definition -

1. One that is always there to help you put the pieces of your life back together when life breaks you into a million pieces.
2. One that listens whether they're interested in what you're talking about or not; they are simply interested in you.
3. One that is there to laugh at a tough situation before you're ready to laugh at it...because they know you need to.

And so much more. There's always questions that remain unanswered with each day, but for today...just for today I'm grateful for my friends.

To all of you that are there for me.
To all of you who laugh at me.
To all of you who laugh with me.
To all of you that let me laugh at you.
To all of you that listen to me.
To all of you who trust me.
To all of you who make life's blows just a little bit softer.
To all of you who are my friend.

The hugest, heartfelt THANK YOU.

It is you that make my heart smile on the darkest days.
Thanks for "claiming" me as your friend even when I'm completely losing it.
Most of all...thank you for your love, support, and FRIENDSHIP.

I love you.

“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you."
-Charlie Brown to Snoopy