I just stumbled onto this photo of the Drexel freshman from yesterday's sister's appreciation, and words cannot describe how blessed I am just being able to look at this picture. When I look at this image, all I can see is God's faithfulness to Drexel!

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I spent a lot of my time this past day in the library, yet I wasn't able to focus on anything and I was really unproductive. Close to midnight, I started to get pretty frustrated with myself. Why am I such a bad example to the Drexel ministry in that I seem to not even try and be a good student? The more I thought about it, the more discouraged I became and the more I felt like a failure. I ended up calling my parents and asked them to pray for me, which is a pretty huge deal, I think. I know that my parents are always available for me and that they live me, yet it's often difficult for me to call them and talk with them. It's not that I've never done it before, but I guess there's just a certain humility (for lack of a better word?) that comes with it and I'm not always willing to pick up the phone and dial home...but I did tonight and it was overwhelmingly blessing to hear my dad pray for me and my schoolwork.

I also asked for two friends to pray for me and the result was pretty encouraging. In my post a few hours ago, I was definitely struggling. After seeking out and going to my family and friends though, I am definitely so blessed, and so thankful for the ones that God has put in my life. After their prayers and encouragement, I actually remembered an assignment that is due today that I didn't start and had totally forgotten about. It was discouraging, but I was able to focus for the past three hours and get the work done. ptl!

So again, God is so good, and He is so faithful and never fails to show His love for His children. How awesome is His patience for us when we feel discouraged and weary? Thank you thank you!

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My hope is that I will always remember that no one is perfect. Even the great characters of the Bible, such as Noah, Abraham, and King David, they were all imperfect! They were sinners, and they were part of Jesus' bloodline! If God called sinners, by His grace, to be His forefathers, should we be surprised that He would call sinners to be His descendants?

I am a sinner. I have nothing to be ashamed of, because I know that Jesus has washed me clean, and really, it's the times that I am at my weakest that I need Jesus the most. It doesn't make sense for me to be held back from worshipping God with all that I have because I've made some mistakes; in fact, that's exactly the reason why I only need to praise Him more! And why wouldn't I? The King cares about me so much that He manifested himself into human form to save me from my imperfections.

There's so much to say and process, so I'll have to continue another time. But I just wanted to remind myself of how refreshing retreat was, despite being kind of hesitant to go at first. Hallelujah!

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And by "we", I mean everyone except me. I honestly don't feel like I'm good or awesome at anything, and, reading my last few posts of this week, I feel like there's a lot of self-deprecation going on. I feel easily beat up and discouraged, and so a lot of my posts become long rants full of complaining and whining. No good!

I need to start counting my blessings and affirm myself more often, even if it sometimes seems like the bad outweighs the good. It's like how the news only has bad things because that's what people want to hear, but the good news usually gets overlooked and is under appreciated. On tumblr, Joycelin would often do posts on 7 things she's thankful for, and I think I shall follow suit.

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