prayers

Well, I don't know about you, but I love watching the Olympics! I don't think a lot of popular singers have much talent, but a person who can flip backwards off a vault deserves a medal! But what's almost funny is that I may know some famous athletes of the last decade or so, but before that, I really don't know. Whereas, at the time of their Olympics, their name was as popular as Michael Phelps is today (or almost!). And I realized that most everybody wants to be remembered...special in some good way. That is why people want to become a star or celebrity of some type, but it is never satisfying! They always want more money or medals or something. It is interesting to note that several studies lately have indicated that the "happiest" and most satisfied people are God-fearing Christians. Not billionaires, not movie stars, not people who have the "best" spouse, not professional athletes or supermodels...but really, there is no doubt in my mind that that is true. And that is what I discoverd. Now, I love to write (about some things!), so I could go on a long trail here, but I'll try to summarize. Basically, people have since high school thought of me as being "happy" most all the time, and I have been happy a lot, but what I really was was joyful. Because I knew God was in control of my life, and he was leading it, and that was all the reason I needed to have joy! When I was 13, I had sung so much that I overused my vocal cords and wasn't allowed to sing or talk for about a year, and I was devasted, but I learned that it was good since I had been proud of my singing voice, and now I have learned to just sing for God's glory. He knows what He's doing. I had looked at people simply praising me for what I did, but I was never satisfied with whatever they said. Two years ago, I started getting some kind of emotional problem. I was angry very often for no reason, but God helped me to deal with that, too. I have arthritis, bursitis, scoliosis, asthma, flat feet, a hip that causes me pain every day, and several other messed up things(although, yes! It could be much worse!). I don't know what to do after college (well, I know what I want to do, just don't know how I'm going to do it), and life hasn't exactly gone as I had planned. But! Every time God lifts me up and reminds me that He's going to work it all out. There is nothing to worry about. I can't even control whether I will be alive tomorrow or not, so why worry about anything else? And then I am special! God sees things way better than the rest of us. We look at the people who break Olympic records, make millions, etc. But I love how perfect God is! Because none of that really matters! There may be bad scoring in an event, a bad call by a ref, but God never messes up, and I find that so neat. I have lately been getting down again because I was looking at the wrong things, but today I was reminded again that ultimately nothing matters more to God than following Him. That's how to be remembered. It is all that matters, and it is the only way to be satisfied. And I am so excited, and I hope you don't mind me sharing with you!