There's an Opportune Time.....

There's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
When I began to really put my faith into action this was the first Bible verse I fell in love with. Actually not this single bible verse but Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 and it has become more and more prevalent in my life recently. Ask yourself this: In the past month has there been an event or a thing you wanted to do, thought about doing, or was going to do and it got cancelled or something came up and you couldn't go? Did you think to yourself there was a reason I wasn't meant to go?

This happens to me all the time and when I cannot do something or when I don't have the money to do something someone has invited me to do, I think there is a reason and I am not meant to do it. This also happened to me this past weekend. My person was coming down from Cleveland to see me for the weekend. I was going to surprise her by driving her to South Bend, IN to visit another friend of ours that we have not seen in over a year. Unfortunately timing did not work out and we cancelled the trip. However in doing so I was able to help another friend out who had come up from KY and needed a place to crash.

See there is a reason for everything! :)

There's an opportune time to do things,
a right time for everything on earth:
A right time for birth and another for death,
a right time to plant and another to reap,
a right time to kill and another to heal,
a right time to destroy and another to construct,
a right time to cry and another to laugh,
a right time to lament and another to cheer,
a right time to make love and another to abstain,
a right time to embrace and another to part,
a right time to search and another to count your losses,
a right time to hold on and another to let go,
a right time to rip out and another to mend,
a right time to shut up and another to speak up,
a right time to love and another to hate,
a right time to wage war and another to make peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 The Message

Welcome to July...

July has gone by way to fast for me. My favorite holiday has come and gone as well as my 24th birthday (yikes!). The fourth was filled with amazing family time and it will definitely be one worth cherishing. Went to 3 firework shows (found one we will be going back to next year) and had a family picnic everyday. My roommate from college also came for a visit so that was a bonus as well.
My birthday was a same old same old. One thing that I have never realized was how many friends and family I have, at least until I got onto Facebook and saw all the wishes. Now I know what you are thinking, I do the same thing. When I see it's someone's birthday I wish them a happy one, but recently I have stopped. If it's someone that I truly care about and they have made an impact on my life I will comments them a wish. If it is an acquaintance or an old high school friend that I haven't talked to in a while (let alone talked to in high school) I decide not to (don't know my exact reasoning on this). However when I turned my Facebook on at the end of the day and saw who all commented and knew that everyone one of them and I had talked at least once in the past year, that made me feel great.
This past weekend was a great one too! I spent it with my person and it was fantastic that we were able to be together. I was going to surprise her by taking her to see another good friend of ours and unfortunately plans fell through but in the end we were happy the surprise didn't work out because we were less stressed and it didn't matter what we did. We spent it with other great friends and had some amazing laughs.
This coming weekend I am heading to one of my favorite US cities (on my top 10) to see 2 friends I met in college, Louisville, KY.