Hello all you wonderful people. Isn't it crazy how life seems to pass you by so quickly at some times, and so slowly at others? It has literally been months since I've talked to you guys. And, I'm sorry. Haha! Honestly though, not a whole lot has happened since I last posted. "Living life", as they say, has become a more and more mediocre term to me. For a few weeks in the past two months, I only had face to face time with my mom, my brothers, and maybe...3 others. Needless to say, I needed to get out of the house more. These past weeks, I have done exactly that. I went on vacation.
Vacations are enjoyable. For Pete's sake, the epitome of the definition of a vacation is to relax and enjoy yourself away from the stress of your 'normal' life.
After an 8 hour long road trip with our troop of 6, we arrived in Keystone, South Dakota (about a 10 minute drive from Mount Rushmore). We went and saw Mount Rushmore. We toured the Jewel Caves, which had something like 700 stairs up and down a 1/2 mile loop. We went to a little old steak house that had all our tummies full of cow goodness. We even went to Custer State Park and saw (and pet, and fed) wild burrows, and tons of buffalo. It was fun, but exhausting. It didn't exactly cure me of my need to get out of the house though, because when we weren't touring and petting wild animals, we were at the hotel watching movies and taking naps in our rooms.
I decided that when I got back to Colorado, I would go out and find people to hang out with. And, as luck would have it, an opportunity presented itself. This past Tuesday, I got to see Sheree (insert a trumpet flare similar to the one at the beginning of Prince Ali from Aladdin). I wanted just to meet her for lunch at the college, but she had other plans in mind that included me being the 'Facial Wizzard' in a short film for a group project (you had to be there).
Okay, so now here's the spiritual standpoint of this little ramble: There are times when God will give you an urge to do something productive with your life. For me, it was, and is still, to be more social. But with a spiritual urge, there usually comes a hellish attack. I got a cold the day after I was with Sheree.
I was extremely tempted to stay home, drink tea, watch movies, and shun the world- all because I got a small case of the sniffles. I did fight through it though. I took a long nap and kept praying that I could feel better before the evening because I wanted to go to a coffee house with some friends. Eventually the headache and the sinus pressure subsided and I felt much better after taking some cold meds. Thankfully, I did get to have a spectacular time with my friends that evening.
Esh. Um. I'm not trying to say that if you're sick and you wanted to hang out with your friends that you should just push through it and go anyway. I'm saying that sometimes The Evil one will play tricks on you to prevent you from doing what God what's you to.
You know those times when you feel like something is wrong? Obi-Wan Kenobi comes to my mind when he would say "I have a bad feeling about this". He could feel the evil around him. He felt something was off. When I woke up with that cold on Wednesday morning, I knew it was wrong. It didn't feel right. I needed to force it out of me. And, with God's help, I did.
Being social is something that God is teaching me. I've never been very good at it, but I know something extraordinary will come if it in the end.
Cheers to not being a hermit anymore. :)
That's it. I'm out.
Be bold. Be blessed. Be bodacious.
~Ana
P. S. I typed all if this on my iPhone because my laptop is currently hiding from me. Please forgive me if autocorrect changed some if my words.
