YAY!!! God is So Good!

So today has been a really good day! :D It started out looking like it was going to shape up to be not a good day. I was rather sad this morning and in the car on the way to class felt like I was about to start crying for no good reason at all and then was worried about my quiz and if my emotions were going to make me freak out about my quiz etc. I was also worried because Sip and Sign moved and I didn't know where and I don't really know my way around campus that well because I only have one class.
So I got to class and pulled out my Rosary and started praying a Chaplet of Divine Mercy. I left my Rosary in my lap for the whole class and when I would have the time I would grab it and start praying it. Then when it was time for the quiz I said "Saints Thomas and Joseph (Cupertino, the patron of test takers) pray for me!" I'm pretty sure I only got two words wrong on my quiz and I wasn't freaking out at all!
After class I was in the Library doing my homework and I got distracted and went on the website of the Dominicans. I was looking at their pictures from Holy Week last year and it made me really happy! Then I was checking my email, this was after I was done with homework don't worry!, and I got an email from Sister Therese about the retreat which is only TEN DAYS from now! and so know I'm all super happy and excited about that.
I found Sip and Sign no problems at all. It was also really fun because we played speed dating but we had to sign everything. I was a guy because we only had two guys there so some of us girls were guys. One of the girls I was paired with was a 121 year old wooden shoe maker from Holland. One of the other girls had a pet pig and 15 kids. There was a lot of laughing going on. It was really fun though because I finally feel like I'm making friends there.
On the way home I was sitting near the front of the bus and there was a man talking to the driver. I happened to overhear the driver say "I'm not Catholic, Christian but not Catholic. Why don't they eat meat on that day?" He said "I don't know, it's part of their religion." I was able to explain it to them. It was really cool for me because I've heard those kinds of stories but never been in that kind of situation before.
Plus it's a wonderful sunny day outside! :D
GOD IS GOOD! ALL THE TIME! ALL THE TIME! GOD IS GOOD!

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria! Let's see what the good God wills.

Whatever

I heard this song come on my radio today and it seemed to fit in with yesterdays post.

Whatever by Steven Curtis Chapman.

JMJ+
~Betsy


Totus tuus Maria! Let's see what the good God wills.

Our Daily Bread

I don't remember where I heard or read this but lately it' s been coming back to me again and again. I was listening to or reading something about the Our Father. When he got to the line "give us this day our daily bread" he compared that to the manna in the wilderness. In the wilderness they only had enough bread to last them through one day and if they tried to save up for tomorrow the bread would go bad. This has been a reacuring theme in my life right now. Not just to trust God with my future in the convent but to trust Him with my today as well. It also made me think of the verse "Do not worry about tomorrow for today has enough worries of it's own."
I've been learning a lot in the past four and a half months just how much I'm really not in control of my life. I asked for my application papers in Nov. because I thought that was His plan for me. He showed me it wasn't so I applied for NET thinking that was His plan for me. That didn't happen so now my plan is to go to college and study American Sign Language. I have no idea what the next one to three years may bring, I don't even know how long I will be waiting to enter, but I have come to learn that no matter what happens He will give me my daily bread, not enough for tomorrow, or this year or this next three years, but enough for today!

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria! Let's see what the good God wills.

Life

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Life has been busy and rather stressful lately. I didn't get accepted to NET so I've been dealing with that and trying to figure out what I am going to be doing next year. I've also still been having a bit of a hard time with waiting to enter.
I'm taking a sign language class at the community college so that's eating up a lot of my time and band festival is coming up soon. I'm helping put on a retreat with my youth group which is this weekend and I'm also playing piano for Mass on retreat. But life is good. I'm, slowly but surely, learning to live one day at a time and to make the most of every moment. Of course I still have a hard time staying out of the future but, by the grace of God, I'm learning.

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria! Let's see what the good God wills.