First post on this blog.
I used to be an avid xanga-er. Is there a point in time where one upgrades from xanga-ing to blogging? In any case, I like change. Fresh white page and a new name.
Jesus gives me new life, and although I have been a believer for years, I feel that somehow this year is different, that I truly can see why he says that his burden is light. So why not start out on a new place to write new ideas? It is an exciting thing, friends.
To tell you about myself, I am a new creation. The old is gone and the new is come. Jesus calls us to this, and it seems like events from this year and tough situations from years past have now come together to teach me true things about God’s nature. His faithfulness and His desire for a relationship with us. I am happily a junior in Human Development and Family Studies major and Economics minor (a new interest) at Penn State University, and have a passion para la lengua de español, pero no quieres tener clases sobrela. Settling into this idea of enjoying my learning experience and taking advantage of my time here is a new thing to me.
At this point I’m not worried about things post-college. A lot of people have asked me what I want to do after school. I feel so much that my focus should be on the now… that worrying about things post-grad seem unwise. I most definitely will find my way… although, for ideas sake I would like to travel, to speak Spanish, to photograph, to influence children to make a better world, to change lives, to pursue justice for people’s lives, to interact with women from different cultures, to keep on learning… etc. The list is always changing.
I don’t think we realize our potential to influence others for good or for poor, and I want to make people aware of this idea through awareness of ourselves.
I was reading an article today in my local paper (http://www.centredaily.com/news/nation/story/264170.html) about the increase of child abuse coinciding with the increase in cohabitation. The article addressed a few different children who had been killed by their mother’s violent boyfriends, and also policy makers on Bush’s Healthy Marriage Initiative, and other human service workers. I just wonder how these evident problems are going to play out in this upcoming election. Is anyone focusing on relational issues? Families? Something needs to change. Not that I think that having these cohabiting couples get married is going to solve these problems, but how emphasis on healthy relationships is an issue that maybe is too often overlooked?
