Anne Girl: What Goes On Inside My Head

With graduation now behind me and entering into a new stage of life, I am trying to make a new routine and finally begin my day by spending some quiet time with God.  With all of the goodbyes that graduation brought, and the stress of not finding a job yet, I was starting to feel completely lost.  As I sat down to open my bible for the first time in months, I felt led to read Psalms and Proverbs this summer.  And even the first week of it has been incredible.  Psalms has brought so much peace to my soul as I read the yearnings of Christians before me who have also felt lost.  Reading their cries out to God and realizing that I am not alone in these feelings has been such a comfort to me.  And the best part is reaching the end of the psalm and feeling God's peace along with them as they realize He has everything in control.  Today as I sat down and began to read Psalm 6, there was a verse that really stood out to me.  "I'm exhausted.  I...

As a current senior preparing to graduate in a few months, life feels pretty surreal right now.  I am an extreme planner, and have literally planned every minute of my life out and have always known what my plans were for future years.  Letting go of the control of my plans and letting God have control of my life has always been one of my biggest struggles.  And yet this year I have had to come to the realization that in about 5 months from now, I have no idea what is going to happen. While before I have always had to give part of my plans up to God, I always knew I would be enrolled in school somewhere.  I knew I would either be living at home or at a college.  I knew that my life would be based on semesters, and that each semester, I had at least a little security of knowing what was going to happen for the next couple of months.  I had the security of rules, from living in my parents house and from going to a Christian college with strict regulation...