All Day, Everyday

So. If you ever visit my house, if you look in our dining room you would find a ton of stuff that looks kind of oldish and is strewn haphazardly around. It's all from my grandmother's house; she now resides in Heaven and has since last March. My mum, being one of the daughters, had the task of cleaning out her house and separating the things that Grandma wanted her to have for my sister and I.

(we're the only girl-grandchildren)

She came across some things that had my childish scribbles, old yearbooks, etc but what was really awesome was she came across an old painting I had made of my favorite Bible verse, Psalms 113:3. I remember that painting fondly and she always pointed it out to visitors.

But that's not the point of the story. That verse is essentially a command, one that I know I fail at everyday. Look at what it says:

"From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,

the name of the LORD is to be praised." (NIV)

Ever heard the phrase "All day, everyday"? My boyfriend uses it; often when we're joking about something or being sarcastic... but this phrase has some merit to it if you apply it to this verse. "From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets.." Sunrise. Sunset. 24 hours. Hmmmm.. I mean, I for one, would love to not to do anything except praise His Name out loud for 24 hours a day but that little thing called "life" tends to get in the way sometimes. We get behind, we don't pray every day like we should, we don't spend enough time in the Word, so many little distractions in life seem to get in the way but nevertheless, we are commanded to praise Him all day, every day.

So how do we do that? How do I do that? I'm not saying you have to sit on a street corner and shout praises for 24-hours, although that would be totally awesome... but i know I'm going to start praying more and I'm going to start loving more, and worshipping more, and little things that normally fall under a "distraction" and would take away say from homework or playing video games (which i love) and being a social butterfly.

I'm just gonna start praising Him... all day, every day.

New Year, New Blog, New Semester... WHOA!

So this will be short-ish with a hint of promise of a much longer blog as soon as school starts back up next week.

I suppose i should make a nice back-story about how this all came about and how i got to the point that I'm at right now but that would take forever. I'll just add little bits and pieces of my past few years at the University of Mobile (located in sunny, humid Mobile Alabama!) in blogs as I go along. All you need to now, dear readers, is the following things.

-I am a senior and will be graduating soon.
-I am have the world's worse case of being scatterbrained, which may result in a gap between postings
-I am an English major first; future high school teacher second. That being said, I will talk a bit about books. And coffee. I. Love. Coffee.
-There will be TONS of biblical references, Scriptures, praise of Jesus and all-around honor to the One who has given me the will and the knowledge to write out and try to organize my wayward thoughts.

That being said and now that you're a bit more prepared, so to speak...

I have to go get ready for work but i will blog about today's adventure when i return. It's always nice to admire God's creations and to realize just how much we as humans are deeply loved by our Father.

Ta, everyone!