closer

On the day that I created this blog for my friends and family, many things have occured to me. First of all, no matter what pressure I am feeling from the life I have created for myself, or just from simply living life, it is so important to have a sense of thankfulness for what that pressure can do to mold and develop my character. I have been working on one of my last difficult classes to complete my Masters program and tonight, I finished the final for that class and feel a sense of just coming over the top of the mountain. Being over the top of that mountain gives me a sense that all the other responsibilities left is downhill. I've been looking up the side of that mountain, climbing slowly for so many years, that it seems almost impossible to think that there is another side. I think this realization leaves me with a better understanding of thankfulness for each and every step it took to get there. This is true in not just a meaningless example of school, but for any difficult situation in life. Sometimes it seems like each step up that mountain feels as if it will never end...but with each step, character is forming inside your private world. God doesn't allow us to bear more than we can handle...but in those almost breaking moments, its as if He is cheering us on at the top of the mountain encouraging us that there is more on the other side of the steep climb.