Matthew 7:13-14

I am starting this blog to keep my family and friends updated on my life.  After receiving my last phone bill, I believe that this is a better more efficient way of communication :) 

I always thought that blogging was a bit silly, never really believing that someone would want to read about all of my thoughts, feelings, and stories of life, however after reading some friend's blogs and really enjoying them, I decided to start one of my own.

I have entitled my blog, "Life At The Cross Roads", because that is the stage in life I am at.  This is my inspiration by William Barclay: 

Life at the crossroads...Matthew 7:13-14

"Go in the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the road which leads to ruin, and there are many who go through it. Narrow is the gate and hard is the way that leads to life, and those who find it are few"

Barclay commentary:

""There is always a certain dramatic quality about life, for it has been said that all life is focused on our position at the crossroads. In every action of life, we are confronted with a choice; and we can never evade the choice, because we can never stand still. we must always take one way or the other. Because of that, it has always been the supreme functions of the great men and women of history that they should confront people with that inevitable choice. That is the choice with which Jesus is confronting us in this passage. There is a broad easy way and there are many who take it; but the end of it is ruin. There is a narrow and hard way and there are few who take it; but the end of it leads to life. Cebes, the disciple of Socrates writes in tabula: "Dost thou see a little door, and a way in front of the door, which is not much crowded, but the travelers are few? That is the way that leadeth to true instruction" let us examine the difference between the two ways.

1. It is the difference between the hard and the easy way. There is never an easy way to greatness, greatness is always the product of toil. One brother deep in thought answered,” I have been wondering how it came about that Ned has contrived to monopolize all the talents of the family; but then again I remember that, when we were at play, he was always at work." even when a thing is done with an appearance of ease, that ease is a product of unremitting toil. The skill of the concert pianist or the champion golfer did not come without sweat. There has NEVER been any other way to greatness than the way of toil and anything else, which promises such a way is delusion.

2.it is the difference between the short and the long way. Very rarely, something may emerge complete and perfect in a flash, but far oftener is the result of long labor and constant attention to detail. In this world we are faced with the short way, which promises immediate results and the long way, of which the results are in the distance. But the LASTING things never come quickly; the long way is the BEST WAY in the end.

3. It is the difference between the disciplined and the undisciplined way. Nothing was ever achieved without discipline, and many an athletes and men and women in their fields have been ruined because they abandoned discipline and let themselves go. No one ever reached eminence, and no one having reached it ever maintained it without discipline.

4. It is the difference between the thoughtful and the thoughtless was. Here we come to the heart of the matter. None of us would ever take the easy way, the short and the undisciplined we if we only thought. Everything in this world has two aspects - how it looks NOW at this moment, and how it will look in time to come. The easy way may look very inviting at the moment and the hard way may look very daunting. The only way to get our values right is to see not the beginning but the end of the way, to see things not in the light of time but in the light of eternity."

These are the thoughts that my heart and head have been dwelling on, this is the way that I am seeking to live out my life.  

Okay, sorry for being too deep. I go to Biola University, I am in my second year here, and I am studying to become a elementary school teacher.  What grade yet, I am unsure of.  I am thinking possibly kindergarten or third grade.  I am also hoping to go to graduate school to possibly study  secondary education to maybe teach high school or even college level classes, probably in English.

So far school has kind of been a blur.  I was taking 19 units and after about a month in I had to drop a class, which was really hard to do, but now I feel like a can breathe again which is really nice.  Classes are still kind of difficult, be praying for me as I start a week of midterms!