Wow, It's Been A Year?

A year ago this week I made the biggest decision of my life. I decided that I wanted to give up my fake life and truly live a life set apart for God. I had "decided" that many a time before but never had I made the decision for real, to die to myself and live for Christ alone. I'm happy to say that I did die that night and give it all up for God. A speaker that week challenged the entire group of 5,500 students to set aside 15 minutes a day for the next month to God. She also made a bigger challenge to set aside at least 15 minutes a day to God for the rest of our lives. I decided to shoot for the moon and take the big challenge. I'm one of those people that doesn't like to do something that I feel like I should do. I get figity and my mind wanders. Homework is impossible and quiet time usually gets put on the back burner. That night I thought to myself, "there is no way I can do that," but I started small with a one month goal. I got to a month and barely realized it had already been 30 days. It doesn't always happen every single day but rarely does 2 or 3 continuous days go by where I don't have a quiet time. One time after I got back from challenge I went to the river with a bunch of friends for 3 days and I found myself yearning to be in God's word cuz I couldn't seem to make time for it. That excited me because I had never felt that in my entire life. A year has come and gone and it thrills me to look back over my prayer journals for the past year and see how God has worked. My hope is that I keep writing a prayer journal til a I die and have them when I'm older....we'll see I guess....