Are the grays here yet?

As mentioned in my last post, I have been very busy lately. Busy with school mainly, but also work, and trying to some what active in my faith. Yeah I know that should be the one with the "mainly" behind it but unfortunately I can’t say that it is. Ok Morgan, stay on topic. Today I had a day off, and as with every day I get off I was looking forward to sleeping until noon, waking up and then just lay around watching the T.V. all day. However, Thursday must have been "Assign mega amounts of homework day" at Cincinnati State.

Now a little back story. Ever since middle school I can remember getting a lot of anxiety, and very stressed out when ever I was assigned several assignments, or large ones. Well apparently this does not change over the years. So since Thursday I have been planning my day off out in my head. First I will start on my 4 hours of math homework, hopefully finish before lunch. After lunch I will start on my economics, possibly get done with that in time to get some quality time with a friend or two. Suddenly my day off was in fact just as or more planned out then any other day of my life.

Well 8a.m. came around and that alarm clock went off. Between getting the new puppy up and doing a few things my mom wanted I was already behind on my list. Well long story short I got rather stress out rather fast. By noon I was focusing more on worrying about whether I was going to get thing done then actually working on them.

As with a lot of things I decided to go the good book for some advice. I found one verse that really stuck out to me and helped out.

Philippians 4:6-7 “Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.”

So I decided to try it, not that I have not done it before but this morning for some reason prayer was not on my mind. Well once I prayed and gave it all up; it was like a 20 ton weight just lifted right off. Not only did I feel better, but not even an hour later I got a call this call could be considered the sense of God’s wholeness the passage talks about. This call was from my work, a guy there wanted to switch me Monday for Wednesday, this means I would have an entire day more then I originally planned on having to get this work done. Can you say another 20 tons?

So after looking in the mirror I currently have no grays hairs up there, however when I shave my head I am told it looks like I am going bald…

Until next time, Happy checking my blog for new posts!

My sincere apologies.

I know there are some of you out there who look at this everyday. To you I say thank you. Weather your bored at art school, work, or home, or maybe you just really look forward to what I have to say. Thank you very much for making my site tracker go up! I know I have not posted in a fat minute but I promise I have not forgot about you. I thought i would fill you in a some of what has been keeping me from venting to my keyboard.
As most of you know i recently became a father. She weighs 7lb., had four legs and a tail. No, its not a deformed human baby. It is a very cute puppy that is a 50-50 mix of Beagle and Jack Russel. Her name is Molly. (see picture below) i personally blame her for the lack of posts. She doesn't sleep at night she prefers howling until i let her come sleep with me and then just jumping on and off my bed until morning. Though this get very old very fast i just can't get mad at her. She is too cute.
There is also this little thing called school that has kept me busy pretty much every day as well.

But please check daily for new post I am going to get back into this very soon.

Also check out Captive Outpost. I am going to be on there some as well. Not to mention there are currently four other very interesting contributers there.

Well until next time! That is if you haven't found something better to do before then. Not that there is much better then reading my thoughts on the world and about my struggles.

Courage in my Faith

Today i woke up and read my email, looked at Woot, Sellout Woot, and Shirt Woot. This is a typical day in the life of Morgan Berry, however when checking my email I saw that my cultural geography class was canceled. Through out the morning I was not looking forward to this two hour gap, and had no idea what I was going to do to fill it. I hung on the the idea that maybe I would get some homework of something to work on, well that never happened.

So I went to the Cafe, got some food and sat down. No more then ten minutes after getting my laptop out and everything situated I heard the warming up of instruments on the other side. Being the Curious George I often am I decided to move over closer to the sounds.

Boy was i pleasantly surprised! Turns out it was just what I needed today, and for a while. This sound I was hearing to the warming up of a gospel band and choir. When they started singing i was very caught off guard. See Cincinnati State is not known for being a religious school at all, let alone to have many people that would openly confess they are Christians in front of the judgmental crowd that is a college Cafe filled with tired stressed out students.

One song into there performance the crowd was standing, shouting, and singing with them like i have never even seen in a church before.
To give you an idea of the craziness of the situation, a guy about my age with hair down to his back, wearing all black with a shirt on the said "God?...LOL", and a sticker on his
laptop stating that "Satan worships Me" stood up and stated to sing wit them!
Needless to say the environment was like none other I had every been in before.

This all brings me to courage in our faith.

Lately I have suffered in this area. Part of the reason i and not currently a Young Life leader is do to a lack of courage. I didn't have the courage to do, i didn't have the courage to give up a day at work, free time, and I didn't have the courage to go to an high school and talk to kids i didn't know and try to be-friend them. Why is it that these people can get up in front of a huge crowd full of every type of person you can think of and sign about the Lord, and how they love him so much, yet i can't just go into a school and share the love that I have experienced?

Though I do not currently have an answer to this question, I do have a verse that i feel is going to help me out, and that can help out any one in a similar position.

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you." Deuteronomy 31:6 (New International Version)

So I as do a Keyword search on Biblegataway.com for the word courage to try and figure out a reasoning for this I would love some feed back on what could help me out in this.

Coming Soon

I started out great, two posts in the first day. I understand I have not posted since. However you can trust me there is more to come. I just need to figure out how to transfer them from the noggin to the keyboard.

The main reason for the lack of posts is work.

This past weekend was a record one for us the Mike's #33. Thus I have been too worn out to think too much.

So drop the remote and stay tuned, another post is coming to a computer near you.

Striving to be a persistent widow

I have recently been slammed. I have been slammed with school, homework, work, and trying to fit in time to hang out with all my friends. I found my self wanting to just give up and drop one of them. I knew I couldn’t quit work, for that is what lets me have one thing that makes me happy in life, my car. Now I am not one of those cars whose car is the center of his life, but I do enjoy having a nice one and love getting complements.

Ok back to the subject, since I couldn’t drop work and wouldn’t have any fun in life with out my friends, I decided that maybe school could take a cut. I was thinking about dropping one of my classes.

Now I know several people, three of my best friends, who have done this too much and therefore good b a lot farther along in school if they didn’t. With as much as I hate school and wanted to drop my Psychology class (if you ever take it at Cincinnati State don’t get Webster) I started thinking about it. I realized that if I drop one now I will just have to take it later! Yeah my life will be nicer now but in a year when I am getting ready to move on to another school I will still have that one extra class.

Another thing that helped me is the parable of the persistent widow, ‘“Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: ‘In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

‘For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'

And the Lord said, ‘Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"” Luke 18:1-8 (NIV)

When I read this I realized that I need to be that widow. Now why would I want to be a widow you may ask? This is because the widow never gave up. She kept bothering the judge until she got what she wanted. So if I don’t give up and keep “bothering” or doing my work, I will eventually get what I want, which is to be done with this class and eventually school too.

To sum this up just don’t give up. Whether you’re struggling with school, relationships, work or anything else, if you just stick with it and seek advice on the subject you will get through it.

Intro

My name is Morgan Berry. I am currently attending Cincinnati State with plans to transfer to NKU after a couple of years. The plan from there is to become a gym teacher. I also work at Mike’s Express Carwash Inc. as a supervisor. It’s not the best job however the pay is not bad and the people there are great. Now I can’t promise that I will keep up with this however I am going to do my best. Depending on the school load you may get several of these posts to read. Trust me they will get more interesting as we go. So sit back and enjoy.