In no particular order…
It’s going to be such a great week!
I know, I know it’s a little hard to admit myself, but it is sooo true! QT or QuikTrip (and no I didn’t just spell quick wrong, that’s how they spell it) is so much better than Sonic.
For you people that do not have the joy of living in the midwest - QT is a gas station/convenience store here, and it’s wonderful!
You see with the new office move we also gave up our coveted spot right next to Sonic. Sonic was a beloved place in the old office. We went there often, mostly for drinks but also for food. It has great ice, and a wide variety of drink selections, plus you can add flavors, and get yourself a vanilla diet dr. pepper. Or as Matt learned, when he told Derek to get him “whatever” one day, a chocolate cherry dr. pepper. BTW, they actually put chocolate sauce in the drink, not a chocolate flavored syrup. It was, shall we say, interesting.
So yes, I sing the praises of Sonic, but since moving into the new office, I’ve realized not only did we upgrade or actual office space, we’ve actually improved our location in that it is as close to QT as we were to Sonic.
You see at QT, they actually have more drink options! Not as many flavor add-ins but I only used the cherry and the vanilla anyway, and QT has that covered. QT also has caffeine free diet pepsi, woo-hoo! I have caffeine issues, so it’s nice to have caffeine free options. Plus, I like doing my drink myself, so I can get it just right. And they are under $1 ALL THE TIME! Not like Sonic, where they only do the cheap drinks during non-meal hours. Plus QT has some healthier food options, like the other day I got a lunchable there. I know it’s weird that an adult likes lunchables, but I so do!
Plus, QT has gas, and today it was only $1.63! Can you believe it!?
So clearly, QT really is better than Sonic. :)
*EDIT: Derek just reminded me of this, and it is worth the mention - QT also has better hot dogs than Sonic, and I’m a fan of the hot dog. I meant to include this in the original post, but was distracted by all the other things that make up QT goodness.
Do you ever find yourself realizing that your understanding of God isn’t big enough?
It’s like you go around carrying all of your experiences in this bag that is made of everything you understand about God. Then one day, one of your experiences doesn’t fit in the bag. What!? Seriously!!? How is that even possible!? You try to cram it in, but it pops right back out. You pull everything else out of the bag, sort through it, reevaluate, try to fold it up tighter, and put it all back in, but it just doesn’t fit. You think to yourself, there can’t be a problem with the bag - the bag is God and God is perfect, and God doesn’t have flaws. You decide you must be misunderstanding your own experience. So you look at it again, turn it inside out, cause maybe that will make it smaller, right? That might even work for a while, but a few days, weeks, months go by, and you realize that it really didn’t work at all. It’s still sticking out of the bag.
Anyone else ever have an experience like that?
It really rattles me, and I don’t like it. I like predictability, I like for everything to have a place, and when things don’t fit it throws me off. I don’t like the idea of change. I like knowing what I can count on, and the thought that what I know and understand of God may not be entirely accurate kind of terrifies me, to be honest.
I am challenged to remember that my understanding of God will never be complete. If I am depending on my understanding of God, of whatever I can make sense of, then I’m depending on the wrong thing. I need to learn that life is more messy than I’d like it to be, that as hard as I try, some things will never fit in the bag here on earth.
That is a hard one, because like I said, my natural urge is to just keep stuffing, flipping, folding, turning, and repacking. Lately, I’m having to realize that I can either drive myself crazy trying to make it all fit, or I can learn to be okay with the fact that it doesn’t.
Dating is hard! It can be fun, and it can stink. Having been in the dating world for a little while now, I’ve learned some things that make dating easier, and really make being single easier, and quite honestly are just good things for anyone. So here it is, before you start a relationship with someone:
YOU NEED COMMUNITY!!!!
You need a group of people in your life, that you hang out with, are real with, talk openly with, who encourage you to move closer to Christ, and at the same time love you for just where you are. I have experienced a relationship without having the community around me that I needed, and I have been in a relationship with it. Let me tell you from experience, I never want to be without community again.
Establish a community before you start dating, because if you are having trouble with authentic, God-honoring relationships in community, it’s not likely that you’ll be able to have an authentic God-honoring relationship with a man.
A blog friend, Tammy, wrote this on her blog, and this as a guest post somewhere else.
I could have written it myself, and I think everyone needs to read it.
Here’s an excerpt from the guest post, What I’d Like You to Know: A Single Adult
I think the inability to categorize me makes some people uncomfortable. If I were divorced, they could make sense of it. Were I a single mom, I’d find sympathy and compassion. But by admitting my single, never married, no-child status is akin to announcing there is something wrong with me. I’m reasonably attractive, funny and pass for intelligent, so people are only left to ponder my fatal flaws. Some people actually ask, “So what’s wrong with you?”
Our society sort of views marriage as a given. A rite of passage. When I read news accounts of a young woman or even a child who died tragically, her parents inevitably say “I’ll never walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. I’ll never hold her children.” It is assumed that everyone who was born will marry and have children. I assumed I would too. When it just doesn’t happen, knowing that it is expected of us only deepens the pain.