A Break of Spring

Spring Break is upon us once more, though technically mine doesn't begin until tomorrow, due to the fact that I still have school to do today. But instead of writing today, I'm going to make a list of sorts of things that I want to do and become this summer, and I plan to start a few of these with this break I have this upcoming week. It's not that I don't like who I am, (though sometimes that is the case) I just want to become a better person; a better Christian.
-taye

Life to-do's:

1. Become a reader. I love reading, it is like a movie. For a while, you can just get whisked off into another world, another life, another person. My problem: procrastination, and the fact that I have so many books I want to read that I start reading about four at a time and then end up not finishing any of them. But I want to become one of those people who nose is always in a book, I do not really know why, but people like that always seem so peaceful; so content, and not bothered by the world around them.

2. STOP procrastinating. I think this one is going to be the most difficult because I have the feeling that I will want to procrastinate starting it. My procrastination has gotten so bad lately though, that I even want to procrastinate procrastination! It sounds ridiculous, I know. So I am going to stop, and I have the feeling that by stopping, I will get a lot more done with my life.

3. Study the Word. A girl at church talked about this two weeks ago. The Bible is literally the Word of God, He breathed it (2 Timothy 3:16) and it is here to teach us. Over the past, I have been a "skimmer", someone who skims, so to speak, while they read the Bible. But, the Bible is not here for us to simply skim, we should be in it daily, studying it. There is so much about God's Word that I don't know, so much that I have not yet read. I want to dive into it and absorb it like a sponge.

4. Live. At first glance, living sounds easy...oh no, it is not, not for me at least, in fact, lately it has been kind of a struggle. It is not like I am depressed or anything, I am content, but I want to be more than just content, I want to be happy. Joy is something I have a hard time with sometimes, but when I think about all that Christ has done for me, the idea of NOT being joyful seems absurd, though I still continue to struggle with it. I was watching a Hallmark movie the other night (I love those, by the way) and this guy said "I'm excited about waking up every morning now..." and that sort of hit me. I do not get excited about waking up every morning, most mornings I hit the snooze button about three or four times. I want to be excited about living everyday.

5. Lighten up on Facebook. Oh facebook, how you encourage my procrastination! Facebook has been a real contributor to my procrastination, it just seems to call my name every time I get on the computer to write a paper or study for the ACT/SAT. But it has got to stop. I am not going to quit it completely, but I am going to have to seriously lighten up on how much I get on.

So there we are...a short list of to do's that I want to accomplish from now (SPRING BREAK!) through the end of the summer.