Blog Post #1: Encouraged

My phrase for this year is, “The End of an Era” because this year is my last year to be a student in college, competing as a track and field athlete, and the last few months with my last name before being married. This year represents a lot of “lasts” in my life. A chapter that is coming to a close. The final curtain call for certain areas in my life, but the beginning and “firsts” to come. I am at a point in my life where I am trying my best to enjoy and live in each and every moment and not take anything for granted. The other part of me is looking ahead with excitement at all of the possibilities of what the future has in store. 


However, the word that I have chosen for this semester and year would be: Encouraged. I chose this word because I took the quiz that Dr. Giles had provided on Padlet and went through and answered the various questions asked and it generated this word for me. I went with this word because as I began to think and reflect on the first few weeks of this new year with various events and circumstances surrounding my life, I feel that God has consciously encouraged me to keep going and pushing forward. I feel safe and at peace, because God is in control over all things and situations. Certain events have unfolded, where a few years ago, I would have been overwhelmed and consumed with fear, but as I have strived to continue to grow in my faith and relationship with God, He has taught me not to have fear or frustrations over these situations, but to be at peace with it all. I believe that this word, encouraged, relates so well with my personal literacy journey because even when I did not feel confident in my own reading and writing, the more I practiced writing and the more I dug deeper into reading, I slowly began to find enjoyment and improvement in the two. I knew that even if I was not that strongest reader or writer, if I had progressed in them, then I felt that I could keep trying to become better. I want to strive to keep being encouraged throughout this entire semester and year in everything that I face. I need to think about progression and not perfection. We serve a God who has a purpose and a plan for our lives and He is going to do just what He said He will do. 

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