Haven-In-Shadow

"Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds. And let us not neglect our meeting together, as people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially no that the day of his coming back again is drawing near." Hebrews 11:24-25. Do you ever find it hard to be positive, to be uplifting and to be encouraged. Something interesting about an art school is you need to learn humility, honesty, and encouragement. In high school, when you turned in a paper, the teacher graded it an gave it back. The only eyes that saw your work was the teachers. My school has the teachers and the students look at the work together so tha

"Always be joyful. Keep on praying. No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NLT version Three short sentences and three rather hefty commands. "Always be joyful." It can be pretty hard to be joyful when you are having a bad day or when it just seems that nothing is really going for you even though you've been trying to wait patiently. But how can we make being joyful easier? "Keep on praying." This is something that can be crucial to your faith as well as being joyful. If you find yourself in a state of being down or frustrated, pray about it. Let God kn

.."Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates." Exodus 20:9-10. Since coming to school, I got into the habit of working on homework 7 days a week, not all the time. In the earlier quarters of school I could get my homework done pretty quickly and have a nice whole weekend off. But the last couple of quarters, there has been so much to do to get ready for preportfolio and graduation. I just kept on working, 7 days a week. It was