::Shakes Fist at ODU::

I am so sorry I've taken so long to post!!

Apparently odu.edu emails have undergone an account shift and Blogger is no longer a supported application??

So, I thought I'd lost ALL of my blog data; however, THE DAY WAS SAVED!!

And now I shall refrain from my fist shaking to clap for ODU's development of the grade forgiveness policy!!!

As of today, my GPA is an entire .13 of a point higher because I swapped an 'F' for an 'A-.'
It is official: my days of Spanish are over and my GPA is no longer to suffer as a result of my lack of understanding!

My hair's nappy and I'm oh so happy because I got an 'A!!' LOL.

SNAKE!!!

OMG, my friend Kendal snaked me!! He called me and taped our phone conversation.
Take a look...

Recent Addictions.

I'm in love with my pony puff, which (before last Wednesday), I didn't know could happen. I can't wait until I'm on her level:
The above picture is courtesy of a bangin' natural hair blog I found http://moptopmaven.blogspot.com/...check it out!!

Also, a new addiction:
GREAT TV Show...it gets intense in the kitchen.

Amateur Photo Shoot.

I told you all I've been thinking about print modeling...so here are some pictures.
They're amateur...but I hope you like them!

Music Faces.

If you've read my previous posts, you know my aspirations to learn to play the guitar.

One of my favorite music artists, India Arie plays the lovely acoustic instrument I've grown fond of...and for that reason, I've adopted her as my musical face in history.

Now I can only imagine what I'll have to go through to become as great as her...but it all comes with the title :-), I'm ready...

More About Faces.

"Entreat me not to leave you,
Or to turn back from following after you;
For wherever you go, I will go:
And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;
Your people shall be my people.
And your God, my God.
Where you die, I will die,
And there will I be buried.
The Lord do so to me, and more also,
If anything but death parts you and me."

(Ruth 1:16-17)Sweet, huh??

What we fail to realize when we pick someone as our inspiration or role model is that that person went through something in order to get to the place of our admiration.

To desire to be like that person is to desire to have trials and tribulations equal to theirs.

To deserve what they have is to endure what they've been through.

Each day as I grow more in my study of Ruth, I ask God to make me more like her...loyal, compassionate, unselfish, humble, gracious...

And then I find myself wondering why my love seems to return to me void, why it seems like no one understands me, why I continue to pray with seemingly no answer, why I feel taken for granted...

But I have to realize that asking for such noteworthy characteristics is synonymous with asking for situations, trials, and tribulations that will develop those attributes in me.

Be careful whose face you find.

Finding Your Face.

Chrisette Michele, one of my all-time FAVORITE R&B artists said in a recent interview on the Monique show that one of the most important aspects of reaching your potential in any industry is to "find your face in history."
She then went on to identify some of her music-industry role models.

I thought about how this can relate to our spiritual lives and considered that it is important to "find your face in the Bible" to reach your potential in Christ.

I've identified one of mine as Ruth.


Currently, I'm doing a Bible study on her and in finding out more about her story through reading, researching online, and looking at the expository in my Bible, I feel like I'm finding out more about myself!!

I've realized that the same tools we use to succeed in school, work, etc. are the same tools we can use to succeed in Christ (i.e. Google).

...I inspire you to FIND Y O U R FACES as well :-)

I'll be posting more of my face discoveries soon!