Content & Blessed...

Throughout the past week i ve realized just how blessed I truly am! Its funny how God throws little things in there sometimes for you to look back and realize how far you have come and how lucky you are to have all the things that God has blessed you with. My family is my biggest asset and they are always there no matter how many have walked in and out of my life.. I miss them tremendously but God has made it very obvious to me just how blessed I am to have such a comforting and loving family that loves me dearly and vise versa. I am finally grasping the concept of learning how to be happy and content with life.. how not to get overwhelmed with the stress that hardships bring, and how to be Okay with just being me, Melissa... The person God made me to be! Why? because there is no reason to fret and push your own plans bc we have to eventually realize God will always have his way no matter what our plans are... the more you let go, live, and accept and glorify our wonderful God you will realize that his plans are what we want for ourselves to a "T"!
After a long hard week last week i got to enjoy a relaxing weekend that consisted of many activities!!! The girls and I celebrated about 5 girls birthdays friday and later went to celebrate with them at Hyper Crush ( alot like pretty lights, etc) which all proceeds went to St.Jude ... something i ve found myself being very passionate about over the past couple of years! They were tons of fun and we had a blast celebrating with all the girls!!

Saturday we all woke up early to have Inspiration with our sweet Little Sis's and i went to Bottle Tree Bakery where we got to watch people pass by running the Marathon that was hosted in Oxford this weekend along with everyones sweet little ones and their pets... Thats one of my all time favorite things to do in the Spring on the Square... Eat ice cream on warm days and watch everyone bring their dogs out, and strollers with sweet lil ones in it also!!! Saturday Night I attended KA initiation banquet with one of my best friends Logan and many others! We had a blast .... They had a great jazz band ... and tons of great food!

Sunday Morning we had to wake up early for our own Initation for all of our new and precious little DeeGees! Ellen came in town for pin Mary Claire! This was her 2nd time to come to the Alpha Psi chapter to pin ... me last year and now MC!! i know she was so happy to be able to share the special bond with Mary Claire... I love them both so much!!! It was a very special day for both of us!!!! Ellen was so excited on Bid day and being able to put her bid day jersey on.. i know she was just excited to be able to put on her pin and make her an official Deeeeg!!!

So as you can see this weekend was very eventful and fun-filled! After last week and the long, tiring, and some what emotional days that I had i am finally just learning to let back, and let go, let God have his way and just enjoy the ride of life itself... its way to short to worry or have and regrets, and waste anytime on anyone that isnt worth your time... God has brought people into and out of my life just within the past 2  weeks that I know he has huge plans and purposes of doing so! He has taught me and held me through every single bit of the "learning processes" through out all of it also! I encourage yall to sit back and do the same just let God have his way... the more we try to put together our "Happy Ending" or "perfect picture life" the more God will take it away from us... just let go.. let God lead you.. and live YOUR life.. No one elses!!!
Love you all,
Mel

Gods Plans are so much bigger than my own

Have you ever wondered why God brought some people into your life? Its a question I ve been  asking myself for a while now... and the minute you think you finally have it figured out God reveals something totally different to you... I am firm a believer that God puts people in our lives for many different reasons that sometimes we will never know. I ve caught myself asking God many times why he has brought or taken away someone  in/out of my life! You can never ask God why... his plans are so much bigger than our own you just have to trust he knows what he is doing up there... what God has told me though is that you have to love them unconditionally the whole time they are in your life.... Let them know you by your heart! I am someone that does everything with my heart.... i dont meet a stranger and i want to help and give to anyone possible! They are my very strong qualities but weaknesses at times also... I ve often wondered why i am the way I am i believe God allowed me in inherit traits and qualities of both of my grandmothers... My Nanny has one of the softest hearts of anyone i ve have ever known ... she loves nothing more than to sit down and talk to you about your feelings, wants, likes, dislikes....She is just a big ball of TLC!! and you see my MawMaw was one heck of a lady too ... although she is no longer with me i look back on her life and realize how strong she was in her faith... and how strong she was with life in general. I see so much of them in me more and more everyday!
Something we have to realize is that the minute we meet someone new ... they have just entered your life.. their status in your life is what is the difference.. whether they stay as an aquitance, friend, best friend, girl/boy friend, soon to be husband or wife.. or eventually your spouse one day. regardless we have all had many of these... even ones that we thought we could spend the rest of our lives with but that just wasnt Gods plan... and you see at first the pain is unbearable almost until God steps in a little bit more everyday to tell you " I have someone much better"! We have to realize that God knows what we want... he knows what we are looking for and as long as we follow him and glorify him  and most importanly LISTEN to him.. he will bless us with giving us that special someone that is all we have ever wanted and more..... as one of my good guy friends just got married not to long ago i asked him " Hows the newly wed life?".. he said "Melissa, better than i ever thought it would be... I ve been praying for my future wife for a really long time and when he brought me her he brought everything i ever wanted and more... so much more" I just giggled... I know that God has that plan for me and everyone else out there too! Heartaches hurt but you have to remember thats Gods time to really do some work in your life and maybe you will see that he is showing you what you really need... Bless the people that walk out of your life because they are only making room for the people that are coming into your life" .... If there is anything i have learned its that you dont want to waste your time on someone that God is telling you to let go of... because its only causing you more heartache...God knows he has all of our puzzle pieces and we only get one at a time.. just trust him! Your relationships should also glorify God .. dont let anyone bring you further away from him... look at it like this intergers--> (+) (-) positive person and negative person..... if  you have a Positive person + and negative person = negative relationship or negative + negative = positve relationship  OR positve+positve = positive relationship..... you choose.. but never allow anyone to alter who you are or bring you further away from God... you want someone that will bring you closer to him.. someone that will not stand in front of or behind you but BESIDE YOU.. someone that you get to know but more importantly WANT TO KNOW... be with someone that will know you for your love, and vise versa... be with someone that you want to show your heart to and they show you theirs also!!! Embrace the fact that God has someone out there for YOU.. and he knows what he is doing..and more than anything that God loves you... he knows who is suppose to come and go.. who is suppose to teach you things whether it be your wants or dislikes... who is suppose to make you stronger by your hurts or trials faced with them... He is only preparing you for "The One" and when he brings you that person... let them know you by your love!

YMel

Back in Oxford

So after two and half weeks of being back in Oxford i am just now getting the chance to Blog again... it feels good to finally have some free time to do what i want with this new time that has become available to me.. Normally i just nap and i am trying to break that habbit so i believe in place of napping ill start blogging so, therefore maybe this thing will be updated a little more than usual! ;) Oxford has been very cold! Walking to class is normally miserable! but classes themselves really havent been all that bad! I absolutely love my MWF classes one fifty min class and i am done! Tues and Thurs are normally pretty long for me but i enjoy the classes so it gets me through the day! The weekends have been fun here although i feel like all my days in between are starting to run together!! I am at that point that i am wondering why in the world i was so eager to get back in school and have a routine! I have been busier than ever this semester so far! BUT through out that time me and the girls have discovered a new game just dance which is a ton of fun... i keep promising myself i am going to invest in one!! We had the best time together with that! Me and Maidee really got wild with it one night!

I have also found  a new church since i have been back up here! I love it its very different than anything i have expirenced! Its called the Orchird and its currently taking the place of what use to be a funeral home! They have been taking this approach of the what the Old Testament says the church is... which the point of the story is that a church could be anywhere.. for People in Africa it could be under a shade tree... or many other various different places than a building with a steeple! Church isnt something you go to on Sunday Mornings for an hour and walk away with very little knowledge that if we are lucky holds over in our brains through lunch right after... which sadly is what it has become.. so they have taken the approach of very little rituals and just preaching the word of God is a circle of all college students.. I ve really enjoyed it!

Me and the Girls have been having our typical fun talks and nights sitting around with one another! We have gone out to eat or to the square for several peoples birthdays... there are so many people with Febuary Birthdays!!!

Mom came in town last weekend and we had a great time doing our typical lunch and shopping around town! She also came again this weekend and brought my Aunt, two cousins, and little brother. Travis and Wendy have never been to Oxford so we had a great time showing them around campus, Oxford, and the DG House! We also went to the baseball alumi game!

I am coming home this upcoming weekend all of my family will be in either Miami or Deer camp ( two extremes) this would also be the weekend i am coming home!! But Ill be able to see Daniel which i know i ll enjoy so much and ill be able to watch some Choctaw baseball!!!