Stress.

It's the end of the semester.
From that one phrase comes oh so many emotions. Although less than 20 days away, Christmas seems like a far off dream in comparison to all I have to get done. I have busy work, papers, projects, and meetings for all my classes. On top of that, I'm planning a Christmas party for the student body as well as a study break movie/snack for next week. Oh and finals.
Stress...doesn't even begin to describe it.
Now I'm not naive enough to think I have it worse than others. Everywhere I walk at school people are going a million miles an hour trying to get everything done in time. It's chaos. But it's part of the college life...right?

It's times like these when I have to just sit back. Let go of the wheel I so eagerly cling to and let God drive. There is absolutely no way everything that I listed up there will get done unless God intervenes. Without his help, I will be asleep by tomorrow with no hope of waking up until Christmas morning! Without his help, my motivation will drift down into the single digits and I'll be lucky to get 1/3 of that list done.
But praise be to Him because He is not going to leave me! I can do this, and I will do this. Praise be to Him for blessing me with a school whose soul mission is: In all things Christ preeminent.
One of my good friends said to me yesterday, "He knows what He's doing."
I am holding on to that truth. Lord, I know this is in Your hands and I trust you. Give me the strength to overcome stress and take it one step further to glorify your name in the midst of chaos. Let everything I do be worship to You.

Ready for another round,
Caitlin

On Replay...

I can't seem to stop listening to this song...

Peace Come Over You
by The Rocket Summer

Bottled up
Felt the pain before but not this much
Oh my God, it's real.
How will I ever heal?

Here are your new eyes
It's time to see a life with brand new sight
How could I now ever see
Positively?

It's hard trying to hold on
With all that I have lost
It all seems so wrong
But I trust you, oh God.

It's hard to know
When I'll recover fully it might be slow
And what would I ever do
If I did not have you

To hold me back
From throwing in the towel and not looking back
On everything you have done
And what you've overcome

It's hard trying to hold on
With all that I have lost
It all seems so wrong
But I trust in you, oh God.

So will you hold me?
As I'm crushed, my heart is in pieces
And although I'm strong when I bleed
Right now, I'm just too weak

Peace, come over you
Peace, come over you.
Feel the peace come over you
It's all you have to do
Peace, come over you
Feel the peace come over you.
Feel the peace come over you.
It's all you have to do.


Desperately seeking His love, 
Caitlin

Trying new things...

Well I've finally given in.


     Lots of my friends and family members keep a blog and I absolutely LOVE reading them, looking at all their fun pictures, etc. So I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and complete one of my own. I do admit that it kind of takes me back to the days of Xanga when all I would post were my "end-of-the-world" relationship problems, quotes that "explain exactly what I'm going through", and silly little icons that I found on myspace. Ha! Needless to say, this blog won't contain any of that...okay, maybe a quote here and there.
     The trend right now seems to be to start a blog on, what seems like, the day after you get married. People want to find a way to document and share the new chapter in their life with that special someone. I think that's great. However, my vision for this blog is to share my life before that someone comes along, if he is ever to come along at all. My life does not begin the day I get married. God's story for me begun in Genesis 1 when God created the Heavens and the earth. 
     The title of my blog is, "A Work In Progress". It may be obvious to some, but if not, it simply states what I am. In Ephesians 2:10 it says that "We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, that God prepared in advance for us to do." I am a work of art, a masterpiece of the Heavenly Creator. But He isn't finished with me yet. Each day, each minute, He is continually molding and shaping me into what He has planned for me. I am a work in progress and I praise Him that He hasn't given up on me yet.

This blog is a story. It's not my story. It's the story that God is so carefully writing about my life. My only prayer is that I can surrender and daily hand over the pen to the One who can give this story a happy ending. 


Letting go of the pen,
Caitlin