I Will Look to the Lord and His Strength

The last few days I have been frantically writing parts 3, 4 and 5 of my research paper.  In fact, I wrote all three pages of part 5 today and plan to revise and add to it tomorrow.  I also did the practice critical reading sections today too, and that took white a while.  I really wasn't sure if I could get everything done before Friday night.  Now it looks like things are going to work out fine.


At first, I had no idea what to put in part 4 and had no clue where to start with part five.  I felt like giving up.  I knew I just couldn't do it.  But God is amazing and He always comes through.  He gave me a mother who was able to give me advice and help me with part 4; I really couldn't have done it without her.  And today He gave me the words to put in part 5 and led me to the right sources for the information.  It still needs a lot of work, but now I have enough time to get it done.  And God has provided me a great friend who I can go and hang out with tomorrow so I can have a break and get out of the house.


I asked God for strength and to help me with this paper and He really did.  Prayer works and prayer is powerful.  I've really been seeing that recently.  If you need strength, ask Him and He will give it to you.

Writing Block... Already???

Anyone else feeling a little stuck when trying to start writing the research paper? I'm not sure where to begin. We're supposed to cover the history of our topic. Well, mine goes back all the way to the 19th chapter of Genesis! Sure, covering what's said in the Bible is easy but what about the churches opinion of same sex marriage through out history? None of my sources have anything to do with that, all of them are current. Does this mean I'll have to search for more sources and add them to my bibliography (ugh, that was so annoying!) ?

The point of this whole post is to say that when it comes to writing the research paper, I'm stuck. Usually writing reports and things comes really easy for me but I've never written something this big before. From the instructions Mrs. Bell gave us, it seems I would have to write so much more than five pages to include it all!

And then today (or was it yesterday?) I got this great idea for a short story and I would so much rather be working on that. And next week (Monday) my sister is coming home from college with a friend, on Wednesday my while family is driving up to Boston to celebrate Thanksgiving with my Dad's entire family (plus my sister's friend and an exchange student staying with my Aunt and Uncle) so any hope I had of working on my research paper during break seems to be crumbling. There is always the six hour+ car ride...

Goodness gracious! Just think about college!

My Research Paper

I don't really have much so say about my research paper. I've decided to change my topic from same-sax marriage to same-sex marriage in the church. The reason I'm changing is because SSM is such a broad and controversial topic; focusing on just what people in the church believe will definitely narrow it down a lot. And let me just also say I was some what influenced by the 'debate' about whether or not we could use the Bible as a credible source. You see, I'm a Christian. Duh, I think everyone knew that already. But I guess I could call myself a relatively strong Christian. God is part of who I am, I can't just not include Him in an area of my life. Thus the Bible is part of me too. If you get into an argument with me, I will almost certainly bring up God or a Bible verse. That's just who I am. I have to write my paper using the Bible. I can't write the paper without it.