Trying So Hard

Ok, so I am in school and I am taking the hardest subject for me, "College Algebra." I hired a tutor and we started looking at the Algebra book this summer. The previous semester I took the course but, I had to drop out because I was sick. Anyway, so we started looking at the book and it was easy and I understood. I started the semester and the teacher walked in and I thought oh great this is horrible. The man is short and he has a pot belly and he is Asian, in a sense he looks like a Buddha guy. I really am not prejudice it is just that in the past I have has foreign teachers and I could not understand them. This teacher is no different. So I continued to plug along and I tried I studied every second of every minute I had I went to tutoring. The time came I took my first test I froze up and I made a "63". I cried my eyes out, I thought how stupid I was. I was more upset because I tried as hard as I could and still I did not pass the test. Since, then I haven't pushed as hard and I have tried to relax more but I feel like I am trying to give up. I can't give up!!!! I must proceed and do better on the next test.

Likewise, has anyone ever felt like they are trying real hard to do the right thing and then fall? Do you give up and not try so hard or do you press on. We all should press on.

His Name

Yesterday, at church Wes talked about how we use the Lord's name. I never thought that I was guilty of misusing His name. I mean I don't cuse, I don't use profanity with his name BUT, I am guilty of going about my day saying, "Thank you Jesus," and "Praise God" Do I really mean what I say or is it just something that I have come a customed to saying. It is real easy to adapt to the world around us and get caught up in what people are doing and saying arounds us. Alot of times I really mean what I am saying so I say,"Thank you, Jesus and I really mean it." So people do not think that I am just saying that to say it. I don't think that I have to explain myself to anyone but I do it to remind myself what and why I say what I say. Well, that is all of my blog entry for today so tune in next time for another adventureous tale in the life of Kristin Burris......