JessLove- Aventures on Venus

          Towards the end of February after dinner a group of friends and I walked to the lake which is right across from our campus. This is something that we do often, just to prolong going back inside to studies and our schedules. Well this trip was very short lived for me. When I got to the section by the lake which is covered in grass (besides the sidewalk), I stood in awe at the lake like normal. However, this time my reverie for God's creation didn't last long. Within thirty seconds of me standing there I began to feel like my foot was getting bit and poked hundreds of times at once. When I looked down I was able to see that my entire foot was covered with ants. The pain of course then became more severe. I instantly started screaming bloody murder and ran across the street without one of my flip flops.  I didn't even look both ways before I crossed the street! I was so creeped out and upset that that would happen to me. Once I was inside I ...

gen·er·os·i·ty   -the quality of being kind and generous -the quality or fact of being plentiful or large God is a generous God. So if God lives within me, what should I be?      Yeah, here goes another Christian generosity speech.  But no really, I find myself writing about this today because for the past semester and more recently the past week I have been struggling with this. It has really been confusing me because I recently sponsored a child through Compassion (another post for another day but I'm so excited about that) with every intention to sponsor another/a lot more someday. How much more generous can I become right? Definitely wrong. My enthusiasm to sponsor through compassion is genuine, however, in other aspects of my life I have not been as genuine in my generosity. The ironic aspect of my generosity is that it's difficult for me to be generous with people that I know. I've also come to the realization that  I find it...