Learning, Yearning, and Journeying...?

For anyone who reads this, sorry.  This will be pretty dumb to you, but it was a little on the life changing side for me.

I was initially planning on spending Thanksgiving Break watching Boy Meets World, Facebooking, and video gaming.  However, on Friday night, the 19th, I changed.  It hurt, but it needed to happen.  I started a course kind of thing about my motivation for everything being God’s glory and that if I want to do anything right in this world, it would need to be for God’s glory.  God has cursed/blessed me so much by making everything I do suck unless it’s for His glory.  God’s also in the process of teaching me how to be a man.  I’m a little ticked at myself and society for making me think becoming a man just happens over time, without trying or anything.  This world sucks.
This change got me into His Word more, into legitimate fellowship, and into more service stuff.  For example, yesterday I cleaned the garage because I walked into it and thought, “Hey, this is messy.  We could put two cars in here if I cleaned this up.”  Tomorrow, I’m putting up Christmas lights.  I vacuumed the floor without it even being hinted at.  Other things like that have been happening this week.  This isn’t the typical me, and I don’t say this stuff to make me look good.  I was a selfish, worthless, wasting-away boy basically up until now.  Now, I’m trying to get out of that mindset.

Things are changing now, and it’s cool, and it’s all God.

I’m very thankful for my beautiful best friend, Alyssa Blackburn.  And future Austin, when you read this, I want you to know she is my best friend.  I’m not just saying that.  This was the truth before we started dating, and it’s become an even bigger truth over the past couple months.  I love every second I get with her.  She amazes me every day.  Our relationship is ridiculously blessed by God.  Ridiculously.