Summer Classes

To renew my teacher's license I need to take 6 semester credits as well as an environmental class. One class that I want to take is 3 credits and offered over the summer for three weeks in July. This one class will cost me a little over $1,100. As a substitute teacher I have no idea when and if I will work during the month. Due to this, my income varies greatly month to month, so saving money can be a little difficult since I also have student loans to pay as well as car insurance. This evening I checked my savings balance and I have finally saved enough to take this class in July. I can't afford to drive to class every day and I can't afford a hotel for three weeks, so I still have more saving to do. But at least I can now afford to take the class, just not to eat or live during the three weeks. Could I live in my car? :)

Complete in Christ

I was reading on Colossians tonight and was struck by two very simple verses. "For in Him (Christ) dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; and you are complete in Him. . ." Colossians 1:9-10. We are complete in him! How freeing is it to know that we are made complete in him. Nothing I can do, say, or accomplish can complete me, it is only in Christ that I am complete. Our world is constantly seeking to be complete. We are searching for something to fulfill us; make us feel complete, whole, and worth while. We are searching for something that we know is missing in our lives. We are not satisfied with what we have. We are always on the look out for that next new thing to make us happy and fulfilled, whether it be a new job, a new relationship, or a new toy we bought at the store. All these things leave us feeling unsatisfied. The new, bright shiny luster is soon lost and we are once again looking for that thing to complete us, but it is only Christ that can complete us. Plum, a christian band, has a song that speaks about a God shaped hole in all of us that only God can fill (complete). If I keep looking for something or someone else to fill this hole in my life I will continually be disappointed. Only God can fill that missing hole in our lives. We just have to open and willing to let Him fill that hole.