Justification by Twitter

Justification by Twitter.

A truly convicting and challenging post by Dustin Neeley blogged yesterday at The Gospel Coalition.

“We are more excited about what strangers say about us that what the God of the universe has already spoken over us through the cross. We are stitching together a flawed coat of fig leaves out of followers, “friends,” and retweets to try to hide insecurities that can only truly be addressed in the gospel. But, by God’s matchless grace, if when we are tempted to go to the the fleeting approval of man, we instead go to the eternal approval of God that is ours in Christ—the approval unaffected by the abundance or absence of re-tweets—we, our followers, and the kingdom are better for it.”  ~Excerpt from Dustin Neeley’s Justification by Twitter.

The New Princess: Kate Middleton’s Fashion Evolution – TIME

Kate Middleton’s Amazing Fashion Evolution

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“Wearing everything from sleek wrap dresses to those inescapable royal hats, Prince William’s bride is creating her own style — and inspiring countless copycats” ~ By Feifei Sun and Yumi Goto

TIME posted this earlier in the month. In honor of the big 1 year Royal anniversary (congrats, Kate and William!), I thought I’d link to it.

Kate has fantastic style–I hope her elegance catches on in the mainstream. She’s become a style icon–and that’s definitely not a bad thing.  Enjoy.

The end of the semester is near . . . but is that good or bad?

I know it’s a busy semester when the approach of the end looks more like a threat rather than a relief. Granted, summer looks amazing. I can’t wait to be able to go to bed at night without one academic worry or apprehension  . . . or even being able to go to bed. period. But until then? Mayhem. Academic mayhem.

The whole academic mayhem thing is a typical graduate student thing, I think. You start off a semester and it’s not too bad–a paper here, a presentation there, a book report, a midterm and then you look at your syllabus for the rest of the semester and SWEET MERCY all you see is threatening black ink filling up those assignment boxes!

And what do you do (what do I do)?

. . . Go into absolute denial. “Everything is fine”, “Everything is fantastic, actually”, “Everything is entirely under control” . . . yeah right.

Wow. God is good. Grace is abundant and I am so thankful.

If there are three things that a graduate student needs more than almost anything else in the world they are:

1) more hours in the day;

2) twice as many hours at night;

and 3) calorie-free chocolate.

And there. My post is in at 11:59 March 31 and I haven’t missed a month. Whew!