Thankful for creativity!

This morning started out hard. I stayed up WAY too late last night trying to register for classes (which was a major fail btw) and woke up to freezing temperatures here in Lubbock, America. Normally, I'm a big fan of cold weather, but I forgot to put on socks last night and cold feet is just a pet peeve of mine. Anyways, I bundled up in my new coat from mom and the scarf that my sweet sister lent me and headed off to my early class, with coffee in hand :)

I get to class and we were required to spend the entire time revising our papers. That was pretty nice though, since I haven't allotted much time to it. However, it was just one of those mornings where revising a paper wasn't on the top of my list.

So, my wonderful professor suggested for us to do the "Frankenstein technique". We started out by cutting out the thesis statement and all the topic sentences in our paper and taping them down to new paper. Then, we cut out all the other sentences. After having each and every little sentence cut out, we would look at it and see if and how it related to our thesis. If it didn't, we shot it in the trash can. And if it did, we chose a topic sentence for it to go under.

As you could guess, the organization of my paper has changed greatly. Sentences were thrown away or put into entirely new spots and actually improved this paper dramatically. It was just so cute, though, seeing all these college kids spread out with their scissors and tape, working diligently to finish this assignment. I have never had as much fun revising a paper and it actually helping. It was an awesome start to my day.

I think this strategy, though, is applicable to more than just my analysis. Let's play pretend for a second.

Let's say life is a paper. What's your thesis and topic sentences? Let's say my "paper" is focused around God's love for His people and that's what my thesis is. Well I want every single one of my "sentences" throughout the day to relate back to that. All the small things that happen throughout the day can be my sentences and I have the ability to choose whether or not those things reflect God's love. If they don't, I should just throw em away.

I make new paragraphs every day. But once this life is over, my paper will be complete. I pray that when God grades it, He sees an "A". Maybe one sentence doesn't seem important to you, but you can't have a paper without them. I hope you are able to cherish the small things today. And I don't know, maybe you can get creative too :)