10,000 Reasons

Here's another really great video that I ran across. I hope you like it and are blessed!

~tnphotobug

Merry Christmas!

Hey everyone, Merry Christmas! This is geocacher tnphotobug...ok, so I do love geocaching but what my real "job" is being a freshman college student, biology major to be specific. Biology is fascinating, but it is super hard too. So translated that usually means not so much geocaching time...it's one of those glass half full/glass half empty kind of situations. I love geocaching...but I love biology...I love geocaching...but I love geocaching...! Which is good, because I spend all day, every day (except for Sabbath, thank God for that!!) studying biology. And occasinally, yes, I do still find time for geocaching. :)

Anyway, on with this article. As you can probably see I've made some major changes to this blog lately (i.e., today!) I've changed the name, the background, and perhaps most risky, the URL. Now it is www.biomajoratsouthern.blogspot.com instead of www.tennesseephotographer.blogspot.com . This blog has had a long and varied history: I started it in 2007 when my family moved from Texas to Tennessee. Back then I really enjoyed taking photos...well, you get the idea. My postings went up in 2008 and then dramatically down in 2009. In 2010, I got interested in the last few Space Shuttle flights, and during that time sometimes posted as many as three times per day! Around that time God also got me interested in writing devotionals for Him, and that's what I've been doing on this blog ever since.

Except the problem is, now that I've started college not only am I much more busy but I also feel like the well has run dry for me as far as devotional ideas...I still want to post devotionals, and so far since May 2010 haven't missed a week, but I really don't have any great and grand ideas. Or tons of posts scheduled months in advance like I have had in times past.

I've been thinking about all of this lately and where this blog should go. I don't have time to write so much any more, nor do I want to feel pressured to write a post each week. I think what I'm going to do is to at my pleasure write periodic articles on how life is going as a biology major at Southern. Actually, I am paid to write once-a-week articles for Southern's freshman blog, the only downside about that is that while they are great articles (and be sure to go check them out!! :D) I can really only focus on one thing per week. 'Cause like there's TONS of things that happen to me each week...it seems like each day is a lifetime, each week an eternity. So on this blog, as I have time, I shall expound on my life as a freshman bio major/college student at Southern Adventist University.

And I'm sure that I'll still be writing spiritual posts. I had a good faith when I started this past semester, but let me tell you, God REALLY helped my faith in Him grow over this past semester as I saw first hand God do tangible miracles for ME, helping me through seemingly insurmountable test after impossible test...hopefully I'll be able to share some of those experiences here.

Hold onto your seats, folks. College is a rollercoaster and WHEE here we go! (Well actually the "rollercoaster" starts early January 2013...currently I'm still being lazy on blessed Christmas break! ;) )

Thought from Isaiah

Lately I've been reading the book of Isaiah. Good stuff! For this week's devotional, I've included some especially encouraging passages that I've run across. Happy Sabbath, Merry Christmas, and I hope that you are blessed!

~Photobug

From Isaiah 9--

2 The people walking in darkness


have seen a great light;

on those living in the land of deep darkness

a light has dawned.

The Christmas Scale

I saw this Christmas video a few weeks ago and really liked it. I hope you do too! I'm sorry for the lack of devotionals lately, I've been busy with finals and college in general! Hopefully over Christmas break I'll have the time to write up some full-length devotionals. But for now, enjoy and have a Happy Sabbath!

~tnphotobug

Great is Thy Faithfulness

"I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations; I will sing of young among the peoples. For great is your love, reaching to the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the skies."

~Psalm 57:9-10

I will follow

I just ran across this video last night...and was truly blessed by it. Enjoy, and I hope you are as blessed by it as I was! Happy Sabbath and December 1!! :)

~Photobug