Reason Behind "A New Beginning"

i have just now renamed this blog to a new beginning. i got the idea from my yearbook from my last year of high school. we just moved into a brand new school following 3 years of grueling heat, painstaking cold, and annoying pesky rain making us all wet. I realized through all this that most things that are great came from something good being torn apart. God takes the old us, maybe even what we think is just awesome and breaks us down to create something totally amazing in His and our eyes. We had a nice school, nice football stadium, nice everything. A tornado hit and the nice little everything was torn apart. we even endured 3 years of tribulation just to find ourselves in probably one of the top 3 most amazingly built schools in Alabama. The same goes with our lives. We have a nice life. Nice friends. A nice church. We're doing just, well... good. Then God comes in and stirs us up a bit and maybe takes away the nice life the nice friends. We can be stripped away from everything and forced to go through tribulation. but as long as our eye stays on the real prize, God builds us up even more amazing and awesome. So next time you go through hard times, remember God's wanting your trust and when you give it to Him you'll end up better than before!