Once Upon a Time--Aliswan blog construction.

So, I'm doing some blogger construction.  

Last year I had another blog that I created, just to see if I liked it better.  

Alas, it failed the test, I love this blog.  

I had only one post on it though, and not wanting to lose it, I posted it here. 

It is from 3 April 2009.  

So there you go.  Goodbye other blog!

The Metaphor that is my research paper

The screensaver on my computer has a quote that scrolls across the screen after a while and seeing it today really got me thinking. I have no idea who said it, in fact I think I combined two different ones but this is what it says: 'The sacrifices we make for the ones we love define us.  We do not loose the defining moments in our lives, they just shuffle around a little bit.'  I have a very specific process when I am writing papers.  I do the research and organize the most important and necessary information into categories.  Then I construct a detailed outline but I try to create the outline in such a fashion that each section of my paper can be moved around.  Then I start writing the paper and sometimes as I go it will develop into something that I wasn't expecting so I have to add or change a few things but somehow I am able to continue with the 'detailed/loose' outline that I created.  In the end I usually have a really fantastic paper and a solid A+.
When I saw that screensaver flit across my screen I thought about how maybe my life is that way.  The research and necessary, disjointed facts that I accumulate in order to be able to construct a good paper are similar to the seemingly random experiences that God gives me through life that I use to draw from in throughout my Earthly experience.  There is definitely an outline, detailed and yet loose that my life is following, these are the defining moments of my mission here on Earth.  Sometimes, I've discovered, these moments get moved around a bit because of choices, good or bad, that I or others have made.  I guess when I saw that quote scroll across my screen I realized that I haven't lost any of those moments, not really, they have just, like my papers moved around a bit in order to create a more adaptable and in the end, a much better product. 
I guess what I am trying to say is that I am beginning to better understand the guidance and inspiration that I have been given and that if I am doing my best to do what my Father in Heaven has asked me to do I will not lose those defining moments, they will just shuffle around a little bit so that in the end, I have reached my greatest potential.  What a comfort that is. :)