So I don't want to boast unless I'm boasting about God, right? But I kind of really do want to boast. So I'm probably about to boast. And maybe sometime near the end I will sort of hook a little God message onto it and transform it into a God boast and you will be like, Wow! She totally just did that. And then I will be satisfied.
So I've spend like the last 3 months of my life studying for this horrid ACT test. I'm talking like every waking minute. I crammed so much useless information into my brain for that exam and I was just sure I did horrible on it.(Honestly, you probably don't care at all how I did on the ACT. And that's ok. You can stop reading now if you want. It doesn't much matter to me. I just really wanted to get this out. Because I'm super excited about it.) Now my mom told me not to set a goal, but for my goal to be "the best I could do." That sounds sweet, huh? But I went ahead and set a goal. 30. Which is a pretty high goal. I didn't expect to get it the first time. But maybe if I took it again I would reach it the 2nd or 3rd time. So my scores came in a few days ago. And guess what?? Thirty-freaking-two. Yeah! Right on, MaryBeth. Maybe homeschooling isn't so bad afterall. Maybe all of that hell-like studying was really quite worth it. Like, I don't get proud of myself very often. But I am so freaking proud of myself right now. I did that! I got a 32 on the ACT. All by myself. I did it. (Also I did better than my older sister. And not that that matters or anything, but....HA!)
And when I got to thinking about it...I figured this was part of God's perfect plan all along. And also, I didn't actually do this all by myself. There's no way I could have gotten that score if it wasn't for those 20 people who texted me the morning of my test and said they were praying for me. Thank you so much if you were on of those people. Because I know God was so with my during that test and during all of my studying. And I got this wicked score because of Him alone. It was all for His glory. Because I want to use this score to further glorify Him in my life. I think I got this score because there is no way I could afford to go to any of the schools that I am looking at without some sort of crazy scholarship. I needed this score. And I hope it is God's will that this score be used to help me get into the school that He wants for me and that I can continue on my path of life just seeking His face. Also..if this is totally not his plan, I'm pretty cool with that too. This is just my human mind trying to take a wild guess at the Creator's perfect will. I'll be interested to see how close I am.
Thus concludes my boasting about myself and my boasting about God.
Hurray! Congrats!
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