New Beginnings

Dear Readers,

What a weekend I had! There was simply too much for me to handle! Everything became amazing and awesome as I just couldn't stop smiling. I loved the experience I had with Get Connected so very much and I couldn't contain myself! Today is the second day of my second semester at BYU-Idaho, and I am already SOO EXCITED!!! I am at a college, and my job is to LEARN! What more could I ask for? Amazing friends? Check! Wonderful classes and amazing teachers? Check! Awesome school programs that challenge me and help me to want more out of myself? Check! Indomitable spirit and sense of hope and optimism for the next four months? SUPER CHECK! Supernal desire to learn and prepare to make the future so bright I'll have to wear my sun glasses at night? CHECK!

I'm ready to go! Spring is working on getting around, and I love the fun mystery of each day! I love my life right now and the direction I have!

I want to take another opportunity to renew my New Year's Resolutions too! I won't be forgetting them, especially a few weeks after Easter! I will remember them, I will remember those that came before me, and I will remember that I am preparing the future for my children! How amazing is that!? Every one of us is the lynch pin that holds a part of the world together! We're all the amazing little cogs in this giant clock of time! How can I even think about not doing something amazing today?! This is another chance for a better tomorrow, but I can do it today!

I know that most of my posts must start to sound the same, but it is always the same sun rising high in the sky feeling that I have in my heart when I write! I want to share this amazing new CD of awesome music feeling! I know that there are these nostalgic after high school graduation I can do anything feelings in each of us and I want everyone to remember that they can do amazing things! We are all here with this amazing opportunity! Take it today!

I challenge you to make today a new beginning for something in your life! Restart some goal that has fallen from your gaze, think a little more about how you can serve those around you, or just in general keep up your amazing pace! Are you falling behind? Sit for a second, tie your running shoes up and get going! Spring is coming (it snowed here yesterday, so it isn't quite here yet) and we have to catch it while it is around! Spring cleaning is coming in fast, so let's clean out our sad feelings, dust off the optimist hats, and throw out the trash that gathers in our minds saying 'you can't' and fill it with some of your favorite new memories that you'll make in the next few days!

YOU ARE SO AMAZING! YOU SHINE WHEN YOU SMILE!
YOU MAKE MY LIFE A BETTER ONE BY BEING YOU!
THE ALL CAPS IS SO THAT YOU PAY ATTENTION AND KNOW THAT I'M SERIOUS AND THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT--JUST LIKE YOU!!!!

Have a more excellent day and remember I love you!!!!
Doug Knuth!

The Life of a Blessed Boy

Dear Readers,

I am so tired right now that my whole body aches in every way I can imagine. It isn't a sort of ache that I can't handle, and it certainly isn't one that will stand up to the four ibuprofen that I just took, and I'm not at war with the ache. I earned it today, and it helps me know that I worked. 

My heart is just so SO SO FULL of gratitude that I can't express it in words. I can't begin to tell you how amazing it has been the last few days, and I'll explain why! 

I work with the student volunteer organization on campus called Student Support. We have been working this week with the amazing individuals that put on the new student orientation, and let me tell you I wouldn't trade these last three days (or tomorrow for that matter) for anything. Not for Disney, not for wishes, not for anything. I have met people that will change the world. I have been around true greatness. 

There isn't even a moment I have in which I could begin to write down all of the amazing things that have happened, not tonight. I need to sleep because tomorrow will be another early morning. I plan on making time on Sunday though, where I can just sit down and think. 

Reader. Yes. YOU. Right now, reading this post, I want you to BELIEVE--even if just for me, for a moment--believe that the world is good. Believe in the good in people. Believe in their amazing potential. Believe in that part that loves the world, that wants to grow. Believe in the part that will make the tomorrow that you dream in your heart. Believe in them enough to make yourself part of that change. Believe in happiness and joy. Put your money down for the team that you already know will win. 

Now that you believe, even if it is just for me, for this moment, take that and do something. Go brighten the world in that one way that only you can! I KNOW that you can do it!!!! Oh goodness you have SO MUCH POTENTIAL! GO FOR IT! USE IT! Make the impossible happen! We did it in the past when we sent a man to the moon, and you can do something just as monumental with just a little bit of inspiration and perspiration! Don't you doubt for a second! (If you do, take a step back and remember that if no one else does [and there ARE more] I BELIEVE IN YOU!)

Know that I believe in you. I've been a little less happy lately, but the people that I love here at BYU-Idaho have proven to me once again that I am loved, that I am surrounded by greatness, and that there really is HOPE for a new day! Tomorrow will be amazing. God even made it rain knowing that I would be able to fall asleep to the drops against the window next to my bed. 

I love you so much and I love this world. Know that I've had crazy amazing days, and they'll make some amazing stories here soon. Make yours happen today, and tell me about it the next day!

This is Doug, Signing off for the night! 

MUCH LOVE!