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Sep. 24th, 2004 07:02 pmI'm not going to make a long entry right now, but I'm just going to say that I'm overwhelmed. I'm tried and crappy and exhausted. And I don't want to be. I want God's peace. I want to rest in Him and feel refreshed.
I had no clue that working 30 hours a week at Old Navy and going to school full time would be so exhausting. But the last week has taught me a lot about myself. Some serious some crazy, but all good lessons:
1) I can't do anything on my own - God does it all.
2) No matter how much I want to complain and whine at work - I have to remember that I need to act the way Christ would so that my light can shine. And if that means biting back my words when I'm upset or frustrated - so be it.
3) Sitting in the daily traffic jams of Pittsburgh is a great time to talk to God.
4) My heart is healing the more that I open it to new people. It's nice to be on a campus that's all girls undergrad and just a handful of guys in the grad program. The few guys that I interact with are great - but it's clear that they're there for education and not girls. PRAISE GOD! And the girls in my program that I'm getting to know - while I have yet to find any wonderful Christians - I have found a few with similar relationship-pasts. So it's a wonderfully healing experience.
5) I'm not real sure if I'll met "forever friends" at Chatham like I did in Clarion, but I do have a wonderful group of guys and girls in my program that have made me feel very welcome. Unlike the way that Clarion made me feel excluded when I got there - the students at Chatham have gone out of their ways to make me feel welcome and involved.
And the random lessons/thoughts of the week:
1)Be careful when throwing out garbage on campus - you never know when you may startle the squirrel that was sleeping in the trash can!
2)No matter how hard you try - you can't make some people out to be jerks . . . sometimes people just don't have it in them - and they will tell you over and over how sorry they are to prove their point.
And the quote from Poetry class last night says it all:
"Magpies are attracted to shiny things." Lesley
"Like monkeys!" ~Verity
"Shiny monkeys?" ~Karen
(Verity meant that monkey's were attracted to shiny things . . . honest . . .)
And on one final note - this time next week I'll be in CLARION!!! YAY!!!
I had no clue that working 30 hours a week at Old Navy and going to school full time would be so exhausting. But the last week has taught me a lot about myself. Some serious some crazy, but all good lessons:
1) I can't do anything on my own - God does it all.
2) No matter how much I want to complain and whine at work - I have to remember that I need to act the way Christ would so that my light can shine. And if that means biting back my words when I'm upset or frustrated - so be it.
3) Sitting in the daily traffic jams of Pittsburgh is a great time to talk to God.
4) My heart is healing the more that I open it to new people. It's nice to be on a campus that's all girls undergrad and just a handful of guys in the grad program. The few guys that I interact with are great - but it's clear that they're there for education and not girls. PRAISE GOD! And the girls in my program that I'm getting to know - while I have yet to find any wonderful Christians - I have found a few with similar relationship-pasts. So it's a wonderfully healing experience.
5) I'm not real sure if I'll met "forever friends" at Chatham like I did in Clarion, but I do have a wonderful group of guys and girls in my program that have made me feel very welcome. Unlike the way that Clarion made me feel excluded when I got there - the students at Chatham have gone out of their ways to make me feel welcome and involved.
And the random lessons/thoughts of the week:
1)Be careful when throwing out garbage on campus - you never know when you may startle the squirrel that was sleeping in the trash can!
2)No matter how hard you try - you can't make some people out to be jerks . . . sometimes people just don't have it in them - and they will tell you over and over how sorry they are to prove their point.
And the quote from Poetry class last night says it all:
"Magpies are attracted to shiny things." Lesley
"Like monkeys!" ~Verity
"Shiny monkeys?" ~Karen
(Verity meant that monkey's were attracted to shiny things . . . honest . . .)
And on one final note - this time next week I'll be in CLARION!!! YAY!!!
