If you can sense a common theme, let me know...
This weekend I procrastinated like madness...
See, tomorrow I have this eight page paper due on a community...and I just finished it. But I was miserable all weekend dreading it. When will I just learn that it is more painful to wait and dread than it is to accomplish it and get it over with. I could have done this all on friday...but I didn't. Oh well. Grad school isn't hard. It is more about getting through it. It is more a lesson of perseverance than intellectual stimulation, at least on my end.
Also, I think I am getting more and more opinionated. I realized this week in class that no one really thinks about things so when youask them a question they get all flustered because they have never thought about it before. Not about everything...but about Big Things. Like, why are you here? What do you value? Who are you? People just don't know. I think I might have an idea. but I think I might say it too often- thus the opinionated part. maybe I am not really that stuck in my mindset as much as no one else actually has a mindset to say out loud. Strange
Church today was about Isaiah and making a pathway in the wilderness. ever since this summer, I think the wilderness means something different to me. I think I take it more seriously. It is a dangerous and hard place, people die there sometimes. It makes me think of of song of songs: Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her lover? I want to be someone who leans on Jesus. Let's him carry her thru it all.
He will allure her
He will pursue her
And call her out
To wilderness with flowers in His hand
She is responding
Beat up and hurting
Deserving death
But offerings of life are found instead
Here in the valley
Walk close beside me
Don’t look back
For love is growing vineyards up ahead
You have called me master
And though you’re in the dark here
Call me friend
And call me lover and marry me for good
She will sing
She will sing
Oh, to You
She will sing as in the days of youth
As You lead her away
To valleys low
To acres of hope
Acres of hope
How the story ends is
Love and tenderness in Him
Not safe, but worth it
So the valley’s up ahead
Or the ones we live
We’ll sing together
We’ll sing together
“Lord, sustain me in the valley. Give me ears to hear Your sweet tender voice and lead me in to acres of hope in this dry and weary land.”
"Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. ‘In that day,’ declares the LORD,’you will call me 'my husband'; you will no longer call me 'my master. (Hosea 2:14-16)
See, tomorrow I have this eight page paper due on a community...and I just finished it. But I was miserable all weekend dreading it. When will I just learn that it is more painful to wait and dread than it is to accomplish it and get it over with. I could have done this all on friday...but I didn't. Oh well. Grad school isn't hard. It is more about getting through it. It is more a lesson of perseverance than intellectual stimulation, at least on my end.
Also, I think I am getting more and more opinionated. I realized this week in class that no one really thinks about things so when youask them a question they get all flustered because they have never thought about it before. Not about everything...but about Big Things. Like, why are you here? What do you value? Who are you? People just don't know. I think I might have an idea. but I think I might say it too often- thus the opinionated part. maybe I am not really that stuck in my mindset as much as no one else actually has a mindset to say out loud. Strange
Church today was about Isaiah and making a pathway in the wilderness. ever since this summer, I think the wilderness means something different to me. I think I take it more seriously. It is a dangerous and hard place, people die there sometimes. It makes me think of of song of songs: Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her lover? I want to be someone who leans on Jesus. Let's him carry her thru it all.
He will allure her
He will pursue her
And call her out
To wilderness with flowers in His hand
She is responding
Beat up and hurting
Deserving death
But offerings of life are found instead
Here in the valley
Walk close beside me
Don’t look back
For love is growing vineyards up ahead
You have called me master
And though you’re in the dark here
Call me friend
And call me lover and marry me for good
She will sing
She will sing
Oh, to You
She will sing as in the days of youth
As You lead her away
To valleys low
To acres of hope
Acres of hope
How the story ends is
Love and tenderness in Him
Not safe, but worth it
So the valley’s up ahead
Or the ones we live
We’ll sing together
We’ll sing together
“Lord, sustain me in the valley. Give me ears to hear Your sweet tender voice and lead me in to acres of hope in this dry and weary land.”
"Therefore I am now going to allure her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her. There I will give her back her vineyards, and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. ‘In that day,’ declares the LORD,’you will call me 'my husband'; you will no longer call me 'my master. (Hosea 2:14-16)