to be honest, i don't really think you should move. for one thing, i've heard academics are equally crazy at some pleasanton schools, and i thought all the rich people lived there anyway? a lot of the homes there are really expensive
putting all of the minor issues aside, i think your spiritual justification is the most important. you say that you'd be able to focus more on God because at mission you get too absorbed academics, etc. but if anything, i think you should see this as a mission for you - if anything, MSJ needs more and more of God's love; everyday is an opportunity for you to be His light to everyone on campus. i think this IS God's spiritual challenge for you - to resist the worldly things that MSJ students focus too much on and instead to actively PURSUE God and His will in your everyday life. to me, it seems like moving away is running away from God's challenge because you think it's too hard. no one said it was going to be easy :/. you can take steps to bring God into your everyday life (for example, by actually going to YA meetings...)
As for all of your financial issues... look at Matthew 6:25-34:
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
run towards God and everything will fall into place.
"i've heard academics are equally crazy at some pleasanton schools"
yeah i heard that is like impossible to get into the honors geometry class cuz like only person teaches it and he has like a few classes...but then again thats at some schools...others ive heard are really easy from friends in pleasonton.
putting all of the minor issues aside, i think your spiritual justification is the most important. you say that you'd be able to focus more on God because at mission you get too absorbed academics, etc. but if anything, i think you should see this as a mission for you - if anything, MSJ needs more and more of God's love; everyday is an opportunity for you to be His light to everyone on campus. i think this IS God's spiritual challenge for you - to resist the worldly things that MSJ students focus too much on and instead to actively PURSUE God and His will in your everyday life. to me, it seems like moving away is running away from God's challenge because you think it's too hard. no one said it was going to be easy :/. you can take steps to bring God into your everyday life (for example, by actually going to YA meetings...)
As for all of your financial issues... look at Matthew 6:25-34:
25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]?
28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
run towards God and everything will fall into place.
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yeah i heard that is like impossible to get into the honors geometry class cuz like only person teaches it and he has like a few classes...but then again thats at some schools...others ive heard are really easy from friends in pleasonton.
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iono i guess
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