okay - i've been a bit distracted lately - i'll admit, i've fallen behind in my class work and lectures - this afternoon i watched part of a back lecture with the intenion of watching the rest tonight after my time at the "kreme"
so i get home - take the fun after krispy kreme shower - spend more time talking to my Father, praising him in song, and pleading for guidence - a little side note - it's a wonder in my little apartment that my smoke detector in the kitchen doesn't go off from my showers - i stepped out of the bathroom and was greeted with a think fog of steam streaming from the bathroom and pouring all throughout my bed and into the livingroom -- who would have thought that a 30 minute hot shower would leave it's mark!!! but i digress!
back to my story -- i sit down in my living room in silence "listening" and just being still and quite before my God - after all how am i to get direction and answers if i'm loud and talking all the time. after a while i found myself not really tired - i decided to watch the remaining lectures - so i did -- for the next hour or so i learned all about evangelism and church history from the revivals in the british isle to the revivalist movement of the 20th century - enlighting yet alot of info. i found myself a bit overloaded. so, in the attempt to be a good student i pull out my binder for my class and i flip to the notes from the last lecture inorder to put the new notes in. but wait. my eyes gazed at the syllabus and realized that i had a mid-term due in just 48 short hours
OH CRAP! was my words. . . and when i mean due - i mean needed to be proctored and mailed and recieved by Sept. 29 - i realized i was screwed. so, i'm online preparing to download my midterm -- picture it - i try to log on to e-campus at southern - can't remember my password - ask for a new one but can't remember the password for my southern email - i generally just click on the link from e-campus - i have it set up that i'm automatically logged in when i log into e-campus. this is the lazy man's way of it - but this time i've been bitten in the butt!
i can't remember passwords - i'm old, what can i say! i finally find the right combo of the version of the password i thought was it and it was. i get into my email to find a gift from my Savior. Dr. Payne - the prof. teaching this course - emailed to say that the midterm would be pushed back a week - PRAISE GOD!! i was not ready to pull and alnighter this early in my seminary career.
my God knew i've been stressed and not too focused and He has given me grace inorder that i may do my best - to perform with excellence as a student - to show myself approved - rightly dividing the Word of Truth - not for me to get good grades or for me to try and impress Dr. Payne with my abilities to b.s. - but inorder to honor Him through my studies - to really apply what i'm learning and to mediate on the truthes of Him i'm learning in this class. I know only have 1 lecture to caught up on and two discussion questions to answer and 2 books to read inorder to do my comparaitve anylasis paper - my God is so good to me!
okay - it's night to sleep a bit.
so i get home - take the fun after krispy kreme shower - spend more time talking to my Father, praising him in song, and pleading for guidence - a little side note - it's a wonder in my little apartment that my smoke detector in the kitchen doesn't go off from my showers - i stepped out of the bathroom and was greeted with a think fog of steam streaming from the bathroom and pouring all throughout my bed and into the livingroom -- who would have thought that a 30 minute hot shower would leave it's mark!!! but i digress!
back to my story -- i sit down in my living room in silence "listening" and just being still and quite before my God - after all how am i to get direction and answers if i'm loud and talking all the time. after a while i found myself not really tired - i decided to watch the remaining lectures - so i did -- for the next hour or so i learned all about evangelism and church history from the revivals in the british isle to the revivalist movement of the 20th century - enlighting yet alot of info. i found myself a bit overloaded. so, in the attempt to be a good student i pull out my binder for my class and i flip to the notes from the last lecture inorder to put the new notes in. but wait. my eyes gazed at the syllabus and realized that i had a mid-term due in just 48 short hours
OH CRAP! was my words. . . and when i mean due - i mean needed to be proctored and mailed and recieved by Sept. 29 - i realized i was screwed. so, i'm online preparing to download my midterm -- picture it - i try to log on to e-campus at southern - can't remember my password - ask for a new one but can't remember the password for my southern email - i generally just click on the link from e-campus - i have it set up that i'm automatically logged in when i log into e-campus. this is the lazy man's way of it - but this time i've been bitten in the butt!
i can't remember passwords - i'm old, what can i say! i finally find the right combo of the version of the password i thought was it and it was. i get into my email to find a gift from my Savior. Dr. Payne - the prof. teaching this course - emailed to say that the midterm would be pushed back a week - PRAISE GOD!! i was not ready to pull and alnighter this early in my seminary career.
my God knew i've been stressed and not too focused and He has given me grace inorder that i may do my best - to perform with excellence as a student - to show myself approved - rightly dividing the Word of Truth - not for me to get good grades or for me to try and impress Dr. Payne with my abilities to b.s. - but inorder to honor Him through my studies - to really apply what i'm learning and to mediate on the truthes of Him i'm learning in this class. I know only have 1 lecture to caught up on and two discussion questions to answer and 2 books to read inorder to do my comparaitve anylasis paper - my God is so good to me!
okay - it's night to sleep a bit.
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