the home stretch
I’m sitting at Monks, a fabulous hole-in-the-wall coffee shop in downtown Abilene. It’s open mic night, so there’s acoustic guitar playing in the background and friends on either side of me. So far, I’ve finished a major paper due tomorrow and started work studying for a Bible exam. I feel like raspberry white chocolate mochas are incredibly conducive to study.
Basically, tonight is perfect.
I’ve been more than a little stressed lately, so I’m loving this. After tomorrow, there’s only one more week of school before finals. I can count my assignments due on one hand. That’s encouraging. My two weeks are in at work, which should leave me free during finals week to focus on studying. The is the home stretch.
Still, there’s so much happening, and it leaves me exhausted in every sense of the word. (Coming down with a cold really doesn’t help things.) Honestly, my biggest fears at this point are a little more long-term than impending final exams. I worry about next summer. I worry about raising the money for plane tickets before the end of the year, and paying for tuition next semester. I worry about balancing work and school and volunteer hours and time with friends. Okay, I worry a little about finals, too.
All that said, I’m not entirely certain what I’m trying to say here. It could be something really deep, but…probably not. (Possibly an indication that I should have thought a little harder about this blog post.)
I think I’ll keep listening to acoustic guitar now.
Oh Beth, the joys of studying and working in college. I remember them. But to tell you the truth, life goes on and your worries will fall by the way-side. God is the Great Provider. It doesn’t matter how much we worry because in the end if we truly rely on Him to guide our footsteps on the path He has set then our accomplishments are glorified for His sake.
Enjoy the music and friends. Keep on moving on the road of life with the guidance that has been given to you (your parents, your Lord and the wisdom and knowledge He has blessed you with). You are an amazing young woman. All of the Maisano girls are and I love each one.
Matthew 6:25-37
“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 than food, and the body more than clothes? Look 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? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If 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—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
(Note:) This is encouraging. (End note:)
Have you ever been to the Dixie Pig? I think they only serve breakfast…I used to go there. It’s really good!