IT'S THAT TIME OF THE MONTH AGAIN. Yup. Tiiiiiime to write a blog post. Not that I'm even blogging every month. It's been sporadic. And yes, I bring it up every time I post. Please accept my humble, yet profuse, apologies. Sorrysorrysorry.
Islanders are funny. Soooo it started snowing today at about 1 pm. At 3:08 I received an email stating that our campus is closed due to SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS. It's laughable, really. An inch of snow equates school closure here. To be fair, our snow is rather wet and slippery and it can freeze and break two thousand student's legs, leading to numerous lawsuits and unhappy kiddos. Buuuut it's still just an inch of snow. Maybe I'm a bit sad because I have no classes today anyways so nothing was cancelled for me :( If it sticks, I'll have another free day tomorrow though!
Hah. And this is the education I pay for.
Although, as some of you have found out..... I will no longer be attending this school after this semester is done. I'm gonna go to NEW ZEALAND! I want to do a YWAM, and travel a biiiiit and blah blah blah, just exciting stuff like that. It's a bit stressful though, I want to go to the right YWAM base and I need money for it and I don't know what to do the year AFTER all that.... The answer is so obvious though. Which is almost worse...
Prayer. Duh. Faith. DUH. Alls I gotta do is BELIEEEEVE. Things will work out.
YEAH, well why is it so stressful then? Huh huh huuuuhhh? The key to being able to have faith in times of stress and trials is to pray. Not some sort of piddly, "Oh hey God, I want you to work everything out, and when it does, I'll drop you a thank you note." We need to invest our time in some serious one-on-one relationship-building prayer. Yes, God already knows what's up. TALK TO HIM ABOUT IT ANYWAYS. And liiiiiisten. Abide in Him. Be still and rest in His presence.
But hey, I'm not preaching at you. I'm fully aware that I need to bring this into my life as a permanent habit, trust me. I am working on it and I'm SO excited to see how things pan out in the future. God is good. All the time. I'll leave you with a quote from the devotional I'm doing right now:
"I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third places and teaching the fourth." -James O. Fraser
**Please let me know what I can pray for in your life, friend!
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- Kirsten Hitchcock
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Haha, at my university in Tennessee we had the same thing happen when any snow fell. Even just half an inch or so could close the entire campus. It was hilarious, especially since before that the last time I'd had a snow day was when I lived in central Alberta as a kid and we had snow days only when it was -40 C and the diesel buses couldn't start... Anyway, the random days off of school were kind of nice once in awhile, although they were laughable.
ReplyDeletePraying for you as you figure out your next adventure and look for God's leading in your life! Sounds like He's doing exciting things for you!
Thanks for your prayers! You might be excited to know that our annual University Christian Ministries conference (Emerge) is happening this upcoming weekend at.... Camp Hope! Pumped on what God has in store for us this weekend :D
ReplyDeleteWow, that's awesome! Enjoy your time in one of my favourite places (haha, I have so many favourite places, though, but that one is definitely special to me). I'd love to hear how the weekend went and see some pictures of the campground if you're able to grab any! :)
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