God’s got this…

Many of the other bloggers have been talking about just how busy they are, and I 100% agree. As someone who love being academically challenged, I thrive in the demanding pace of my honors classes and my upper divisions. However… there is definitely a point reached (that probably has something to do with learning an extremely difficult language, not sleeping, and drowning in theology along with other life stuff) that you just want to say: I give up, Enough is enough.

I reached this point earlier this week but a blessed blessed thing occured: Study Day, which is a essentially a day off from classes to… well.. study. A lot of students used their ‘Study’ day to pontificate upon and studiously participate in the magical world of Disney (haha…) and some use it for… SHOCKER: Studying. I however used my study day as a much needed sabbath, a time to breathe and reflect and realize that I’m not surrendering the stress of school over to the God who holds All things in His hand. Right now, I’ve been personally going through Foster’s Celebration of Discipline and the coupled book of Spiritual Classics as well as daily devos with Buechner (my favorite theologian), so I spent time in those as well on Study Day. I say all this not in a spirit of flaunting or anything, but more as a reminder that despite the business of life there is first and foremost the priority to God and the priority of honoring Him with rejoicing in the day He has given. And sometimes that means taking a day off (weekends or study day), or if you really can’t manage a whole day, then at least a few hours of intentionally relishing in His goodness and His Word and surrendering over stress.

So life can get (and most likely already is) extremely busy and overwhelming. It is important to remember that, as my youth pastor used to say to me, “God’s got this, you can let go now…”

Peace be with you!

I’ll post a more spunky post soon (I’m going up to High Sierra campus this weekend to check it out as I’m planning on going up there in the Fall of 2010), so I’ll post pictures and stuff from that when I get home!

Tags: , , , , , ,

This entry was posted on Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 9:01 am and is filed under Undergraduate Experience. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Comments are closed.

About the Author

Ellie Kipps

We venture forward, some of us limp timidly and some of us brandish our swords and some of us starve to make a point. Some of us have a way with words, some with numbers, some with music notes. This world isn’t all about me, it is about us as the extension of His creation. St. Irenaeus said that, “Man fully alive is the Glory of God”. My hope would be that I would encounter each kind of kindness and that my life may be fully lived in order to glorify the God of the universe. My hope would be that each breath, each choice, each change, each transition, each decision, each word I part take with would be engaging in the promise of a life more alive in Christ, would be in a way part-taking in the embodiment of Christ’s compassion, sacrifice, and most of all His love for me engrafted into my life, or rather, I should say, I become a branch engrafted into Him, bearing much fruit and living fully for His fully deserving glorification. When I refuse the lies, and embrace the Truth, and dare to believe in myself, I am living a eucharistic life.

Recent Posts from this author