I thought it would be easy.
At college, we were saturated with spiritual things. We had chapel every day. Church on Wednesdays and twice on Sundays. Prayer meetings, revivals, missions groups...I was sure when I went home it wouldn't be so hard to keep it going. I was wrong.
Things have been different, that's for sure. I have grown some, though I'm sure none of it was my own doing. And it's been nice to hear comments about my not being the same as I used to be. Hopefully that means I've progressed. But...I don't know. It's harder to see the progress when your stuck in the setting of the past. I look around my room, and all I can see is the past. It's given me a little better understanding maybe of how it must be for others who feel stuck in the environment they find themselves in.
No I'm not comparing my basement to the ghetto, but isn't much of what we experience a matter of the mind? How is it that some can live in the most ideal of circumstances and yet never seem to enjoy or use what God has laid before them the way they should? And then there are those on the other side; the ones with mental or physical defects. The ones who were born in the ghetto, or with seemingly nothing to offer, and no way to better their situation, and yet they do. They somehow find a way to grow where they've been planted in a way that the people around them look on and wonder how they possibly did it.
I love to meet these people. There are actually quite a few at the college I attend. A girl from a third world country who worked to help her sister through college before attending one herself. Another girl (again, from another country) who's entire family has threatened to disown her because she became a Christian. She is now attending this college through the help of some missionaries. She will become a nurse and go back home to face whatever God has in store for her. A man with a physical defect to where he can't seem to hold his head straight, and yet his heart is exactly where it should be. If I'm correct, he's nearly a straight A student majoring in engineering (not an easy thing to accomplish).
Okay, I've come full circle. My reason for this post was to talk myself out of being so down about my situation, and I've just accomplished that. We used to have this sign in our house that said "Attitude is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you deal with it". That's what it's about, I guess. Our attitude towards life as it should be in Christ. Our thoughts and actions as they should be in Christ. So get out of your slump, Carrie Sue!!
Pep talk over.
"You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." - Ephesians 4:22-24




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