2 Corinthians 12:8-9
“Three times I pleaded for the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
To be continued…
Frustrated
So, I don’t understand really, how students, especially in post-secondary, would think of getting away with any form of cheating, plagiarism, copying, misdemeanor of that sort. It’s really upsetting, because I wanted to blog about the awesome way that summer has treated me thus far, but instead have to spew out all my frustration, dis-like, non-sympathy for people described above. My partner and I spent days, weekends on end working on a stupid group project for my Structural class (and we all know how much fun group projects are) that was worth a whopping 15%. If it were me and I wasn’t able to finish the last 10% of the project, I would have handed what I had and taken the small toll. What happened was that after I had finally spent 5 hours re-copying our final copy of the 20+ pages of calculations for submittal, and after have given it to my partner to hand in, a third party was involved in ‘borrowing’ the report from my partner to compare final calculations (which is fine), and soon found that they were running out of time, so stapled the photo-copied pages onto the back, hoping that no one would notice, especially our prof who published some of the National Building Code. Way to end off what I thought was a good semester. So, today, I had to truck my behind all the way back to campus to plead my case. I was not an accomplice; I wasn’t aware of anything; and I think that it would be totally unfair to get a zero. But either way, it now has to go through the department. I wanted to cry at the meeting, not because I wasn’t confident in myself and the fact that
I had nothing to do with it, but just because I had to deal with something like this after the most stressful but rewarding school year this far. This totally sucks. I’m really praying that my prof hears me out, because even if I did get a zero, I don’t want to hold anything against my prof, who, even after all the complaints and ‘he’s not a good teacher,’ he did his job well enough that I was able to understand it by the end of the semester, and I’m sure as a person, is really great. This wasn’t that great a day, besides the sun, and TREK. ahhhhhhhhhh please help me God.
Freshman 15 All Over Again
Did I miss reading the fine print in that freshman 15 applies to all “first years’”.
I remember another reason why I sometimes don’t like school; the fact that when I study for long periods or stress out about school, I need to be eating something. BCIT has heightened my binge eating. It’s really bad, actually. It’s not that I’ve necessarily been eating ‘bad’ food, but just that my portioning and timing is not as it should. I can’t wait to start going to the gym again, and summer! My goal this summer is to lose 5 pounds and to be able to run 10k again. Good luck Jessica.
Until then, school it is!
Victory in Jesus
I just want to start and thank God for saving everyone from something that could have been tragic. Last night, when I first got a call from Pat, I knew that I had to pray. It seemed a little early when she called; I was out to Shoppers Drug Mart with my cousin to by neocitran. I was still expecting to here the after concert noise in the background and Pat saying to me how amazing Starfield was. When her voice was a little hesitant and shaky, I knew that something was wrong. She told me how it all happened and who of our immediate were affected, Becca and Dom, of course the two of many Starfield fanatics at my church. To know and hear that they were safe and only had minor injuries, I was a little relieved; but my mind was still scrambling to put it all together. I am so thankful that nothing worse happened to my two friends, but we need to pray for everyone who attended the concert right now.
Sometimes we don’t feel it, and sometimes it’s more evident than others, but there is spiritual warfare. When it’s us tempted to sin against God or time when a floor collapses at a Christian concert, Satan is at work. But God is victorious.
I was reading this commentary online about the truth that sets us free, the one truth that empowers and all other righteous truths. Jesus, the Christ. And one thing that it noted is that since the truth is an entity, a person; our freedom for truth is found in our relationship with Him. When incidents like this happens, we want to be free from any worry, sadness, doubt, ‘un-justification,’ or any of the same type of feelings, that Satan tries to cloud our minds with. The more we choose to accept these feelings as our own, the more that we are gripped and strayed away from the actual truth. The truth that the same Christ who wins our spiritual battles, is the same Christ that conquered death and won the war. The way to experience the victory through Christ is to surrender all aspects of your life (thoughts, knowledge, feelings, experiences, money, deeds, time) to God for Him to change you. If everything we are, I am, is somehow involved with Christ, it doesn’t matter what approach Satan tries to take hold of us, Christ will already be there.
God, thank you for your power of healing and comfort. I pray that you would lay your hand on those that are feeling traumatized right now, for those who are suffering from physical injuries, for everyone that was at the church, and for Starfield and their crew. May your Spirit be close to their hearts and fill them with the truth of Your son, Jesus Christ, who is alive and remaining in us. I pray that you touch peoples hearts through what has happened and that we can just cling on to you for safety and peace. Thank you for your touch.
First
After little convincing, I decided to pick up blogging again. Miranda, Deedee, thanks.
I’m sitting at my second new favorite Starbucks, about to start on my weekend studying, but I can’t seem to get focused. I miss the days when I was a teenager and when I’d not so eloquently blog about what I was going through or about my day. I’ll apologize in advance, because I don’t know if it’s going to get any better =P.
Lately, I’ve been feeling out of place. Not necessarily in terms of relationships or school or anything like that, but just a feeling of ‘you can be more.’ Maybe uncomfortable is a better word for it. I feel like anything that I do or say, isn’t enough, and isn’t satisfying who I’m supposed to be. I don’t remember when I started praying about it, but I’ve been desiring for God to give me a new confidence and urgency to be closer to Him. I feel like I’ve wasted so much time in all my routines, in stressing out, and in missed opportunities, to have the true fulfillment of Christ in me. I know that especially in this season of my life, God is challenging me to bring everything up to Him and trust in His faithfulness, especially school and future school and relationship(s). Which reminds me that no matter how uncertain our feelings or matters at hand may be, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. And believe this truth because I’m here right now.
That’s all I’d like to say, a small 10 minute blog that turned out to be 30, a small 10 minute blog that turned out to be blessing in disguise.
Back to studying!
-Jeh.
(Romans 8:28)
