Have you ever felt that life was just burning you to the ground? One of those fires for me is stress, and when stress enters my life it also tends to be the best time for me to learn something about myself.
On Wednesday morning I woke up to realize that I am going to miss the first test in my Finance 201 class. Not the best way to start my day. The stress levels rose as I thought about my family and how they expected me to arrive on Thursday to go to a long planned trip to Disneyland. I talked to my mom about the situation and after some thinking and researching the ultimatum came: Do I go or do I stay.
Well, the first would be fine because in my class my lowest test score can be dropped. But, my worry was if this test would be the easiest out of all the tests, dropping this one would be more advantageous for my grade. Other stresses also entered into my head, but then I came to the conclusion that I needed to ask someone who would know my potential, someone who can look into the future and let me know if my decision to spend time with my family would be right. I asked God.
Soon after asking I came to feel that going to Disneyland would be good for me and for my relationship with my family. I realized that I was too stressed about school and because of that I was not performing to the best of my ability. There is a difference between good stress and bad stress, but I won't get into that. This lesson taught me how important God is in attending to the every day of our lives; He cares about our stresses, issues, and problems. We are so important to Him that He takes time for all of us. If there is one thing that I learned this week is that God takes care of those who believe in Him. He taught me that I was becoming too stressed about school and not focusing on my relationships that I had with my family and my girlfriend. I needed to think more about them. I knew that if I did He would provide the rest. And so it has been during the rest of the week, He has provided.
I LOVE SEINFELD! Very fun clip of that episode!
ReplyDeleteOn a more serious note, what an inspiring lesson learned. Putting our full faith and trust in the lord can be tough, and the answers we receive may not be what we are expecting. I'm glad everything worked out for you and am sure you had an awesome time at disneyland with your family! Good luck in FIN201- it's a tough class, I had Bro. Brau last semester.
-Jonathan