No, still no more pictures at the moment. I can't believe I'm posting two days in a row. It's been quite some time since that's happened. Crazier still is how much I've done these two days. Since my last post I've...had lunch with friends; gone to Home Depot for parts to fix my toilet; gone to target to put together a care package for some friends; bought a few things for myself at Target; tried to fix my toilet on my own; called a man for help to fix my toilet; gone back to Home Depot for another part for my toilet; finished fixing my toilet with the help of said man; put together said care package; written a poem; had staff meeting; laughed and cried at said staff meeting; ordered another house; sent out countless emails; made countless phone calls; gone to Bible study; sent out countless more emails; and somewhere in there I ate, slept and did laundry. Oh yeah, and laughed and cried with my roommates. It's been a busy couple of days.
I'm finding in the few moments of quiet solitude I have here and there, my heart is a bit melancholy. My mom sometimes refers to me as her melancholy child, and it's true. I just get these waves of the blues which are a bit hard to shake. I'm actually grateful for the busy-ness of life, because it leaves less time for melancholy.
Tonight in Bible study we read five stories of Jesus interacting with individuals: Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman at the well, the sinful woman who anoints Jesus, the lawyer who wants to know who his neighbor is, and Zaccheus. We talked about how Jesus meets each of them individually, right where they're at. He says just what they need to hear to be drawn into deeper intimacy with Him. So, I guess that's my prayer: that God would meet me in my melancholy and speak to me just what I need to hear as He draws me into deeper intimacy with Him.
3 comments:
you ordered another house? that must be a crazybusy induced typo, right? or it must mean something i don't get.
thinking of you. :)
No, no typo there. I'm heading up the effort for our Road Rally in November to Rocky Point to build houses. We started out saying we'd build three houses, but we got such an overwhelming response from the students that I had to order another one. :)
You didn't tell me you were melancholy when you asked if I'd read your post! I just thought you were stressing over the jail visit... Been praying for you all day off and on. Prayed for you at my Bible study tonight - along with about 20 other women, some of whom will be praying next Tuesday as well.
Love you...
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