Praise God

Today's post is simply on the goodness of God. After a fairly lousy day God has finally shown up.

Today started at 2:15 in the morning. Yes, I am crazy, and I am aware of that fact. I had a meeting yesterday, and then worship class from 9:15 until 11, so I was very busy in the evening. That left homework for after worship. I had seven poems to analyze, sixty pages of C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity (which I shall devote a blog post to one of these days), and a thirty page article to read. That said a little procrastination with my roommates resulted in a late night.

So I'm not exaggerating when I say I'm tired.

Volleyball started my morning off. My wrists are really sore right now. It's not a joint thing. It's bruising where the ball hits when I bump. I am not really sure what to do about it. Anyhow, the pain put a bit of a down on my morning since I couldn't play as hard as I wanted to.

My C.S. Lewis class was decent. I felt fairly confident on the quiz. But then the teacher decided to read some of the things he'd liked on our previous quizzes (we wrote about our favorite chapter in Mere Christianity to show we'd read). He got to mine and started reading, but had to stop and not continue because he couldn't read my handwriting. I was rather frustrated. With a quiz I'm trying to write as fast as possible to get as much on the page as I can, but that does nothing good for my handwriting, which is terrible to begin with.

My lunch was eaten alone (yay for a schedule completely different from my friends'!) Anyhow, a girl did come sit with me at one point, but she didn't say anything so it was just kind of awkward. I was also super hungry and there didn't seem to be a lot of healthy options that sounded really good. I mean...pizza's just not a possibility every lunch. So, I left with a pear in hand hoping that would satisfy me.

My last class of the day was just a basic literature class. It was pretty good. I actually managed to answer a question correctly, so I didn't get -10,000,000 points (that was what he wrote on the board last time I got a question wrong from him, it was pretty embarrassing).

So, the day was just kind of so so. It didn't help that I got stuck listening to some pretty negative conversations between some friends. I have to say it just kind of put me even more down in the dumps. And then I had laundry to do, as well as homework. I attempted to take a nap this afternoon, but it didn't work. So, I will be attempting to go to bed early later.

Alright, what really excited me was what God did this evening.

I went and barricaded myself in the library to avoid distractions. I have a column pitch due tomorrow for my writing class. I started out this evening with absolutely no concept of what to write about. And then God sent me something through my searches.

I was browsing a website which lists different magazines that accept freelance writers. I was having no luck finding any magazine I thought I could write for, so I was getting ready to just pick one and try my best with a subject I wasn't truly comfortable with. That was when I clicked on the religion section. Up popped several different magazines, but the one that caught my eye was one dedicated to people living with chronic illnesses who hold faith in Jesus Christ.

Needless to say I got my column idea. I will be writing about what I started this blog about- my life as a person with a chronic illness trying to stay true in her faith.

I know that only God could send something so remarkably perfect for me to write about. I am praising him loudly (in my head, because I'm in the library right now)! God is so good. Now, I have a chance to finish up my homework and get to bed at a decent hour.

Thanks God.