Priorities
The best thing about seminary is the people I go to school with. I know I must sound like a broken record sometimes, but I can’t help to repeat it now especially with graduation about a month away. My state of existence is to soak in every minute with them that I can.
Listen in on the daily decision making conversation I have with myself:
Don’t I need to go to the library and do my Greek homework? No, it is more fun to go out to brunch with my roommate who will soon be a Baptist rockstar and is an amazing friend.
Don’t I need to go to the computer lab and work on a paper? No, I’ll go sit and talk with some classmates in the Great Hall who are about to go into the church and change the world with the gifts that bring to ministry.
Don’t I need to be working on something productive? No, I’d rather sit on the couch with Abby, Jenn and Anna Kate and watch episodes of Gilmore Girls that I have already seen 5 times because soon I will no longer live in a place that has seasons 1-5 of the show on DVD.
I guess you might be worried upon reading this that I might be in danger of failing out of school. I hope I’m not. I’m finding that I write just as good papers the night before than I did last year a week ahead of time. Actually, I think I’m in pretty good shape (with four more major assignments to my name, I might add) of graduating come May 13th.
When it is time to put on my robe and hood on that day, I don’t think I’ll cherish the fact that I got As on these last papers. But, I know I will be most glad that I took time to smell the roses this spring (even though they really make me sneeze) and become that girl who is always up for hanging out. I’m grieving already what my life will be like not to have this Durham community of friends in my daily existence… people who know and love me even in spite of my faults and more crazier moments (like when I get so tired I can’t put sentences together and simultaneously refuse to go to bed). But, in spite of the many changes that loom around my life right now, I do know that life is always taking all of us from one experience to the next (a creed especially for the 20-somethings). The joy is the people who you meet along the way. The great mystery to it all is finding out which ones continue to journey with you as geography changes… I’m excited to find out. So, for now my priorities will remain in tact... friends will always trump the school card.
Listen in on the daily decision making conversation I have with myself:
Don’t I need to go to the library and do my Greek homework? No, it is more fun to go out to brunch with my roommate who will soon be a Baptist rockstar and is an amazing friend.
Don’t I need to go to the computer lab and work on a paper? No, I’ll go sit and talk with some classmates in the Great Hall who are about to go into the church and change the world with the gifts that bring to ministry.
Don’t I need to be working on something productive? No, I’d rather sit on the couch with Abby, Jenn and Anna Kate and watch episodes of Gilmore Girls that I have already seen 5 times because soon I will no longer live in a place that has seasons 1-5 of the show on DVD.
I guess you might be worried upon reading this that I might be in danger of failing out of school. I hope I’m not. I’m finding that I write just as good papers the night before than I did last year a week ahead of time. Actually, I think I’m in pretty good shape (with four more major assignments to my name, I might add) of graduating come May 13th.
When it is time to put on my robe and hood on that day, I don’t think I’ll cherish the fact that I got As on these last papers. But, I know I will be most glad that I took time to smell the roses this spring (even though they really make me sneeze) and become that girl who is always up for hanging out. I’m grieving already what my life will be like not to have this Durham community of friends in my daily existence… people who know and love me even in spite of my faults and more crazier moments (like when I get so tired I can’t put sentences together and simultaneously refuse to go to bed). But, in spite of the many changes that loom around my life right now, I do know that life is always taking all of us from one experience to the next (a creed especially for the 20-somethings). The joy is the people who you meet along the way. The great mystery to it all is finding out which ones continue to journey with you as geography changes… I’m excited to find out. So, for now my priorities will remain in tact... friends will always trump the school card.
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