The Week Before last (Oct 7-12)-> 7min

It's funny to think of all of you reading my last post about the beginning of my week before last because from that day on, the rest of the week was so much less enjoyable.

Whoa, don't get me wrong (that's easy to do while reading something typed) I had some incredibly great moments, but as far as tough moments go, I had a fair amount of those as well. The tough stuff first, (then we can celebrate at the end:)


I loved that week, especially Wed, Thur, and Fri, mostly because through the tough times God taught me things only learnable in difficult circumstances (and these weren't even that rough). For example, I learned that in order to have mountains one must have valleys. This is true, because otherwise the entire landscape would be flat=lame (Oklahoma??). Baahaha, that image just came to mind.

So, I am very thankful for the valleys of my life, for that reason and there are experiences one can only have on moutain tops (check the profile pic) and experiences only to be had in valleys, and both are equally rare and precious.

Ok, enough of that silly optimism, (not silly) but really this was the first time in my life where my miserable day on Wed. was not a bad day at all, because I learned invaluable stuff.

It started with rolling over after I woke up, and missing an opportunity to pray and worship with a group of great friends. What really made this miserable is I was supposed to 1) Open the room we meet in, and 2) I was pretty involved with planning the focus of that time(Jesus). Needless to say I was pretty embarassed, very humbled, by my own selfishness, idiocracy, and gratification of that all too familiar desire to sleep. It's needed- one of those things we are designed to need, but too much or too little is NOT good (just ask goldy locks).

If that in itself wouldn't wreck your day, check this out. After taking a brief trip in the fresh air, I could tell a significant difference in air quality between that on my hall and outside... I was soon to hear that early that morning a group of guys chased a skunk around outside, tried to catch it, and brought its stench (oh yea skunks spray, who woulda thought?)back into our hall. The rest of my day seemed to be consumed with talking with the large group of kids involved, and going through the very frustrating experience of getting lied to when I knew things they weren't telling me. Aside from that, this was the culmination of many instances where ridiculous stuff was done to the hallway, bathroom, and other people's specific rooms that was unnccessary, damaging, and just rude and disrespectful. So, the next four nights I was up late writing reports, and "busting" people who could not respect people's environment and sleep, which cost me sleep and time w/ hw, which is just not a highlight of my job.

Also, despite my extra- ohhh- 1.5 hours of sleep, the entire day I was walking around with my head in a fog, and I could not keep my eyes open or my mind focused all day. Huh, and all this time I thought it was sleep that gave me rest and energy?? Yea, well I learned otherwise. It became real apparent that the more I slept the more dependant I became on sleep (which is not very dependable...or as the Bible puts it-- faithful), and the inverse is true: the more time I spend with God, the more dependant I become on him.

Yea, so not the most easily enjoyed couple of days, BUTT I think realizing how the whole world does not spin because of anything I do, and growing to trust my big God with the absolutely tiny things in my life is certainly worth a short day of discomfort.

Ok, I told you there was some awesome stuff that happened too. The CEO (president?) of a hospital in town just so happens to be a girl's dad who I worked with this summer. I got the opportunity to go in and meet with him, and it was SO sweet. He is one of the nicest, most welcoming people I have ever met. I don't think he's reading this, but just in case-- there is no one I know who would be more fun, or pleasing to work for-- ok, enough of that. Pretty much it was awesome to talk to him about everything from Sandy Koufax to Kazahkstan (?), Pine Cove to medicine, about himself, myself, and Jesus, it was saweet!

So I'm obviously looking forward to shadowing the doctors at the hospital and will Lord willingly soon get a paying position and get to know more of the 50 people he introduced me to. And the actual job will be a great way to earn funds to get my plane ticket to India, while I get experience seeing the hospital. Being there definitely motivated my studying, because I know verrrry little of what I will know in the next 10 years :).

Anyway, I hope you feel like you got a little better insight to my week, and I hope you call me soon, so we can catch up with what's going on in your life. If the comp. didn't give me troubles there would be pics up of my mohawk/ everything else. Take luck, peace.