Balance

Balance is a difficult thing to achieve in college. Balance between work and play and devotion to God have been especially difficult for me to do this semester at Wheaton. Most of my friends are smarter than me, so they do not need to work as hard as I do to do well in school, therefore i get dissolusioned about how much time i need to work. Being around christians who talk about christianity and God all the time almost desensitizes you to the power and grace of God. I wish it would enhance in my heart instead of numbing it.
The Christian walk is not easy. One chapel speaker talked about a conversatin he had with a girl. She was crying and saying that she was frustrated that she could not serve hard enough, pray good enough, read clearly enough, or connect with God enough. He told her congradulations, for that is what the walk is like. We are not meant to be content in this world. Sin is a barrier between us and God that can only be broken by the death of our bodies and our soul's entrance into His glory.
His congradulations comforts me very little, although it holds hope.
Pray for my family at Sawyer- especially Dave and Hannah and Preston, who's friend was recently shot and killed in Chicago.
Pray for my diligence for my studies, that i would love God and not this world, and that He would give me wisdom.
Pray for Linda, my roomates sister, and Linda's roomate's family. The mother of Linda's roomate Erin suddenly died this week of a blod clot in the brain.
The skies are gray today, but the sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar.