Today is a good day…so far. I am about to go into my hardest class in about 30 minutes, but I am choosing to have a positive attitude about it, and so it’s going to be a good class. It’s amazing how something as little as a positive outlook on things really changes the way you view the world. As I write this, I am sitting in the Fuller Library, watching the rain outside the window. Every once in a while, I see someone walk by…or run by as the case may be. But I am just feeling in a place of contentment right this second. With how much I feel I need to accomplish in a day in order to feel accomplished, sitting and staring out a window is a rarity in my life. Yet here I sit, and what do you know, but I still feel accomplished. In fact, I feel more accomplished then when I walked through the door of the library!
God is like that I’ve noticed. Last night, I was trying to write a paper that I was kind of dreading because its for the hardest class I have (the aforementioned one that will be great today, I just know it!) and the teacher is difficult. But you know what, this time at Fuller for me, is like this past 20 minutes in the library…a chance to stop and look out the window. Sure, outside the window right now is rain. But rain is life-giving. My time at Fuller for me so far has been absolutely life-giving. I have grown and changed and honestly, God has soaked my soul in the way the ground is being soaked outside. And that’s a good thing. So yes, there are hard papers, and difficult teachers, and early morning classes, but in the end, I know that I know that I KNOW I will look back at this point and time in my life and really see how much God used all of those things for his glory.
SO – off to get soaked by the rain, and by God’s love I go!