One of those days....

If I was honest, yesterday was one of those days when you wake up and make a choice to dwell on the truths or the lies.  Yesterday was one of those days you choose to survive or thrive through.  It’s your choice, your choice to dwell on the things of the Spirit or to just pray you survive, bad attitude and all. If I was honest, there have been a few of those days this semester.  Many of them I have sought to survive through.  Yesterday things changed.  Yesterday was a choice to thrive through. 

Yesterday morning on my way back to the car after class, I told myself over and over again, “I choose joy today.  I choose joy today.  I will think on peace, joy and love because this is Truth.  This is the life God wants for me.”  The Lord knew I needed to be prepared because the next few hours would only get crazier: I got almost to the Center, forgot my therapy materials, drove all the way home, prepared for sessions at the last minute and the list goes on.... but His Grace was enough.

Over the past few weeks I’ve begun to realize that through this craziness affectionately called the “grad school life,” the Lord doesn’t want me to just make it through so I can enter into a new season of life.  No, he has my best interest in mind right now.  He doesn’t want me to just survive this chaos and madness; He has a plan.  As Paul tells the church at Thessalonica “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.  Do not quench the Spirit.  Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good.  Abstain from every form of evil.  Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.  He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-24). 

Grad school is an edifying experience.  Am I going to survive through or thrive through?  I can take it or leave it.  I’ll take it. I’ll continue to pray, give thanks and hold fast to what is good through it all.  

He who calls me is faithful! Now that's Good News :D