Monday, July 18, 2011

3 summer school days down, 7 to go

After the first week and a half of my summer class, I'm not sure what to think.  The class is supposed to go from 5:30-9:30pm, but so far we haven't been there longer than 8, and I'm pretty sure the teacher wants us to be done by 7:30 at the latest each day.  He makes a powerpoint presentation, then prints it out with some blanks that we have to fill in.  Then he says to study that in order to prepare for the daily quizzes.  The 2 exams then are comprised of 70% material from the quizzes also.  So I'm having a hard time getting motivation to actually read my book or study for this class at all.  Hopefully I'll be able to do well in this class.

Prayer requests:
 - Pray for motivation to study.

 - Pray that I would not lose ground or backtrack in my walk with the LORD, that I would continually be seeking truth, telling myself the truth, and believing it.

 - Pray that I would be content where I am.  I'm still struggling with God in the fact that I know he wants me to do missions, and I want to do missions, but he keeps saying not yet.  Which is hard to hear.

 - Pray for my mood.  It's starting to be all over the map again sometimes, and that worries me.  I don't think I've become depressed again, at least not yet, but it is something I'm keeping a very close watch on.

 - Pray for time with community.  Thanks to many people, I've been able to still have Godly community even during my class, but I'm noticing more that I'm still struggling a lot with crowded loneliness (feeling lonely even when you're around people.)  And I guess this goes with the contentment thing too, because I'm trying to remind myself that God is enough, and that I don't have to feel lonely.

 - Pray that God would help me to find where I'm supposed to serve.  I definitely have a void now that the Feys are gone, and I miss them terribly, but I also want to be able to still serve, whether it be another family, or an individual, or something else.

 - Pray for my time with Jen tomorrow.  I haven't seen her for a month, due to my crazy schedule, and then she got sick last week.

Thanks for sticking with me folks.  Always feel free to ask me if you have questions about anything in my life, I'm really bad at coming up with things to post on here.

Oh yeah, and I think I'm starting to go through cupcake baking withdrawal, so I want to make some soon.  But I would need people to eat them, so if you can think of a way for me to bring you, your family, your community group, etc. cupcakes.  Please let me know.  I have a couple recipes I'm deciding between.  I think next up is either Amaretto Wedding Cupcakes, Mixed Berry Crumble Cupcakes, Chocolate Ice Cream Cupcakes, White Chocolate Devilish Cupcakes, or Cappuccino Cupcakes.

1 comment:

  1. We miss you too, Nicole. Especially today!! It's Tuesday, OUR day.

    I'm totally feeling the loneliness thing too. I hope that you find people to meet with even though you're not able to go to Comm. Group. (Or maybe you are since class gets done at 8:00?)

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