Monday musings

I've seen many people walking around campus barefoot...I know the sun is out but I just don't see the appeal. Maybe it's part of a project or social statement. Or, maybe they're on to something as I put band aids on the blisters my shoes gave me this morning.
I also saw a guy in bright pink pants, a shaved head except for a tuft of hair at the crown and wearing clear high heels. With a sign around his neck that said "I lost a bet....or three" Tough luck.

After being away from my bed for 14 nights I have realized a lot. That I am much more flexible than I give myself credit. Or perhaps I'm learning to go with the flow more. I was still stressed but not like I thought I would be. I do loathe living out of a scattered suitcase and I can never remember to bring everything - but, all in all change isn't as scary as I first thought.

This past week I've read a lot of things that hit home:
"...As Christians, however, we understand our brokenness and become strong in a particular way...His [Jesus] story is not just one we can hear, but a story in which we are invited to share. So the world may break everyone, but that is not the last word. The Christian holds, not that things always turn out for the best, for they seldom do, but that through it all God loves us, upholds us, receives us. That is because our God is the kind of God who insists on having the last word. To be sure, the second to last word, which may be very powerful, can be given to something else--suffering, despair, hopelessness, evil, death itself. But our God insists on having the very last word, and that is always a helpful word, a healing word, a word of peace, of hopefulness, and of life. That is what it means to participate in the death and resurrection of Jesus. It is about God taking the raw stuff of defeat and forging an ultimate victory. It is about becoming strong in the broken places." --Martin B. Copenhaver

"Lent is a good time to be intentional about taking something out of our schedules to rest and meditate on God, love, life and to pray. The things we give up during Lent are not meant to be punishments, but commas that gives us time for a refreshing cool drink at God's spring because... 'even a monkey gets tired.'" --Ron Buford

"I am a little world made cunningly
Of elements, and an angelic sprite"
--From Sonnet 5 by John Donne

So starts another week. Which is scary in itself because I have exactly 2 weeks left before finals. TWO weeks to do a ridiculous amount of stuff.