How art thou? Hopefully splendid and looking forward to a great weekend!! Mine shall be filled with a few activities but HOPEFULLY a lot of studying. I'll really need to buckle down if I want to do well on my final exams in a few weeks! I have one week left of classes then BAM.... finals! Not that I'm complaining, I've really been enjoying school lately, minus feeling tired all the time, and the occasional "I'm so over it" feeling of just being so close to the end of the semester, but OVERALL, it's been good!
So this post is a little delayed from something that happened last weekend that I wanted to share. It was really good and really spoke me. Mandy had a new friend from the church over, and I haven't really chatted with this girl (she's like....29 so - "woman") very much, and so I got the chance to get to know her a little bit better. She was asking me about some decisions that I've been debating over and so I gave her the whole background story. I'll explain one small part of it, so you understand a little more.
[Beginning of 'background info'] A few months ago someone came up to me asking me what I was taking in school. I told them I was in my second year of my psychology degree and they actually really hurt me with what they said next. They told me why would I, a Christian, be in a psychology degree. That it was God-less and I tried to say that there were Christian psychologists (I told them to look in the yellow pages, I know... smooth come-back) and they said you can sit in a church your whole life and not be a Christian blah blah blah, and walked away. Needless to say, I was extremely hurt and upset and then confused about the whole matter. [End of 'background info'].
So, this girl from church is over and I explain this to her along with other stuff, and that part of my story wasn't really the 'point' of my story, but she still had something to say about it when I was done talking. She said "I think sometimes when people are actually on the right path and doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing, people come in (even if they didn't mean to) and try to distract us from the direction we are supposed to be heading". She said "Especially when you are confused and struggling with what your path is. But I think this helps us to realize even more it IS what we are supposed to be doing. We just need to believe and trust in God's directions..."
Anyways, I'm not sure if this makes sense to anyone, I know it can be taken in a few ways, but it really stuck with me. It's so true. People come and distract us from where we should be and what we should be doing. And their intentions might be totally innocent, but sometimes people don't realize that the words they are saying are completely destructive and are not uplifting at all. In my case, I had been struggling with the idea of my Christian beliefs and the idea that every issue a person has is basically a problem in a persons brain. So, I was vulnerable and confused as is.
Moral of what I am saying is that I think it's really important that we actually do take into consideration the things we say to people that aren't really helpful. But also, that we really realize that we each have a path that we are set a part for, and we need to make sure to stay true to what WE think is right for us, not everyone else.
I hope this didn't sound preachy, it's just something I've really been working on lately. I love you all and I hope you have a fantastic weekend!
xoxo
Miss Ruth
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