Overwhelmed

Well, I have no updates about the youth group this week. I didn't get to go to church tonight because I had to go home to a funeral visitation for my great aunt. (By the way, whoever decided it was a good idea to pictures and music together at a funeral... you are insane). I also had a staff meeting for work tonight, it was just your average staff meeting, I'm sure you are uninterested in it.

I don't know if I have ever blogged about my actual job here on campus that pay minimum wage (no, I'm not complaining!). I am a PASS Leader. PASS stands for Peer Assisted Study Sessions. So, twice a week I lead a study session for students in Professor Joseph Trafton's New Testament (Rels 100) class. It's a blast and I thoroughly enjoy it. I took Dr. Trafton's class last semester and when I discovered that the previous PASS Leader was getting married, I applied for the job, and by the grace of God, I got it! Yay! I really, really enjoy my job. I mean, I get to teach kids about the Bible. What's better than that right?

However, I did not start this blog entry to write about my job (that was free). I entitled it "Overwhelmed" because that is what I am. In good ways and bad ways. Lets start with the bad ways. No, lets just not even talk about the bad ways, I just want to dwell on the good things.

One good thing is that, after 12 days in the hospital, my Granddad came home today! Yay! Plus, the Lord really spoke to him while he was there, and that is always good.
Another good thing is that my weekends are freeing up from now on. My younger sister is in the marching band, so the past several weekends we have been traveling all over Kentucky for marching band competitions, and though I LOVE marching band, I have other things to do! So I'm happy my weekends are going to be a bit more free (even if I will be spending them doing homework).
A third good thing: my reading for my C.S. Lewis class this week was The Chronicles of Narnia! What?! That is so stinking awesome. After reading "Miracles" last week (or four chapters of it) I just couldn't handle another intensely dense book like that again. So Narnia was a great break. We only read two of the books in the series for class, but I'll be honest, I am so tempted to read the rest of them (okay, I admit, I started The Voyage of the Dawn Treader today :).

So, there are three good things. I guess the lesson I need to learn here is that in this life we will often be "Overwhelmed." But we get to choose whether we will be overwhelmed by the great things God is doing in our lives or the attacks of the enemy. I choose the first of the two. I will be overwhelmed, but because of the amazing works God is doing.