ADVISEMENT: All of these are real life examples, though they are extremely unimportant to my driving point. Please feel free to scan and only read the bold, italicized words.
Thorn 1: Today was an awful day and I hated every minute of it. I woke up from having food poisoning all day yesterday, being stuck in bed. On time and well rested, I didn't think today was going to be so bad. I had a presentation, but I wasn't too worried about it; public speaking doesn't really get to me.
Thorn 2: I have three classes back to back, so my first class was totally bogus and all we did was talk about the final, basically he left us no hope, so that was encouraging. I asked my friend in class when our final assignment was due. She replied with a queasy face, "At 9.00 this morning."
It was 10:30
Thorn 3: Then was my presentation. I get to class a little early to prepare and as I look for my abstract on my article. I don't have it. I look on my USB. Not on it. Check my email, maybe? Nope.
Thorn 4: Finally it was time for me to present. My slideshow was incompatible with the internet browser.
Thorn 5: Later that afternoon, one of my roommates and I went to the store and I offered to drive, lost my keys.
Thorn 6: Then, we decided walked to the library to get some studying done. I find the perfect little study space and zip open my backpack to start working. My books missing. I left it at home.
Thorn 7: So I start the long hike back to my apartment to get my book and hike all the way back to the library only to find my perfect little study space stolen. Cool.
Thorn 8: After the library, I had to head to class. I don't have a final in this class, we only have to turn in some papers. I had emailed myself the last two papers, so I could print them off in class. Yeah, turns out I emailed myself the same paper twice. It's fine.
Thorn 9: After class, I head to the computer lab, to finish the work I started in the library. I unzip my backpack to grab my USB, but nothings there. I left it in class. Yep, so to class, I head back.
Thorn 10: Once I'm done with the computer lab, I wait for the campus shuttle to take me home. I sit in front of the student union like SpongeBob in the Glove World episode waiting for a bus, but one never comes... (Ok, that was a little dramatic). So I pull my phone out, but it's dead.
It's almost 8:00 and I'm finally home. I just want to thank everybody who's still reading this (or skipped down to this part). The first thing I wanted to do was sit down and talk about how awful my day was. List out all the things that went wrong and dwell in the things that didn't go my way. I can sit here and complain, but who wants to listen to that? Who cares? I'm going to be honest and say, no one actually cares if things go your way or not. If you had a delightful PB&J for lunch a morbid turkey sandwich. No one actually cares. The only one it really effects is yourself, so whether it's a PB&J or turkey on rye, you have the choice to find the rose in that situation.
Rose 1: I woke up feeling refreshed, I wasn't suffering from my own dumb consequences of eating expired food...
Rose 2: That was the last assignment of the semester, whether I missed it or not, I am done with that class!
Rose 3:Thankfully, one of my roommates was home and she was able to log onto my computer and email it to me in time.
Rose 4: I've finally learned how to work Windows 8 and was able to open it up in a different browser without anyone really noticing.
Rose 5: I had my keys in my backpack the whole time, ha. I'll blame my memory loss on the food poisoning and all that funny medicine.
Rose 6: I was able to get some extra exercise in! ("extra" used loosely).
Rose 7:Ok, so this kind of sucks, still, but I'm at a university library, it's not like I wasn't surrounded by other perfect little study spaces.
Rose 8: I had to rewrite this paper, but it wasn't nearly as long and it only took me about 15 minutes. That class has a printer, so I could finish it without my teacher even noticing.
Rose 9: I was one of the last ones to leave class, my teacher was talking about aviation or some other lame topic with a student. Luckily they're conversation didn't bore them enough! They were still there, so I was able to get back into the classroom and my USB was right where I left it.
Rose 10: I was able to get a little extra, extra exercise in! And, it's 2013 in America. I was 8 feet away from an outlet in every direction, plus I had my charger.
Today, I read an article about a kid in India who was brutally killed for his Christian faith. My first thought was, "I at least have it better than that guy." But that's not my goal. I don't want to compare my suffrages with others; I want to pray for their benefit, comfort them with love, mercy and humility. After all, the only person our circumstances really effect is ourselves. So choose goodness.
And don't ask God for patience.
No comments:
Post a Comment