{"id":762,"date":"2007-09-25T09:11:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T09:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=762"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:15:30","slug":"762","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/09\/25\/762\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">EDIT (2:02 pm):&nbsp; Funny story.&nbsp; Eric called to ask me to water the lawn again today.&nbsp; Of course, I obliged.&nbsp; So before I left for my meeting, I ran the hose to the back yard, set up the sprinkler and started the water.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I had it backward so it was watering towards our neighbors yard. Oops!&nbsp; So I ran around the water to turn it around, which would&#8217;ve worked fine except that I was now directly in the water&#8217;s path.&nbsp; I took a direct hit to the face\/head, resoaked my recently dried hair and splattered water on my shirt.&nbsp; It made me laugh though!&nbsp; End Edit<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I guess the best time for me to be truly honest with myself is between 3-6 in the morning.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The bad news<\/span>: I woke up last night at 4:30 and came to a somewhat shocking realization of just how stressed and pressured I am feeling right now.&nbsp; Lying there, my areas of activity (Comp, Basic, Drama, Grad School, etc) took turns popping into my consciousness.&nbsp; Each time, I&#8217;d experience a sense of near-panic as my brain would instantly start listing all the work I have to do in that particular area.&nbsp; Even more sad, I realized that my body is starting to react to the constant strain.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The good news<\/span>: My Bible study this week has been in Hebrews 4, where it talks about entering God&#8217;s rest.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dictionary I use defined that idea this way: &#8220;God&#8217;s rest is entered when a believer is confidently assured within, and outwardly lives peaceably in the assurance of God&#8217;s daily provisions.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Sounds like exactly what I need, doesn&#8217;t it?&nbsp; And the passage then reminds us that the Israelites didn&#8217;t receive this promise (until the next generation) because they did not &#8220;combine [the message they heard from God] with faith&#8221; (4:2).&nbsp; Ouch!&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>So, this morning, I am trying to stay much more in tune to the Spirit&#8217;s<br \/>\nreminders that he loves me no matter what, that He alone defines my<br \/>\nvalue, and that my definitions of failure\/success are still deeply<br \/>\nskewed.&nbsp; If you think of it, please pray for me.&nbsp; None of this changes the length of my to-do list, but I hope it will help my perspective on that to-do list immensely!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other notes from yesterday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I started yesterday with 10 ungraded submissions in Basic English.&nbsp; After classes, I had almost 80. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/shocked.gif\"><\/li>\n<li>We had an interesting discussion in grad school last night about marginalized populations (Black, Asian, Gay\/Lesbian, etc.) and the canon. These types of discussions are why I&#8217;m glad I went back to grad school.&nbsp; It is nice to be exposed again to views that are not all one-sided.&nbsp; It&#8217;s really a challenge, though, to participate well <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">and<\/span> bring honor to Christ.&nbsp; So many academics immediately discredit faith as unintellectual, so it&#8217;s a fun challenge to show that my faith actually makes me a better intellectual (I hope!).&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>I did finish that last article.&nbsp; It made a bit more sense the second time through.&nbsp; Then last night, my prof told us she&#8217;s decided that the book isn&#8217;t really as helpful as she&#8217;d thought it would be.&nbsp; So we&#8217;re ditching it and moving up the next project.&nbsp; So, no more reading of that book! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/pleased.gif\">&nbsp; But now I have to do an 8 minute presentation next week instead of in 3 weeks. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/images\/shocked.gif\">&nbsp; I guess you win some, lose some&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, I have a meeting at the church at 10 this morning.&nbsp; Then I&#8217;m going to try to do a lot of grading and laundry.&nbsp; Then tonight will be our weekly <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Eureka<\/span> viewing.&nbsp; Yay for Tuesdays!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT (2:02 pm):&nbsp; Funny story.&nbsp; Eric called to ask me to water the lawn again today.&nbsp; Of course, I obliged.&nbsp; So before I left for my meeting, I ran the hose to the back yard, set up the sprinkler and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/09\/25\/762\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}