I can be a pretty hardcore procrastinator. Those instincts matched with the busy schedule of a college student can be a dangerous combination, especially when it comes to anything not on a syllabus handed out the first day of the semester. I am also at that point in my life when all of my friends are getting married. A lot of them are also students and they always complain about how hard it is to plan a wedding while in school. Since I am not married or planning a wedding, I take them at their word, but I always kind of wondered why it was so hard even though they where excited to get married. A wedding is a once in a lifetime kind of event that little girls spend years dreaming of. If you are actually engaged and madly in love with the person you are about to marry, planning the wedding should be even more of a joy. Now I think I understand them, because I realized I am basically engaged to my internship.
I am extremely excited to be going to Trieste, Italy this summer to work in a local church there and complete my internship for my missions degree, and I love researching and planning for trips, but I have had no time. Every time I am working on homework for one class or another I want to be doing something to get ready to go. But homework is relentless, its already practically April, and I have done almost nothing for my internship. Fortunately, somethings have gotten done more by God than by me.
Earlier in the semester, I had the privilege of meeting a girl, who is a full-time missionary, and discussing missions with her. She was interested in my plans to do a summer internship, she asked me if I had bought my plane tickets yet and I said I had not. She warned me I was in the midst of prime ticket buying and would need to act fairly quickly. I had looked at buying tickets briefly about a month earlier, but quickly realized it was a job for when I had more time and left it for a longer day, which was yet to show itself on the projected forecast. I knew I was running out of time, but I didn't know if I could do much about it. Not very long after that I got an email from my mom, telling me someone from my church in Kalispell had a connection with a real-estate office and wanted to help me find some tickets. I basically said what timeframe I wanted to work with and the tickets were found. It was a huge help and such a relief to know that I had at least that step taken care of. If that person hadn't helped me, I think I would have ended up paying twice as much for tickets.
A smaller thing has also eased my mind recently. It occurred to me in the course of another conversation, that depending on how old I was when I got my passport, it was either good for five more years or expired. I checked it and it was definitely expired. Passports generally take 6 weeks to process so I wanted to get it started as soon as possible so that there would be no way for it to become a problem. The paper work was about an all day affair, but surprisingly I found my new passport in my mail box about 2 weeks later, just in time to bring to the DMV as a proof of identity (instead of having to request and pay for a birth certificate or a school transcript) to get a new drivers license. Maybe its marginal, but it's things like this that remind me that God loves to bless his children with more than is necessary. In truth making me His child was unnecessary, but He did it because He could and He wanted too.
I am extremely excited to be going to Trieste, Italy this summer to work in a local church there and complete my internship for my missions degree, and I love researching and planning for trips, but I have had no time. Every time I am working on homework for one class or another I want to be doing something to get ready to go. But homework is relentless, its already practically April, and I have done almost nothing for my internship. Fortunately, somethings have gotten done more by God than by me.
Earlier in the semester, I had the privilege of meeting a girl, who is a full-time missionary, and discussing missions with her. She was interested in my plans to do a summer internship, she asked me if I had bought my plane tickets yet and I said I had not. She warned me I was in the midst of prime ticket buying and would need to act fairly quickly. I had looked at buying tickets briefly about a month earlier, but quickly realized it was a job for when I had more time and left it for a longer day, which was yet to show itself on the projected forecast. I knew I was running out of time, but I didn't know if I could do much about it. Not very long after that I got an email from my mom, telling me someone from my church in Kalispell had a connection with a real-estate office and wanted to help me find some tickets. I basically said what timeframe I wanted to work with and the tickets were found. It was a huge help and such a relief to know that I had at least that step taken care of. If that person hadn't helped me, I think I would have ended up paying twice as much for tickets.
A smaller thing has also eased my mind recently. It occurred to me in the course of another conversation, that depending on how old I was when I got my passport, it was either good for five more years or expired. I checked it and it was definitely expired. Passports generally take 6 weeks to process so I wanted to get it started as soon as possible so that there would be no way for it to become a problem. The paper work was about an all day affair, but surprisingly I found my new passport in my mail box about 2 weeks later, just in time to bring to the DMV as a proof of identity (instead of having to request and pay for a birth certificate or a school transcript) to get a new drivers license. Maybe its marginal, but it's things like this that remind me that God loves to bless his children with more than is necessary. In truth making me His child was unnecessary, but He did it because He could and He wanted too.