Ok, I just emailed, finally, a partial syllabus to my students. I think I'm a bad professor. They probably hate me already.
In other news, back at the ranch, it is really interesting and sometimes ridiculous how matters of the heart don't seem to work out the way you want them to. Well, as Sarah used to say, "I know you're not supposed to have a favorite doctrine, but mine is sovereignty." So I am trying to conjure up some faithfulness and what people call 'resting in the Lord.' Maybe my whole life is like those Dukes of Hazzard moments when Bo or Luke or Daisy or all three are in hot water and then there's a narrator's comment and they go to a commercial. You know things are going to work out fine, but still there's this catch in your throat. I know things are going to be OK, but I'm constantly in tears. I know God will take care of me, I just don't know how I'm going to get through the next 30 or 40 years.
What I really need is about eight hours of sleep, but I'm not gonna get it since I just committed to a breakfast meeting. Oh yeah, and then Mexican food for lunch! It'll be a trashy food day. Yum.
Posted by mike at January 14, 2004 07:48 PMMike...no worries on the syllabus...I went to class last night and the prof didn't have one for us. She said her secretary would e-mail it to us "sometime before the next class."
It's snowing like crazy outside and has been since yesterday morning. Sometimes I really love living in the wintery north!
Posted by: Austina at January 15, 2004 01:50 PM"So I am trying to conjure up some faithfulness and what people call 'resting in the Lord.'"
The Lord is good unto all those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Believe it, or not. And it has nothing to do with Ripley's or Guinness beliefs -- nothing so nifty and explain-away-able as touching your tongue to your toes without bending your legs. I know exactly what you mean by trying to conjure.
That's what it is, Mike. A fight to faith, through faith, of faith, for faith.
Posted by: joy at January 15, 2004 04:43 PM