it’s only wednesday?

When I said in my last post that I loved the last weeks of the semester, I had yet to experience this one. Four and a half hours of outside of normal class lab time, 4 failed sets of plates, one lost (and later found) set of car keys, and a pretty solid freak out (hyperventilation included) later, I’m not singing quite the same tune. And that was just Monday.

Tuesday picked up in major ways, and brought some trouble of its own, but I won’t focus on that part. Tuesday morning I drove my roommate’s car to school and showed up in the lab 20 minutes before my normal 8 a.m. lab time, hoping that I could use the extra minutes to convince my instructor that my bad plates could work. Only, he wasn’t there at 20 till 8… or at 8:15 for that matter. We found a janitor to unlock the press room for us and when I stepped in, there they were with all of their glorious flair, my keys. Relief.

As we fought our way through the normal woes of being a graphics major during the last week of the semester. I finally made it to press after remaking my plates at 11:30. (My lab was over at 10:45 just for a little context on that one.) Our complete projects were scheduled to be presented on Thursday morning at 8 a.m., needless to say, I had a lot to get acccomplished in that small amount of time. Then my instructor decided to move our presentations to next Wednesday, giving us a whole extra lab period. Relief.

He also sent out an email announcing that he would be waiving our 10, 15-minute clean-ups for the semester because he hadn’t done a good job of keeping up with them. I had not completed one single clean-up yet. Relief.

Running into so many “there’s no way I could possibly…” situations, I was getting pretty frustrated to put things lightly. At the end of all those situations was the same thing: relief. That makes me think of what God’s been teaching me a lot about lately: grace. Life is full of “there’s no way I could possibly…” situations, yet there is ALWAYS grace. Grace is our relief.

Some verses God was graceful enough to give me that morning:

“Ascribe to the LORD, O mighty ones,

ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;

worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness…

The LORD gives strength to his people;

the LORD blesses his people with peace.”

Psalm 29:1,2,11

there they are in their rightful place. good stuff.

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