The Pursuit of Pursuing

Honestly, do professors have nothing better to do than sit around and think of the most ridiculous schedules they can inflict on their students? 8 hours of lecture and then trudging over to the hospital to get your assingment (which takes almost 2 hours to do all the paper work) for the next two days of 7 hours clinicals is my idea of a great Monday... yeah. not so much.

Since I was sick this weekend, I did not get my usual things done, organized, and mentally rested/prepared for the week to come. Plus, I missed work and church. I really dislike starting the week off feeling I am already behind. Maybe that's why I am irritated, or maybe I am still upset that I had to park down and across the street since WSU had blocked off half of the parking lot in front of Ahlberg (for those that don't understand what a travesty this is ask me about parking at WSU sometime). But I realized something today. I have a goal to be a nurse, and I am pursuing it. I was thinking about what it takes to pursue something. It takes endurance to make it to the end, patience to deal with the side paths taken (willingly or unwillingly), perspective to 'see' the goal when it is not visible, faith to stumble along when its dark, and humility to realize you can't do it on your own.

I get on a path of grumbling when I don't like the classes I have to be in, on another path of self-pity/self-loathing when I don't get things right the first time, and on yet another path of questioning if I was even on the right path to start the pursuit in the first place! So I declared today that I would begin to ask God to show me the way he has chosen and to get off my own little circular paths, becuase if I really believe that he is who he says he is, then what's my problem? Oh, yeah I am human and I wear out.

Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
-Isaiah 48:28-31