This week I will not spend Thanksgiving with my family. A very long stretch of highway will keep me from spending hours in the kitchen to make food for the people I love. Miles prevent me from laughing with my nieces and nephews. My brothers and I won't play football or play hid and seek. I will talk on the phone with my parents instead of face to face. All this I will miss because I chose to go to Bible school
I could not be more thankful to be here at school.
Yes, to sleep in dorms that are sterile and anything but homey. To be kept awake but shrieks of giggles.
Get up at an earthly hour to sit for hours in class. Read thousands of pages of text and write words upon words late into the night for the paper due in a few hours.
To be stressed when there is too many projects due on one day.
And than in the midst of school life requires you to stop school and deal with problems causing a person to stay up far to late to make up the slack.
Yes all this I am thankful for, because right this very minute people are being brutally tortured because they studied God's Word.
Because when I went away I lost some things, yet gained so many friends.
I realized how I stupid I was and how great God's Word is with so much to learn.
All this to be thankful for... and so I forget what I have lost.
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