And so stuvac begins!

Here's a post to the well-neglected blog - today, i guess, marks the beginning of the stuvac week! 11 more days until first exam - here goes for a (hopefully) productive and focussed week of study!

Going into this week, it's been interesting to see how God seems to speak (or maybe better said as "how well I seem to listen") in proportion, if that could be said, to the amount of stress i'm feeling - when I'm tired and sick of studying and feeling hopeless about the amount of stuff that needs to be crammed into my brain in less than 2 weeks, it's when I realise again I can't do it all on my own, and the only way that i'm going to survive exams (and, indeed, the rest of life) is to be fully relying on God - if only my unreliable self would think like that all the time! (and if that's what it takes, then let life be stressful!)

So let me change that statement about this week to : looking forward to a week of study, praising God for everything he's given me (including, but most definitely not limited to: a brain, an awesome course.. and yes, even the stuff i'm having to cram into my head) and trusting that he's in control and what he says in Jeremiah 29:11:

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Not that I have already been made perfect... or i really would be joyful all the time, and never complaining or grumbling :P Happy Stuvac everyone! (and to those not at Newcastle - happy.. um.. rest of semester! hehe)

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His oath, his covenant, his blood,
Support me in the raging flood;
When every earthly prop gives way,
This still is all my strength and stay