Busy-ness

"It makes me sad that we're too busy to be friends." my classmate said with friendly flippancy as she tried to finish up reading through homework before our class started at 9am this morning. I love this friend. She is down to earth, frank, honest, laughs loudly, loves Jesus, loves friends, and is real about struggles. She's come up to me when I was fuming or trying not to cry, taken one look at my face and wrapped me up in a huge bear hug whispering words of encouragement. And she's yelled at me across the cafeteria in good-natured sarcasm indicating her personal struggles and frustrations with life.
And we have both been saying for several semesters now that we REALLY REALLY ought to hang out. However, we simply don't have time!!!
We both work, take full loads of classes, try to get a full nights sleep (sorta) and are involved in various ministry projects on a consistent basis. And go to church. We see each other in passing and know that if we could just carve out time to sit down, we would be great friends. But our schedules don't allow.

By the same token, I was thinking while reading for my personal evangelism class (shortly before tossing the book on the bed beside me and pulling up my laptop to start blogging about homework instead of actually DOING it... that's me giving myself a guilt-trip in case you were wondering) how long its been since I sat down and just wandered the Bible with a prayer journal in front of me, scribbling out epiphanies and prayers and frustrations and praises and random thoughts to share with the Almighty. Its been a while.
He's been a Faithful Companion and I talk with Him in passing, and I know if I just carved out time to sit down we'd be great friends as always. But my schedule...

I feel like I re-prioritize on a very consistent basis. :-)

I'm hoping that its an upwards line on the graph of sanctification, but other times I sort of feel like I've plummeted a bit as far as Spiritual Disciplines goes. *sigh* But then the Holy Spirit picks me back up and helps me dust myself off and on we go.

In other news: Just saw the trailer for 'Courageous.' I'm pretty excited about it. :-) Although... its been pretty funny recently with friends of mine since I started dating Kyle; whose occupation is in the Police force, and when he's bored he volunteer firefights. For example, I saw a movie with John Travolta about firemen on my friend's coffee table (we were studying together) and I picked it up to read the back cover. The room collectively cried 'NOOOOOOO!' and begged me to put it down.I tried to explain that I could turn my brain off and decide to not relate to the movie characters, but no one believed me and I was grounded from borrowing it or approaching the DVD player. All that to say I'm wondering if I'm gonna have to sneak out to watch 'Courageous' or if I'll be pushed and shoved to the Theaters by my friends. People keep saying, 'you won't want to know what our servicemen go through,' but honestly sometimes finding out what reality is has been a lot better than leaving me and my imagination alone together to concoct something ten times worse. *sigh*
Oh well.
So back to speaking about discipline, I'm off to go finish reading for Personal Evangelism. We have to memorize a Bible passage every week. I thought it'd be no big deal because I was in Awana all growing up. Yeah well apparently the brain's memorization capabilities deteriorates with age. Oh gosh... I just remembered... I'm a grown up. That's another thing that's weird: my friends are getting married and having babies. When did we get old enough to do that?! Shouldn't there be some sort of test or graduation ceremony to announce that? I mean dating is one thing. Matrimony and procreation is a whole 'nother ball game, my friends. Just sayin'.

Okay I'm really done procrastinating now. Well, for now anyway :-)

~Princess Ouch~