I've never gotten religious on this blog before but I'm changing that right now. I have a story that just happened and I need to get it out before I forget.
This week in school is a doozy. Well, forget just school. Everything is a doozy. We had to get rid of Emmett's binky and it is NOT going well. The kid never sleeps now. He just cries. Then I had to keep Eli home from school one day because he threw up all over our bedroom floor in the middle of the night. Add in the school stuff and it just feels like a lot.
This is the week all 3 of my classes have decided to slam me with huge projects after lulling me into a false sense of security that I could handle taking 3 classes this semester. It's Thursday night and I'm barely 20% done with my assignments for the week. And to think, here I am now writing this blog post at 10 pm instead of chugging through the next assignment. But, I have faith that it will work out. I need to share what's on my mind. (Plus this post won't take too long and I'm kind of on a roll now)
I know it will work out because when I first saw the workload ahead of me, the first thing I did was drop my head and pray. I prayed for strength to handle the load, peace of mind and heart to not get overstressed, and most importantly, energy to manage everything I need to. I knew I couldn't do it alone and I'm so glad I asked for help.
I've just spent every possible minute of study time this afternoon struggling through a group assignment for my Social Media Advertising class. My fellow group member and I were getting absolutely nowhere and were met with error messages left and right. I couldn't even get access to the ad manager page, and it wasn't allowing her to do anything. ANYTHING. Since I had to pick up the kids from school, we dropped it and decided to try again tonight.
All day long, I expected to feel outrageously stressed but I had nothing but peace. For my constant-anxiety-riddled brain, that was a miracle.
When we got back to it, suddenly there was a miraculous second way for the group leader to add me to the account that wasn't there before. And it actually worked. Once I was added, I miraculously found some hidden settings and even more hidden permissions deep in the recesses of the website and found several key permissions that had defaulted to "off." Once those settings were changed, the assignment fell together like magic!
I know I had divine help in finding those settings - they were seriously HIDDEN. (Way to go, Facebook Ads Manager) I know I've had divine help managing my load this whole week. It's not just been this assignment. I've experienced extra strength every day even with less sleep, more work, and having less study time than I normally have. I know these are the Lord's tender mercies and I am so grateful He's blessed me with them this week.
I guess that's my testimony for the night. God is real. He hears our prayers and He wants to help. But we still need to do our part. I will most definitely be staying up late and putting in whatever hours I need to so I can get this done. He can't help if I don't try.
I also think it's worth mentioning that I've given extra attention to having consistent scripture study the last couple weeks. This is an area I've always been a bit weak in and I believe these blessings are also in response to that effort.
So there you have it. Make time for God and know that He's real. Trust that He will hold you up and walk with you through tough weeks.
Isaiah 45:2-3 KJV
2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
3 And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Good night my friends.
