Here We Go Again

Today is my second full day in Houghton Center and all is quiet. A pick-up truck drives by every few minutes, the swoosh-swoosh-swoosh of giant wind turbines carries on in the background, and everything else is still.

I always get really worked up during exams. Whether I am actually studying or procrastinating, I do it all with a nervous, impatient spirit that can't wait to get out into that crowning glory of the student life - summer break. I bustled through my one day at home after exams, unpacking and repacking, and last-minute remembering. I bustled through the airport and on the airplane I fidgeted between watching TV, reading a book, listening to music.

But now I am in the middle of nowhere, and the middle of nowhere is a terrible place for an impatient fidgety person. So God is slowing down my heartrate, slowing down my spirit, and telling me to walk slower. It isn't hard to do here. There has been lots of planning, praying and dreaming about the next four months, but there has also been copious amounts of good food and company that feels like is family.

Here is a little verse that God hid for me in a place he knew I would find. It is from Lamentations 3:

²⁵ The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
²⁶ it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.
²⁷ It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.

²⁸ Let him sit alone in silence,

for the LORD has laid it on him.