There is only 24 hours in a day. I like many others always want more of it, but only when it fits my needs.<\/p>\n
This day, is a big day at Wartburg Theological Seminary. This day on February 19, 2014, the senior class is given their regional assignments, and later their senate assignments. I realize we are not in the class, but our time is fast apporaching.<\/p>\n
I know when Doug entered Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, I could not see the end. It seemed so far away. The thought of internship, hadn’t even crossed my mind. How was I going to handle three years and potentially three moves before another move to our first call?<\/p>\n
I was begging time to fly by. I didn’t want to make friends, and I made sure I didn’t get involve in anything that would require a social life. Time was crawling, and I couldn’t get it to move any faster. But with the help of a psychologist and a friend I made here on campus, things started to move along. Before I knew it, the friend I made had received their regional, senate assignment and then took their first call.<\/p>\n
However, it still wasn’t moving very quickly for me. In fact during a recent visit to my psychologist, we devised a plan that would help me “count down” the days until graduation. He suggested I look at How many major holidays were left, how many summers etc. I’m sure your getting the picture.<\/p>\n
So began my count. We have two more winters, two more springs, on more summer, on more fall. We have one more New Year celebration, one more Valentines day, two more Easter seasons, potentially two more Memorial days, one more Fourth of July, one more Labor Day, one more Halloween, One more Thanksgiving and finally one more Christmas. When you put it that way it doesn’t look so bad.<\/p>\n
Late last summer we put up a map to try and figure out what regions to request, what senate to hope for and who might be hiring. We were told Doug’s paperwork with this information, would need to be turned in by the first week of December of 2014. During that summer of 2013, December looked so far in the future.<\/p>\n
Today, I realize we only have 9 months to pray about it, and attempt to follow God’s lead and turn in the the paperwork with our selections. Our goal is to have our decision made by the last week of November so we are not late with the paperwork, thereby creating a new set of problems.<\/p>\n
In just one year, I will be waiting to hear our regional assignment, senate assignment and pray for interviews with offers to follow. Now I’m asking “where did all that time go?” “Why did I waste so much of it in the begining?”<\/p>\n
I can’t answer that, it’s still only 24 hours in a day no more, no less. It was how I chose to spend that time that is important. I cannot change the past, only work toward the future. I can tell you what I have done in those past times, some good, some not so good. <\/p>\n
Now I find myself, still counting down the days. I’m still so in awe that Internship is over in about five months, Doug’s last year of seminary begins in six months, and his paperwork for the future just 9 months.<\/p>\n
Time is ticking, the cuckoo-clock sounds remind me of that. One day I will look back on all this and like many other’s, share my history, smile and weep. I will also be asking for more time, but in the end, it’s all GOD’s time, and how I chose to use it, is a choice I make on my own.<\/p>\n
Tick tock, tick tock the sound of the clock. No more time, no less time, just 24 hours………<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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