Oh Joyous Times

"We learn and grow by overcoming challenges with faith, persistance, and personal righteousness."
-Ann M. Gibb
This week was hard.
The End.
Not really.... I wont elaborate on that though. The hard week is now over, because its Sunday morning now and it is a new day already and today will be better than yesterday. I hope.
Later today (since after all, it is Sunday morning now) I will give a talk in church. About charity. I think.... Service, actually.
Anyway, my first year going to efy, I went alone, which meant rooming with someone I didnt actually know. My roommate's name was Summer. She was definately interesting. Needless to say, that was not the best week of my life. But, I did learn something that has stuck with me ever since. At one of the many devotionals, my councelor told us that her father taught her that when she was having a bad day she was to do something good for someone else. Well from this lesson taught by her father, my councelor ended up secretly giving the most popular girl in her dorm hall (she was away at college) a flower a friend gave to my councelor. She said she didnt know why she did it but she did anway. A day or two later there was a note on the community board to the "Flower Giver" and about how it had made her day. We never know what something we do means to someone else.
Tying this back to my bad week, my topic for my talk was chosen a month ago. By someone else. With a week this terrible, what better way to end it and kick off the new week by talking about how the Lord uses us to answer the prayers of other people. Throughout this bad week, I wonder how many chances I missed to serve others that needed it because I was wrapped up in my own problems. I will definately not make this a habit. Now that I've used up half an hour of my precious nighttime/sleep-time/talk-writing-time, I will start writing my talk about serving others and hopefully get over the guilt quickly.
In the future, I will serve often and procrastinate seldom. :]
Good night and good morning.