Priorities and Relaxing

Life flies by. I always look for the next thing to come. I find myself saying "If only (such and such) day would just get here!" I find myself flying through life and it scares me. This semester has been a count down to graduation. Lately I've worked hard in school and for that I'm glad because that's not something I'm always good at. It is now two weeks until graduation and I'm pretty close to being done. Something I doubted would come at times. One thing I set out to do this semester was to make time for people while still working hard in school. My past years in highschool, people came first and school was put on the back burner. I fell behind and I knew I couldn't do that this year. I decided that I needed to learn to manage my time this semester. I tried to take opportunities to spend time with people and get to know them better and yet finish my school on time. While I may miss my mark of being completely done by graduation by a little bit, I feel like I had a lot of good times and real times with people. I had a co-worker question why I was going on the Jr. High retreat when I had so much school to do. I had already thought of that. I knew that I could skip the retreat and get school done and have relaxing time, but I knew that I would miss getting to know some awesome kids. So I chose to go and I ended up having lots of school to do when I got back. I think I chose right because the school will get done but that chance to spend a good amount of time with the students doesn't come very often. I'm trying to learn what opportunities are not worth missing and what are things I could miss for more important things like school. I'm not that good at it and I still find myself looking forward to the next thing. Right now I'm looking to graduation or more to being done with school. However, I know that once school is over I'll be working a lot and then I'll look forward to a break. On and on. The cycle never stops. Occasionally, I find God jumps in the midst of my busyness and says "You need to slow down for a minute even if it makes you behind." I've seen that happen a little bit lately. Saturday night I baby sat for some friends after spending all weekend gone on a trip. I didn't have a way to get my school books so I watched a movie. It was so nice to sit down and not think about school for a little bit. I found that once I left and started worrying about school that it was overwhelming. So I was thankful for a small amount of time that I didn't have to worry about it all and could just relax. Learning to prioritize and make chill time....that's where I'm at......