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October 13, 2008...5:52 pm

reflect.

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i just went back and looked over some old posts. kind of interesting to see what i was writing not too long ago. it’s funny to see what i was anticipating is now what i am doing. my semester is halfway over! well, at the end of this week. we are hitting mid-terms and fall break. in a month and a half we will have Thanksgiving break and then Dec. 10th brings Christmas break. hallelujah!

before i came back to school i was taking a lot of time to prepare and to be still. it was glorious. even as i started school i gave myself time to take in moments so i could be ready for whatever was coming next. let’s just say at this time, mid-term, life looks very different from me and it is time for me to reprioritize and to make time for reflection. reflection should never come when i have time. i should be making time for reflection.

i have started sending out weekly thoughts to some of the leaders in my dorm. these thoughts are for them to use or to discard, but they are there all the same. this week i asked them to think about being real with each other, to take time to tell their story, and to take time to listen to someone else’s story. when we know what our story is, we can better learn from it. just because i am a main character in my life does not mean i know what is happening around me all the time. sometimes i feel people, myself included, become so wrapped up in life and how it looks we lose out on knowing who we are and what’s happening to us, not just what others think is happening to us.

i am loosely reading, as in i am not sitting down and reading chapters at a time, a book by Dan Allender called To Be Told. my RD told me to read it, so i’m giving it a shot. here’s a quote i enjoyed from it today.

“…there is necessity and blessing of telling our story to others. To the degree that we know God and then join him in writing our story, we are honored to join others in the calling of storytelling. God, of course, is the Master Storyteller. His self-revelation is captured in a sweeping narrative and then given to us in the Book that grips our heart and captures our soul. God also creates a story with each person’s life- a story that we are meant to tell. And since we are called to tell our story, we are also called to listen to the stories of others. And since we are to tell and to listen, then even more so we are called to encourage others to know and tell and listen to God’s story as well as their own.”