Monday, April 21, 2008
Here I am...
It's half an hour before I head in for the big test. I'm waiting in the student center at UNO, tempted to nap, uselessly trying to study more and get more crammed in my head, and praying. My studying has been interrupted by reading an amazing book I can't put down called The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. The author relates the changes in Holland during WWII and the Holocaust from inside a concentration camp. You would think it would be depressing and horrifying and it is. However, her intense faith and that of her sister especially bring such light into unthinkable misery. They are so brave, always thinking of others first, putting their safety above their own. Her sister's last words were something to the effect of "No hell is so deep that His love is not deeper. Tell them - they will listen to us because we have been there." Maybe it's knowing He is everywhere - in our every situation that gives me comfort. Maybe focusing on a terrifying situation like that and relying on God is getting my mind off my own troubles. Whatever the case, I trust He will give me strength and give me what I need.
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Good luck on your test! Let us know how it goes!
I read The Hiding Place when I was very young. Sounds like I need to read it again!
THanks! Actually, He was with me during the test, of that I am certain. I panicked a little, but it wasn't as bad as I thought, that's for sure. The section I was most terrified of was one where they give you just 3 terms to thoroughly define, give an example in your classroom and show how it relates to language acquisition (in 30 minutes). I was just so worried that I wouldn't know one, and since it's 1/3 of the section... Anyway, the first 2 I was pretty confident about the the 3rd I couldn't initially place and just thought I could make something up, then it hit me it was an activity I have been using since I first started teaching 10 years ago, but forgot the terminology. I wanted to jump up and down and thank God aloud then and there, but I just did so inside, as others on either side were taking other exams.
During the break I wrote II Corinthians 4:16-18 from memory in on my scratch paper, but you know? I don't think I wrote it for me so much as hoping someone else would read it. I guess The Hiding Place really is "getting" to me.
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