Waiting

Hey guys, how is it going?  I know you haven't heard from me through my blog for a while, so you may be wondering what Has been going on in my life. I have been super-dee-duper busy, like never before.  This is not due to homework, but to job applications, resumes, and student leadership positions for next year.  At this point, I have a possible position at a private engineering firm/contracting company and applied for summer employment at TXDOT.  I never knew how much time these things take up, but I am glad that I finished them.  Over the last couple of weeks, I also had to do several things in order to apply for IMPACT positions at LeTourneau, which included several applications and interviews.  I applied for Chaplain Intern and Peer Adviser, and ended up getting chaplain; I am really excited.  This means that next semester I get to lead devotionals on Wednesday and be a spiritual leader on my floor. Because of my busy schedule, this was the most I had ever looked forward to spring break.  I did not go home but took a missions trip to San Isidro, Texas.  I went with twenty one other people, which made up two teams.  My team was the construction team, and we helped to build a house for a family; the other team put on a sports camp for the kids in San Isidro.  We stayed in a small baptist church in San Isidro, who's lead pastor and youth pastor worked for Buckner.  We worked very hard building the house, including a fourteen hour Friday.  It definitely was an oasis for my brain though, even if it wasn't an oasis for my body.  It was so nice to get away from LeTourneau and go to a little town in the middle of nowhere.  I also had the privilege to worship in a bilingual church, which was a great experience. More than anything, spring break was a chance for me to get away from everything and reflect on what I had gone through in my life.  God has definitely been working in my life, and teaching me many things through my circumstances, especially the lesson of patience (something you had to put in to practice while waiting for me to write another blog post).     God chose to teach me this lesson in a very clear way this week.  At the church in San Isidro, there were some small devotional booklets that happened to be on the subject of patience.  They contained some very important advice for me that was very helpful.  However, the divine providence did not stop there.  The Sunday morning after I visited a new church with some of my friends, and they sang Everlasting God.  The words of the chorus go like this: "strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord".  I know God was speaking to me through this song. In today's culture of instant self-gratification, waiting on God is not something that is easy to talk about.  However, if we truly want to follow God's will for our lives, patience is something we HAVE to have.  This applies especially to college students.  My present concerns include job opportunities, educational choices, relationships, and friendships.  It is easy to find one plan that you think will work and latch onto it, thinking that it has to happen a certain way.  However, waiting on God to guide your path in His direction is what we are called to do as Christians.