Lately I’ve been feeling pretty overwhelmed with everything that is going on in my life. Everything from school work and church functions to my social and domestic responsibilities seem to be on overload. Even when i have a spare minute to relax i feel like there’s something i should be doing. I stayed up until 2 30 this morning attempting to write a paper on the epitaph of King Arthur. In my paper i was supposed to prove my interpretation of these lines written on his tomb,”Here lies Arthur, who once was king and king will be again.” When i read this i couldn’t help but think about Jesus and his return & that it sounded similar to the idea communicated by this verse in the bible,
“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11
… The hard part was not proving this, but proving it while meeting the paragraph count requirements. I usually have no problem writing lengthy essays, but for some reason i couldn’t seem to come up with concrete details to support my commentary… grrrrr. I gave up and decided to finish it in the “morning”. I left a note for my mom to read when she got up explaining my dilemma and asking her if I could stay home from school to finish it.

So I got up around 10:00 this morning, I figured it would be good for me to get 8 hrs of sleep for once, and even though I stayed home today I’m pretty sure it would have been easier going to school. After I finished my Arthurian Essay, I typed up notes to help me memorize my role as a defendant for mock trial tryouts tomorrow. Then I highlighted my lines in a Skit called “Fresh Fruit” that our Drama club is preforming, among others, on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. (Be there!) After reading through both the piece for mock trial and “Fresh Fruit” I fell asleep for a half an hour or so. It was so relaxing to forget about everything I had yet to finish. For some reason I’m always more satisfied when I let sleep overtake me in the middle of the day, than when I simply lay down and go to bed for the night…. Sleep sounds too good right now.

Anyway, when I woke up around 3 or so it was time to work on my French project which consists of doing my best at painting this impressionistic work by Gustave Caillebotte. As I was painting I realized that even though this was the project I had been looking forward to all day, this was frustrating too. Two hours later I decided to quit for the night. Despite all the effort I put into this painting, I barely put a dent into the amount of work I would have to do to complete it.

Maybe I’m committing to too many things at once. I still feel as if there are so many things I would like to do, devote more time to Him, take dance, actually practice guitar which I haven’t touched in months, read the bible more, spend time with my close friend who is home from Connecticut, or reconnect with other friends I haven’t spent much time with lately. I don’t know how I’m supposed to do all of this! I love all of it, but there’s not enough time to do everything. Maybe I should take a time management course, haha wait… That would mean something else to devote time to.

Well for now I’ll have to leave it at that as Pilate’s starts at 7 and if I don’t leave soon I’ll be late.