It’s like this every year in Happy Valley. After Spring Break, it seems like the days fly by toward the end of the semester. It’s a mad, downhill rush toward the end of school, and every person I talk to is so ready for this to be over. Students are cramming to get their projects/labs/papers turned in, and seniors can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Some of those seniors check out early, and do just enough to get by.
Annabelle might be feeling the sting of senioritis.
She came home today without her homework! In her defense, she loves school, and can hardly wait for me to get home to help her with her assignments. She’s doing such a good job with English, and one of the highlights of her day is writing in her journal. We think that she must have left her journal at school today. She improvised by writing a letter to her teacher on loose leaf paper. Joyce and Evangeline were here to visit with her today, so they got to help her write the letter. It’s kind of ironic, now that Annabelle has a better grasp of English–she’s correcting their Chinese, and telling them the correct Chinese-English translations. And the student has become the teacher…
Have you ever wrestled with senioritis? Have you wanted to be done so desperately that you allowed yourself to check out mentally before the task was officially over? Have you been so burned out that you did just enough to get by?
We’ve all experienced those feelings, I’ll wager. The dream takes too long to arrive, or the road is rougher than we anticipated, or the beat-down of the daily grind proves a little more monotonous and relentless than we prepared for…
How do you keep going? What advice would you give to someone who is weary?
The Psalms speak to me, especially the ones David wrote when he was feeling frustrated, anxious, tired, and hounded by his enemies. He expressed his frustration, asked God to step in, and he remembered. He was able to recount times when God came through, when days were brighter, when the load was lighter, when the dream was clearer. Take a look at 3 verses from Psalm 54:
1 Come with great power, O God, and rescue me! Defend me with your might.
4 But God is my helper. The Lord keeps me alive!
7 For you have rescued me from my troubles…
The Lord doesn’t promise that the way will be easy. There will be troubles a-plenty, and you may feel like throwing in the towel, checking out, and giving up. But God promises to be with us, with you, and he is faithful to complete what he has started doing in you. It will not be easy; but it will be worth all the struggle. Hang in there. Be full of faith. Take a deep breath, and keep going.
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