Another exhausting day here at Shelterwood. I am truly having to live moment to moment by God's grace. I love it though. I am humbled by how amazing these girls are and I love them all so much.
This morning we had 2 classes (wow it seems so long ago now). In one we are focusing on the life of Christ. Today we discussed some of the prophecies from the OT that spoke of Him and we also discussed the virgin conception/birth. In the next class we learned more about discipleship, including what the benefits are and what the risks are when we become personal with other people.
After classes we had to figure out who was taking one girl to the doctor and who would be around for all the other numerous things we had going on today. Since three of the bigs (leadtimer girls) were off today we only had five here. It created some stress as our house director had to basically make out a master schedule for all of us to know when and where we would be. Since I had to be on dinner duty at 4:30 I hung out with the girls for a while then went to work. The long and short of the night was that myself, one other big and some random helpers did diner duty tonight. Normally we would have more help, but I ended up being in the kitchen for 4 and a half hours. In the words of a previous big, "the kitchen is to be sucked." It was rough, but one of the guy bigs came to help us clean up and he brought his computer and played music for us. It was a good mental reprieve. :)
After we got done in the kitchen I went out and sat by the pool for a little while to cool down my feet. The water was crazy cold, but I began to thank God for all the blessings I had received today: the beautiful weather, a quick nap, Stefan to come help in the kitchen, cold water on my feet, a beautiful moon, wind, friends, and just being here in general. Even though tonight was rough it was such a great day just being here and allowing God to serve through me.
After a rest, hanging out with a friend here talking for a while, I came back to some drama in the house. The bigs are all tired and stressed, the littles are tired and many are sick, and tempers were steaming just below the surface. Having that few minutes to thank God and relax I felt I came back into it all with a cool head, but it frustrated me how we are all so spread thin sometimes. I know it will all be okay soon enough, but my heart pours out for these girls, bigs and littles alike. I love them and I pray for the best for them. There is still no place I would rather be.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. At least I am only on lunch duty and not dinner duty. :)
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