School is hard. College is harder. It is fun, but hard. Parents aren’t around to do things for you. Working a job on top of going to class, needing to study, homework, and organizations with a lot of meetings. As everyone does we begin to prioritize things, some things become more important. Certain things are mandatory. For some reason, I don’t know if it is with many college students or just me, but Church usually gets pushed to the back burner.
It is so easy in the summer. I have all summer camp, where those daily lessons with God are just such beautiful reminders, and the other counselors and coworkers and directors and everyone are all so encouraging and inviting. Church is so easy to wake up and go to, God is so easy to talk to. He is a constant reminder in the summer time.
I get back to school and everything just gets crazy. I get so busy and I feel as if I don’t have those constant reminders of God, all day, everyday. I make plans to go to church and then something comes up and I choose to do that thing instead, or I just want to sleep in somedays. It just gets so much harder.
A couple of weeks ago, the pastor at the church I was going to contacted me, randomly. He just wanted to check on me and invite me to church again. God was in that moment. I had been thinking all week about how I hadn’t been to church in a long time, and I kept having things to do on Wednesday nights and couldn’t make it to our bible studies and he just randomly contacted me. I went to church that Sunday and the message was amazing. I told myself I needed to continue to come and make it a priority.
Well as you know, college happened and midterms came, and fall break, and I fell off again. I constantly think about how I need to make more time, and I feel so bad. I then remember that it really doesn’t matter if I am going to church ( I mean I want to go to church and I plan to, don’t get me wrong), but many times, God just wants you to talk to him.
I have started to try and wake up and spend at least five minutes talking to God, reading the bible and staying connected with him. I realize that just doing that simple five minutes allows me to see him and gives me his constant reminders through out the day. It really does make my day so much better. I feel the calm on the days that I spend talking to God before I start.
Five simple minutes is all it takes and I absolutely have five minutes.
