Striving to be a persistent widow

I have recently been slammed. I have been slammed with school, homework, work, and trying to fit in time to hang out with all my friends. I found my self wanting to just give up and drop one of them. I knew I couldn’t quit work, for that is what lets me have one thing that makes me happy in life, my car. Now I am not one of those cars whose car is the center of his life, but I do enjoy having a nice one and love getting complements.

Ok back to the subject, since I couldn’t drop work and wouldn’t have any fun in life with out my friends, I decided that maybe school could take a cut. I was thinking about dropping one of my classes.

Now I know several people, three of my best friends, who have done this too much and therefore good b a lot farther along in school if they didn’t. With as much as I hate school and wanted to drop my Psychology class (if you ever take it at Cincinnati State don’t get Webster) I started thinking about it. I realized that if I drop one now I will just have to take it later! Yeah my life will be nicer now but in a year when I am getting ready to move on to another school I will still have that one extra class.

Another thing that helped me is the parable of the persistent widow, ‘“Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. He said: ‘In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

‘For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!'

And the Lord said, ‘Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"” Luke 18:1-8 (NIV)

When I read this I realized that I need to be that widow. Now why would I want to be a widow you may ask? This is because the widow never gave up. She kept bothering the judge until she got what she wanted. So if I don’t give up and keep “bothering” or doing my work, I will eventually get what I want, which is to be done with this class and eventually school too.

To sum this up just don’t give up. Whether you’re struggling with school, relationships, work or anything else, if you just stick with it and seek advice on the subject you will get through it.