schedules...

Sorry, I'm a little late in posting this one. It's been a crazy couple of days (and weeks! and months!!). As far as how I am feeling... I am alive. My hip is incredibly awful. I ache all over. I've had a headache since I woke up this morning. But... I'm alive...and going to be fine!
It's crazy how busy our schedules can get, in today's society. For example... yesterday, I had tennis 9-10:30 (it's actually til 12, but I had to leave early), orthodontist at 11, then a party at a friend's at 2-5, then a jewelry class at 5:30, then we went out to dinner, and I didn't get home til 9:15. And to be totally honest... I spent about 10 minutes in prayer before tennis, quite a few little "short" prayers throughout tennis, and then about 5 minutes in prayer in bed last night. And that's about it. And I hate that. But it's so hard to say no to things, in our schedules. I mean, we want to do everything!! And it all sounded fun, and when I would look on my calendar, it would show that I "could do it", so I just kept adding event after event. But really... if we stopped to think about it. Can we really do it? Should we really do it? If Jesus was standing right next to you, as you were making plans, would he be as enthusiastic about the event as you are. Is that where Jesus wants you to be at that moment? And can we each, handle our busy schedules, but still have Jesus as the focus and love of our lives. I mean... it's not about "fitting" Jesus in, like I did yesterday. Jesus is life. Our lives should reflect that. And everything we do, is to be for His Glory.
Speaking of schedules, I have a praise! My mom had emailed my guidance counselor, in regards to my schedule, because of the gym situation with my hip. Last year, they had dropped me out of regular freshman gym and put me in adapted/modified gym. (which is for injured students, physically disabled students, and special needs students... we each have our own "workout" plan, that we are capable of. It's quite an easy class, but the regular class is much too much for me, and there's no "medium".) And so we were wondering if that's what I'm going to do again, or if we could possibly put me in regular gym, but just excuse me from the "actual running". I can run during activities, but not just go and run a mile sort of thing. And she responded... she has completely dropped gym for me, for first semester, so I can heal up and focus on getting better, and then second semester, if I'm up to it, we will add adapted gym or regular gym back into my schedule. I know it sounds like a tiny issue... but this was a huge relief for me!!! Praise Jesus! More later... it's tennis time!!