Greetings to you in the name of our risen Lord, Jesus Christ. This week is the busiest week of the quarter by far. Although the last two weeks won't be a whole lot slower either. I did want to just spend a little time keeping up with this blog. I hope you have patience with me, and will continue to do so. This week alone I have five papers and three quizzes. Those papers and quizzes include reading three books on top of the normal stuff. However, I have two papers and one quiz done so far. I plan to have completed another two papers tonight leaving me only one paper and three quizzes left for the week.
The rest of my weekend went just as well as it started. Sunday, Mom and I went to my field work church. We stayed for Sunday school, and then they had a pot luck as well. They were very friendly to Mom which I was glad to see about my fellow church goers. Then after the pot luck, Mom and I drove the back roads in Illinois to the Mississippi River. We tried to find the Missouri-Mississippi River confluence, but we did not. We did find a neat little park over looking the Mississippi River which was cool. Then we drove back to campus. I took a much needed nap while Mom went and walked around Forest Park. We went and got Ted Drewes after that, which is always good. Then I did homework for a while and she hung out around campus. We had a late dinner and watched some of the Cardinal's game.
Monday morning, I forgot was another one of our small group Bible Study Chapel days. This was disappointing to Mom because she wanted to go to actual chapel. However, she took off and thankfully made it safe. It was a nice visit with her. Plus she brought me all kinds of goodies and even bought me some clothes from the book store. It's true that the baby of the family is spoiled, but for good reason. The baby is always the best child!
Monday I went to my classes, and then worked supper where I wrote one of my papers. Then last night I was trying to do some reading, but the noise from the Card's game caught my attention. I went and watched them and was upset with the two blown plays that pretty well cost us the game. Last night at supper, a man came in and ate. One of the administration guys brought him in and paid for his meal so I didn't think anything about it. Then my boss called me and asked me to kindly talk to him to try to get his name because she couldn't remember it. So I went and had a really nice visit with him. He is a graduate from the seminary and originally from Iowa. Needless to say we had plenty to talk about and we talked for probably forty-five minutes. I called my boss and told her his name. Then I found out this morning security had to call the cops on him last night. Apparently he was trying to get into the dorms and then ended up sneaking into the chapel to sleep for the night. Security found him and kindly tried to talk to him. They discovered he had no where to go and was going to sleep out side. He wouldn't accept money from them for a cab or anything, because they did offer it. Today, he was back on campus so a few higher-ups talked with him and it appears he is flat broke, nowhere to stay, but doesn't want cash or help. He is truly a graduate from here and just wants to spend time in the library reading. They told him he is welcome at the library during its open hours, and they gave him a meal ticket for tonight. They did tell him however, after the library closes he is no longer welcome on campus until the next day. I don't know where he is going to stay, or why he wants to be here, but I truly feel sorry for him. He is a harmless guy who I think truly just has no one left in his life and no where to go. He has two or three degrees and probably just figured he would spend more time learning. Please keep him in your prayers that he may find help and be OK. His name is Curt.
Today was a great day. I woke up and went to Lutheran Mind. Then I went to the library and wrote another paper. I was impressed how much homework I could get done when I sit done and just focus. I think sadly enough, I am going to have to become a more frequent resident of the library. I did quite a bit of reading this afternoon, and then worked general labor at four. I am between jobs right now as I am bar tending again at seven tonight. Then, after work, I plan to write my third paper, which is only five paragraphs, and my fourth paper which is only 500 words. I think I can hopefully knock out both of those papers after work. This will only leave me the three to five page hard paper left. The only reason it is hard is because we have to come up with a scenario to write about and I have yet to think of one. Lord willing I will think of one and write a well constructed paper around it.
That should fill you in on my past few days. The weather has been extremely warm for October, and I am ready for cooler fall weather. It is also in the back of my mind that in less than three weeks I will be back in Nebraska and Iowa with family and friends hanging out and hunting. However, I do have quite a few papers and tests left in those two and a half weeks. But I will survive by the Lord's blessings.
My thought for the day is just to please pray for Curt. We all come to points in our life where we are not sure where to go and what to do. Fortunately for most of us we have loved ones to turn to and help us out. I believe his only family left is his mom and sister who are both in Arizona. He probably can't afford to go that far, and figured here would be as good as any. I plan to talk to him again if I see him around, and just ask the Lord to bless him with the help he needs. I do believe everyone on campus has been very kind and offering as much help they can give to him. Lord have mercy on us all!
Dear Heavenly Father,
I pray that you be with Your child Curt. Please help him to find whatever he is looking for, help all of us here at the seminary to show him Your kindness and love, and give him whatever we can. Dear Lord please be with us all. We are Your wandering sheep, drifting through this life, we all need Your guidance and direction. We pray all this and all other concerns of our hearts through the One and only Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, Amen.
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