Busy Week Ahead

Next week is going to be a terribly busy week for me. I have Labor midterms on Wednesday. I’m on-call for recitation for both classes on Credit Transactions and Special Proceedings. I was also informed by the class President through a text message that I am, “fortunately or unfortunately one of the fifteen lucky or unlucky people who were randomly chosen as volunteers for Local Government class on Tuesday.” The message has an accompanying advisory: Those chosen must study extra hard for the quiz.

As before, I know that there is a temptation to worry. My prayer is that I would not forget that the God who gave me strength, wisdom, and grace before is the same God I can rely on today.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday, I went to the Law Christian Fellowship meeting. I had wanted to go for the longest time. But, for the longest time too, my class schedule wouldn’t allow me. I enjoyed every minute that I wasn’t scouring over my books or marking any of my cases. It was refreshing just to be sitting there, and looking into the eyes of five or six people who have a deep love for the Lord. BJ talked about Ezekiel, particularly that chapter on the Valley of the Dry Bones. It made all of us remember how law school can sap us dry to the bones, and rip all of our flesh and sinews apart. More than that, it made all of us remember that God is able to restore the dead–and the dying–back to life.

Yesterday, I went to see Transformers. I like the movie a lot because, as one classmate put it, “It’s a popcorn flick, and it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a popcorn flick.” I watched with two of my friends, and in the middle of the movie, epiphany struck me in the same way it did the boy in James Joyce’s “Araby”: These robots used to grace the cover of my notebooks in second grade!

Today, I woke up knowing that I needed to be reminded of my own weaknesses, of my propensity to sin and disobey God; so that in all these, He could be my strength. I read Romans 8, and the first verse is so powerful it could propel a badly beaten and exhausted soldier back in the thick of battle : “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” Indeed, it is a joy to know that I can wake up everyday, and nothing in the world can ever change my position in Christ.

Today, I went to church for the second part of the Estudyante Blues of the Youth Fellowship of my church. Last Saturday, Kuya Oscar talked about Christians being the salt and light of the world (by the way, I’ve written something on this subject several months ago here). This afternoon, Kuya Lito talked about Christian fellowship–or koinonia in Greek. I pray that God would work wonders in the lives of those who went to the activity.

Tomorrow? Well, it is yet another day which will have worries of its own. But praise be to God whose compassions are new every morning.