Summer Wisdom- Kellia Moore

Summer is lame.  Don’t get me wrong; I love having enough time to reread the Harry Potter series and watch movies and lay around with my cats.  And I really love spending time with my family and getting to be a daughter again.  Work isn’t even that bad really; at least I get to feel like I’m accomplishing things.  It’s just that in the long stretches of free time, it’s harder to hush up the parts of me that ask, “Who am I?” and, “What am I doing here?”  School is a brilliant counter to these sorts of questions.  It keeps me so busy and so on my toes that it almost answers them.  “Who am I?”  “I am a college student.”  “What am I doing here?”  “I’m getting my degree!  Which is very important and necessary.”  Whereas in the summer, the answers become more fuzzy.  “I am a…person.  A young adult?  Something like that.  And I am staying up too late messing around on the internet.”  There are no easy answers anymore.

I remember hearing something sometime about “holy discontent,” the feeling you get when you become less and less comfortable with what’s happening around you and more and more driven to change it.  Like when Jesus got angry and started throwing the moneychangers out of the temple—he just couldn’t stand by and watch anymore.  So maybe that’s what’s happening here; maybe I should be hoping for the questions to get more difficult to answer.  Because maybe if they annoy me enough, I’ll finally start to figure out who I am and what on earth I’m doing here.

-Kellia

Summer Wisdom- Haley Unkefer

So, here’s where I am honestly at. I finally got into UF after 3 tries in the major that I wasn’t originally intending trusting that God was leading me through all this (which I still am). I am really excited about the unknown and the prospect that God’s plan for me is bigger than the one I originally intended for myself as a high school math teacher; however, it is frustrating beyond belief not to have my life planned out right now. When I was in third grade I had a full life plan to be a writer, and though my plan has changed I have never not had a detailed plan of what I was supposed to do. I feel like God not only wants me to follow his plans as a dual major in Statistics and FYCS, but that he also wants to keep me from planning everything out and have me rely on Him to show me in His time. This is the hardest place I’ve been in yet, but I know his plans are excellent. I think the frustration is especially apparent now that a majority of our community is at home on summer break and not hanging out here and distracting me from overthinking. I don’t know if I’ll ever fully get this part of surrender down in my spiritual life.  Some days my prayers are just thanking God for showing me what He has thus far, but other days they are begging God to spell it all out for me. When he does tell me what his plan is, I’m sure I’ll be much more prepared to hear it than I am now. Until then I will continue to learn how to surrender and be patient.

- Haley

Summer Wisdom- Casey Zych

Despite the fact that I have a difficult major and have a hard time in classes at UF, I’m thankful that I actually have to work for it as opposed to being at TCC. I feel my brain rotting in class.  I had my UF football shirt (those we get from getting tickets) and someone asked me where I got it from…  So God is truly teaching me patience in two different ways not only with my class but with trying to find a summer job.  I’ve applied to 10 places already, one of which would of hired me on the spot if it hadn’t of been for the fact that I would be at UF in August which frustrates me.  But I know that God has a plan, I just have to keep hunting.  I am however enjoying hanging out with my pets, I don’t realize how much I miss them until I get home.  I listen to the radio and at least once every thirty minutes one of our songs from Maranatha comes on and I’m beginning to realize how much I miss everyone and what a great family I get to be a part of at Wesley.  I’ll stop rambling, and hope that everyone’s safe in Africa!  For everyone else, enjoy your summer!

~ Casey

The Gator Wesley Blog- Summer Plans

The Question of the Week will be taking some time off over the summer, and since a blog that lies completely dormant for 3 months is completely boring, we’ll be changing some things up for the summer. My first thought would be for you all, our fellow Gator Wesley students, to provide some of the content. Now, I know that you all have Facebook and will probably be posting things like “How’s your summer going? Mine is great!!! ” on each other’s walls all summer, but this blog would give you a chance to share a little more about how your summer is really going. Where have you visited? What are you learning in your job/internship? What life changing book did you just finish? What is God teaching you this summer? Where have you seen the Gospel lived out in the world around you?

If you would like to be involved, email Dan (link on our staff page: www.gatorwesley.com/about/staff.html).