The day after though (this is where a turn in the story comes), which was yesterday, I stayed in bed until about noon, justifying it by saying that I was resting after the busy weekend, but that's not really good enough. The whole day I pretty much just kinda sat around and did nothing. Last night I kind of assessed my day and the way I've been moving from day to day, and realized that living like that just isn't really going to cut it anymore. I decided I'd set a bar for myself everyday and every week where I'm going to start living at a level well above yesterday. I'm going to try my best to keep up to running three times a week, exercises everyday, reading my Bible and praying everyday, reading at least a chapter of a book everyday, and other random things that are good ways of living everyday. If I want to be able to make it and survive in Rwanda, then I need to be able to make it and even flourish with these things that I'm doing now. I thought to myself last night, how can I allow myself to live just a mediocre, plain life as a christian when I serve an extraordinary, awesome God? By all means I should live an extraordinary, awesome life as well if I truly want to be a witness of who God is to the people in this world. Every part of our lives, not just our spiritual life, should be exceptional because we are the children of an awesome God. So, I think it's good to put this up on here too, because actually acknowledging that I think will help me to stick to it a bit better. It's nothing to live better for a week, it's consistency the second week that shows and bui.ds character; that's when it actually starts to get a little hard. So pray for me for that. Oh, also, I'm meeting with the Komants (the missionaries from Rwanda) on Thursday, so definitely pray for me for that! I'm going to need some prayers for that for sure. Pray that I'd say the right things and have the right questions, and that God would be there with me, etc. All those good things like that. Thankyou!
