(Oh no, quick! Get in a blog post before Thursday so there aren’t two Thankful Thursdays next to each other! Not only does the Thankful Thursday series ensure that I post once a week, it’s really more like twice a week because I don’t like having two next to each other. I suppose it doesn’t really matter but for some reason I don’t like it. So here’s a post about Wednesday instead.)
I’ve just (finally) submitted an assignment which was very painful to do. I’m currently waiting for J to finish but I really should just go to bed.
Wednesday isn’t really a woeful day, only on assignment submission days (always Wednesday for third years, apart from research week assignments), and there haven’t been many of those so far this year. But this assignment was hard. It was only an 1,000 word book review but the book was difficult to read and difficult to understand and I didn’t enjoy doing any part of the assignment.
But having submitted and (hopefully) understood the book better than when I first read it I’ve realised that even though it was painful, I have learned some things. And that’s why I’m at college. I want to learn and grow and stretch my understanding of God and his word. Even though learning can be painful at times it’s still an important thing to do and it is valuable.
I can appreciate that this assignment has forced me to learn things that I may have simply glossed over had I not done it. So I am thankful for doing this assignment (but only in hindsight now that it’s finished!). And I hope that I remember this moment next time I’m complaining about doing an assignment (friends, please remind me).
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