Ok, so procrastination has gotten the best of me, but at least I decided to make it a “productive” time of procrastination, if that makes any sense at all. I figured that it has been a while(a bit of an understatement J ) since I’ve updated my blog. I’ve been thinking a lot about my time here at Moody. It’s been a crazy rollercoaster emotionally, more than I thought it would. I applied to Moody while I was finishing up my time working with jr. high and high school missionary kids in Indonesia at the beginning of 2008. Part of my reasons for wanting to go to a Bible school was somewhat of a filler for time while trying to figure out where God will use me vocationally.
I was pursuing pre-med biological sciences, emphasis in Nutrition all during community college until it occurred to me that I wasn’t as passionate about my future as a lot of other people in my classes. I did and still do have a fascination for the beauty of how the human body functions with all of its intricacies, but it was coming to a point in my education where I needed that assurance and determination for the end goal to persevere through all of the time, effort, and money that would be needed to finish my upper level classes, then preparing for the mcat, looking into med schools, etc… I decided that I better take some time off and try to figure it out before being in the middle of med-school and figure out that maybe it’s not for me.
However, that is only part of the reason, but a huge part is that I recognized the irony and hypocrisy that was so evident in my life. I identify myself first as a Christian before I would my marital status, my ethnicity, my vocation, etc… However, in relation to the amount of time and energy I place on other areas of my life, it probably wouldn’t reflect that statement. I had realized that I was spending hours upon hours reading and memorizing several textbooks and being in labs preparing for what may be an occupation that I spend maybe forty hours a week using. Yet, the one book, The Holy Bible, that influences every area of my life or hope that it would, I could probably summarize maybe %30 of it. I’ve always had a strong desire to have a better grasp on the Bible, but unfortunately, I wasn’t getting that at my church and didn’t have the willpower or the diligence to do it on my own time.
Also, along those same lines, I knew that as a Christian I will always be “ministering” to people until the day that I die, whether that means ministering to people in my family, friends, people at church, or where I end up working one day if that means a “full-time ministry” job, being a stay-at-home- mom, or being a doctor. I have been given a passion to minister to the specific areas in women’s lives where they are hurting. I have been blessed with an opportunity to be taught on how to be an instrument of healing to women most efficiently at Moody by studying Women’s Ministries.
Anyways, through various events, I was given the opportunity to pursue this passion of mine to know more about the Bible and how to minister to people. It honestly is such a privilege to be learning about the things that I have been learning here at Moody in which I believe that all Christians should know, not just those who may be perceived as the more “spiritual” Christians, or those who believe that they were specifically chosen to be full-time ministers. We are all called to full-time ministry, depending on how formalized that may look is irrelevant. All Christians are the functioning body of Christ and we need to know how to best use the place that He has called us to to spread the Kingdom of God.
OK, so I am officially boring myself with all of this, but I do hope to write another blog that is a bit more personal. This is simply the top layer of how I ended up here in Chicago, so maybe I’ll find another time to procrastinate again(don’t worry, that means it won’t be too long J) and write about some of the joys and challenges that I have faced living in Windy City!
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