The Wife of Noble Character

Proverbs 31:10-31

While waiting for my washing to be done I randomly opened up my Bible and came across this verse,

"A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.
Her husband has full confidence in her and lacks nothing of value.
She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life."

All the days of her life...this stood out to me. This means before she even meets him, before they know the existence of each other. These 6 words are full of hope, hope that there is someone out there, hope that brings some more meaning to our lives. However, this is quite scary, it means that we should be living our lives for something more...not to fall in to the trap of meaningless romances. That one day we will be accountable to this person who we should be waiting for and then watch their reaction as we tell them of our short comings. Just the thought of that hurts me. I feel I need to be honourable to this man even now, to wait faithfully with my whole heart until he enters my life. Do I want to offer this man a broken and torn heart?

If I'm thinking this for my future husband, then imagine the pain God will have when I meet him face to face! When we look through the book of my life! Just like I need to be faithful and loving to my future husband, I also should be (obviously) to God. I'm even more thankful for the cross...that blood was poured for my sins. That I can be continually forgiven, but just like you wouldn't want to hurt the love of your life with your mistakes, we shouldn't want to continuously do wrong to God.

I have so much to learn...God shape me!

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.
She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

Getting stuck in...

...at last!
I've finally reached the stage of getting stuck into my Uni work, this is likely to be due to a sudden strike of fear. Today we had a lecture about our School Placements that we will be starting in 2 weeks and I realised how much I've got to do and it kind of linked everything together that they had been teaching us.

I've also had quite a good day today, did my first assignment in RE which was like 40% of the module this year and without the proper marks our tutor said we had all passed which is so good. We had to do presentations in groups of four and we were given a topic heading and we had to aim it at a primary age group...our group chose, "What is God like and how does believing in God influence peoples lives?". We decided to look at the Hindu and Christian God and we did a kinda comparison between the two but it was a bit hard to explain to the difference between Henotheism and Monotheism to 11year olds...so the comparison was quite subtle. Either way, it went quite well and I've learnt not to be over prepared for these things because I end up being too dependent on the actual words I've wrote rather than just knowing the content. I suppose if I spoke about a religion I was unsure of then I would be a it more nervous, but speaking in front of peers isn't really scary...you can't be afraid if you decide to be speaking in front of people for a career hehe.

Too much blabbing...

Another reason why I'm happy today...found out school placements...I got the Hire Car!!! Woo!!! But it all comes at a price, I only have the hire car because they situated me in a village school an hour away! Lol. 6am starts every morning for 3weeks! It even goes over my birthday!! Can't complain, I'm a young professional as my Mother keeps telling me, not an actually student but a young professional. Sounds scary really. The school is a Church of England school which is pretty cool actually, would like to see what they are like. I'm really quite excited about starting all this work, there is a lot of work to do but I'm enjoying it which I think it kind of important being that I've decided to have this career for life....well you never know God may intervene at any second. Cool with me though :)

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I find myself coming to write something with nothing in my head to write. Well to begin with I've got a bit of a cough, she says while having a coughing fit. I think it's got to a point where everyone at Uni is experiencing the tiredness issue...yep, all the lack of sleep begins to catch up on you. This is where you learn that students nap...you regress back to stages that you were at as children....napping! You wake up, go to lecture, eat, nap, tidy, nap, eat, nap, socialise and sleep. Before uni I couldn't get round the idea that my friends napped when coming back from school, seemed too bizarre of a concept to grasp, however, now I understand. I more than understand it though, I actually do it.

So I've had a little doze today, I actually need to do some washing and buy some food before going to choir tonight, but the idea of walking tescos seems like effort.

Ooo to update you on current events, I'm actually singing in Gloucester Cathedral tomorrow with the University choir for some uni ceremonies. I hope I don't cough throughout, wow that could annoy people....ooo that's why it's important to go shopping now, need food to take with me tomorrow...ah!

Either way, I'm feeling Christmas beginning to approach...need to start thinking of it now though because we're having a Christmas day at uni and need to work out when to start the Uni advent calender. And we need to buy presents which involves a lot of thinking.

Anyway...must dash, my brain is slowly listing up jobs I need to do. Write soon.