At the end of last school year/beginning of the summer I started attending a bible study. My really good friend since pre-school would repeatedly invite me and I either had to work or would come up with some excuse to not go because I had never been to a bible study and I really didn't have any intention of ever really reading the bible at that point. Also I didn't think I would really belong because Jake is Lutheran and I'm Catholic and while we may have some similar believes within the two religions I had no idea what to expect. Well come the end of May I was kind of looking for something additionally religious to get involved in so when Jake invited me I told him I would be there. I was a little nervous but looking forward to. So come Wednesday I head over to Curt's house (he's the leader of the bible study) and I'm pleasantly surprised to see that I know a lot of people there. Also come to find out they don't really read the bible. I've never been to a bible study yet that we've dug into the bible because usually we start with people who've had questions from reading scripture during the week and that ends up taking the entire hour and half.
Well in July as we all know, I was basically not home so I don't think I ever attended one in July and come August I started working Wednesday nights so I wasn't able to. Well school started this last Monday and so I had to fix my schedule at work and I made it so I was able to take Wednesday night's off to be at Bible study. So this past Wednesday was my first one since probably June. It was exactly what I needed. You see there's two "divisions" of this bible study (which we also refer to as college young life which is a long standing organization you can check it out here. )there's a high school younglife and then college younglife and in the high school version about once a month they would have praise and worship.
On Wednesday we had our first ever praise and worship session for the college younglife. The first song we sang was this:
As soon as we sang that first line I knew I was meant to be there that night. It was exactly what I needed. It kind of calmed me and it was a great first week back to bible study!!
In the end I'm really glad I joined this bible study. Ya see, my youth minister at my church is a nun and while I'm not quite sure if the sisterhood told her or if she was looking on her own but she got a new job, and while I'm really excited for her I'm really bummed. She's the only youth minister I've ever had I've known her since I was in 7th or 8th grade and now 7-8 years later it's hard to see her leave the church. She's built this giant "legacy" within the youth at my church and I'm not sure the new youth minister will measure up.
This sounds super snobby but I was really involved in the youth activities and such for a long time and now I kind of don't want to even get to know the new youth minister because Sr. Bridget(the old youth minister) had such a huge impact on my life. I know it's silly and I'm sure she's a great new lady but that's just how I feel. But at the same time, I'm 20 years old and now kind of "too old" to really be a part of the youth, so maybe it's okay that I don't really want to get to know her.
I'm sure this was a really ramble-y (is that a word?) post but I just really wanted to record this for my own memory.
I have some more posts in the works but for now I need to really clean up my room.
Also expect that my writing will get more erratic because school has started up again!
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