I think I am in the Middle of the World

[thestory_so_far]

“I am not on the top of the world!  I want to be up there with them!  I am not even close to the top!  I am in the MIDDLE of the world!”

This is what I heard hurling from the lungs of a discontented little girl visiting the park with her 2 brothers and mother.  The two older brothers had ventured up further, climbing one of the rocks.  When this

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[cbohall]

Do you remember a year ago? When Creekside played a video about a father and his son, and how the father wouldn't buy a junky toy that the son wanted, because the father had a better toy planned for later. Not that the son understood that, he threw a tantrum about not getting the junk.

[thestory_so_far]

yeah I totally remember that....same idea!

[snirtty]

That's pretty awesome. I think I'm in the middle too.

[thestory_so_far]

Is that what PA is feeling like to you?

[snirtty]

Ya, it's kinda hard right now because classes haven't started and I don't have a lot to keep me busy.

I feel like I should be doing something, discovering something, making friends and using gifts and that somehow this move should somehow seem more "ordained by God" by those things. Instead I have to wait until school starts to do most things that I wanted to do, I don't have a project to work on yet, and getting settled is harder than I thought it should be. I'm feeling impatient.

[thestory_so_far]

I hate that inbetween feeling....but use the time, there are things that you can do that you may never pursue once you get involved again. God uses the busy and the slow times to teach us!