Quote of the Day: “The first law of economics is scarcity. The first law of politics is to ignore the first law of economics.” — Dr. James Gwartney, my legally blind microeconomics professor, on the upcoming election
So here is the odyssey that is my stupidity. I’ve been thinking over the past few weeks that it might be smart of me to try to double major. Why? Well, I’m a Religion major, and I wasn’t really sure what kind of job market that would provide for me. I want to work full time in the ministry, but I also want to be able to put food on the table. I was already a Business minor, and considered becoming a Business major.
Today I decided to put my plan into action. Having already deciding that Greek was too hard I dropped it and added College Algebra and Computer Literacy for Business majors (I already took the one for non-majors, but heck, this is a whole new major we’re talking about). I already had a language requirement met with Micro, Macro, and Stats, so I was good there. I then found out that I could CLEP out of College Algebra and jump right into Precalc for Business majors. So I began to study my brains out this afternoon for that test. You see, the drop/add period ends Thursday at midnight, so I’d have to take the CLEP test on Thursday and add the class after passing the test (assuming I passed it). Keep in mind this all occured in one day!
After going through about half of the review of the CLEP test I began to think about why I was doing what I was doing. I wasn’t doing it because I wanted to be a business major. I wasn’t doing it because I wanted an education. I was doing it because I didn’t trust God. He told be to be a Religion major, but I thought that that wasn’t going to be good enough. I had come up with my own plan, which on some level I believed was better than God’s plan for me.
So after calling my Mom (who, along with my Dad, I told I was going to do this the day before) and talking to her about it for a while I decided to scrap the plan. But that still left me with a void in the foreign language department. There’s no way I could take Greek. I know Andy really wanted me to take it with him but it’s just not something I can handle right now. So I decided to sign up for Spanish. I’m starting to think this is what I should have done all along. I wanted to be able to speak better Spanish when I was in Cuba. Joel Helms has asked me to pray about going to Argentina. It just seems like learning Spanish might be where God wanted me to be all along.
So there you have it. What did I learn? That I am an idiot and God isn’t. That God sees the whole plan and I can’t. Okay, so when I say “learn” what I mean to say is “relearn”. This is nothing new. It’s amazing just how many times this lesson has to be taught to me.
Jesus: Conditional Forgiveness
Forgive us our debts, as (wJ”)1 we also have forgive our debtors… For if (eajn) you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if (eajn) you do not forgive men their sins, your heavenly Father will not forgive your sins (Matt 6:12, 14, 15).2