Rain, Sweet Tea, Behind and Ahead--Pretty Much a Catch-All

It's raining outside; not a big surprise. It's not for nothing that they call this the rainy season. But I had hoped to do some shopping or something off campus this afternoon. I guess that can wait until tomorrow. I don't really mind that the rain keeps me indoors, because there is definitely something to be said for sitting at home in comfortable clothes, sweet tea at the ready (even if it is instant sweet tea, truly an abomination before the Lord), and doing work rather than sitting in an office. Not that blogging is work, but I promise I'll get to that eventually. I mean, it's raining...what else am I going to do?

Speaking of tomorrow, I've been asked to give my testimony at the student prayer meeting tomorrow night. I'm a little unsure about this. It's not that I'm unfamiliar with the story or anything....hello! Protagonist! But what I'm unsure of is finding away to make it last 20-25 minutes. I guess you never really feel that your own story is as interesting as other people seem to think it is. I don't feel my story is boring, understand. And I can tell lots of ways that God's leadership and direction have been evident throughout the journey, but it's probably because I am so intimately familiar with the details that it's hard for me immediately to grasp any kind of overarching theme. That didn't make any sense, but it gives an insight into what I'm feeling as I begin to prepare. I also am not quite comfortable with beginning to prepare a presentation/sermon/lecture/testimony/speech the day before delivery. But I was only asked to do this yesterday so while I've had some time to let it percolate, I haven't set anything to paper (or to computer screen) yet. I still have 30 1/2 hours. ;-)

Oh, and I'm still both behind and ahead in my lectures. I am ahead in the sense that I have more lectures prepared, still right at the two week level, but I am behind in the sense that I never seem to quite get through what it prepared for a given day. I suppose that's a good thing, because it means that students are contributing to the class and I don't have to spend the entire 80 minutes prattling on. But it's hard to know what to do in this situation, because like everything in this experience it is brand new. Or something. I'm too confused to know what I'm trying to say...sort of like the testimony I've got to prepare for tomorrow...off to do that.