Oh My!

I am SO exhausted; emotionally, physically and mentally! I attended Credo's annual Easter Time Conference this weekend, the topic of which was the doctrine of salvation. Seriously, every year I come away with a head completely buzzing with all this new information, and a greater depth and insight into something that I guess I thought I already knew about. It's no wonder people find Bible college so full on when this is the kind of thing you are being bombarded with every day! Credo is so blessed to have had Sam Chan back again for the third year in a row to be the main speaker at the conference - he has such an engaging style and explains things so well, even if the amount of sheer information and depth is a little overwhelming. As always, it's a great time of learning, but it is also a great time of consolidating friendships and making new friends, particularly across the different faculties. But it is also a difficult weekend in many ways - we grapple with these large and complex doctrines while we get more and more exhausted, and it takes the next couple of weeks to really process what it is we actually heard. Tiredness and clear thinking do not go well together, and I reckon almost every person feels emotionally raw at some point or another.

Anyway, I'm back at home now, doing washing so that I can re-pack in order to go to Stroud for 4 days with uni! Can't say I'm really looking forward to camping out in the middle of nowhere, probably in the rain, while most of my friends are on uni holidays, but there's not much I can do about it now. I just need to get through the next week intact, and then I can have a rest. In the meantime, I will persevere and trust that God is looking out for me and that he will give me the strength to keep going even when I feel like I've been beaten. And today of all days, Easter Sunday, I remember that not only is God loving, but He is powerful and mighty enough to defeat death and I have nothing to fear now. If he can raise people from the dead, he can certainly get me through this next week! Hallelujah!