Epiphanies and an Old Laptop

It's been mad and I've not had much time to stop and mull. It's probably a good kind of mad - the kind that keeps you on your toes, keeps your mind whirring and the mind less idle. It's the end of another mad week and I'm at home, winding down with a cup of Starbucks from a sachet (which Dave sent via post :)). Brilliant stuff for weeks that go on and on like mad. The week started out with lofty ambitions of making fresh coffee using the french press every morning but it kinda waned after the first few days in the flurry of things. So yey for instant good coffee!

The blog silence was partly because of the hectic school/work schedule, but also partly because the laptop I've been using died and remained pretty much like that despite earnest attempts to revive it. It was a sore week, I was broken (and broke). 'When it rains, it pours' - and I felt it was truth then. So much ugliness surfaced - ugliness mostly within myself. Who'd have known that an old, dead laptop would uncover so much? It did. It brought me to a place of discomfort, and it peeled scabs off old wounds.

But it was necessary (I wouldn't have said it back then - I was so dependent on the laptop that I wouldn't have dared said it) and in the end, I've come to learn quite a few things. And one of it is a realization that I need greater faith, especially for what lies ahead (which will be way bigger than a laptop issue), and that 'When it rains, it pours' is not a complete truth. Because when He gives, it floods.

And now I'm typing this on a brand new laptop, which was a surprise gift from two very amazing people (!!!) and on the same day, He showed what it means by 'it floods'.

Wore the chunky knit jumper Dave's mum got me (so as to not ungracefully freeze in the English winter) to class today and it reminded me of home.

(To be brief, classes have been great, though slightly overwhelmed by readings and projects, but the epiphanies and revelations are priceless. Work's been great too - being surrounded by ice-cream and good company - I mean like, hello, what's there not to like? Absolutely nothing.)