volatility

Time to study again...
I completed the Macroeconomics midsem yesterday - it started off well, with the first page stating that the best 8 of the 9 questions would be taken. Q1 went well, as did Q2. Q3 was left blank. So far so good. How hard could it be? Well, Q6, 7 and 9 weren't cakewalks... hopefully the results come out ok. I studied hard for it anyways (if that's any comfort).

On Tuesday, it's time for International Finance to take its bow. Camp is on the following weekend, with the THESIS due on the 15th of October, and another minor (1500 words is minor relative to a thesis) essay due on that week also.

It's starting... i probably wouldn't call it a roller coaster though. The grind sounds more apt for my situation right now.

Things to do:

• Go to another Perth Glory game - went last Sunday, and it was awesome. Pics will be uploaded if i remember. I mean, we lost 2-1, but the atmosphere is great, as are the chants (most of them anyways). The next game is on the 1st Sunday of October i think. Interested, anyone? Tix are $10. best entertainment in town (at a per dollar rate, anyways).
  
• Sleep
• Study... hard
  
• Play my guitar
• Prepare for cell
• Keep fit
• Run over a clown

this post wasn't anything about volatility, but then again, maybe it is.

Bring the rain - Mercy Me

Bring the rain

I can count a million times
People asking me how I
Can praise You with all that
I've gone through
The question just amazes me
Can circumstances possibly
Change who I forever am in You

Maybe since my life was changed
Long before these rainy days
It's never really ever crossed my mind
To turn my back on you, oh Lord
My only shelter from the storm
But instead I draw closer through these times
So I pray

Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings
You glory And I know there'll
be days When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to
praise You Jesus, bring the rain

I am yours regardless of the clouds that may
loom above because you are much greater than my pain
you who made a way for me suffering
your destiny so tell me whats a little rain

Holy, holy, holy
Holy, holy, holy
is the lord God almighty
is the lord God almighty
I'm forever singing

Everybody singing
Holy holy holy
you are holy
you are holy

Had a rough Monday - may have wrecked my plans for the summer. And I was bitter, I was disappointed, I was cut. For this was something i really wanted (for ages).
But at the end, as the song goes, "what's a little rain?" compared to what my Savior went through for me (Romans 8:18-39)? Dare I pray that God brings me rain, if that's what it takes to praise Him? Rain hurts... and yet I made the mistake of focusing on my failure, my situation. For a night I forgot that I am Yours regardless of what happens. I couldn't see beyond my disappointment. But nothing can separate me from You, except myself.

For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers, or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord
Romans 8:38-9 BBE

Lord, bring me anything that brings You glory, rain or shine. I pray that I'll be able to give you glory whatever comes.