November 8, 2007

• Pick up those socks

  You know how when you are trying to gather all the laundry into your arms to make it from the dryer to your bedroom, and you have way more than an armful of clothes, and what ends up happening is that a sock falls down here and a sock falls down there, so you bend over to pick up the socks that fell, and as you do that, some other socks end up falling, and you keep repeating this fun ritual until you drop more than you can pick up, and you never quite make it to the bed?  It’s inevitable that you’ll lose something — if not everything all together!  This is exactly how I feel in my Biblical (Koine) Greek studies right now.  I am stuffing so much into my head — and I keep feeling like with every new stuff that I stuff into my head, I lose some of the old stuff, and I’m just leaving behind a trail of forgotten vocab words and irregular case endings – oh, how does that word decline, what does that preposition mean with that case, oh man, what word is that???  It’s so hard!  I have been studying nonstop since last week and I am still behind.  My head hurts and I want to give up… but every time I begin to think, “I can’t keep going anymore”, I am urged on by this unnameable voice that I must keep going.  Pick up those socks, Mary Ann, the rewards will be endless… 
  

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