What Future Do You Want?

My freshman year I had a lot of trouble giving time to classwork and class because I always felt like what was going on in my life in the moment was so overwhelming and often paralyzing that I was unable to attend to what I had to be doing as a student. It always felt like my present emotions were more important in that moment. However, the ultimate result of this was that I was required to take time off of school. I had to learn a lot of hard lessons about balancing/managing my time and understanding that we are in a constant stage of negotiating the past, present and future. While the past year I've been significantly better at devoting time to my schoolwork, it will always be a struggle for me to figure out what is most important.

I think the only way we can help the environment will be a combination of negotiating individual needs and communal needs. While I think there are many things we could learn from the Bible, the present day context seems to require that we take charge of our lives. I think that while there are parts of the Bible that ask us to leave our lives up to God, there are also parts that insist that we take action in following the word of God. The often tossed around phrase "God helps those who help themselves" comes to mind, and despite the fact that this does not originate from the Bible, I think it speaks to the mindset that requires us to take a stand in detirmine our own fate and the fate of the world.