Today I called Georgia State University with the simple plan of enrolling for classes. It didn’t go quite as well as I had hoped it would though. I was on hold for twenty minutes at a time, usually only to finally have a recording pick up and say, “We’re sorry, but the customer services representatives are experiencing higher than normal call volumes; please call back later.” I was hung up on by a machine too many times to count, and when I would finally get a real live person, they usually weren’t very helpful either. They, in turn, would connect me with their boss’s voice-mail, from whom I would never receive a return call. Everyone basically told me the same thing. Their memorized line in this movie of my life went as follows: (Script verbiage: person who plays this character has to be swamped, tired of taking phone calls, insensitive, and they must fail to put themselves in the other person’s shoes - - if they do all this they may earn an academy award in this movie of my life.) “I don’t know who told you that you could go to school in August, but you can’t. You can’t come back until January 2001 at the earliest. I don’t know who told you that you could, but they were wrong.”
As this particular work-study voice bounced off the walls of my life, I drove. I drove straight down to GSU more determined to graduate than I had been two years ago. Before the birth of my precious son, before I found out that life was in fact harder than I thought it could be, before I had realized that I did too much of what I didn’t want to do on a daily basis, before … before all of it…
TODAY
Today I rose to the occasion
I stood and took a stand
Because suddenly my world
Just ran out of land
The sea had overcome
The waves within my mind
And today I made the decision
To live a life more kind
The kind of life I wanted
Was one of peace and hope
And the life I had been living
Had become too dull to cope
It wasn’t that I just woke up
And every day punched a clock
It wasn’t that my dreams and hopes
Overflowed and would not stop
It seemed that no matter how hard
I thought that the day was
I was tired at the end of it
simply just because
And If I was going to be tired
At the end of every day
I wanted it to be for a reason
That was worth a line in a good play
She rested for she defeated the depths of despair
she rested for she inspired some souls with immense
hope and flare
And Lord I know you care about
Even the sparrow as he falls
So Lord please hear my cry
And listen when I call
Today I’d like to take a stand
And break out of monotony
Today dear Lord will you help me
Live more victoriously
Will you take my dreams
And mount them up
Like an eagle as he soars
Will you take my negativity
And make me good unto the core
Lord I just can’t wake up every day rise
And then go back to sleep
That kind of life is a quiet life
And it hardly sounds a peep
I’d like to roar like a lion
Soar like the wind
Today I’d like to make a change
May You live your life
Within
Warrior Moms, may today be the best day of the rest of your lives!
Love,
Kristina
Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.
Kristina Seymour loves to encourage and equip women through the Word and through community. She is the author of The Warrior Mom Handbook, The Warrior Mom Leadership Manual, and The Warrior Wife Handbook; they are available at Amazon.com. Kristina's Bible studies are for women who desire to live by faith in the midst of their everyday lives. She has learned that women can't survive on caffeine and animal crackers alone; women in the Word and in community are united and able to stand firm. To learn more about Kristina, please visit her website, https://kristinaseymour.com/. God loves to share His story of love and grace through us all, and Kristina believes that everyone has a story to tell.
Kristina Seymour loves to encourage and equip women through the Word and through community. She is the author of The Warrior Mom Handbook, The Warrior Mom Leadership Manual, and The Warrior Wife Handbook; they are available at Amazon.com. Kristina's Bible studies are for women who desire to live by faith in the midst of their everyday lives. She has learned that women can't survive on caffeine and animal crackers alone; women in the Word and in community are united and able to stand firm. To learn more about Kristina, please visit her website, https://kristinaseymour.com/. God loves to share His story of love and grace through us all, and Kristina believes that everyone has a story to tell.
Originally published Tuesday, 29 August 2023.
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