In the midst of being in the second semester of my junior year, the stress and craziness are starting to hit me. Classes, papers, exams, meetings…everything.
One of the things that has kept me sane, however, is class that I am currently taking called Ignatian Spirituality in the Jesuit Tradition — because I’m not submerged enough in the Jesuit values and history of St. Ignatius with my activities and everything. While our class is starting to get into the Ignatian tradition portion of the class, our class discussions and assignments thus far have been my main motivation to actually start a blog.
The assignments are something that I oddly look forward to. The guidelines are simply to find something during class that I find interesting or that bothers me and take time to reflect on that topic and delve deeper into why it had the effect on me that it did. This class has turned into seventy five minutes of me-time on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:00 along with the time I get to set aside to reflect on something that stuck out to me in class.
After only two assignments, I’m realizing that taking this time for myself is not only a stress reliever but I’m also coming to many realizations about myself that I would not have had if I did not take this class.
So what am I doing with this blog? For now, I hope to post my reflection assignments and thoughts, photos or anything else that gives me a minute or two to take a step back and breath. I hope that beginning this now also allows me to continue to take time to sit back and reflect even when the time is not cut out in my class schedule or written in my planner as homework each week.
As much as it scares me to think about it, I’m more than half way through college. Many decisions will be made in the next year and a half that will require me to really discern where I need to go next in my life. I hope that this blog can help me to do that. Recognizing the growth that I’ve had since coming to college has been beyond beneficial and I hope that I can continue to recognize the growth and realizations of the next year and a half in my thoughts and reflections.
So walk with me…
Peace
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