Day 38

Another thing that has been in the forefront of my mind is my high school swim season, and how I'm going to juggle a relationship with God and school and life and swimming. Now, Bulldog swimming is not for the faint of heart. We run 10 practices a week, 2 hours per practice. Mondays and Thursdays start at 5:45 AM, while Tuesdays and Fridays start at 5:15 AM, and my day isn't over until at the earliest, 5:30 PM, assuming we don't have a meet. Needless to say, I'm exhausted all of first quarter, as well as sore for a lot of the time, and ALWAYS hungry. So with these types of distractions yanking at my attention, I'm terrified that I'm going to drift apart from God during this time, when I will need him close to me to give me strength. I'm hoping that I'll find the balance to be natural to me, but I doubt it because I've never had to handle 2 things that are so important to me, and 2 things that I really don't want to have to give any part of them up. I would greatly appreciate prayers for wisdom, patience, and good health during the beginning of the school year into the fall, as they will surely help my efforts tremendously.

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Mel