Today is not the best of days. I have a stomach ache, had to eat oatmeal for two meals (which could be contributing to the stomach ache), and ended up having to squeeze in my online class while at work and all the class could hear was a screaming child -- compliments of my end of the speaker. I'm looking at my life and all I can think of is a person with their shirt stuck in a tire and the wheel is spinning them round and round. I know, far too graphic.

It's just that, as much as I want to be able to do it all, I don't feel like I can. My classes are way more intense this quarter, I now have to conduct student observations, and then there's still work. Though I'd like to quit work for two months, then resume, that's not really possible when someone needs to be doing my job. I could take one class now, then the other through mid-June (to lighten the load), but that just extends the schoolwork for three extra months.

So there it is. I don't know what to do; I don't know what decision to make. I pray about it, but I hear nothing ... well, nothing in the sense of an answer that I would be looking for. But then again, God often answers our prayers in different ways than we think.

Maybe this is my answer ...

The Lord is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.

Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;

but those who hope in the Lord

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.