What shall I say then? If I turn to one side PW lies there; if I turn to the other the promos loom. Both ways I am assailed, and both ways I must take. So here I am, trying to do up the damned Written Report, while trying to revise as quickly as possible. Why can't they leave PW till the start of next year, well before Block Test 1? Why must the Ministry continually pile work upon us while we try to study the subjects that ACTUALLY have some use for our future careers? Yes, some use. What use, tell me, is PW? Apart from splitting people apart in some vague hope at generating professionalism, I see no other use for it. Even its claim of promoting creativity falls flat. Students have always had the innate ability to generate great amounts of fluff. We are very creative. Perhaps PW helps to sharpen our fluffing skills.

Professionalism. As mature as JC students are vaunted to be (yes, I use the word vaunted here), we still fall short of expectations. Petty quarrrels, personality clashes. Why let personal conflicts get in the way of your work? Nobody said you had to like each other. Just get the job done! I thank God I was placed in a great PW group.

I am getting so tired. Everyday I come home wanting to sleep. I spend my days in school hoping to sleep. I've never slept so soundly on the bus to school before these two weeks! I need refreshment and revival. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and Friday's worship conferences. I think I'm so blessed to at least be in a school where your church is located. It gives me this sense that even though I may be bogged down by work and stuff, not too far away, standing atop that hill, is the house of God, a Sanctuary to the weary, a Refuge for the weak. The church is a physical manifestation of the hope I have in Christ, that all these temporal things will eventually fade away (God bless that happy day!) and I will find my eternal rest in the arms of the Prince of Peace.

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.