Frog Blog

It hasn’t hit me yet that tomorrow is my last first day of school ever. The day-to-day routine in law school can get old. Life gets old sometimes too. It is part of being human. But, I believe that everything that has been, will be again. I am issuing myself a personal challenge to focus and make the most I can of my short time left in Birmingham.

I start out fired up every year of school. Inevitably, though, I get tired. It is tempting to take it easy, rest, relax…and I admit that sometimes rest is indeed needed. I have taken on a very full agenda this semester, and it will take strength to get through it all in one piece.

Proverbs 6:6-8 tells us, “You lazy fool, look at the ant. Watch it closely; let it teach you a thing or two. Nobody has to tell it what to do. All summer it stores up food; at harvest, it stockpiles provisions. So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed? A nap here, a nap there, a day off here, a day off there, sit back, take it easy—do you know what comes next? Just this: you can look forward to a dirt-poor life, poverty your permanent houseguest!”

I pray that I never stop learning and seeking, and aspire to live out the following creed:

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.

For the day we stop learning and loving is the day we truly stop living.