Oh the Uni life.

It’s been about a month worth of Uni and I’ve hit the road block created by stress, lack of sleep, procrastination and ultimately laziness. I’d usually write a small story with some profound insight (at least for me anyway) but I feel that this deserves to be cut straight to the point. So here we go.

For the past few weeks we’ve had this assignment due in. I thought it would be fine so I decided I would start it yesterday night. But as I went through it I began to realise that what I knew was inadequate, so I spent about four hours staring at my screen trying to figure out something. All the while I was walking around trying to find some inspiration to finish my assignment, well at least start it anyway. So as I hit the second hours of the next day I decided I’d wake up early and maybe my mind would be a bit clearer. So I did that and woke up at the ninth hour. Three hours later still no success.

So I decided to go to Uni and go to the student learning centre and hope that they could help me out because apparently people “can’t believe they’d never gone to the centre before”. Well I went there waited for about an hour and a half and they closed without getting around to me. I was just about to break and I remembered I had my tutor’s phone number. I felt bad ashamed and unhopeful in that situation, but I felt this was my last resort because I knew even if I went home that night, it would end up the in the same result of me staring blankly at the screen for a further few hours. See in this situation I was so ridiculously scared, because for so long people have been telling me that no one in Uni cares about you and if you fall behind you’re screwed. So yeah despite all that I called him and told him that I was pretty much screwed and I received this unexpected response. “Oh I see, well lets meet up Monday for coffee straight after the lecture and I’ll help you out”. I responded with “Pardon can you repeat that last part again?”. And he replies with the same response. I was almost in a state of shock and replied “wow thank you so much”. And this rocked my world when he said “Don’t worry mate, that’s what I’m here for”. I almost cried after hearing that. Amazing grace, aye? All I can really say is thank you Mr. Watts.

I don’t deserve this kind of “Love” so to speak but he gave it anyway. Just reminds me of how Jesus loved me to the cross. I didn’t deserve it but he gave it anyway. Pretty amazing how God can teach us a lesson even in an unexpected way.

“Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me”

Peter.