Your Movevideo Analysis

Running head: SESSION ONE -WRITING ASSESSMENT1Session One -Writing AssessmentBethany WaiteColorado Christian UniversityAdult StudiesINT-211AAngela MelanconJanuary 13, 2018

SESSION ONE -WRITING ASSESSMENT2Session One -Writing AssessmentTransferring from a community college to Colorado Christian University at the age of fifty might seem to some an act of courage, while to others it might be sheer lunacy. What brought me here, the wins and the losses, have shaped me into who I am in my career and my ministry and my walk with Christ.In the Your Movevideo, Pastor Andy Stanley asks the question “What is the wise thing for me to do?”, and then he expands thequestion with the qualifiers of past experience, current circumstances, and future hopes and

If each one of us stopped and thought about our actions in light of ourpast experiences, we might not repeat our mistakes. Might not is the key phrase. In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus is speaking to his disciples in the garden of Gethsemane, and he tells them to “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak”.Matt 26:41 (English Standard Version) Jesus was speaking of thedisciples’ human desire for sleep instead of praying with him, as he had asked, but that verse certainly applies to me when I pull into the parking lot of DSW shoes, knowing full well that I should be paying off debts rather than buying a new pair of shoes.The assignment is to consider what brought me to Colorado Christian University, my life experiences prior to coming here, and what decisions led to those life experiences. When I was in high school in Michigan, I had a plan for how my life was going to work out. I was going to study elementary education at Cedarville College in Ohio, teach Kindergarten, get married and have kids. We plan,God laughs. My mother essentially talked me out of getting my teaching

I asked my mother why I was not grounded for my entire highschool career, and she laughed, but I was serious!She shared that my parents were at their wits end, because although I had higher than average intelligence, I lacked the focus tocomplete assignments on time. Being a student at my age presents its own set of challenges. I am working full time, and have a seventy-eight-year-old mother with whom I live. I am the Awana ministries director at my church, as well as the church clerk. Learning to juggle everything, while attempting to find balance and stayon track with my classes is difficult at times. Difficult, but worth it. I believe that I appreciate my education more now because I am invested in it; emotionally, spiritually and financially. Have a learned from my past experiences? Yes! Do I want to repeat any of the failures? No, thank you! For now, I am excited to see how the Lord is going to stretch me and use me over the course of this