Highs and Lows

I don't usually summarize my days. But I think need to tonight to be able to come to terms with it. Today was an amazing day. One of those kind that I can look back on and play the "highs and lows" game with sensing a great deal of weight in each the highs and lows. It started out with my morning class in my professors living room. Meeting every Tuesday morning, with a great book to discuss and an amazing group to discuss with has been constantly a highlight to my week. The course is called "Contemporary Themes in Religion and Culture" and is an in depth look into the important interplay between the church and the ideas of postmodernism. This class constantly moves me. We watched a short film clip called "The Butterfly Circus". I think more people should watch it. It's simple, well done, and as we discussed in class, presents two ways in which the Christian Church can function in our world.
This afternoon I lead a short time of worship for chapel, which really isn't that notable except for how much I actually enjoyed leading it. Later, I sat outside and read in the sun... in February! I had a sleeping bag and was sitting under a veranda with the sun beaming right on me, but it was the best place to be at that moment.
This evening a group of us students involved in drama went to a local nursing home to give a casual performance. Being there and singing was fun, but as we were leaving a few of us stopped to chat with some of the seniors, I think this was the best part aside from just being able to be there.
Aside from these things, being with friends throughout the day was an immense blessing and at times really difficult. Not because my friends were difficult, but just walking through difficult times with others and recognizing the strugglees in my own life. I'm not going to describe the lows. But they are there for me to remember. I think I need to give them more acknowledgement today, for whatever reason. Maybe so that I remember that real days come with highs and lows.