Happy March!
It’s your favorite fellow Bevi here to chat about February. Here was my preview from the last blog: “What’s next? Writing family genogram paper, considering career/future ooo scary, quality time with fellows, and probably more things being stirred up in my mind to learn from.” Each of these things happened! Here are some reflections:
Highlights:
Our career retreat! I thought this would be very overwhelming and exhausting but it wasn’t. It was a lot of content, but ended up being very digestible. I enjoyed discussing the theology of work and thinking about the bigger picture of how I’m wired. I learned a lotttt about myself, which was helpful, but I still have so much to reflect on. Also was grateful for bonding time with fellows!
Galentine’s hangout - shoutout Maddie Grace and Reagan for putting this together it was so sweet and fun and I love doing crafts!
Tutoring my girl Chloe at N2N! She’s the best
Carsyn’s bday party (Simas you’re amazing) and our girls dinner at the standard. It was so good to celebrate you Carsyn!
Accidental collab with Jacob and MG last Friday - went on a long walk, then drove together downtown to meet other fellows and friends for drinks. Love this trio
Ash Wednesday service (in my groutfit) at Apostles was sweet. Also was feeling grateful around this time to work at St. David’s with Christian community and mentors — it’s a special thing to receive ashes at your place of work, and I don’t know if I’ll experience that again.
Women’s retreat at Wrightsville beach! It was fun to putz at the beach, go out to meals, hang out and be silly together, and do our silly skit with some of the older women at Apostles.
Lowlights:
Sitting in the dentist chair for 4 hours straight to get cavities filled was absolutely brutal. And my teeth and mouth have been hurting a lot recently
I’ve been feeling the weight of learning about and thinking about myself—about my strengths and weaknesses, enneagram, work stuff, etc. It’s been a lot of self discovery which is lovely but this is heavy and just isn’t sustainable
I’d probably say writing the genogram paper and analyzing my family was a bit exhausting
A big theme this month for me has been the concept of time and learning how to use it well and give it to God. I want to have time to hang out with people here, call my other friends, call my family, reflect on the career retreat, write my genogram paper and reflect on it, think about and start applying to jobs, write 360s for the fellows, read, spend time with the Lord, exercise, go to bed early, and more. I really appreciated the “Time” devo in the Blue Book this month. It was fun to have Psalm 90 be the blessing given to us at the end of the career retreat as we prayed for God to “establish the work of our hands” and then go home and see Psalm 90 in the Time devo for me to read every day. This devo has helped shape my view of time. I’ve been practicing how to move more slowly at work and I’ve been praying and trusting that the Lord would use each day as it needs to be used. Hope this can continue as the spring gets even crazier!
Stay tuned for: more retreats, more things to learn, visits from friends and family, etc.
Thanks for reading! - Bevi Lundeen