Two years left of school...but over it

[littletherese3]

I’m 14 and have two years after this year of school left. I do pretty well at school- I get good marks and have lots of friends and all that. But I am just sick of school. I feel like I’m just hanging around at school until I am old enough to become a nun or sister, because that’s what I want to do. Every day I just want to stay home and help mum around the house and read and play music and go to Mass and do the things I love. I know I’m just being impatient…but I’m just not motivated to write essays on subjects I won’t chose to do next year and don’t care about. What should I do??

Sorry for all my whinging. I just needed to write it somewhere. It was a bit jumbled…sorry

 

[FCEGM]

I’m 14 and have two years after this year of school left. I do pretty well at school- I get good marks and have lots of friends and all that. But I am just sick of school. I feel like I’m just hanging around at school until I am old enough to become a nun or sister, because that’s what I want to do. Every day I just want to stay home and help mum around the house and read and play music and go to Mass and do the things I love. I know I’m just being impatient…but I’m just not motivated to write essays on subjects I won’t chose to do next year and don’t care about. What should I do??

Sorry for all my whinging. I just needed to write it somewhere. It was a bit jumbled…sorry

It seems you are very much like your namesake, St. Therese, who found school to be a great ordeal. But, like her, you should seek to overcome through prayer your distaste for the necessary things you have to do (like essays) and do them with your will entirely given over to the task for God’s glory. As St. Therese knew, it is in your will, not in your particular likes or dislikes, where God is forming you to be His Saint.

God bless you, littletherese. :hug1:

 

[Hidden_One]

What should I do??

Offer your academic efforts and whatnot to God as a sacrifice… and make it the best sacrifice that you can.

 

[redroses098]

As a nun, one of your vows will be obedience. Take this opportunity to practice by doing all your work to the best of your ability. And remember that many orders request/require you are fully educated before entering. That means finding a good college.

 

[4EverHis]

I know how you feel :hug1:

try to do all these things out of love for God, in obedience… offer it up to Him as service… and let this time prepare you for when you’ll be a nun or sister. And remember that in many orders, they’d want you to have a college degree.

Try to see this time as preparation and try your best in school.

God bless you

 

[datingtrappists]

I, too, know how you feel… As in, “I already know that I want to live out my vocation, and what does school have to do with it?” As another poster pointed out, one of the vows, God willing, we both will be taking one day are ones of obedience. And in being obedient, we may be doing things that we would rather not do… or that don’t even make sense at all. Know that in being obedient to those in authority over us, we are, since that authority was given by God, being obedient to Him.

Another thing that has helped me is to look at school and my own life situation as a “pre” formation process. What I am doing now, and what I am learning now, is most likely going to be needed when the formal formation process starts. Situations rarely happen for no reason. Most happen because we acquire skills and knowledge that we’ll need in the future. One thing I know you have a great opportunity to learn right now is patience. I know, easier said than done, but you can’t practice it unless you are placed in situations to practice patience.

I will pray for your patience and for your vocation. Please pray for mine!

 

[snowflakes]

Are there any clubs you can join at school? I know what you mean though, when I was in school, I couldn’t wait for it to be over. But it will go fast, I promise!

 

[GilChrist77]

I know exactly what you are going through. I’ve known since I was twelve that I’m going to be a nun, and it surely has been a test of patience. Like many of the other posters have said, the best thing you can do is find something or someone you love and offer it all up. Sometimes it’s been really hard to offer it up but God looks at the heart and so that’s all that matters. Also God is trying to teach you something in everything. Nothing in your vocation story, no matter where it may lead you, happens for no reason. I am hoping to enter next August so my story is almost done, but looking back on it, every little thing that happened had a reason for it, even the things that when I was going through them didn’t seem like a big deal, in the end were a big deal. I will most surely keep you in my thoughts and prayers.

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria!