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Pita Chips And Hummus

What do I think I deserve?

Haddie Erickson

Nov 23, 2016

University of Northwestern St. Paul

Haddie Erickson

Everyday when I walk up to the cafe at Northwestern, Pita Chips and Hummus are taken from the shelf and put on the counter for me before I even pull out my ID card. It is basically the only food I ever buy from the cafe, and the entire crew of workers laugh and joke with (at) me about it. I don't think they know my name, but they know me as the pita chips and hummus girl. Nice.

Last week, there was a newer girl that isn't usually there so I had to actually order. When I said, "I'll have pita chips and hummus," the usual cafe employee yelled from the back, "She's gunna become a pita chip and hummus." Yup. The thing is, I like what I like. I don't change anything that doesn't seem to need change. If the pita chips and hummus taste good they're going to keep tasting good. I don't try to fix what isn't broken. I feel really safe and guarded when I let things be.

One of my favorite books of all time is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. There is a very well-known quote in that book that says, "We accept the love we think we deserve." To be honest, I have thought about that quote a lot since I read that book my sophomore year of high school. I have contemplated what exactly accepting love is. What do I think I deserve? I have a song that has been stuck in my head for years. I sing the lyrics whenever I'm in empty hallways (and then I find out it's not empty and it's awkward).

Anyway, a lot of you have probably sung this song in church; we sing "Christ is enough for me." We sing about how we want more of Him. We sing about how we want Him to be our everything, but we let the love of people define us. We let broken love be enough for us. We eat our pita chips and hummus and we accept the love we think we deserve. We are so blind to the power of God's love. We are so blind to how small we are accepting. We are not enough for God, but we are everything to Him. We can not fathom that. We can not fathom how God can love every single person relentlessly forever.

Everyday I want to accept His love more. I want more. He has so many purposes for me and for my life. He is teaching me that I need to live loved, and I need to follow Him. I'm done walking with Him, but wandering off. I'm done walking with Him, but looking for short cuts every step of the way. Pita chips and hummus taste good now, but revival is coming. Redemption is coming. Christ is coming, and He is enough for me. Accept the love you do not deserve.

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2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

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4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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