"Do Not Make Work Your Idol"

World, I have a message for you... It is one that I have failed to fully accept, but I am on the verge of acceptance and your prayers at this point in time would surely be awesome!
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At the start of second semester, my chemistry teacher had us all write down our goals for the rest of the year and hand them in to him. He wrote little responses at the bottom of each person's goal list. My goal (of course) was to make straight A's for the rest of the school year...
This hasn't really happened, though. And every time I look at my grades and I find a B--one B, two B's, THREE B's (for the first time ever!)--I freak out. Well after the freaking out because of one B got old, I just realized that there was really no point in freaking out. I would just take care of business and bring it up. And that was working all year.. Until fourth quarter, when I had 3 B's. I was determined to bring them up like always, but my mom was not happy. She just started getting really strict about my grades, which she never does. She usually understands and knows that I can and will eventually bring the grades up.. I guess she felt like time was running out..
So today, after freaking out about getting an 80% on a math quiz, I decided to look back at my chemistry teacher's response to my goal list. Briefly, my chemistry teacher told me about a book that his pastor wrote entitled Work Matters. The main point of this book is that as humans created in God's own image, we were created to work. But we should not make work our idol... This is so hard for me, because throughout the years, I've put so much hard work and effort into my grades that they've become most important in my life.
While school is of high priority, I should never choose homework over reading a quick passage in the Bible. After all, if it weren't for God, my creator, I wouldn't even be at Sumner Academy, one of the greatest schools in the nation! I'm gonna have to meet God halfway when it comes to grades and everything else in life. I have to remember that even though they are MY grades, I'm not in this alone.
It's just that it can be so hard accepting the fact that I'm not perfect..
Prayers right now.. Would be excellent!