mikao's world

great day

it has been a long day, but a great day. : )

i spent last night polishing my Bible study for this morning and typed up the handout. this morning i woke up at 4:23am and really didn't get much sleep after that, so at 6:45 i got up and showered and did some praying and went over my notes. some people from my class picked me up before class, so i didn't have to walk which was really really really swell, our professor's house (where we have class) is on the other side of town.

my Bible study went surprisingly well, i really wasn't all too nervous which was pretty cool, usually i am so nervous i am ready to hurl. yay God! and i got lots of "well done"s afterwards so that was pretty super too. : ) i will post some of my notes tomorrow if i have time and remember.

and seminary chapel was this morning too, it was different this time. all the chairs were set up in a circle around a rough-hewn cross, and on top of it were two halves of bread and little communion cups. the message was about remembrance and remembering what the cross really was about, and the speaker read Isaiah 53. very interesting service. after chapel we always all have lunch together which is pretty neat.

i snuck out early from lunch to visit with my roommates while they were home from lunch, last week kelly and rachel started coming upstairs from their basement suite to eat with me and joanne and this has been continuing this week which is neat, much community formed in our house last week even though holly and tamara were both gone. hopefully this shall continue.

after lunch i went to the yearbook office to see what could be done, and i ended up putting a lot of backgrounds on pages for the next couple of deadlines and setting up the textboxes for the pages, getting things ready for the addition of the photographs. i love yearbook, it's so much fun. robert showed up when i was almost done and we had an interesting chat. i tried to convince him to go to the college Christmas banquet this year (this is his fifth year here and he's never gone)... but i don't think i was too successful. he's leaving at the end of december because he doesn't need any more credits and very likely has a job in nebraska. i will miss that guy, he's so neat. one of the most giving people i know.

worked on my scrapbook some tonight, got two whole pages done, am trying to get as much possible done because this is my summer scrapbook and i would like to start my one for this school year soon. scrapbooks are such a good memory book. i started last summer and made one during my youth ministry internship in illinois, and then i made one for my last year of college too.

watched "gilmore girls" with holly and joanne, they love that show. i... am not enthralled with it. i'm more interesting in the social perspectives portrayed and the reactions that people have to it.

well, i should get to bed. i've been up forever and plan on going to college chapel tomorrow morning. need to be awake in the morning for that! ; ) i'm planning on taking the day off from homework though since i've been doing so much of it lately, will work some more on my scrapbook, visit with people, and do some more yearbook work. have a great day everyone.

"Great Lord," she said.
"I'm just a simple girl. You say
that I will bring Your Son into the world.
How can I understand this thing You're
going to do?"
"It's not your problem," God replied--
"Cause there's a bigger picture.
You don't have to change the world,
just trust in Me.
I am your creator,
I am working out my plan,
through you,
I will show them I am."
- Ginny Owens, "I Am"