mikao's world

today's subtitle

sorry i have nothing thrilling or particularly interesting to write about these days... keeping busy with homework and hanging out. i'm an extrovert, which i think is just super most of the time, but sometimes does get me into trouble... back in my dorm days i would know everyone in the dorm and would visit way way too much. i think this is the first year that i don't know everyone in the college's name. but, being in seminary (grad school) i really don't do all the collegey things anymore so that's my excuse.

had a good afternoon in the library reading my aforementioned textbook (see last post) and visiting. the text is for my class january 20-24, Counselling Adolescents and Their Families (all of our classes pretty much run in modular format, so they are a week long each. but, we have pre-course and post-course reading and assignments galore so we keep busy. it is sounding like a good class and there won't be just youth ministry majors in the class which i always enjoy, and i am hoping that there is not too much overlap from other classes that i have taken. i love my youth ministry classes but i find that there is so much overlap amongst them all.

my other classes this semester will be march 3-7, Screening Scripture: The Bible in Film and Video, and march 24-28, Programming Strategies for Youth and Family Ministry. after that, i amazingly only have three classes and my MRRP (ministry related research project, similar to a thesis) left to do and i will have my M.A. i still find this incredibly odd, what am i doing here almost having a masters degree? it is something that i never planned on doing but sometimes God takes us down paths that we never expected. but hey, He knows what He's doing even if i don't have a clue, and i think that that is very very cool.

You pick me up, I let You down
Sooner or later I come around
I'm looking at the road You plow...

Show me love and show me life
Let me live in Your Good light
Take my hands, renew my mind...

You've got me moving
You'll lead me there I know
You've got me moving
- Corey Doak, "Static"