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我一定会加油！！！I'm so happy it's winter break! So I'm going to JIA YOU to use it the BEST possible way =)
It's exciting waiting for everyone to finally come home--I think I'm more excited about that than I used to be when I was the one coming home. But this year I get to anticipate so many people returning (I'm trying not to think about them having to leave again). I wonder if this is how mothers feel about their kids coming back for vacations etc.
Inna's out of the nursing home!! She came back this week and it's SO nice having her back. 我真的很高兴! My family feels whole again--finally. =)
Whew, what a quarter...it's been so stressful at times that I don't even WANT to remember it. But I'm glad it's done, and I am officially half way to becoming a teacher! AND my new CT is the best EVER. I wrote an essay earlier this week about how much I am enjoying being at Hillsdale--it was almost as fun as the times I wrote essays about LOTR for English class. =P Words are so wonderful when they get to describe happy things!
I feel like there's so much to look forward to during this break that...I can't possibly deserve how good it will be. And that's a sobering, but good reminder that I don't deserve any of this--that God has provided everything out of his power and not mine, and that all of this is a gift of God. Nothing I could ever do would make me deserving of being this happy--no amount of good deeds or piety could make me deserving of simply being able to appreciate everything that God has created. This will be my second Christmas as a Christian. When I think of the change that has happened in my life in the last two years, I am in awe of God and His power. And again, it is humbling to think that I am no different, no more worthy, than anyone else, and yet He has saved me from an awful fate. I can't even begin to fathom His reasoning, but I am so happy that He is the one directing my life, because goodness knows I would fail miserably!
Son of God
The Father's gift to us
You alone
Were broken on the alter of love
Precious Lamb
Our freedom's in Your blood, It's in your blood
(Starfield, Son of God)
It's exciting waiting for everyone to finally come home--I think I'm more excited about that than I used to be when I was the one coming home. But this year I get to anticipate so many people returning (I'm trying not to think about them having to leave again). I wonder if this is how mothers feel about their kids coming back for vacations etc.
Inna's out of the nursing home!! She came back this week and it's SO nice having her back. 我真的很高兴! My family feels whole again--finally. =)
Whew, what a quarter...it's been so stressful at times that I don't even WANT to remember it. But I'm glad it's done, and I am officially half way to becoming a teacher! AND my new CT is the best EVER. I wrote an essay earlier this week about how much I am enjoying being at Hillsdale--it was almost as fun as the times I wrote essays about LOTR for English class. =P Words are so wonderful when they get to describe happy things!
I feel like there's so much to look forward to during this break that...I can't possibly deserve how good it will be. And that's a sobering, but good reminder that I don't deserve any of this--that God has provided everything out of his power and not mine, and that all of this is a gift of God. Nothing I could ever do would make me deserving of being this happy--no amount of good deeds or piety could make me deserving of simply being able to appreciate everything that God has created. This will be my second Christmas as a Christian. When I think of the change that has happened in my life in the last two years, I am in awe of God and His power. And again, it is humbling to think that I am no different, no more worthy, than anyone else, and yet He has saved me from an awful fate. I can't even begin to fathom His reasoning, but I am so happy that He is the one directing my life, because goodness knows I would fail miserably!
Son of God
The Father's gift to us
You alone
Were broken on the alter of love
Precious Lamb
Our freedom's in Your blood, It's in your blood
(Starfield, Son of God)