Three things left
Before I'm done with my undergraduate studies, I have three things left: my paper for my Seminar on Teaching Writing (I'm writing about the used of Computer Assisted Language Learning [CALL] with ESL students), my Shakespeare take-home (two essays that will probably take me five hours to do), and my American Lit 2 final. I can do this!
Ester is leaving today for China, so I'm waiting for her to get back from work so I can say good-bye.
Once I go home, I'm relaxing for a few days. The day after Christmas, I might be going back to work. It all depends on when they schedule me. The funny thing is, they haven't called me. So, I'll have to see about that. I might also work on some job applications for the spring. Write up some stellar cover letters and put out some resumes. I'll have to see what happens.
Other than that, I'll be working for three weeks, then going to Mississippi on a missions trip. I'm looking forward to that. It will be good to see what progress has been made down there.
I've been reading Isaiah--I'm trying to read it all the way through since I haven't done that before. It's been an amazing read. Certainly at this time of year the prophetic passages about the coming of Jesus are meaningful, but there are some other treasures in it as well. I love this passage from Isaiah 28, verses 23-29:
"Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech.
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
When he has leveled its surface,
Does he not sow the black summin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the spelt in its place?
For He instructs him in right judgment,
His God teaches him.
For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
And the cummin with a rod.
Bread flour must be ground;
Therefore he does not thresh it forever,
Break it with his cartwheel,
Or crush it with his horsemen.
This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance."
Ester is leaving today for China, so I'm waiting for her to get back from work so I can say good-bye.
Once I go home, I'm relaxing for a few days. The day after Christmas, I might be going back to work. It all depends on when they schedule me. The funny thing is, they haven't called me. So, I'll have to see about that. I might also work on some job applications for the spring. Write up some stellar cover letters and put out some resumes. I'll have to see what happens.
Other than that, I'll be working for three weeks, then going to Mississippi on a missions trip. I'm looking forward to that. It will be good to see what progress has been made down there.
I've been reading Isaiah--I'm trying to read it all the way through since I haven't done that before. It's been an amazing read. Certainly at this time of year the prophetic passages about the coming of Jesus are meaningful, but there are some other treasures in it as well. I love this passage from Isaiah 28, verses 23-29:
"Give ear and hear my voice,
Listen and hear my speech.
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow?
Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
When he has leveled its surface,
Does he not sow the black summin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the spelt in its place?
For He instructs him in right judgment,
His God teaches him.
For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
And the cummin with a rod.
Bread flour must be ground;
Therefore he does not thresh it forever,
Break it with his cartwheel,
Or crush it with his horsemen.
This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in guidance."