Hey everyone!!

Hope all of y'all had a great Christmas and New Year as well as God's presence being more evident in your life! With the beginning of this year, I've started really digging back into my quiet/devotional times and for some reason wisdom has been a big thing... I'm really enjoying what I'm learning and can't wait to see what God has next for me!

Like stated in the title, I've started back to my Spring semester of my sophomore year at Atlanta Christian College and boy did I pick some doozies for classes! Ancient Near Eastern History, History and Literature of Women in America, Geography, Story of Jesus' Followers and Spanish II. Basically 4 of the 5 are history oriented and the only one that isn't is a foreign language! Oh well... I guess that's what you get for being a history major...

I've also had alot of opportunities present themselves to me. Some of them missions, others schools and still others that I really can't mention for fear of jinxing it. When it comes to the missions stuff, I have an opportunity to head to China this summer for a month to teach English there. I just finished some of the application process and had a phone interview this past weekend so right now its all prayers!! I've also had trips presented to me from my college ministry as well as other organizations. My heart has been longing for the mission field since I got back from Mexico about 2 years ago. I want to go NOW but I know the BEST one is when God's favor is in it. So, again, its all prayers and waiting...

For some reason within the past couple of months, my mind has been going towards a subject I've actually tried not to talk about/think about/spend too much time on because... well, I don't want to sound too girly and really I don't think much about it but for some reason its been quite dominate in my thoughts recently: a significant other, a boyfriend. I don't know why, I guess its that I've pushed it aside for so long or that a ton of people I know are engaged and getting married that I can't really think about anything else... its really crazy. Maybe he's in my life and I don't know it right now or that he's on his way or whatever... I just wish God would help me out in this.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to start reading more and not just anything... books that are classics. I kinda got a head start on it in November/December reading Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey. Right now I'm reading Plato's The Republic... very interesting stuff. I hope to keep this New Year resolution.... ;)

To close, I'd like to leave ya something I've been enjoyed meditating on...

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[d] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light."~Colossians 1:9-12 NIV

~Jeanne;)