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I'm going to College

Once again I will quote a movie that I like. Some of you may remember the movie Back To School with Rodney Dangerfield from 1986. Early in the movie, after his life is turned a little upside down, in order to keep his son from dropping out of school, Rodney's character says he will go to school with him. His son says "really" and then Thornton Melon says "I'm going to College."

You may remember in my previous blog, I talked about possibly taking some online classes through Concordia St. Paul. Well, I received word this morning that I was accepted and my cohort for Family Life Education begins in September. I would then do what is called a DCE colloquy program online as well. Prior to beginning the cohort, I need to finish 16 more general education credits through their school of continuing studies. The best part is that all of it is done online so I can still continue to do His work here on the border while studying. I would need to go to campus for just a few days at the beginning of the cohort and that is all.

You may be asking yourself where this came about. I actually felt called by God when we were at the Servant Event Leadership Conference to begin investigating the opportunity for this and all of the things have come together. I learned when He directed me to Ysleta to not question his will but go with it. Here I am, Lord send me. Isaiah 6:8. I am not sure where it will lead me if I am able to complete the program, but I am confident He will show me.

I ask for your prayers that I will be successful in both my studies and my job, and that I will be able to figure out a way to pay for it all. If any of you are aware of places I may be able to apply for a scholarship, please let me know, you may also prayerfully consider a "personal scholarship" and sponsor a credit or two.

Once again, Happy New Year and Blessings on your week.

Happy New Year

Well, here we are in 2010, a new decade. I begin this year filled with joy, yet nervous at the same time. I continue to have a job that I love, a roof over my head and on January 1st, for the first time in the changing of the last 3 decades, I am smoke free. :)

I have many things to look forward to this year, the biggest being a cruise throughout the Mediterranean that will take place in October. I am also looking at taking some online classes through Concordia St. Paul, but a lot of things need to fall into place just right for that to work out, although things are going good with that so far.

I have had the same New Year's resolutions for the last several years (to quit smoking) and usually failed, but since I succeeded (finally) this past year, I had to come up with something new. I always though it would be cool to read the whole bible, and since I have heard of Erin doing it twice, and actually saw her do it this past year, I have resolved to read the bible this year. Each day I will read a little old testament, a little new testament, some psalms and proverbs. It is all laid out in daily readings that should take about 15 minutes. I also have picked up some bible commentaries in hopes to understand the word even more. I have the first 5 of the old testament, 3 gospels, psalm, proverbs and some epistles. I still need to round out the collection though.

I have actually tried to do the bible reading in the past, but I failed because of Chronicles. I just couldn't do it, so hopefully I can muster the will power and discipline to make it through this year, as I think it would be a very cool accomplishment to do that.

We had a group last week that built 3 houses in Juarez, but I didn't take a lot of pictures because I was working. The group leader is going to send me a dvd of pictures soon, so I will get a blog up about that and then maybe add some pics later.

Happy New Year to all, Blessings on your new decade..