Spanish

     I knew that school was hard.  I have gone back to school a few times.  I have a couple of degrees, but going to school in a different country is a whole new thing.  Yesterday, I fell asleep while I was listening to a recording to try to memorize new words.  I talked to one of my teachers about it because I was concerned about how tired I always seem to be.  She let me know that I should not be so hard on myself. That learning a new language is hard and takes more from you than you realize.  I love how they are always encouraging me to relax and let it come to me.
     I really wish I had taken Spanish seriously in high school and college.  It is so funny, God was trying to prepare me for the future that He had planned.  I was just too stuck in my own life to see the opportunities that He had been offering.  I must say that it has been one of my major sins in my life.  Not listening.  I have been trying to change that over the last few years and I think that God is blessing me now with being able to see Him in a way that words have no meaning.  He is teaching me how to listen.  He is exercising my brain so I can be closer to Him.

⁴⁵ So when they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking Him. ⁴⁶ Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. ⁴⁷ And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.  Luke 2:45-47