This morning I woke up and found myself nearly to the end of my very first semester at college. In less than a week I will be home for Christmas break! I am looking forward to a time of rest and relaxation at home, and am especially excited to see Dad a week from today! It has been a long eight-turned-to-nine months without him.
The past couple weeks have been a frenzy of studying and fun. Finals are, of course, upon us now. Today we got to experience a lovely ABC tradition called "Study Day". Breakfast was delivered by staff & faculty to each student's room and we were given the entire day off of classes in order to study for finals. From a sleeping-in point of view, my day was wildly successful! Hopefully I'll squeeze in a bit more studying tonight and this weekend before taking three of my six finals on Monday.
It's strange to think we're only 12 days away from Christmas. Normally by this time, I would already be baking cookies and watching Christmas movies with the family. We'll just have to fit lots of those things in when I do get home! I can't wait to see everyone.
From the school Christmas banquet to a white elephant gift exchange at my church to four Chorale Christmas concerts and much more, I have continued to stay busy. I can't believe that in less than a month I'll be starting entirely new classes. It feels like I just got into the swing of things with my fall classes! Oh well. I'm thrilled to start practices for Gospel Heralds (summer traveling team) when we get back. I also recently found out that our first Magnify (spring semester singing team) performance will be during the first weekend in February, so it will be fun to finish up working on the program for that.
I'm frequently reminded of God's greatness and sovereignty as I have been reading through Psalms for the past couple months. Yesterday I was particularly struck by Psalm 104 as it describes the way that God laid the very foundations of the earth and His strength in establishing the mountains and setting up barriers for the water. He is so BIG and mightily handles the entire universe; yet, His hand is constantly in the details of our everyday lives. Incredible.
~Hannah Grace
