It’s been nearly 8 years since I’ve been to school and as I prepare my books, bag, pens, pencils, highlighters, rulers, glue, scissors, tape (just kidding … you get the point), I thought about how they might initiate the newbie’s by making fun of them, or what kind of things might I do that would make me look like a total idiot. Um hello, isn’t this BIBLE COLLEGE I’m attending?? Talk about a little paranoid and anxious! I mean I really didn’t know what to expect and was very excited but still my mind was a little off. I kept reassuring myself that those thoughts were ridiculous, but they kept popping back up in my mind.

Anyway, I head off to class, 50 miles one way from home in the middle of rush hour traffic, pull into the parking lot over an hour later and realize by the bright light bulb that goes off in my head that I forgot something. A very detrimental tool for attending seminary: my bible. I couldn’t believe it; my first day back to school, bible school no less, and I forget my bible? Wow, talk about a humbling experience. I’m going over in my head all the things that I’ve been going through over the past three weeks or so and how I’ve been praying that God give me patience and humility (yeah, I know, I’ve heard it a million times: NEVER ask God for patience). So, I have a copy of the bible in 4 translations on my Treo 650 palm cell phone and was at least able to follow along.

Class was great, I survived, wasn’t ridiculed nor berated. I'm going to learn so much! I met some really cool people that I look forward to learning more about and studying the things of God with.

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