| | merry christmas to allwell, well, christmas 2006. Boy, that seemed forever away when I graduated highschool. First off, props to Shan for being the most gutsy dresser I know :) Eric and I have had a good, but very spread out christmas (my family, his family, his other family...) Eric got me the 2nd season of Lois and Clark yeah! (I"m a nerd, I know). Calvin racked up, of course:) We have NO IDEA what our life is going to look like in 2007. In the past I've always had a set plan for my future, but honestly, we have no idea.... I've never been waiting or looking to God for direction so much. But, we're not worried anymore. We could be in Louisville for the next 6 years, starting our family, Eric working and taking just a couple of classes a semester. Or we could move to Hannible and be dorm parents having kids while trying to hang out with a couple hundred college kids. Or God could do something totally different. Wow, how crazy.... it's so different. I went through highschool and college always thinking I "knew" what the future was for me, like God had promised me this one kind of life. And now I find that I was mistaken (almost entirely). What now? God only knows. and HE DOES, and that is a great comfort and the source of our hope for the future. He does know. Even if we've gotten it wrong.... He knows what our lives will be, He always has. PS- no, I don't believe in the "ice age" but I do believe in a pre and post flood earth ( a belief into which the evidence of large, very large, areas of earth covered in ice that would later melt fits very nicely). Hence, the book I'm reading. It's fascinating. Did you know that when Alexander was mapping the world, Antarctica was not entirely glaciered and had rivers and ports? Did you know that the ancient mariners had more accurate and advanced maps than we did until the 1700's. Fascinating, I tell you. |
