various and sundry stuffness

Hello everyone!
I have a few minutes to kill before class so I thought I may as well post something on here. :o) Classes continue to go well. Working at B&N has been really helpful in the time managment area. I know that I only have a certain amount of time to study and have to work it all out around work times. It helps me waste less time and be more productive.
I had my advisement with Dr. Travers today for next semester. I will be taking C.S. Lewis, History of Ideas I, New Testament Introduction I, Christian Theology I, and Baptist History. It will be quite a busy semester! I get to register for everything next week.
Dad, Mom, Anna, and Grace came this week. We had a wonderful visit! It was splendid to see them! Anna and Grace camped out in my dorm room and Sunday night and we stayed up until around 1:30am. It was great fun! We all just hung out together and ate food and it was lovely. Seeing them gave me the boost I need to finish up. I am SO ready to come home! Four and half more weeks! Hooray!
God is so good! I just can't get over everything He has done for me! Dr. Reid made a sobering statement in class today: "You can be in the middle of the presence of God and still miss it." I have really been thinking about that lately. How often to I miss what God is doing? How much do I truly look for where He is working? How much am I willing to give up for the Lord? Am I willing to go wherever He leads me or just wherever I am comfortable with Him leading me? I don't want to miss God's work! I want to be on the front lines! I want Satan to hate my guts because he can't stand what I am doing! Bold declaration, I know. But since when has God called us to be cowards? Since when has He told us to do everything for Him that we WANT to do? Since when has He told us to take the easy way out, to follow the path of least resistance? How many of us do what we do because it is "safe" and ignore what we know God is telling us to do because it is "too dangerous"?
Anyway, I know these things don't really make a lot of sense. It is just what I've been thinking about as I contemplate the foreign mission field.