I am sooo Blessed

I was making an album today of all my favorite IBEX photos. If there is one piece of valuable advice I could give to future Ibexim it would be to keep track of your photos. Don't let them build up on your computer in folders with no names, because I promise you a week after you upload them you would remember half the things you took pictures of!

So anyway I was looking through all the pictures I have taken so far and it was so strange for me to look back at our first field one month ago. I hardly knew most of the people in my group, let alone thought I could be friends with them. I was confused, jet lagged, and totally clueless to what the semester would hold for me.

And I now I sit here, one month into my study aboard adventure, and I realize just how blessed I am. I am so blessed to be here in Israel. To see where my Lord walked, and to learn about what he did. I mean, I go to class and learn about Jesus healing the lame man at the Pools of Bathzeda and then I do there........for crying out loud, how cool is that!!!

I am so blessed by EVERYONE in my group. These people are so amazing, and I thank God that He saw fit to put me with them. I have so much to learn from these people, and am benefiting so much from their friendship!

My professors are amazing men of God, who care so deeply about their students. I love the fact that they are so approachable. I love that I can spend a Saturday afternoon with my teacher and then laugh about it Monday in class! I love that they so graciously let us into their homes, and share their families with us! I LOVE playing with their kids, and learning from their wives.

I AM SO BLESSED!

And yet I constantly find myself worrying about trivial, trivial things. Like, what I'm going to wear, and how I look, and how much I would kill for a cheeseburger, and how small my room is. I should just be happy to be here!

Pray that God will continue to show me how contrite and stupid these things are which worry me. Pray that myself, my entire being would be wrapped up in Him alone. Pray that I would know that I am blessed!