Back for a While..

I woke up early this morning, and felt compelled to read my Bible... and you know what? It's been a wonderful day since. God is truly good.

I'm in my fourth week of being back in the States, but it feels like last week that I came home. The third week and this fourth week are bringing feelings of restlessness, not having a job, so needless to say I am in the process of finding a job right now. I am also considering going back to school in August, to pursue a special education degree. I have applied to two universities in Oklahoma, but haven't found any universities close to home that offer this major as a bachelor's degree. I have been researching a lot lately about what I want to do for my future, and it's been weighing me down some. I've never been incredibly gifted at making major life decisions such as. It's a good thing too, because it brings me to rely on God to lay out my path. It brings me to Him in prayer and keeps me from somehow thinking that I control my life and me alone.

On a tangent, I have been missing China a bit for the reason that I felt closer to God there. China is not filled with the best foods, houses, cleanliness, safeties, and little things that we take for granted in America. I had to rely on God to get me through my time there, and keep me close to the people I love back home here. It gave me a sense of humility and taught me to be content with what I had. I loved that. It's really hard to get in that state here in America. We're well taken care of, and then some.

Other news: the rest of my team in China is doing well. Two of them returned from their vacation in Shanghai this morning, and one of them is still vacationing on the island of Hainan. School doesn't start again until the first week of March. Continue to pray for them.