Still reading in Amos today...I am very glad for this time in my Bible reading...I have always spent a lot of time in the New Testament and have done a study of the first 5 books of the Bible but have never really read the whole entire Bible...It has been a major weakness in my full understanding of the Gospel I think...not understanding the history and the prophecy from my own personal journey through them...not fully understanding how God has woven the story from the beginning of time...not seeing all of God's promises to His people and then seeing how He was faithful to them...I have a lot of stories that I know from studying them on their own but I have never gotten the whole entire picture that is laid out throughout the whole OT...So reading through the Bible, and not just through it but through it chronologically, has been really good for me.

Jon and I went running today and I am glad to say that I was able to run one minute longer today than I did on Friday...I think the consistancy will pay off and I am thankful that I am working on getting back in shape...it makes me feel better to flop down all sweaty on my couch after a good run...knowing that I am working slowly toward living a more healhly life.

I planted sunflowers in my flowerbed almost two weeks ago now...I have been anxious...wondering if they are going to grow...it was such a suprise when Jon called to me from outside and told me I needed to get out there...I could only smile as he got down on his hands and knees to point out where the first signs of my flowers were breaking through...I am really hopeful they are going to make it and grow tall and bloom...something (probably the bunnies) has been eating my other flowers and I hope they are not going to eat my sunflowers before they get the chance to grow...

I have been toying around with the idea of pursuing a Social Work degree...Sometimes when I think back on my college years I think how much more suiting pursuing a degree in this field would have been for my interests...but at the same time I can not second guess following the path I did because it has taken me where I have been through the years...very many blessed years. So, maybe a post graduate degree in the field will come next...I think international affairs mixed with social work would be awesome...