fresh new blanket, fresh blankets of snow, oh wait: SLUSH!

I am fairly certain that I might have been less soggy at the end of the day if I had walked over the pond (and even if I had fallen in) instead of the pathways here. I have completely and totally soaked my "weatherproofed" boots. I have now gone through three pairs of socks.

"He hat put a new song in my mouth, even PRAISE unto our God" Psalms 40:3

With that, I can only cease my grumbling, and tell about the new song that today was for me. Nothing dramatic, but today was first class Systematic Theology I (YAY!! my first college credit class ever!!) and it was cute. I say cute because (funny story): one of the new freshmen like me fell passed out dead asleep. I mean his mouth was WIDE open, his body completely spent over, and he was just chill. Of course adam had to roar in laughter when he saw this. I mean it: roar. It was so loud everyone was laughing at adam and the new kid (as if im not a new kid too) and both of their faces were so red. beat red.

We also had our first chapel and President Crabtree talked about how important it was to purpose in your heart to be righteous. That when you choose righteousness, you become an influencer, and God promotes you so much more powerfully than you could have yourself if you had worked in your own strength. His context was from Daniel, and the story where Daniel purposed in his heart not to defile himself with the food that Nebuchadnezzar had offered him. It's not so much about the food than it was about the principle of how Daniel chose to react. He purposed in his heart not to let anything defile the ministry that God had planned for him. And when we decide that Christ is LORD of our life, not just a circumstantial God, that great things happen, people notices, and lives are changed.

Another important point he made was that we are not slaves to the world when we chose against the world. I think so many times as Christians we feel restricted from the "fun things" that we could do. But those fun things also lead us into bondage, pain, shame, resentment, bitterness. And that is being a slave to the world. When we chose against what the world offers, we are choosing freedom! hallelujah!

Well I just wanted to post about that chapel, just so I will always remember what my first chapel sermon was like. Someday that will be interesting.

Tomorrow is thursday: the day I have more classes than all other days (four) and really only a three hour break in the day! I am so looking forward to it though, and learning all the things that God has planned for me.

Goodnight :]

one more funny thing: we also went to target today (kayla, tim, adam, and myself) and the boys spent at least half an hour choosing their curtains for their room. it was really hilarious how much thought they put into it, from the price to the panel size and width to the color the texture the design and how much light they would be letting in. Their concerns carried into dinner where they were really troubled about hot to rearrange their room in the best manner. They chose to do this with the less than satisfactory dinner (to them at least): the green beans and beef stroganoff as models of the furniture and walls. see?