have you ever had to prepare an entire thanksgiving feast (minus the turkey...so i guess entire is inaccurate, but i'm going to leave it there because it sounds more dramatic that way.hahh) for 77 people in one hour and 43 minutes??? i don't really recommend it.
the food turned out to be pretty tasty, the hands down favorite was the "uh oh, you didn't plan a vegetable? time to go 'shopping' in the leftovers bin" casserole. it was sort of like the traditional green bean casserole, but with some surprises. heheh.
class felt like it lasted forever tonight...it was good, though. i can't believe we only have 4 more classes until graduation. i'm kinda sad about that. i like to learn, and i will really miss the friends i've made, and the support i've found at PMI. it will be nice to have my monday and tuesday evenings free again, and it will also be nice to have some time to read a book..it's been too long since i've read for pleasure, and not just to learn the location and function of muscles or bones, or the affects of massage on different diseases and what not. don't get me wrong, that stuff is all amazingly cool..but i will be really happy to read a book that i don't have to use my brain so much for. :)
when i was in high school, i had the awesomest sunday school teachers...they must have really loved our group, too, because they moved with us from 9th or 10th grade the whole way up...even to college age (and presumably beyond, but i don't know because i moved south at the ripe old age of 22). i remember each time it was time for us to "graduate" to the next class, there would be this unspoken sadness, like a family having to leave its parents..and then we would find out that E & L were moving with us, and all was right again. i really thank God for them, not only did they help to build my faith, they really challenged our beliefs...encouraged us to question what we'd been taught and to find it to be true for ourselves, rather than just because that's what sister so & so told us when we were eight. they asked hard questions, answered difficult ones...and admitted when they didn't know things. they were teachers, mentors, and friends of the heart. they encouraged us, reprimanded us, and guided us, all with the most genuine love. i miss them. lots.
that little tangent was inspired by my verse of the day-it made me think of them because one of my favorite translations of this verse is in The Message...or as we called it in sunday school, "the hippie bible" we had a whole stack of them, and adding to their "groovy-ness" was the fact that our pile was totally from the 70s, man. :)
without further ado:
"Just as water mirrors your face,
your face mirrors your heart."
Proverbs 27:19
this is what makes me smile:
remembering "the good ole days"
(the most awesome s.s. teachers ever are bottom right, kind of a not so great photo of them, but the only one i have on the computer. gotta get that scanner hooked up one of these days...)
