Hello again:)

More than one blog post in one night, lucky you! I finally had a free night to take some time to write down my thoughts and to update my blog once again. Thank you for taking the time to invest in learning about what I am learning; I appreciate your support. Please note that there is more than one page to this blog. If you look above this, directly below the large blue box, there are three sections (Life and Learning in Germany, Studying the Word of God, and Education as an Artist). Each of these sections, when clicked upon, brings you to a new page where there are more specific blog posts. So read on, my friends; thank you for sharing in my life.

This week, I have been struggling with what God wants from me. Sacrifice. Trust. And there are several struggles that go along with that such as how to really know what he wants, how to start being better, how to go about pursuing his will for my life, how? How? How? I realize that in my blog posts I write a lot about how I am struggling. This is because I am struggling a lot here, but it is in such a good way. I am growing so so much.

Yet I just want to be clear that struggles are not the only thing taking place during this experience. I want to share with you the blessings I have already encountered by being here. Great friends, time set aside for God, lectures, food, fellowship, leadership, sleep, art time, etc. There is no other place in the world that has a schedule like this, where we are able to set aside two and half hours for worshipping God every Friday morning. We spend hours in prayer and learning how to listen to God. We have a legitimate class where we read books of the Bible. There are fifteen students in this school from all over the world, and twelve staff members who are from all over the world again. It is incredible, actually only made possible by God himself that we are all here, living and learning together. I am so blessed to be here. I am so blessed to get along with my roommates and build solid friendships with them. I am so blessed to be able to have the opportunities to get to know each and every person here and be able to become good friends with all of them.  I am so blessed to have such inspirational leaders for my DTS, who come alongside us in our struggles and help us through that. I am so blessed. I keep thinking of new things, such as the beautiful nature that I am surrounded by here, that I am safe here, that I have healthy food here. And ultimately, I am blessed because my God, who is so great and majestic and powerful, takes care of me and loves me and takes time to talk to me every day.

Through the struggles and through the blessings, I keep asking questions. I keep doing my best to pursue more of God and push myself farther. I am growing; my roots are wrapping more tightly around the foundation of Jesus Christ upon which I stand and my branches are reaching higher and are getting closer to having a real relationship with my Lord and Saviour.

Love always,
Fina