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the workload is hyped up to be exhaustive, so i'm taking things one day at a time. i am on day two of classes and it's working so far. :) we have a lot of reading to do and the books we're working through right now are "celebration of discipline" "know the truth" and "what skeptics say," along with reading through the Bible. after some mind-boggling reading yesterday i switched to the Bible and found myself thanking God for the simplicity of His Word. it's so refreshing to understand what you read and yet be able to come back to it again and again and receive new insight and revelation. but why would i ever expect God to be anything less than amazing like that?

this morning as i read in Genesis i was reminded of the miracle that rain had to be to people who never experienced it before. i was praying about not wanting to take God for granted - or anything for granted. i kept praying and was "distracted" by the most beautiful rainbow! it was enormous and brighter than any rainbow i've ever seen. there are rainbows on the island quite often, but this one was so bright that i had to stop looking at it! it got really noisy and i thought it was only the wind in the palm trees but it turned into this heavy downpour of rain. it kept raining and raining and was one of those perfect moments, just me and God ... knowing that He loves me.