Back in the Boro again!

I wish I had some pictures to put up here, but I don't. Sad. But I did want to update this for my fellow blog stalkers! I'm back at school and back in my grandma's den (which is frigidly cold right now! brrrrr!!!) I started a new internship at a new school with a new teacher and new students. I'm in a 6th grade language arts class. The school is really new, like only 3ish years old, so it's full of new technology, environment friendly features, and carpeted classrooms. Cool!! I'm enrolled in a political science class that scares the ever-living out of me, an online class that I keep forgetting about and a sociology class that I absolutely love! The professor has the timing and delivery of a stand-up comic, so things are never boring! This semester, I'm in my Language Arts methods class to teach me how to teach LA. Last semester was social studies and it totally put a fire under my love for history, and now I'm thinking that I would love to teach social studies, maybe more than English! Hopefully, this semester will even it out and I'll be happy with whatever position I find myself in for the fall of next year! Oh my goodness, I'll be graduating next spring and out in the real world in only a year and a half! Time sure does fly when you're in college for five years! Hahaha
On a more serious note, I am, just like most of us, deeply saddened about the tragedy in Haiti. I've been thinking and praying, hurting and loving since I heard about it the night it happened. It's hard to remember our good and faithful Lord when so many people are in pain, suffering from hunger and thirst, longing for their lost loved ones, the destruction of their homes, schools, hospitals and churches. Thankfully, church isn't just a building. I was thinking last night about bad things that happen on castastrophic levels (because I'm currently reading through Jeremiah, in which God is raining down His wrath on the people of Israel and Judah). I remembered Haiti, Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami of '05(?)... Even through these disasters, we can still (and should still) praise God. I remembered how silly it is that we worry about things because He's got it all in His hands (didn't mean to reference the song, but it works). He makes these things happen for a reason. We don't know the reasons, but we have to trust that He's got it. It's heartbreaking, nonetheless. Losing friends and family is never an easy thing to do, and we have to believe that our friends in Haiti who lost their lives found themselves at the gates of Heaven.
.....I went all A.D.D. and totally forgot what else I was going to say. I guess my point is that God knows everything that goes on in this world. He makes the sun rise, the wind blow and the rain fall. If it's an earthquake He wants, an earthquake will shake the earth. But it's all to remind us of who is in control and that He is the most wonderful, merciful, wrathful, graceful, loving Father that we have ever known. We can only pray that the lost souls of Haiti find their way into the light of Christ, a place of forgiveness and comfort, healing and strength.
Remember: "We are to love one another, for love comes from God" ~1 John 4:7