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So close!

Man, I haven't updated this thing in forever! SO much has happened, so much. I'll shall write about them exciting stuff...in the next few days :] Anyways, I just wanted to take this short time to write about where I am and how I'm feeling right now. You see, I have a final today...my last final for grad school, and it's pretty crazy. My fellow classmates and I are freaking out about it because 2 weeks ago, when the professor told us what would be on it, it just seemed like the final would be very intensive. Essentially, this final is supposed to be an essay-type format where we write out the different theories, concepts, assessment techniques, and interventions which are utilized for the context of family. When our professor was explaining it, she had told us that we are basically "integrating and synthesizing everything we've ever learned" in the master's program...AND we have to include evidence to back up our knowledge, which includes things from ...

Hakuna Matata

"Do not worry about your life . . ." —Matthew 6:25 A warning which needs to be repeated is that “the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches,” and the lust for other things, will choke out the life of God in us ( Matthew 13:22 ). We are never free from the recurring waves of this invasion. If the frontline of attack is not about clothes and food, it may be about money or the lack of money; or friends or lack of friends; or the line may be drawn over difficult circumstances. It is one steady invasion, and these things will come in like a flood, unless we allow the Spirit of God to raise up the banner against it. “I say to you, do not worry about your life . . . .” Our Lord says to be careful only about one thing-our relationship to Him. But our common sense shouts loudly and says, “That is absurd, I must consider how I am going to live, and I must consider what I am going to eat and drink.” Jesus says you must not. Beware of allowing yourself to think that ...