So it begins

School started yesterday and everything went...well...
1.) I woke up two hours late (luckily class was at 2:45)
2.) I couldn't get my books from the library because I hadn't received an ID card and didn't have a transcript from the school
3.) The line to fix classes and pick up an ID card was approximately 50 people long
4.) Since I wasn't able to pick up my class schedule, etc. I went to the wrong class-3 hours of business statistics...that I now have to sit through AGAIN tomorrow night.

Other than those silly mishaps, the day was wonderful. It was nice to have something to do and to have a sketch of a schedule for me to fill in soon. I went back this morning to figure out my class situation and praise be to God there were no other students in there. The class I sent an email about last week was now full (of course), so I signed up for sociology of aesthetics-please pray GCC approves it for credit, I don't have time for electives :)
After going to pick up my books from the library, I came back to the apartment for a little refresher and some lunch before I go off to class this afternoon. I really like this "operating like a real person" thing. Living in an apartment, cooking, cleaning, finding my way around, making my own schedule...I could get used to this.
I was reading this morning and had an epiphany-God is so faithful. I know, I should have gotten this one before, but it was just incredibly evident today. I read Jonah 2 (possibly my favorite chapter in the Bible) and realized that describes my life.

"From inside the fish Jonah prayed to the Lord his God. He said:
"In my distress I called to the Lord,
and he answered me.
From the depths of the grave I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.
You hurled me into the deep,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.

I said, 'I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.'

The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.

To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you brought my life up from the pit,
O Lord my God.

"When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, Lord,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.

"Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.

But I, with a song of thanksgiving,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
Salvation comes from the Lord."

And the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land." ~Jonah 2

I ran from the Lord's will, just as Jonah did, and let me tell you I do not like the looks of the belly of a whale. God listened all along, I was just too caught up in my own bitterness to receive His love and grace. He restores. And now I wait on Him. Where He leads, what else do I have to do but follow.