I´ve finished!

It is done!

Yes, today I did my last chapter in my studies and sent in the final exam! I can hardly believe that almost a year has gone by and that I actually made it through the course!

It has been a real challenge and yet a great joy to see that, with God´s help and lots of encouragement, I have made it to the finish line!

But at present, I am harbouring a somewhat sweet and sour feeling about finishing, because the final chapter and exam were extremely taxing to say the least. I am now waiting for these results really before I can fully get into celebration mode! I´ll let you know!

Study Crazy

No student knows his subject:
the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) Twenty-eighth President of the USA.

This weeks has been a difficult week of studying, and I have found myself lost in the world of the verterbraes, spinal cords, traffic accidents with paralasis, Parkinsons, Brain clots, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS..... I was up to my eyeballs in medical terms and had the sensation that the words were swimming across the pages, and swirling about in my head and I wasn´t grasping the half!! It´s a tremendously scary and frustrating experience. Am I alone in this phenomenon?

The very act of conscious learning
requires the willingness to suffer
an injury to one's self-esteem.
That is why young children,
before they are aware of their
own self-importance, learn so easily.

~Thomas SAS

So according to "Thomas" I guess I am not alone ....what I am suffering is an injury to my self esteem... kinda of like what you feel when you are in a room of people speaking a different language and you smile sheepishly, somehow acknowledging a conversation you understand absolutely nothing about, all the while feeling as conspicuous as an illiterate person attending a book fair. (Been there...done that!!!)

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question
and not finding it
than we do from learning the answer itself.
~Lloyd Alexander

Man, does this guy Lloyd know what he is talking about!... I have found out more looking up things in Spanish and English dictionaries and on google than in all my text books! But it all takes time and you cant rush through it.

Just like knowing God.... we have moments when we feel overwhelmed by who He is, moments when we feel the "ah ha" and understand, and moments when we think we know what we are doing and want to rush through all the lessons!

Like studying and learning something new, it takes time and God says :

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Philippians 1:6 KJV

P.S.

A single conversation with a wise man
is better than ten years of study.
~Chinese Proverb

Anybody want to have a conversation with me about the aged and Dependants? It will take months off my studying!!!!!Ha!! Ha!