Genesis

I have been re-reading Genesis, actually I want to read Genesis through Deuteronomy by December 18th. But I was reading the first few chapters the two nights ago and they just struck me. I don't know why, but they did. It was like God said "See, if I can do all this in just seven day, think of what I will be able to do through you in your lifetime." So I thought I would post the whole chapter for all to read. There will be the beginning of chapter two to finish the story. I took out the verses so you can just read and the Scripture is taken from the New American Standard Bible. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Genesis 1-2:4
The Creation
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day. Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

Here I go...

It is finally time to go serve on the Mission Field. This has been such a long time coming I cannot believe it is finally time. I have known I would do mission work since I was in Elementary school. I have always been in love with the fact that I can go somewhere and share the love of my Savor, Jesus Christ, with those around me who don't know the truth. I went to Haiti when I was in the tenth grade, and I wouldn't have come home if I hadn't had high school to finish. I went to Honduras in my Freshman year of College, and knew I needed to finish college before I continued. My teaching degree has always been important to me and it took me five years to get me BS in Education. I am certified to teach babies through sixth grade. I love teaching children and watching them learn.

I am now almost a year out of college and God decided it is now time for me to go tell others of His love. I am going through the International Mission Board (IMB) and will be in the Journeyman program. I will spend eight weeks in VA going through training. I will be getting to know others who are going around the world and also another family going to Poland with me. After the eight weeks, I will come home and spend Christmas with my family and then I head out.

Head out to where you ask. Well, God is sending me to Poland. This wasn't my first choice but it has always been God's choice for me. Over the last few months I have grown to love Poland and I cannot wait until I am on the field. I will be the teacher of the Missionary Children on the field and I am very excited. I want to pass along my love of learning to these children.

So here I am now, I leave for VA in eight hours and I am trying not to go crazy. There was so much to do before I could leave tonight I cannot believe I got it all done. I felt as though everything would never get done and then it all did and now I am just sitting, waiting until it is time to leave for the airport. I am eating dinner with my parents before I go at a wonderful restaurant called Mimi's and then I will have an hour to wait in the airport and then off to VA. I get to training facility tonight around 11p and then I have tomorrow to get settled and then everything begins on Wed. I cannot wait to get on the Field and tell others about the Love of Jesus Christ.