The Countdown begins!

Myself and the rest of my friends are about 28 hours away from turning in the biggest assignment of our first semester. We have to draft a Legal Memorandum, which gives advice to partners in the firm about what a court might decide on a particular subject based on what past courts have decided about the same or similar issues in the past. This paper is about 40% of our grade! Its a means for us newbies to learn how to think and write like a lawyer. It is as hard and terrifying as it sounds! This paper alone is requires more work than part-time job. I have been working on it about 5 or 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, for about 2 weeks. God has given me so much peace about it though. He is so faithful to provide when we ask! However, once this monster is past me, I can start officially counting down to finals...which means I've almost survived my first semester of Law school!!! I can't believe the semester is 3/4ths of the way over. It has been so hard, but completely worth every moment. The Lord keeps reminding me that there's so much value in being stretched and pulled and made stronger. When it seems like I can't be stretched any more, the Lord comes in and keeps testing me, and had I not accepted the Lord's call to come to Regent, or law school for that matter, I would have missed out on so many amazing opportunities to share my faith and my passion for orphans and foster care and global justice. (Just a side note: Dean Brauch, the head of our law school, gets to meet with the President of Mexico to talk about the Center for Global Justice, which he started about 2 years ago.) I am hoping to start working with the Center here on campus in the Spring. It's an another awesome opportunity to make connections with various agencies and nonprofits around the world, as well as other students and professionals that have the same burden.

**23 days til Thanksgiving!
*20 days until I get to go home to Florida!! Yay for the warmth.