Re-Exploring What This Means

"The truth is, this blog is going to be about my experience as I explore college and as I slowly try to map out the story of Earth. (Map.. it's a pun.. get it?) Anyways, I hope you'll follow as I learn the new and interesting technologies associated with GIS especially. The hope is to be able to post at least three times a week either interesting photos I find pertaining to the things I'm learning, or to just lay out the things I'm learning here.. because experts say you learn better when you're explaining concepts to someone else... "
I was afraid for the past few weeks that this blog is no longer living up to it's purpose.. but then I realized.. No. Even as I explore on here the ideas I've been pulling from my study of Catholicism, the experiences I've had as a student.. I'm still learning. I'm learning more about the Bible and God and my religion. I'm learning more and more about myself. These important lessons that I've been learning are essential to the creation of the person I want to be when I'm older. These important lessons are creating the adult I want to become. 
So.. yeah. The world is my oyster. I'm learning. I'm using my daily experiences with the world to change who I am. Most people, use the world to change the world... they take knowledge of systems and economics and politics and whatever else it is... to change the world.. we all change the world.. some of us are positive. We take the world; we want to change it to make it more sustainable.. we want it to be around for the rest of our lives and our children's children's lives. Some people take the world and change it by planning to cut down forests of trees or planning to build a dam. 
I'm taking the world and still trying my best to learn from the environmental processes and still taking everything I'm learning in my classes, and I love it.  The big change since when this blog started is that I now am also taking what I learn from my experience with the Church and applying the lessons to my life. I need these experiences. I need these experiences because I need Jesus in my life. I love that there is a Father up in Heaven who loves me no matter what I do. I love that there is this beautiful story that we read every day in mass and that these stories... these lessons that are thousands of years old STILL apply to my life. I can still learn from them and take meaning from verses and chapters and books of the Bible. 
I am still learning. I am still working on becoming the person I want to be. I am still growing. 

I'm reminded of this every time I look down at my acorn. I am still growing. I've got a long ways to go before I become the strong, confident, resilient woman that I want to be, that I can be, that someday I will be. I will always have room to grow.. but right now... today, tomorrow, the next few years, are the years that I have time to focus on things that will help me grow.