Thoughts by Hannah Michelle

As part of my social media break for Lent, I added this blog.  However, Easter was over a week ago, and to be honest, I almost forgot this exists.  I'm going to try to update those of you who want to read this about some random things I've been writing about and doing. For one thing, I have found I really enjoy writing pen-on-paper more than I enjoy typing.  I think this is a main reason I haven't been back on here for the past week and a half. Well, to update you on the past basically two months of my life, I have mostly been doing homework, been in class, or been at work.  I thought it'd be this great idea to take four online classes this quarter, which hasn't been my brightest idea.  I also take another class in Elkhorn.  (Full-time at MCC is 3 classes, I'm taking 5.  Note: if you have to get your courseload pre-approved, don't do it...)  No but I'll actually have to take 5-6 courses every quarter until I graduate from Metro next spring, so...

"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing."              - 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NIV These same verses are worded this way in The Message version of the Bible:  "1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing." [Song that goes along with this passage: The Proof of Your Love, for KING&COUNTRY.] My favorite verse of ...