This week Kala and I began language school! We are attending class for a two week intensive course in Italian.
We ride the metro to get down to the historic city center where the school is located, so it takes us about 30 minutes or so to get there each morning. Our schedule was intense yesterday. We got up at 6:30 am and got to the school at 8:45ish. Had a little written and verbal test before being placed in a class and starting our first lesson. I felt incredibly stupid and backwards… just being honest. So then we got out at 1pm and rushed back home to eat a quick bowl of ceriali before going to teach ESL for two hours. Needless to say that by the time we finished up at about 7:30, we where dead.
So it was hard to get out of bed this morning and think about going out into the rain. But God, being his awesome self, gave me something to rejoice about. I was reading my bible this morning and it was talking about Peter and the Gentiles. The apostles where upset with him because he had witnessed to and baptized a group of Gentiles. In “explaining” to them his actions, he simply stated: “then I remembered what the Lord had said: John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit. So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us, who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to think I could oppose God?” When they heard this, they had no further objections and praised God, saying, “so then God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

I may have a long long way to go with Italian and may never be able to communicate the way I want to, but my struggle is with one language. God has made a way for all people to have “repentance unto life” and the fact that that is so much more extensive than one language or even two, is awesome to me! I mean, I am SO weak, but in him I am strong, and need nothing more than the knowledge of him and a willing spirit to follow where he leads me.