well, this is my first post on this web blog i have created for class, the urbana class that is. i am looking forward to being at urbana in less than 2 weeks (although i am greatly enjoying my time back home in alabama). i have no idea what this urbana experience will be like for me. and quite frankly, i have lately wondered why in the world am i going…but i think it is something God led me to in a sense. i expect that it will be challenging as i hear and experience things that i have not yet heard or done, educational as i learn what missions looks like within the business context, confirming as i seek to know what i will be doing after i complete my time at fuller, and relational as i engage in conversation with those in class, in the seminars, in the vendor booths, or those in the hallway. i do have expectations that as God continues to show me who He has created me to be, i will see doors both open and shut so i can better see the pathway God has and is calling me to on this journey on which i travel.