on being personally enriched

As I mentioned recently, my new goal is to be personally enriched by school. I remind myself of this goal multiple times a day.

On Monday, I made an interesting observation. After coming out of my mineralogy lab, I realized that I felt personally enriched. Very much so, in fact. We were looking at various igneous rocks and identifying the minerals in them, and I thought it was very fun. I wish I could describe to you the joy that I felt when I found some garnets in a rock that was mostly plagioclase and amphiboles, or when we compared rocks that both had K-feldspar, plagioclase, and amphiboles, but the feldspar was more consolidated in one of the rocks because it had cooled more slowly. All the things that I learn about science increase my faith in God and Jesus Christ. I am awed at all the things They have to know and be able to do in order to create worlds.