Back after all these years

I started back to school a few weeks ago and to be very honest was extremely intimidated. It wasn't the old walk into class, take a seat near the back, get out something to take some notes and keep yourself from dozing off. I'm doing this online and it seems that the video lectures are speeded up and it's as though the first weeks assignment was to read the first 33 books of the Bible and then finish that off with War and Peace. I have read and written more in the past couple of weeks than I have done in years. It has been great! I received my first 2 grades and got A's on both. I was amazed as I really don't know what I'm doing, but saying what I know and have read. I even got an email from one of the professors congratulating me on getting one of the few A's in the class. I believe it was a form letter and there ARE only 20 of us in the class. I'm still getting used to this online stuff, but it is fun to think again. One of my classes was talking about the parts of the brain and how the different parts use the chemicals to allow us to think and breath and move and speak. It went on to say that if you don't use a part of your brain, that eventually your brain assumes you dont need it so it shuts down. I believe mine had not only shut down, but was covered in dust. We are fearfully and wonderfully made and when we dont use that part after a while, somehow, another part starts and takes up the slack and we are off and running again. I thank the Lord for all that He gives me, but one of the gifts He has given me and I didnt even realize was the gift to learn, even when I thought I had turned out the lights. He went back and turned them right back on.