My Mission Statement about Hebrew: da lifnei mi attah omed

It is my purpose to learn the Hebrew language.
I want to use this blog to help me put my excitment to a usefull purpose instead of driving my family and church family crazy.
I am learning Hebrew to be able to read scripture as it was written. It helps me to concentrate on what is being said and not just read the scripture like I was trying to "finish this evening's reading schedule". Jesus helps us to remember that the Good Lord wants us to worship Him in spirt and in truth.
I think that the Good Lord knows when our purpose is to honor Him. I feel that I have simply been going through the motions when it comes to reading scripture, for the past few years. This is my attempt to really listen to what the Good Lord is trying to teach me.
Those that know me, can tell you that I have changed in the past six months. That is how long I have been working with Hebrew.
I am a very slow learner and I know how long it takes me to learn something. So I started learning Hebrew by learning the Aleph Bet. I spent three months just learning the letters and going on hebrew4christians.com. Hebrew4christians is a wonderful web site. I learned to memorize some Hebrew phrases before I could read the letters. One of the first things that I learned has become my focus.
da lifnei mi attah omed
that means "Know before whom you stand", Exodus 3:5.
This has become my whole focus.
After about three months I started looking for Hebrew lessons.
And someone pointed me to Classical Hebrew on line. I love my teacher Catherine. I am ten weeks in and have learned so much and I feel like I am so far behind. Mostly, I think I feel this way because I am the kind of person that has to study four times as much as an adveragely smart person.
So this is the introduction.