Who Knew?

Apparently, the difference between "dark golden brown" and "dark brown" was a little greater than I expected.

oops.

That said, I'm going to stay with my roomie tomorrow and on to OBU Friday.

And it is well with my soul.

Peace.
-V

Life Lately.

A lot of things happened that I didn't understand.

But I think God is showing me a little bit of his purpose.

He gave, and then He took away... and I said, "God, why did you do that to me?" To which He replied, "Do you trust me? Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened unto you."

And so I am asking, I am seeking, and I am knocking. And God said, "See, if I didn't take away you wouldn't have learned to ask."

And so I smiled. And realized that I am very happy in this season of asking.

And this season of asking is turning into a season of intercession, with which I believe God will do incredible things.

I believe that a season of intercession is followed by a season of receiving, finding, and opened doors. And I really like praying-- and I think that is a good thing.

And mostly, I am excited to go back to school, to be with people I love, to seek God there in the things He is doing, and to live a full life of satisfaction.

So, God has proven Himself to be wonderful, yet again. How marvelous.

Love.
-V

Food for Thought.

Knowing the future will not bring peace. Only knowing Christ will bring peace.

eh?

Love.
-V

I should probably be a little more organized.

My first act as Chapel CREW co-chair came too late, and then had to be corrected. I hope they enjoy getting emails from me. Haha. It's ok... Jesus totally still loves me.

I would just like everyone to know it's a little difficult to plan things from 300 miles away.

I'll be at OBU one week from today for a much needed weekend with my loves. And that makes my heart happy.

In the last week I've seen how easily I have been fooled, and that Satan character plays dirty. It makes me want to kick him in the face.

Today I bought my books and I intentionally bought one an edition back because it was only 30 cents instead of 60 dollars. I hope it turns out ok. Haha.

Gosh. I still have yet to crack open any Hebrew since I've been home. Probably a bad idea. Oh well.

Missing you with everything that is within me,
V

Life.

Thus far, the new year looks a lot like the old year.

I got my new toothbrush. Now my mouth always feels as clean as if I just got out of the dentist's office, without the gross straight fluoride taste. Laugh all you want, I think this might be true love.

I finished the twilight series today. It was pretty good. I think I'd recommend them. I think the 3rd book (Eclipse) was my favorite. I will say that the characters are not the best or deepest, and the romance is a little gushy for me, but overall the storyline carries and I could not put them down because I wanted to know what was going to happen. Long story short: I will still make fun of people who are in love with Edward Cullen, but I will not make fun of people who read them. Besides, Jasper is way totally hotter anyway. :)

So I've read 5 books in my time home thus far. I'm waiting for my Bonhoeffer book to come in the mail. Until then I think I'll hit up Mr. Henry Nouwen because that one is short and a little less intimidating than Dallas Willard.

Just in case... you wanted to know. Haha.

Sorry my life is so boring. I don't even have any good Minsky's stories.

I LIED. Tonight, I found out that my manager the idiot, who thankfully got transferred to the other store, was put in jail for selling liquor without a license to a minor. HA! And, he used to work in a bar. AND, he didn't get his liquor license in the first place because he had a warrant out for his arrest. Yes, that makes perfect sense.

I would just like to say that officially the people who work with me are way crazier than the people who come to eat the pizza. That's totally fine with me. Crazies are bad tippers.

Wishing I was with you (instead of here),
-V

This is what I know.

Oops.

If you would like to dispose of something in a dramatic fashion, you should take the following things into consideration.

Is it flammable? If yes, fire is good choice. If no, fire is bad choice.
Will it float? If yes, throwing it into a lake is bad choice. If no, lake is good choice.
Is it covered in your picture? If yes, then you should probably not do something with it that could get you into trouble-- a.k.a. litter.

So here's the problem. I did not think about any of those questions except the first one. So I didn't burn this collage because it was not flammable. However, I did not consider that wooden picture frames float, carrying their contents. I did consider that throwing a picture frame into a lake would be littering but as I did not consider the problem of buoyancy, I did not realize that if anyone wanted to know who littered they would be able to pick up said picture frame and see about 20 different copies of my face.

Crap.

I thought this was such a good idea.

I'll let you know if the police come knocking on my door with my $500 fine or up to a year in jail.
-V

Where Does My Heart Belong?

I'm growing not to appreciate this nomadic existence of mine. It's strange to live in different places during different parts of the year, to keep up with both lives. Sometimes I feel like there's just not much left for me here but a lot of burned bridges.

I don't really know what I'm trying to say.

Two books down.

I wish it was easy for me to keep up with people-- to keep in mind the ones I need to call/spend time with, but that's far from my strong suit. So instead, I read, wait tables, and try to stay on my grandmother's good side (thus far, unsuccessful).

I miss my prayer tent. I miss my roomie. I miss all of my besties... there's a lot of them, so it's a pretty big hole in my heart. I'm forgetting how to work in KC mode and OBU mode doesn't quite fit here.

Maybe I could make more sense if it wasn't 1:15 AM right now.

Who knows? I might try again later.


Wishing you the best on this most joyous of occasions,
-V