Adventures since May....Catch up time

So...I suppose I need to get everything back up to speed. Here is goes.

May:

I gradjumated from App State, Magna Cum Laude, my family was in the country, my grandfather came from Toronto and it was a lot of fun!

I also started dating this amazing man:

June-July:

Long distance relationship (lots of skype)

I painted a bit:

July- today :

I moved in with this amazing friend:

And I got to paint my bedroom (whatever color i wanted)!

I have been working (at a job I dislike) and dating (a fellow I very much like (and not long distance)).

I have been looking for a new job.... and trying to get into a new rythm... and keeping an eye out for new adventures

Word

From my jounral, 1 June, 2008.

"Is it woundings that makes us stop taking risks? Am I becoming tame? Am I settling for second best?...

Dig in, hold on...or be offensive. I hold on to the ground that I have taken, stand firm, then worship like mad.

The time for standing firm will soon be over. It will soon be time to take ground, take risks, worship hard.

Woundings do make us seek saftey. It is prey that burrow, that hunker down. Civilians hide in bomb shelters, warriors wear armor and get out of the bomb shelter.

If Jesus' truth is contradictory to common knowledge, and it is, many times, we will not cover and hide our weak places, our wounds. These are our strengths. Out of our belly our most vunerable place flows the living water. Out of wounding, flows healing. "Battle" is when we stop just holding on, when we stop nursing things that simply need to be given up for redemption. "Battle" is when we stand up, and let go.

It is when, having done all to stand, we stand.

God will and has taken care of what are truly vunerable places...we just need to trust him to make our hurts into healings."

It is good.

Its 2 am on Saturday night....

...and this is what I'm up to.

just remember...

It's a common stipulation that there ain't no hope

But there's a tire swing baby on the end of our rope

ingredients for a lovely rainy day...

~coffee (dark roast) in great quantities

~good music (Jon Foreman: Branches and Limbs)

~a pretty rain coat

~books

~comfy place to read

~splashing in puddles

....if only I was less busy.

"These are my two drops of rain

Waiting on the window-pane.

I am waiting here to see

Which the winning one will be."

~A. A. Milne: Waiting by the Window