Sunday, November 23, 2008

my heart wants more.
my heart wants to truly live.
my heart wants people;
genuine, truth-seeking, fallen people,
who are saved by grace, just as i am.
i don't want to take life and people for granted.
i want to get to know others.
i want to let them get to know me.
i want to be loved.
i want someone to love who i really am.
i want him to love me, my heart, my spirit,
the part of me that will go on forever.
i want to be confident and optimistic and real and unafraid.
i want to display God's faithfulness and beauty and love to everyone.
i want to be more than who i am right now.
but i don't know how.
yet.
i need to be in His Word so much more.
i need to be so much closer to Him.
no wonder i feel like this.
i'm not going to Him for everything.
i think i need this break to find rest in Him
and to surround myself in Him.
as well as with other people who love me.
pray for me? that would be great.

"[your beauty] should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight."

- 1 Peter 3:4

Saturday, November 22, 2008

is it Christmas yet?

only a few more days til i head home for turkey break, which i'm pumped for. not so much even thanksgiving day...more of just getting to be home with family. i'm thankful for them. and my friends. and lots of other cool people. and lots of other stuff.

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it's not even Thanksgiving yet and i'm in the mood for Christmas and snow and mistletoe.

i'm glad, though, that we can celebrate Jesus year-round. i'm glad that He's with us always, our Emmanuel.

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here's some pictures of what's been going on in my life.... : )


these are some of the coolest girls you'll ever meet (my roommates & me ;))
amy, amy jo, emily & me.


















here's half of the kewanee kids that go to olivet... :)
the 6 of us, though, try to get together once a week. it's known as "kewanee dinner" and we're so cool that we have non-kewanites joining us. haha.



went to see my favorite band, Relient K, in Chicago at the House of Blues with some cool kids.



and i voted in the presidential election for the first time in my life!, which was pretty cool, even if mccain/palin didn't get it. ;)



and i turned 20 on november 6th! it was an awesome birthday...my parents & good friend, annie, came to visit me that weekend. and we had lots of cake, presents, and parties!

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it's been a good semester, but i can't believe it's almost over! time goes so quickly!
(i love college, by the way. :))