school!

Today, is my last official day of class, well until August 27th.. but this excites me so much!

Ever since I stepped foot back into College Station, after arriving home from Africa, all I have done is schoolwork, I'm not kidding...

Someone was crazy enough to enroll for 12 stinking hours (cough. me. cough) And was so overwhelmed...

Well, somehow, I forgot to pay for one of my classes, which was an english class, that I should have taken sophomore year, but I hadn't yet... and so I got dropped from the class... which was a complete blessing!

My A&M classes are over after today, and my business class will be over this Sunday!

I will finally get to sit down and make copys of all the DVD's I made and send out my testimony to my supporters... I didn't forget!! I love and appreciate you all so much!

I will finally get to breath.

But most importantly, I will finally get to spend some wonderful time with God! I'm going home this weekend, back to good ole Frankston, where my favorite thing to do, is ride out into the pasture on the 4-wheeler and just sit out there,

to think,

to read,

to pray,

to just be still and listen.

Right as the sun is setting, looking across the water, it doesn't get more peaceful to me.

Sweet Chocolate

....because I love chocolate, and I LOVE my friends!


I got to see this sweet friend of mine on Wednesday. She has been in China all summer ministering on a college campus there.

It's amazing how God can take us both all around the globe and then bring us back together so we can share how He is working in our lives and all that He taught us! I love how we can be apart from each other for one month, two months, and come back and we pick up just where we left off. She is such a blessing!

For 2 hours we shared our stories, just sitting there telling each other our tales from around the world and constantly learning from each others experiences, encouraging one another.

I just love how God created fellowship and how wonderful it is.



This incredible woman you see here... I've really only known since about January of this year, but I feel like I've known her for a lot longer than that. She is such a blessing, and I love getting to have her and her family in my life.

Getting to watch Kendra be a mother to Taylor and a wife to Allen is such a blessing. I learn so much just watching her, them. I love every chance I get to hang out with them. They have been gone on vacation, and I'm so glad their back so I can see them!

She shows me how to live the life that I desire to live by the way she lives her life! Love you Kendra!!!

God is SO good! All the time!



making cookies during exams!! much better than studying!! ha, she'll love I posted this one!



We went to the ICE 2006 at the Gaylord Texan.

Rachel! My sweet roommatee. She's been gone all summer, not that I have been here a lot, but on the days I am here... I DO NOT like being here alone.

I hate staying by myself, especially at night... I have some huge fears that I'm dealing with here people, and I don't think my 2 chihuahuas are going to do ANYTHING if something happens!



I mean, does that really look terrifying?

Anyways... I can't wait for Rachel to be back, I can't believe we're Seniors and this is are last year to live together! I have missed her so much, but I know that this time of being apart will make us be even closer!

God works things to the good of those who love Him!

distractions

So apparently I'm terrible at blogging, it looks like its an every two weeks thing for me. Not because there is nothing going on in my life, but simply I don' tknow why. I sit at a computer for 5 hours a day M-F at work, normally not busy, but for some reason not wanting to share... I"m not so sure.

Anyways. I've been back almost a month, and I promise you it gets harder as the days go by to be here. Let me tell you why...

Distractions. Interference. Disturbance. Hindrance.... is mostly what I've been finding since being home.

In Africa...my prayer was that the Lord would reveal Himself to me completely. I prayed for Him to give me HIS heart for this kids, to let me feel their pain, to give me their burdens, to let me weep for them when they couldn't.... And He did. He gave me just that.

Walk with me through this analogy.

I have been home a month...but I'm realizing my eyes are adjusting to the brightness (busyness) of what is America...and my relationship with God is starting to fade into the background. I mean, I have so much to do! Right, but wrong. If I would only adjust my focus to Him, all my stress and worry would disappear.

So He gave me this picture:

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

When we focus our eyes on the Son, Jesus, then the things of this world, it's temptations, fears, worry, and hurts pale in signfigance.

I have prayed against this, but it has happened. I prayed that I would not fall back into the ways of this world, that I would keep my eyes just on Him.

I desire to live my life to have purity of heart, being single-minded, focused on what will please the One who created me.