Hey all. Since my acquisition of a digital camera for Christmas, I decided to add a photo gallery to my website. Of course it took Chris to get the whole thing added...Thanks Chris! Some of the pictures are not recent, stolen from other sites (sorry Chris and Tod) or not of people you know. But hey! I'm excited and it's lots of fun! There will be more pictures popping up of people and things you know in the near future, in the mean time, just enjoy looking at the few that are there now! Just click the "Places" drop-down menu and then photos! YAY!
So many things have been happening here at GV this Winter semester. I'm only a week and a half in and so far I've experienced a lot of things that I wouldn't have expected. I'm becoming closer with a lot of the people in His House, which makes living a Christian life a whole lot easier for me. I'm on Honors Council this semester, which so dar is only committing to like an hour every Thurday night so that will hopefully remain a rather limited position. I've worked my first five day work week since I've been back, which has been sort of difficult so far. On Monday I locked my keys in my car at a high school and had to wait for a tow truck to come and get my doors open. On Tuesday I started experiencing acute chest pain around 12:00 and it didn't go away so Tod drove me to the emergency room. Thank God it's just a muscle strain...it still hurts but it wasn't anything too serious.
I think I'm starting to realize how much I'm going to miss Craig this semester. It's not because I won't see him everyday, because I experienced that my first semester of college last year. It's not even that I won't be able to talk to him or anything like that. I think it's mostly that I KNOW I won't be able to see him for months. I simply cannot do it. It won't happen. And the whole time difference thing doesn't exactly make for the best coordination of phone calls or on-line "dates." I'm not even worried that we'll break up or that he'll stop loving me or any of that. God's right in the middle of our relationship so I know there's no way it's going to be changed or broken up. I mean just the other day, Craig was talking to me on-line about how he feels blessed that he has someone like me in his life. He was talking about how this preacher was saying that they (preachers) need people to compliment them on the things they're sometimes not the best at in life. Something to that extent. Anyway, Craig was just telling me how greatful he was that God gave him someone who actually did that. That I do that even without trying. I dunno.
Jessie, Zac, and I went to Rezlife on Sunday morning and it was just totally awesome. I actually thought about Craig a lot because they talked about marriage. I know Craig and I aren't married, but I like to apply those same guidelines for marriage to almost any relationship I'm in, whether it's romantic or friendship or anything. Anyway, the whole sermon sort of examined the six basic wedding vows and what they mean to a Christian marriage. so, I applied them to a Christian relationship. It was just so awesome to hear how and to see how this pastor and his wife got along up on stage. You could just tell that they still loved each other and that they couldn't be happier with one another. haha! She even kissed him up there saying "I just can't get this close to him and resist." I guess I'm just discovering how much God has changed my life and my relationships and how thankful I am for it. Sometimes I wonder where all my relationships, with Craig, with family, with friends, would have gone had I not decided to turn my life over to Christ. Yeah I beleived in God and Jesus before, but I wasn't following Him the way I should have been.