EH2: An American Invasion
What can I say? I'm addicted!!
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land" 2 Chronicles 7:14
I'll admit...most of the time I still feel really young. Every once in awhile I think to myself "Gosh, I'm a university graduate! Heck, I'm a TEACHER! When did that happen?!" However, there are times where I begin to notice that I AM in fact getting older. For example...it's so strange that some of my youth girls, that I've known since Grade 8, are graduating this year!! Or when I go to certain concerts (and go all crazy in the mosh pit) I look around me and most of the people look 16 or younger. Yesterday I went to visit a friend who is currently living in the dorm I lived in my first year. We walked into her dorm and she said to her roomates "Hey! My friend used to live in this dorm!" "Oh really!" they responded, "when??". I thought about it for a minute and said "uhh, six years ago". "Oh" *pause* "that was awhile ago".
Megs informed me that an update is long overdue. My life, as per usual, has been very 'full' and I'm really enjoying this year (both the joys and the challenges). Some highlights from the past week have been: having a good chat/dinner with Jess, being reminded of how dependent I am on God in my ministry to youth, attending The Core conference on helping hurting teens (no, we were not trained how to hurt them...haha), going to a Mexican Fiesta party at Mel's and meeting new people/playing the telephone pictionary game (what?! that said ocean space, not outer space?!), getting to know people in the church better at the 'Guess who's coming to lunch?' event, spending lots of quality 'snuggle' time with our new baby, grunting and pretending to be all 'manly' with Mel while watching '300' with 14 guys, going to an avacado themed party at Liz and Anna's, catching up with Kayla and sharing what we've been learning about in 'Velvet Elvis', teaching sex-ed to a bunch of Grade 6 students, swimming laps with all of the elderly people while a techno version of ABBA broadcasts in the pool, going for a windy walk with Corrie, bringing Kristian some 'treats' (candy and beef jerky) to help cheer him up after a hard day at work, feeling like I'm back in Noah's day ABOUT TO DROWN IN ALL OF THE FREAKIN RAIN and longing for summer...