Currently Reading Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others By John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan see related

   I finished my first semester at ORU! It was endlessly long at times, yet quick....challenging but refreshing...and so many faces and things to look forward to for next year!

And now....summer awaits!  Vacation was fun and much needed!

And....MY BEST FRIEND IS GETTING MARRIED!!!

But then they all left and I'm at home alone...well with my family. I used to love coming home so much, and I still do but my life is elsewhere for now.  When they left last week, my dad said "wow...you've got an amazing group of friends. I'll bet you'll miss them while you're home these weeks...ya'll do alot together" but I said, "yeah, actually we do EVERYTHING together"

So i get to miss these people for 2 more weeks But life will be normal again soon.

But I do get to spend my time with this hott little (well, taller than me) guy while I'm home.

So lots to do this summer! Life...love...school....church.....I can't wait! Things are beginning to change, but in a good way.  So much to see and do and experience.

My new favorite quote: "Good clothes open any door!"

haha...or maybe it's just my new excuse to shop!

Currently Listening Taylor Swift By Taylor Swift see related

 We celebrated jordan's birthday this week.....

  We mastered the art of horse shoes

Life is so good. It makes me smile just to get to live it.

Everything around me reminds me of the Lord's goodness.  Life is so simple and beautiful and full of joy when we're in His hands..... so I switched my major to Public Relations and Advertising, for the first time in my college experience, I absolutely love it!!  I'm doing all the marketing and design for a Leadership conference we're doing here at ORU and getting to work with the most amazing people.  I'm so excited to see the Lord work here.  I have a wonderful new roommate for next year...such a blessing to get to live with her everyday.  My Tulsa family is coming to my house in Charleston next month and we're going to have an amazing time at the beach!  I'm going to China for 3 weeks in June!!! (i'm just waiting on the Lord to provide for that trip) And....I get to spend life with the most amazing friends in the world.  When you trust the Lord, how can He not work things out for your good?!  So why should life not be this amazing?!!

I want to sit at your feet,    

drink from the cup in your hand

lay back against you..........and breathe.

Feel your heart beat.

Currently Listening Feels Like Today By Rascal Flatts see related

 So an update on life in the last couple weeks.....or the last 3 months since i updated xanga......

I moved to Tulsa a couple weeks ago. Started classes at ORU last week and I really like it alot. Making friends, meeting lots of new people, getting involved in life here.....

Getting to be with these amazing people all the time

We had a big ice storm last weekend. Went sledding for the first time ever....

   Yeah, we know how hott we are in our 10 layers of clothing

Picking up Chris when he ran out of gas.......... .

My brother and I right before I left...he's a cutie!

 Beautiful faces. Old memories. New memories.

Now looking forward to new beginnings.

"I believe that peace lies within the small and and the magnificent. born in blades of grass, living in golden sunlight, filtering through dusty shadows that whisper of tinkling piano keys. growing in the quiet that can be found in a world that is never silent, and dying in the abandon that comes after the rain, only to be born again.  search and you will find beauty."

That quote was on my starbucks cup sitting at the airport at 5:30am.  So we leave campus around 3am, get to the airport, check in, sit at the gate, only to find that my flight was delayed long enough so that would be missing my connecting flight in chicago. So they told me not to get that flight and they would book me another one.  7 hours later, i finally got on a plane to go home.  Sitting in the airport for over 7 hours, I watched people. I spent time with Jesus. And I felt that peace and abandon, even though as I watched people, I saw a lack of peace.  I saw Jesus and I very much saw the need for Jesus.  It's funny, and sad sometimes, how much you can learn about a person just by  watching them.  Seeing people in the airport that morning and then coming home and being at school and at work, my heart just breaks into a million pieces because they don't have the hope that I have and I want them to have it so much that it just makes my heart hurt. I realize how meaningless life is without Jesus and how soooo much I need. Because i still blow stupid things out of proportion and get mat at people i care about, i still get frustrated when i get asked to do something i don't want to do, i still go through class without saying hi to the girl beside me and asking how she's doing.....i'm still human.....i still sin. But when the Lord looks at me, He doesn't see those things. He sees me....He sees love....He sees one He loves. And that's enough.

And he loves me because I made it back for his birthday.

Currently Listening Underage Thinking By Teddy Geiger, Teddy Geiger see related

I'm on my way to Texas..............