Today another year of college begins. If all falls into place as it should, this is the last year for me.
Should I be excited? Or terrified? I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. But apparently I’m growing up all the same. Life doesn’t stop to wait for you to figure [...]
Posts Tagged ‘God’
The last first day freakout
Posted in Life as we know it, tagged college, fear, future, God, growing up, stress/worry, wavering on August 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Highs and Lows
Posted in LVR, tagged Colorado, faith, friendships, God, growth, highs and lows, Lutheran Valley Retreat, purpose, servanthood on August 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Now that I have time (and internet), I can finally write about my time at LVR.
The trouble is, I’m not quite sure how to go about it. How can I sum up three of the most formative months of my life? At the end of each week after the campers left and before the cleaning [...]
Anticipating goodbye
Posted in Relationships, tagged adventure, Colorado, future, God, loneliness, love, Lutheran Valley Retreat, Nature, planning, summer, travel on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Please save this for me. I’ll come back for you, love, I promise to. Please save this for me for until I return my love will burn, and my heart will stay.” -Ludo, Please
The date of my departure is approaching. The months have flown by. The weekends were few and busy. The weeks remaining turned [...]
Tuberculosis
Posted in Life as we know it, tagged adventure, family, God, planning, tuberculosis on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I had to get a physical for my summer job, and part of it is a test to make sure I don’t have tuberculosis. They stabbed me with a short, fat needle and injected something or another that made a bubble under my skin. Now it’s a little bruised hole that makes me look like [...]
The journey of a day
Posted in Contentment, Life as we know it, Nature, Relationships, tagged Across the Universe, bicycling, emptiness, fiction, God, Here There and Everywhere, hope, loneliness, love, music, Nature, Psalm 36, The Beatles, weather on April 17, 2009 | 14 Comments »
{Fiction or non-fiction? Perhaps a bit of both dangerously intermingled into one story that’s mostly almost about me. Take it with a grain of salt, whatever that really means.}
She worshiped the glowing screen, petitioning it for the fellowship she desperately desired. “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life…” Yes, yes, [...]
Building a dam- a work in progress
Posted in Life as we know it, Relationships, tagged attitude, character, faith, God, ideals, Life as we know it, love, mercy, planning, Relationships, Relient K, righteousness, struggle on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands while my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me. Then and there I confess- I’ll blame all this on my selfishness.” -Relient K, When I Go Down
It’s one of those days- I can’t find words for the feeling that’s snuck up on [...]