Well hello there, friends! It's definitely been since like August! But I got one of those urges to blog as I attempted to go to sleep at 11:45pm tonight. Sometimes sleep is just really overrated, especially when you can sleep until the late hours of the morning during break!
Well anyways, I thought I'd update you on my life a little bit as facebook statuses can only tell so much.
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| Millennium Park. |
Break has been just splendid. I've gotten to do lots of small road trips to see family in Milwaukee, to go to the cities for Cru's Twin Cities Experience, to Illinois to visit my lifelong friend, Hannah, and visit Chicago for a day, to Oshkosh to see Erin and other high school/college friends, and now I'll be heading back to Milwaukee on Wednesday with Aaron to see my older sister before heading the opposite direction to UW-Stout. It's been SUCH a blessing to get to see so many wonderful, beautiful people whom I love! It's also been super duper to have my brother Aaron home for break! He's such a fun person to be around and has made my break at least 27.8 times better. Also, Aaron shocked us all with the news that he's going into the Air Force after graduation this year. It's of course scary and surprising, but I think finding out about this decision was one of the proudest moments I've had. I'm so proud of his sacrificial heart.
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| Johnny & Mariah. |
Seeking God during break has been difficult but good. I'm guessing most of us know how it is when you have too much time on your hands and tend to waste it... !ell that's what I always struggle with on breaks, and it sucks that spending time with Jesus is suddenly a last priority for me :/ However, God is gracious and full of steadfast love, and I have been learning despite my inadequacies.
The biggest question on my mind has been what to do with my summer. I thought for sure that TCX would show me (as it did last year for North Myrtle Beach) whether or not I am supposed to go on another summer project. I sort of just supposed that I would since I did last year, and I also felt that using my knowledge of the French language on the France summer project would be a blessing. However, as is typical for God, He showed me something different than I originally thought, and that pertains to working at Fort Wilderness, a Christian summer camp up north. Since I started going to camp as a child I've wanted to one day work as a counselor at one, and I believe that finally it's what God wants for me this summer! I am so excited to get to influence campers for Christ this summer as I'll have the opportunity to show some the true meaning of the gospel and to some what it means to passionately pursue our insanely beautiful Savior with their entire life.
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| hannah and i. |
As far as this coming semester goes, I am moving into my apartment in Menomonie this coming Friday, which is super exciting! I'm living with four other girls and get to have my own room! Woop woop! I've bought some darling decorations pertaining to a nautical style, so hopefully that goes along with my Franceish theme I already have going on. Everyone asks me how I am feeling about it, and I wish I knew how to answer. It's really all just so different that I don't think I can know until I get there. However, I am more than thrilled to see what God has in store for me during this next semester. It's really cool to me how God knows me so deeply, and He knew all along that apparel design is what I love, even way before I knew it. I really couldn't ask for a more fitting and wonderful major to study! God is so lovely. It will be difficult, as the road to any good thing worth achieving is, but I know without doubt that,
"He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."
Philippians 1:6
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