A couple few thangs

1. I am BUSY now.  I really want to write an organized blog post with an actual purpose to it, but I am not sure when I will find the time.
2. As a quick summary, my life now involves things like: Amanda Jorgensen, Christina Lopez, Kristina Emerick, running a mile every other day, half-hour long bus rides to campus every day filled with lecrae in my ears, remembering how much I actually enjoy my major (!) and am kind of good at it even, skyping and missing Holly Janecke, coming back to Cornerstone/Salt, missing Des Moines and everything in it, missing LINZI SHEROD, trying to learn more about cooking, filling out job applications, waiting for Emily to give me skate lessons, reading through 2 Corinthians, learning climbing lingo with Amanda and asking everyone and their three pets to teach me how to belay, learning contentment learning contentment learning contentment, resisting buying chai every day, healing the 15 bruises that were on my legs, actually doing my homework, anddddd being in a newly-formed relationship.
3. God is putting really random people in my life, and I'm trying to figure out what He wants me to do with them.
4. Quick story that you probably already know: Last spring, salt gave a message on giving that really changed my heart about how I spend my money.  They said "give more than you think you can manage, and then see how God still provides for your needs".  I was kind of unsure, but I decided to be as give-y as possible anyway.  I went through a TON of money over the summer, and I tried to help out my friends and family and give to people I know doing mission stuff a lot.  By the end of summer I was in the "okay, let's see how God will provide, because I kind of need Him too now" point.  Then, my dad did something that hurt me both financially and emotionally, but let's not get into the details of that.  The point is I was worried about whether I would even be able to go to school this fall.  So I was freaking out for a few days, but I got to meet with a financial aid guy and (very miraculously and only by Jesus) I am now financially set for the whole year!  And then some!  And the guy said he would help me out a lot next year when this same kind of situation comes up.  It's kind of a big deal.  PTL.

And now, I leave you with this:

I got to see all the sheep at the state fair, and it made me even more excited to own my flock of sheep in the future.  The only bad thing was they were all already sheered!