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i went on ame's tour today! my beautiful freshman roomie is a wheaton tour guide, and i've never gotten to go on one of her tours, so this morning i skipped class (i know, right?!) and tagged along. it was seriously SO much fun. first off, the weather was perfect for it, sunny and warm and breezy. it was so fun to see her all professional-y. it was so fun to get to chat with the prospective students :-) and their parents as we walked. it was so fun to get to HEAR about wheaton! (and get to try to convince people to come here). she had me explain the HNGR program when we got to the building :-) and it was just so much fun getting to be a little bit on "the other side", and getting to brag on my school, and my roommate, and everyone was like "oh that's so great you guys made such good friends!" and we were all "oh we know right!". it was just a really fun experience.
also, i realized that i think one of my great joys in life is seeing the people i love in different contexts than i'm used to seeing them in. particularly if it's a context where they enjoy themselves and feel competent. it just makes me really excited. i've felt like this when i've seen my parents at work, or christina speaking spanish, or my roommates at home with their families. one of my high school girls came to "shadow" me here and met with a professor and talked so confidently and intelligently about what she was looking for in a school, i saw it then. that's how i felt today seeing amy be a tour guide. it's just fun, and a good thing to remember.
i'm a little bit sunburned and i love it. sunburns feel like making memories and being happy-tired.
i am spread too thin right now. good thing: it's all with people and activities that i love. bad thing: i'm stressed and not getting everything done that i need to and not connecting with all the people that i really need to and sometimes my heart races in the middle of a perfectly fun evening as i think about all the other things i could/maybe should have done (oh geez, that sounds even worse typed out).
i also realized that my time with God has been suffering. i thought it was because i wasn't making time for Him, but i technically have been, hours-wise. what i haven't been making is room in my heart/mind to REALLY ask Him what i need to be doing and how i can do better, because i haven't wanted to hear the answers. thus, the distance-feeling. disobedience is such a great way to suck the joy out of life. having a relationship with Him is such a great way to pour it back in, though :-).
i hadn't really figured most of that out until i tried to externally process it tonight. i love being verbal. i don't always love it for you poor people who get to listen to it, though. sorry and thanks.
tuesday dinner last night was just so wonderful.
so was the 2 1/2 hour convo with the bosom friend afterwards.
my roommates are beautiful.
dsg tonight was fab. those girls make me LAUGH. also, hannah bought us pies from baker's square. so good. and we read more from the celtic daily prayer book and it was perfect. i need some nouwen to slow me down tomorrow. reading does good things for slowing me which does good things for everything else.
i love that there are pink blossoms everywhere.
love you all.
also, i realized that i think one of my great joys in life is seeing the people i love in different contexts than i'm used to seeing them in. particularly if it's a context where they enjoy themselves and feel competent. it just makes me really excited. i've felt like this when i've seen my parents at work, or christina speaking spanish, or my roommates at home with their families. one of my high school girls came to "shadow" me here and met with a professor and talked so confidently and intelligently about what she was looking for in a school, i saw it then. that's how i felt today seeing amy be a tour guide. it's just fun, and a good thing to remember.
i'm a little bit sunburned and i love it. sunburns feel like making memories and being happy-tired.
i am spread too thin right now. good thing: it's all with people and activities that i love. bad thing: i'm stressed and not getting everything done that i need to and not connecting with all the people that i really need to and sometimes my heart races in the middle of a perfectly fun evening as i think about all the other things i could/maybe should have done (oh geez, that sounds even worse typed out).
i also realized that my time with God has been suffering. i thought it was because i wasn't making time for Him, but i technically have been, hours-wise. what i haven't been making is room in my heart/mind to REALLY ask Him what i need to be doing and how i can do better, because i haven't wanted to hear the answers. thus, the distance-feeling. disobedience is such a great way to suck the joy out of life. having a relationship with Him is such a great way to pour it back in, though :-).
i hadn't really figured most of that out until i tried to externally process it tonight. i love being verbal. i don't always love it for you poor people who get to listen to it, though. sorry and thanks.
tuesday dinner last night was just so wonderful.
so was the 2 1/2 hour convo with the bosom friend afterwards.
my roommates are beautiful.
dsg tonight was fab. those girls make me LAUGH. also, hannah bought us pies from baker's square. so good. and we read more from the celtic daily prayer book and it was perfect. i need some nouwen to slow me down tomorrow. reading does good things for slowing me which does good things for everything else.
i love that there are pink blossoms everywhere.
love you all.