2010

What a year, what a year.

Wow, I feel like there are two different parts of this year.

The really good part and then there’s the really crappy part.

Good parts include: weight loss, good times at my favorite school (Liberty!), embracing change (a new concept for me), the awesome small group I was involved in last Spring semester. Friends visiting me from VA in the summer! It was for a night only but it was a blast and made me feel so lovedappreciatewanted etc etc. A lot of laughs, being on a normal sleeping schedule in the summer, driving in New Jersey for the first time by myself. Getting lost on thus route but finding my way out and only being late by five minutes :) Going to Richmond, VA, Charlotte, NC, Washington DC, Baltimore, Maryland and Lewistown, PA! Visiting over 8 different homes of friends from school! My goal is to way higher than that :) Having a ‘cru’ and always doing things with them. Including downtown, taking endless amounts of pictures, watching movies in snowflex and the clab, claiming every spot on campus, and staying in the CLAB every night until 2 AM. Growing to love six girls that I meat every Tuesday and pray for dailly ;)

Knowing I need God in every part of my life.

Tested and tried…

Bad parts include: Leaving above stated small group. I think about it often and God is working in those girls lives, and I miss it so. Saying goodbye to Naomi. She’s right up the street but she’s not mine anymore. Having someone take me on a walk and tell me that my life is not honoring to Christ and that I am a bad influence, thus removing me from her and her family’s life. This was the hardest, I think. Saying goodbye to more than just her but also a few friends. Realizing I have so many problems that I need to fix. Personal things my family has been through. Realizing why I had been so pro-feminism for all of those years. Getting little sleep during my Fall semester. My first and FINAL D in my college career. Ugh, jealously running through me. Being homesick for the first time of my life, and having my first Thanksgiving away from home.

2010 has been such an eye-opener.

However, in the year 2011 I am looking for peace, restoration, healing, and forgiveness.

And there can never be too many witty laughs. :)

From my quiet time yesterday.

Mark 2:21

“Besides, who would patch old clothing with new cloth? For the new patch would shrink and rip away from the old cloth, leaving an even bigger tear than before.”

Here’s to tearing off the old self and putting on my new garment supplied by Jesus, my peace-giving, restoring, healing and forgiving Savior.