Oh, The Places You'll Go.

rem·i·nisce/ˌreməˈnis/

Verb: Indulge in enjoyable recollection of past events.

Mississippi Bound

This weekend I took a little trip to Jackson, Mississippi to attend transfer orientation for Belhaven. It was my first time flying alone, kinda exciting…til you realize how unenjoyable two hour layovers are by yourself. But up until my little alone time, it was something I looked forward to.

As I was waiting to board my first flight I picked out the two people who would be my top picks for seat buddies. Haha. It was a tough one between the cute young guy or the cute old man. Did I get either? Of course not. But that was alright, I sat with two men, probably in their 40s. One looked EXACTLY like Dwayne Carson, the campus pastor at LU. The other talked about how he had gone backpacking across Europe in the 70’s and about his skydiving experience. How awesome would it be to backpack through Europe?! & I’m not opposed to skydiving either.

Atlanta layover.

Now the second flight in a little bitty plane.

I accidentally sat in row 8 instead of being in row 7. Didn’t realize it for the longest time. & when I found out who I was supposed to be sitting by….of course! Of course he was one of the most attractive guys I had seen that day. Just splendid.

Eventually I arrived in Jackson! And it was a wonderful weekend getting to know my future roomie, Callie, and learning more about my future home. I couldn’t have asked for a more welcoming family to live with for my time there. So now I have one more month at home & then my family will be making the trip back down into a little road trip with a stop through Tennessee. I’m so ready for everything to begin!

And NOW for the flight home…oh what an adventure it was. And still is, as I am writing this waiting for my flight. (although had everything worked out as planned, I would be home right now & getting ready to see John Mayer!)

Everything’s going well, didn’t even get patted down at the airport this time haha, & I board the plane to Atlanta. Plane gets delayed for weather & we sit for an hour waiting. Thankfully, my connecting flight was also delayed & I made it just in time to board…til they cancelled it. Everyone was so very excited about that.

I got lucky though & got put on a plane to Newport News a few hours later…better than the option of staying overnight. However, no John Mayer for me tonight.

I did get a meal voucher though, for six bucks. Tell me…what airport meal costs six dollars…haha…maybe a drink is more like it.

& now I can’t wait to get home & spend a week with my brother, Aaron, who got a little luckier with his flight today.

All Things New

No one here to believe but You

Everyone else is bound to leave but You

When they swear their love is real

They mean 'I like the way you make me feel'.

-mewithoutyou

Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you,

He will never leave you nor forsake you."

-Deuteronomy 31:6

God's love satisfies something so deep within a person that man's love can never compare to.

His love is absolutely Unconditional. It is always Consistent. Never Failing. Forgiving time & time again. Patient. Understanding. Unrelenting. Sacrificial. Completely Fulfilling, beyond what we even knew we longed for.

& I am constantly learning more about this love. Constantly feeling it more & more with each bit of my life i place into His hands. If i've learned one major thing this past year it is that when you hold things from God's control (for me i did this because deep down i knew that what i was holding back truly should not have been in my life anymore, yet i was selfish & wanted to hold on) , they will not flourish - they will only make a gradual downward spiral until your left without that "special" thing that was somehow just way too important for you to give to God.

But, when He gets ahold of every little piece of you, it is a wonderful thing.

God is Love.

Laughing With...

"No one laughs at God in a hospital

No one laughs at God in a war

No one's laughing at God when they're starving or freezing or so very poor"

-Regina Spektor

Summer Skin

So i had a date with my piano...

my piano bench is where i relax. where i let everything out. where i can play & release all of my emotions.

& i think i fall more in love every time ♥.

Wednesday I went up to D.C. to visit a friend before he left for bootcamp. It was a fun time just walking around the area, eating lunch, going to the zoo, and hitting up the Washington Nationals baseball game that night (a very good game at that, of which they won!).

P.S. - D.C. is a wonderful place for people watching, haha.

& when i woke up in the morning to go home, he informed that we had made it on TV!

Nonfiction Love:

"Used to want time to run so quickly
Now crawling is fine
Cause the older I get the more
I see I need every moment
To let my roots grow down deep"

-Jillian Edwards

Throughout the years i've gone through many different: places, friends, phases, loves, goals, desires.

I remember, I think it was my freshman year of high school..I wanted so badly for time to just stop and not make me grow up yet. My "Peter Pan mode" if you will. I quickly got over that & wished that high school would just hurry up and get over with so I could move on to college where I could study what I wanted, where I wanted, surrounded by all different types of people. However, and i'm sure it's the same for thousands of people, now that my freshman year of college is said and done with & so much has and is still changing..I would be absolutely okay with time crawling by one second at a time.

You wear your religion like a war sweater.