Today
You know, I started the day not completely jazzed about Christmas. I mean, I had a great night last night at the Christmas Eve service and it helped me to focus, but when I woke up this morning, all I wanted to do was sleep in. It's Christmas! Well, I hate to say it, but I opened this gift that changed my day. It's this necklace that I hinted to Mother Hen about and she gave me the impression that she forgot about it. Turns out, she remembered. Yeah, it's beautiful. The most beautiful thing about it though is that the woman who makes the jewelry donates all of her proceeds to help get people clean water in Africa. Love it. I got some other pretty cool gifts too. But the greatest present really is Jesus. I had so much joy opening that necklace, but the present of love and grace and forgiveness and all of the other things that are only possible because of Jesus are pretty much the most amazing things ever. Ever.
I hope all of you had a blessed day and that your thoughts turned to the real "reason for the season." Merry Christmas, love you guys!

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday

I had been anxiously awaiting my final class schedule for Chapman. I checked on-line everyday to see if it was up yet. Not only that but I wanted to be able to plan the 3 Hancock classes I need to take too. The schedule went up on Thursday. My heart sunk when I saw that my Chapman class is on Tuesday nights. What in the world? It was just this past Sunday that I looked around the room in Sunday school and said to myself, "Man I love these kids!" Not only that but James was talking about how he gets so energized on Tuesday nights that he can barely sleep that night. Honestly, I feel like that a lot. And now instead of hanging out with some of my favorite people in the world for 4 months, I get to sit in a class for 5 hours. Woe is me! Just kidding, I'm not that distressed. But I am honestly seriously bummed out about it. I know God is in control though and that gives me some peace.
Other than that, well, it's almost Christmas. It's almost 2008. Wow. Some exciting things happening in 2008. I'm graduating, I get to quit my job and find a new one, I get to see what God will do in my life, sounds good to me. I guess I'm at a loss for words right now. Weird. Love you guys.