"I'll tell you flat out ( Read more... )

So tonight was the start of Resurrection Week at UT. All of the campus ministries get together and give out free coffee and have bands and art and speakers at night. This year's speaker is Chris Seay, and he is the pastor of a church in Houston (which I will totally be checking out this summer). He said some good stuff. I love his topic: How ( Read more... )

So it's been a crazy couple of weeks. Very busy. Very hard emotionally. There's just so much going on that I have absolutely no control over, and I'm not exactly frustrated with that, it just takes a toll after a while ( Read more... )

there's this show on comedy central called the colbert report. i only just started watching it, but so far it's hilarious. colbert has a list that he calls "things that are dead to me/on notice". so i have decided to start my own list and update it as i see fit ( Read more... )

So this weekend I got to be a session leader at the church whose youth group I was in my senior year of high school. I grew a lot in that youth group, so it felt good to go back and reinvest. I was in a cabin with eight 7th grade girls pretty much for 48 hours straight. It was a good learning experience. I learned I could never be a middle ( Read more... )

Boy am I busy this semester. I like it! I started working in the nursery of a church last Sunday. The kids are so adorable and fun. Even when they're wailing. I also volunteered at this thing called Smart Start, which is an afterschool program in this rough neighborhood in north austin. there's this organization that is trying to build it up ( Read more... )

Whoa I'm back! Now that I'm back at school, maybe I'll update this shiz a little more often. So where were we the last time we met? I have no clue ( Read more... )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Only two days until the birth of Christ. I've been trying to hard to remind myself and my family what Christmas is all about. It's about preparing our hearts for the birth of Jesus and celebrating the amazing gift we've received in his coming to earth. I know that sounds cliche, but it's true. I feel like this is the first ( Read more... )

Dear John,

It's been 25 years.

The music just isn't the same.

We've yet to give peace a chance.

love and miss you.

shannon

So school got cancelled today because the temperature is below freezing. I kind of like it. I have a final tomorrow but I"m doing this instead ( Read more... )