Visiting home this weekend was a welcome experience. It felt so good to be back with familiar faces, in a familiar place. The most alien thing was my bed: Nikki has taken to sleeping in it, so I was in her old one. I could not get to sleep peaceably in it. That basically was my weekend: good, comfortable, but there was very little rest ( Read more... )

It seems like whenever I update, you guys get the highlights. No middle, average stuff, only the things that stick out to me. I hope that's okay ( Read more... )

Quite a week. Some tough stuff, but nothing beyond what others have faced before, and worse. But God is so good. It's so simple to write that, it could take no thought at all, but I hope that I say it sincerely, because that has defintely been proof in this crazy week that God IS ( Read more... )

God is good...all the time. And all the time God is good.

These words are always true, and always a comfort.

Pray for the Welch family. Especially Christina. Soak them in prayer and surround them in your thoughts with praise and petition and peace.

This morning I "rushed" the ocean with Riptide. We met at 7:00 am and drove down to the beach so we could all hold onto each other and run into the ocean, wearing our orange Riptide t-shirts, yelling "Go Waves!" Not incredibly significant, but a lot of fun. And the water wasn't as cold as we thought it would be; much warmer than Santa Cruz, I ( Read more... )

First trip to the beach just because, first lacrosse practice today, first fantastic small group study on Captivating by John and Stasi Eldridge, first trip to Malibu Yo(gurt), first trip to the Promenade in Santa Monica (first time to Santa Monica, pretty sweet), first birthday away from home, first time to get 2 cakes that day, first time running ( Read more... )

I just finished watching "Love Actually" with some of my girlfriends from my dorm. It was sooo sweet, you guys. I'm afraid I can't recommend it as a good, wholesome movie-there's a surpising amount of senseless nudity and even more swearing, but so many of the love stories are so endearing. Of course, one of my favorite couples never took off. ( Read more... )

So tonight I ventured out to the beach for the first time since I'd been in Malibu. Every Thursday night our SLA is taking girls out there for a small group Bible study. How great is that ( Read more... )

I have a few minutes until my next orientation session (I've already had four, and have four more to go), so this will be unsatisfactorily short. This is my third day in gorgeous Malibu, and I'm having a good time. I think a lot of us are having a lot of smilar orientation expereinces: some fun, lots of new faces and names (hopefully of future ( Read more... )

Well, all the cool kids are posting their addresses, so here's mine, too ( Read more... )