Leaving it Behind

Well, in the words of my good friend Melanie, it is time for me to update. So update I shall. It's obviously been a couple weeks since my birthday, and I've gotten over the initial shock of leaving teenagedom and embracing the 20s. Overall I had a really fun birthday, and a great weekend hanging out with my family in San Diego (none of whose houses burned down by the way, but it was dang close for all three of them).

It's been a really full couple of weeks, and honestly there's no way I can even hit the tip of the iceberg. I would like to say though that God is so good and I've so seen Him meet me here and am so grateful for the things He's doing in my heart. It's been heavy, but it has given me renewed focus and perspective which I wouldn't trade for anything right now.

To put it all into a nutshell, pretty much everyone around me right now (I think with the exception of one of my roommates) is encountering a heck of a lot of hard stuff. And while there's nothing happening to me directly, it's still really draining and hard to watch the people around you encounter such difficulty and try to support them. I'm not sick of it in the sense that I want to give up or tell them "who cares," it's just giving me some wear and tear as well. It's hard to watch people during such hard times, and it's hard to remember that I can't fix everything. But I know that God is working so heavily on people's hearts right now and refining them and healing wounds in their hearts and making them more complete in Him. To see that at work has been amazing, it's just taken a lot out of me.

On a much more superficial note, all of my roommates and I are going to the Jars of Clay/Caedmon's Call concert tonight and I'm super stoked about it. The past couple weeks I've hung out with my roommates a lot more again (more how it was at the beginning of the year) and I have a renewed thankfulness for all of them. I live with three amazing, beautiful girls and I'm blessed by them every day. Not to mention we have way too much fun together and can laugh for hours about the stupidest things in the world.

Well I guess that's enough for now. Hopefully I'll be a little bit better about updating this. But then again, things are starting to get really insane with school. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.