Grateful

I'm in such a weird mood...I think mainly because I'm sickly this week. But I've been really tired lately- school's a little overwhelming...it's amazing how fun marketing is but at the same time it's a lot of work and group projects. When I get tired, I think a lot more. I think it's starting to hit me I only have two semesters left after this one. That is so weird. I remember all of my older friends telling me how fast college goes by, but this is just ridiculous.

I had a great time at Dnow last weekend. I had three tenth grade girls and I think Jesus did some really cool stuff with the weekend in them and in me. I feel like it was a really good refresher for me. I haven't taught in a long time, and it reminded me how much I enjoy it. It also helped deepen my hunger to spend more alone time with Jesus. It's been a while since I've had really good intentional quality time with Him, sadly.

These past few weeks have been busy, but so fun. I've gotten to go back home to New Braunfels for two weekends. The first time I went home for a friend's wedding shower and I got to spend most of the weekend with my best friend, Abbey, helping her with bridesmaid's dresses for her wedding in June. And this past weekend I got to see her again for a few hours on Friday and then went to Dnow. I feel like I've been pretty spoiled getting to see her so much in the past month. I'm really, really grateful for my time with her and the Lord's been reminding me how good He has been to me in blessing me with a friendship like hers.

Abbey was an answer to prayer; my prayers and my mom's. I didn't have a whole lot of great friends my age in middle school so going into high school didn't seem like it'd be that fun. So I started praying for a friendship like David and Jonathan had. I didn't realize my mom had been praying for a friend like that for me too. Then I started high school and Abbey transfered to my school. God was almost immediate in answering that prayer, and I've been blessed and encouraged to call her my closest friend these past 7 years or so. She is so unconditional and is able to correct me and encourage me so intentionally with love and tenderness. She makes me calm down during freak outs and helps me rationalize things...and she makes me laugh, I need that a lot, it helps me come back down to earth. I still tear up sometimes when I remember God's goodness in that friendship. This is one of those times. I think sometimes I just get so overwhelmed by how good God is when we are not so good. We are not even close to the goodness of Jesus. He is so GOOD. I think we use that word too much and lose the meaning. But He is GOOD.

Since then it's like God just keeps multiplying blessings of friendship. I feel like each year another friend or friends have come along and blessed me in huge ways. Through the rest of high school and then through TbarM, ASC and my church in College Station. College definitely wouldn't be the same without all of my sweet friends. I have had so many fun dinner nights, lunches, coffee dates, formals and random talks/hangouts these past few years. I have the best roommates a girl could ask for. What a joy to be able to look forward to going home and knowing it's a place where I can be myself and be prayed for, loved and challenged. And I cannot even begin to describe how grateful I am for my church. I have learned so much about Jesus through them. I am blessed beyond measure and so grateful for the body of Christ and that God didn't leave us lonely, but gave us community and accountability to be able to live and look more like Him.