Home Sweet Home

So, I'm back home in the good old KC. It's good to be back. I drove around the city a little bit after I got home and fell in love with the place all over again. I forgot how much I really like Kansas City.

The transition back into summer at home has been an interesting one, to say the least. It's funny to realize that I don't have to go 100 mph and constantly be doing something. I'm actually realizing that it's okay to NOT do anything. That's right, NOT do anything. I was actually bored yesterday because I had nothing to do and no one to do it with. Weird.

I do, however, have a list of things that I would like to accomplish while I'm home, but sometimes you just don't feel like accomplishing any of them. Like shopping. I mean, I love to shop ...when I have money - but I wasn't really in the mood. Reading. Reading is one of the most relaxing past times available and yet the one book I want to read I can't find in greater Kansas City. So I'm patiently waiting for it to arive via mail order. Work. Work is fun but unfortunately no one is really hiring this late in the summer. Hollar at me if you hear of anyone who needs an efficient, harworking college student. Anyways, those are some things that I've been up to ...or not up to.

Fun fact: I ordered a dance video yesterday. Now, this isn't your Darrin's Dance Moves type of video - no, no, no. Rather, this is "Break'n it Down with Laurie Ann Gibson" aka the real Honey. Watch out folks, I'm expand'n my game!!!!

Well, I'm peace'n out so have a good one and hollar at a girl if you wanna talk!

A Nugget of Truth ...

This Spring has quite possibly been one of the most refreshing and healing seasons in my life. I've done a lot of processing these past two weeks and thinking about the things I have learned. Not academically but rather more spiritually. God has been amazing this quarter, no ...this year. I've learned so much about who I am in light of God as a woman. I've learned how to identify and let go of some wounds in my life. And I feel an amazing freedom and peace ...but also an intense joy and energy from the Lord.

I have been reading a book, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul by John and Stasi Eldredge, and it has been life-changing. I just finished the book up while resting on this wonderful day, and I fully enjoyed the way in which these authors conclude this book. It is a challenge. Rather, an invitation. This invitation is one of life and one of an irreplaceable role. I see myself going through a season of healing in my heart and as I read these words I'm excited about what the Lord can and will do in my life if I only take the invitation.

"You will find that as God restores your heart and sets you free, you will recover long-lost passions, long-forsaken dreams. You'll find yourself drawn to some vision for making the world a better place. Those emerging desires are invitations - not to rush out and attempt them immediately. That also is naive. They are invitations to bring your heart to your Lover and ask him to clarify, to deepen, to speak to you about how and when and with whom. We love Frederick Buechner's description when he writes,"The place that God calls us is that place where the world's deep hunger and our deep desire meet," (Captivating, by John and Stasi Eldredge).

Amazing! Read it again and fully taken in the magnitude and see how exciting it is! I wonder. I wonder so much in my own life. God is amazing.

Want a challenge and a breath of fresh air? ...read this book.

Until we meet again.