..and I'm just really happy. lol that is all.
love you friends!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
instruments of healing
I just did something really embarrassing. I went to the movies (as in the public theater) alone. Who does that!?? lol. Maybe I should consider putting some breaks on this Ms. Independent thing before I start getting a reputation as the town loner haha. But hey it was a movie I wanted to see and I had nothing else to do tonight so it worked out. :)
Oh updates, let's see..
I had my first drawing due today for my Drawing II class. Let me tell you something about my relationship with drawing. Sometimes drawing and I get along very well. I use it to relax and to get inspired and even as an act of worship. Other times.. I want to take my little pencils, or charcoal, or medium of choice and bite it in half and throw it across the room and then go find all the little pieces and grind them into the floor with my shoe. When it's just me and my drawing, things are usually good and civil. When it's me and my drawing surrounded by a class of students that have much longer and more developed relationships with their drawings... things are not so good. One thing is always true though.. It humbles me.
I think I've decided against getting a job this spring. I feel overwhelmed enough already and I need to recognize my limits. sigh. The summer intership quest continues. I spend a good deal of time worrying over that. I'm not going to admit to being overly ambitious with this yet though.
This week our campus was blessed by having Shane Claiborne come and speak at two of our chapels. I had been so pumped for him to come ever since I saw him on the schedule to come. I read his book Irresistible Revolution around this time my freshman year here. I remember reading it and just feeling so passionate about the Lord's work and having that desire to learn how to simplify my life and just be a servant. Shane has a pretty neat story really. He lived in Calcutta and worked with Mother Teresa for awhile. I don't know if many of you know this about me, but I adore Mother Teresa! haha. She was just so pure of heart and I love reading anything about her and her beautiful life that I can get my hands on. So for getting to experience her in real life, I envy Shane greatly. haha. I've enjoyed listening to what he has had to say these past couple days. I wrote down something he said today that stuck with me. I'm not even sure how it fit into the context of his message, but I remember the prayer of these words, "May our wounds become instruments of healing." I'm still wrestling with what that might look like in my life.
Discovery of the week: Vitamin String Quartet. I've always loved instrumental music with violins. So beautiful. Talk about instruments of healing..
friends, you are loved.
blessings,
lindsay
Oh updates, let's see..
I had my first drawing due today for my Drawing II class. Let me tell you something about my relationship with drawing. Sometimes drawing and I get along very well. I use it to relax and to get inspired and even as an act of worship. Other times.. I want to take my little pencils, or charcoal, or medium of choice and bite it in half and throw it across the room and then go find all the little pieces and grind them into the floor with my shoe. When it's just me and my drawing, things are usually good and civil. When it's me and my drawing surrounded by a class of students that have much longer and more developed relationships with their drawings... things are not so good. One thing is always true though.. It humbles me.
I think I've decided against getting a job this spring. I feel overwhelmed enough already and I need to recognize my limits. sigh. The summer intership quest continues. I spend a good deal of time worrying over that. I'm not going to admit to being overly ambitious with this yet though.
This week our campus was blessed by having Shane Claiborne come and speak at two of our chapels. I had been so pumped for him to come ever since I saw him on the schedule to come. I read his book Irresistible Revolution around this time my freshman year here. I remember reading it and just feeling so passionate about the Lord's work and having that desire to learn how to simplify my life and just be a servant. Shane has a pretty neat story really. He lived in Calcutta and worked with Mother Teresa for awhile. I don't know if many of you know this about me, but I adore Mother Teresa! haha. She was just so pure of heart and I love reading anything about her and her beautiful life that I can get my hands on. So for getting to experience her in real life, I envy Shane greatly. haha. I've enjoyed listening to what he has had to say these past couple days. I wrote down something he said today that stuck with me. I'm not even sure how it fit into the context of his message, but I remember the prayer of these words, "May our wounds become instruments of healing." I'm still wrestling with what that might look like in my life.
Discovery of the week: Vitamin String Quartet. I've always loved instrumental music with violins. So beautiful. Talk about instruments of healing..
friends, you are loved.
blessings,
lindsay
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
new look
I finally got around to making my blog pretty! haha. Today when my alarm went off at 6:00, my body felt paralyzed.. I could not move it was awful. Thus, I skipped my first class of the semester. Oops. But, I'm taking today as a Lindsay Day. Those are my favorite. I don't know how people function without taking days for themselves like this. And so here I sit at the Firefly Coffee House in Fort Wayne. I've been here for a couple hours just listening to the new Lady Antebellum cd and also bringing back a little Train. (Train-Hey Soul Sister. listen.) I've been working on my blog. I've also got my eye on this cute guy that came in a little while ago lol. Working on my game plan here.
Verse for the day...
Don't burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. -Romans 12:11
Verse for the day...
Don't burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. -Romans 12:11
Monday, February 1, 2010
she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina
hi friends! I feel like it's been awhile so I'll update. Spring semester... here we are. haha. It's gonna be a great one. I can feel it. I'm just lovin life lately.
My classes may or may not consume more time than I had anticipated, but I think it just always takes some time to adjust and balance out a new schedule. I've developed even more new ambitions for my life over the past week lol. I'm pretty determined to learn Italian. I'm just so drawn to everything about Italian culture.. maybe I just need to get around the world more and I would realize I feel this way about many different cultures, but I don't know.. it's just where my heart dreams of being. Even if I don't end up using the language for practical reasons, it's so beautiful that it's sometime I want to do for myself.
Other news, I've been doing a lot of reasearch trying to find a good opportunity for this summer. I think my problem is I'm too idealistic and I'm convinced that the perfect opportunity is out there and within my reach if only I find it. This may or may not be the case haha. I've made a list of companys that I would like to intern with and I'm starting on my application processes this week. You know... I do believe that God can and wants to do really amazing things with me life.. but sometimes I don't think he understands my eagerness to get out there and do it! haha. Not that I don't love and appreciate where my life is at right now though.. because I do. I am blessed.
Other news... grandma and grandpa celebrated their 60th anniversary this weekend. So precious :) I got asked approximately three times that night by family friends when I plan on marrying. bah!
In Bachelor news... Tenley all the way.
Dio benedice
My classes may or may not consume more time than I had anticipated, but I think it just always takes some time to adjust and balance out a new schedule. I've developed even more new ambitions for my life over the past week lol. I'm pretty determined to learn Italian. I'm just so drawn to everything about Italian culture.. maybe I just need to get around the world more and I would realize I feel this way about many different cultures, but I don't know.. it's just where my heart dreams of being. Even if I don't end up using the language for practical reasons, it's so beautiful that it's sometime I want to do for myself.
Other news, I've been doing a lot of reasearch trying to find a good opportunity for this summer. I think my problem is I'm too idealistic and I'm convinced that the perfect opportunity is out there and within my reach if only I find it. This may or may not be the case haha. I've made a list of companys that I would like to intern with and I'm starting on my application processes this week. You know... I do believe that God can and wants to do really amazing things with me life.. but sometimes I don't think he understands my eagerness to get out there and do it! haha. Not that I don't love and appreciate where my life is at right now though.. because I do. I am blessed.
Other news... grandma and grandpa celebrated their 60th anniversary this weekend. So precious :) I got asked approximately three times that night by family friends when I plan on marrying. bah!
In Bachelor news... Tenley all the way.
Dio benedice
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