The one with all the make-up.

Finals are over.

1. It is cold in K-town, UsA.

2. I stayed inside all day with my hazelnut coffee, sweat pants, fleece vest, knee high socks, no make-up, and a huge messy bun on the top of my head... I know, hott (with two t’s). Boys, eat your hearts out.

3. I cleaned out my wardrobe. I want to be as simple as possible. I think I got rid of 42 items altogether. Progress, friends, progress. I challenge you to do the same! : ) It’s a little bit refreshing. And I mean, in reality, who needs a ton of clothes?

5. I watched Friends…Hence the title of the post. I have become addicted to the show. Oh precious Jesus, send me a man with the sense of humor of Chandler Bing. Amen, yes.

6. Read some Karen Kingsbury (Even Now/ Ever after). Love her books. Check them out. You will cry like a baby and smile until your face hurts. Perfect for a day you just want to sit and weep.

7. Tonight, I put a ridic amount of make-up on…you know, just for fun. I was feeling artsy and chose make-up as my medium. Welcs to my life, beautiful people. Let’s just take a looksie at this mess and my reaction to it...(This is after I took some of it off, but you get the idea).

“Never again, never again. You look like a fool, a complete fool.”—my father. At least he speaks truth.

8. Now, I am spending my night watching The Sing-Off. I have literally been waiting a year for this sweet music nectar flowing from NBC.  P-T-L. Anyone else love it as much as I do?

9. I am in a mood for Thrift Store shopping. Love it. love it. love IT!

10. My best frayun Rae Geyer is back from Ukraine. We are going to be creepin’ it up for the next month…This is a typical picture of us, to be honest…Actually, this is one of the more normal ones…Sad, really.

 

One more item, a soul item: I want to challenge you, whatever part of life you are in, to take an hour and breathe...Take a little while to sit with Jesus and be satisfied. Ask Him to clear your head of the past and the future for just an hour or two…You see, I was talking to one of my best friends/sistas earlier today, and we talked about how we have felt suffocated lately. We both know that Abba has some exciting plans for each of us in the future because He has given us these beautiful pictures of them in our souls…But now that we have tasted the future, we want it. Anything less seems like it won’t fulfill us. We sit in class, learning about seemingly pointless things like a lecture on the history of sewer systems, and all of the sudden, the room closes in on us… We are suffocating…College becomes the enemy. We feel like we can’t breathe…It’s a place that we have all been. We want to experience something that makes us come alive…and Jesus is standing beside us saying,

“It’s ME who makes you come alive…ONLY ME. Taking care of the least of these won’t make you come alive, I promise. Finding the perfect guy isn’t going to make you come alive…I, Jesus the Redeemer, am the Creator and giver of life. Let My words sustain you. Love you, my beautiful bride…to the cross and back and then back again.”

Breathe tonight (or today)…Take a deep breath of Jesus’ love and grace. Obey and love right where you are…I mean, let’s face it: YOU, whoever you are, have been placed where you are for “such a time as this.” I don’t know about you, but I want to live in the moment. It’s how Jesus lived.

"...don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not anything else, defines your life."
1 Corinthians 7:17.