My best friend from Canada was here visiting me for about a week.
She left yesterday and I already miss her!
While she was here I tried to show her the best of Oklahoma with: horse back riding, shorts wearing, bike riding, thrifting, botanical garden scoping, and eating at all the local joints. Here are a few photos from our time together.
She left yesterday and I already miss her!
While she was here I tried to show her the best of Oklahoma with: horse back riding, shorts wearing, bike riding, thrifting, botanical garden scoping, and eating at all the local joints. Here are a few photos from our time together.
Andrew and I went on a date to the theater. We saw a play
called Private Lives. Based in Paris
in the 1930’s, we enjoyed the costumes and set design. I am so so thankful that Andrew has a history with the theater like I do. Acting is so ingrained into who I am, I couldn't imagine dating someone who didn't appreciate it. Sooo, here are some pictures
of our little outing.
I had the best day preparing for a little Mardi Gras party my parents were having.
My mom and I spent the day making foods and cleaning the house... not to mention a little fun in the sunshine in our backyard. Spring has sprung here in the southern states and my choice of clothing included a tshirt, skirt, and sandals (take that Canada!).
^^You may question what this weird looking cake is... it is called a king cake! A Mardi Gras tradition-- whoever bites into the piece with the plastic tiny baby doll in it gets glory... and is assigned the task of bringing the cake the next year. New Orleans culture is alive and well in our family, on a count of my mom summering there when she was a kid AND my brother now living in Baton Rouge (causing us to take trips there like every two weeks-- I ain't complainin'!). What can I say?
We like to think of ourselves as the classy version of swamp people...?
^^ my mom's new green house made from old salvaged windows and doors!
I realize I haven’t blogged in a while. And I also realize
most of my posts begin with that sentence these days. Life seems to be
a constant whirlwind of activities. A specific week sticks out in my mind of
being particularly monumental-- a week that started with fun events and ended
with God drawing me closer to Him than I have ever been before. I have been
working at a homeless drop in run by my church. I love my church. It is one of
the few churches that I have ever been to that truly open their doors to the least of these. I know in my heart I
am one of these too, for I am nothing compared to the bigness and grandness of God… but I digress, they open their doors to those society deems the least of these. Every single weekday
Father’s House opens their doors to the marginalized people of our society to
commune with the non-marginalized people of our society and for us to serve them. True beauty some may
call it, some being me. So I have
been committing my Wednesdays to this. And this certain Wednesday was quite
extraordinary. Simply listening to the stories of my friends, making crafts
together, and telling jokes together. Christ can redeem, He can repair our
broken society.
He can repair our broken world views.
As if life couldn’t get any better. I went to a girls night
put on by our student council that very same night. We all had mad fun (sumo suits included). We also had amazing prayer
and worship times and an amazing message from a grad of our school. There is
always more of God that He wants us to experience, that He wants us to see. I
am slowly learning this. And slowly being so filled up by the Holy Spirit and thus given a
peace that surpasses all understanding.
My roommates and I experienced some crazy things the night before this
particular Wednesday. We had to learn to rely fully on God and His power to
protect us. He is so big, all around us, inside of us. And there, indeed, is an
unseen world around us, a war at hand.
That Thursday I watched the documentary Finger of God. The first in a trilogy of documentaries about what
God is doing around the world. If I wasn’t already in awe of God… I am now.
He is growing me and teaching me how to live into what it means to be a true follower of Christ and the power that comes with it. He is showing me that my
greatest weapon against the enemy is prayer and love.
