let me do all your surgeries

well you cut my hair that one time...

nah im better with scissors to the throat

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bloggy blog blog. this is for you rebekah joy rausch. good thing you're my best friend and lying in bed next to me right now.

God cares a lot more about our freedom than our maneuvering through life. -john piper

God's provision.

Freaking everywhere in my crazy life.

• over $600 dollars in support for Nica trip in a week and a half
• Brad Vaughn running with me yesterday and encouraging me in incredible ways
• God knowing Sam and I would deal with such grief at times in our lives and let us be family members
• Class being cancelled today when I couldn't go anyway due to the funeral.
• Isaiah 41:13 being perfect
• texts from Grandma and Aunt Colleen encouraging Sam and I
• not even caring it's valentines day
• Rebekah being in the room after lunch so I got to talk to her about all this crazy provision
• having time on saturday to work out and go to the basketball game, both unplanned.
• The body shop getting my car fixed
• Steph and I grabbing lunch
• beautiful friends and God multiplying time and energy to do all the things I want to do
• getting to talk to Derrick and Taylor this past week
• Katy B still being in my life for the long haul
• Seeing Macey and Kindale and Anna Grace so much this weekend
• Getting to love on Drew a lot lot lot
• Paychecks coming at perfect times
• Chelsea letting me talk everything out as much as I want to
• Purple birthday cake working out
• getting all my homework done at work
• being at work and being able to talk to Sam last night
• Josh Jones caring and atlking and letting me cry.
• Chelsea bringing stuffed animals with her when she picked me up
• Matt Orth being in my life a lot

Grief is hard. God is good and powerful. That is all I know. This was mostly for my sake, but maybe it is good for you too.

you make beautiful things out of us.

God is good.

Rebekah told me to start blogging. We're eating puppy chow and talking about boys. typical. I love her.

I AM A SENIOR IN COLLEGE. OH MY GOSH

too early for dinosaurs in my bed.

written by Erica Christensen!

Dear Hannah, I love you. One day, there was a lemur named Theodore. Theodore wanted to meet the elusive unicorn named Hannah. Hannah liked to fly around on pink clouds and sing Christmas carols. Though everyone knows about Hannah, no one actually can slow her down enough to talk to her. Theodore watched her fly by everyday. He really wanted to meet her. So one day when Hannah flew by, and Theodore took a running jump and started to fly. It was so exciting to feel the wind rushing past his face. He was flying! And then, CRASH! He crashed right into a muddy puddle. Oh, no!!! The next day, Theodore tried again to catch up with Hannah. He tried again and again and again, to no avail. One day, he had a sudden burst of inspiration. He would raise up a giant flag and tell Hannah to come down there. He worked all day and all night and all the next day on this giant flag. He labored over it and then he finally finished! He was ready the next day. Hannah flew by, and Theodore put the flag up. Hannah saw it out of the corner of her eye, and decided that it was a very pretty sign. She flew in that direction, and before she knew what she was doing, she was flying towards a funny looking lemur. She landed, because now that she had seen him, it would be rude to run away. They started talking, and talking and talking. They laughed and laughed. They had the best time together! They decided to be best friends and lived happily ever after being BFF’s.

re·deem

 

–verb (used with object)

1.

to buy or pay off; clear by payment: to redeem a mortgage.

2.

to buy back, as after a tax sale or a mortgage foreclosure.

3.

to recover (something pledged or mortgaged) by payment orother satisfaction: to redeem a pawned watch.

4.

to exchange (bonds, trading stamps, etc.) for money orgoods.

5.

to convert (paper money) into specie.

6.

to discharge or fulfill (a pledge, promise, etc.).

7.

to make up for; make amends for; offset (some fault,shortcoming, etc.): His bravery redeemed his youthfulidleness.

8.

to obtain the release or restoration of, as from captivity, by paying a ransom.

i am redeemed. and i didn't have to pay the ransom.