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I am SO excited for this coming weekend! In exactly 48 hours I will be on a plane headed home for my brother's high school graduation. I'll be home Friday, Saturday, Sunday and I'll get back to Lakeside around 8 pm Sunday. Work load is a little more stressful than usual and I'm a little disappointed in missing out on Annie and Justin's wedding this weekend, but I couldn't be happier that this is the weekend I get to go home. :)

On a slightly more awkward level, you know those moments that happen and you want to laugh out loud, but can't? Those moments that you feel totally awkward at the mistake of another person and there's nothing you can really do about it. This morning I was making toast in the cafeteria and I set my knife down for like .02 seconds to grab something. When I went to grab it again, it was gone! I thought, Where could I have possibly put it? It's not like there are THAT many places I could have lost it in here... At that moment I looked over at the sweet New Zealander standing next to me and noticed that where she did not have a knife a minute ago, she now had one. So I waited, trying not to laugh, knowing that soon she would be done and my knife would no longer be held hostage. But after she spread her butter around, she quickly grabbed a jelly pack and started spreading jelly on her bread. So finally I ran around to grab another knife so I could do the same. But by the time I had grabbed my second knife she was already done and enjoying her toast...(*sigh*) I guess there's a reason moms teach their kids how to share and be patient at a young age - they hope that you'll actually get it and be able to practice it in situations like these when you're older... :|

This week I have just been in awe of the love of Christ. I can't even fathom its depth. I can't grasp its height. I can't always see the length to which it reaches, but I can feel its strength. Every morning I wake up with such joy. That is a word that people have used to describe me over and over again. I can't explain it any other way than Christ's love in me. Yet at the same time, I oftentimes forget the reality of it all. I lose sight of who he is and what he has done in the busyness of life. Isn't that so amazing? How can one forget his love when it's something I read about everyday and experience every minute of every day?
I wish I could express on this single page how real and awesome the love of the Father is. It truly strikes such a chord in my spirit that leaves me in awe. We do nothing to deserve it, I do nothing to deserve. Yet it's mine for the taking - it's yours to take. I don't know if we'll ever be able to explain why it's ours, but that doesn't matter. It's one of those things in life that just simply IS. God is so great; his love is as great as he is because that is exactly WHAT and WHO he is! God is love and I am so blessed to have the privilege and honor of experiencing it.
Something I was thinking about a lot this week is just how God allows us to experience him. He's not just an idea or a distant source. He is personal. His love is personal and he wants all of us to experience it. My prayer for you is that God will reveal himself to you; that he will reveal his love to you. I can't say that I really know who "you" are, but God does. If you keep up with my blogging or if you're just passing through and stumbled upon this, know that it is not by accident. God just wanted to remind you of his love for you today. I pray that you experience it today in the things you see, hear, smell, taste and touch.