Realizations.

So, I always knew I had awesome friends. But this past week has really brought out the reality of that statement.

As my life felt like it was falling apart, I was constantly reminded of obvious things I did not want to hear, but probably needed to.
1. First off, I  got a steady stream of reminders that God has a plan, and even though it seems really crappy right now, it will be a billion times better than any plan I could come up with.
2. Second, that even though this breakup happened, if God does want us together, He'll bring us back together.
3. I got plenty of 'keep your head up' 'your awesome' and tons of smiles and hugs.

I don't think I would have made it through the week without you guys.

Then even more, it was my birthday on saturday, and I got showered in happy birthdays and smiles. Plus enough candy and food to make me gain like 100 pounds. Yikes. But Yum :)

Looking back on the year and a half I've been here at Dordt, I see that God more than answered my prayer I prayed earnestly two summers ago. To give me awesome Christian friends in college.

People scare me to death. Making friends scares me to death. But that doesn't matter. God can do anything. And He has worked in my life in crazy awesome ways.

That picture is from my camp. We were supposed to draw or write all our 'giants' on the basketball court.  (we were talking about david and goliath that week) Then to show how easily God can wipe those giants away, we threw water balloons at our drawings, and all that was left was a pretty mesh of washed away sidewalk chalk.

God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. He won't fail me, I just have to get past the rough spots to realize those times were meant to make the end result better.