a multi-posting day

i think today should be a multi-posting day :) i want to recap/summarize the messages that clayton king gave over the past few days of our "spiritual emphasis" week here at school. but i know if i do 1 super-long post, attention spans quickly fade away :) so i'm going to do a few posts i think (that's the plan - who knows what'll really get done today) and you just come read a post at a time when you get the urge.

i woke up today with my throat a little sore and my head feeling like a big ball of lead. i had some coffee and that cleared it up a little but the thickness is starting to come back again. sad. i hate getting sick, and what's even worse is when you're at the very beginning stages of getting sick and you know that when you go to bed tonight, you're going to wake up tomorrow feeling even worse. maybe i'll just stay up all night. oh yeah, now THAT would fix it :P

i attempted to make coffee a couple nights ago here in the hotel with the coffee maker they give you. it didn't work. like, it did...eventually, once i turned the stupid thing off. it was the slowest coffee maker i've ever seen, so i finally decided to just pull the plug on it and go to starbucks. i come home later that night, and see the coffee decided to brew itself while it was turned off. it's still sitting in the pot. it's being punished.

i spent the night last night with tara down on the 2nd floor in her & kristen's room 'cause kristen was gone for the night. sadly, i left my cell phone in their room and both of the girls are at class. i've always admitted that without my phone, i feel lost. and today, that's just how i feel. lost. out of touch. unable to communicate with fellow offsprings.

i love my girls i get to live with this year! i loved my girls last year, too! man, God gives me so many blessings i don't deserve, and great girls for roommates is one of them. i CAN'T WAIT to move into our house and settle in and get to all live together...all on the same floor :) and we'll get to have a huge living room and a kitchen and a yard and a deck and a front porch - all instead of inviting each other to come hang out with us in our hotel rooms :)

living in the hotel isn't SO bad. i just get discouraged 'cause i have a lot of down time right now and if i had my computer set up, i could be editing wedding videos and getting those done. so it's like...i have stuff i need to do, i just can't right now.

i'm talking to 2 guys online from back home that i used to be really good friends with and both of them strayed for the Lord for a couple years but are now turning their lives around. it's so encouraging to talk to them and hear what God's doing in the lives! they're both guys i had been praying for, and to see God answer prayer so clearly - it's awesome :D

"filled with wonder. awe-struck wonder. at the mention of Your name. Jesus, Your name is power - breath, and living water. such a marvelous mystery!

Holy, Holy, Holy! is the Lord, God Almighty. Who was and is and is to come. with all creation i'll sing. praise to the King of Kings! You are my everything - and i will adore You!"

- from a song, but i don't know the name of it. it's so beautiful though.

keep it real.

jen