friendships

I don't care what anyone else says, I am blessed with the best friends in the world. Sometimes I lay in bed at night and just let each one of them scroll across my brain. I stop with each new face and rejoice in the connections, moments, laughters and sorrows that have made them a part of my life. Sometimes its so overpowering I want to cry.
I talk on the phone now with most of my friends or through a facebook chat (ridiculous, right?) and yet I'm amazed how connected I still feel to them, how much my thoughts reach out for them.
Today I worked at the Aowns. I really hate calling it work even though I'm paid and it can be exhausting because I feel like I'm at my other home. I had so much fun today because of such little things that make up life but are so much better with friends. I watched the apple cup with Isaac. I taught Tamala how to sew christmas pillow cases. I made sure itunes played only christmas music, and had plenty of encouragment for the tree decorators and I helped Mari with long divison ( how many times does three go into nine? apparently 27) :). oh, and i rubbed the kitty's tummy and scratched behind the dog's ears.
What a wonderful life! What wonderful friends(yes,you)! I have been blessed beyond measure and I am so thankful, though not nearly thankful enough, for the "ties that bind our hearts in Christian love".

things to look forward to:

Thanksgiving with the arkins
my 22nd birthday
my adult driver license :)
Christmas break
singing christmas songs at church
getting the christmas tree
baking christmas cut out cookies and eating them
curling up to read some good books
snow?
finally getting to go to a group service in Jan.

Life is good. God is good. I am content.

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Silence swallows, engulfs, devours,
It speaks its ponderous syllables.
Somehow I’m not devastated
For you and I are words.

Isaiah 8:12-13

"Do not call conspiracy all
That this people calls conspiracy,
And do not fear what it fears,
Or be in dread.
But the Lord of Hosts,
Him you shall shall regard as holy,
Let him be your fear and let him be your dread.
He will become a sanctuary..."