My parents.

Two of the most influential people in my life. I am so thankful for you two. When I failed you, you told me you love me. When I showed no respect, you still showed me you loved me. When I disobeyed you, you made sure I knew you still loved me. When I ran away, you came and found me. When I came back to Christ, you rejoiced with me. When I was baptised, you celebrated with me. When i shared my heart, you listened. When I told you my dream, you believed in me.

You have showed me how marriage should look, with Christ at the centre. You have showed me how to love, how to care and how to serve. You have been a great example of how God loves us. When we fail, are disrespectful, are disobedient or run away, He still loves us and calls us by our name. He rejoiced when I gave Him my all, and when I publicly declared my love and choice of following Him. He listens when I share my heart, and He drives me to fulfil my dreams.

I am so blessed, and honoured to have you as my earthly parents, but even more blessed to have a heavenly father that would place me in your hands to bring me up in His family.

Now, for others who may be reading this, aren't my parents just the cutest?!?! I can't wait to be re-united with you next summer, hopefully in Texas!! We'll for sure have to get some dancing going on! And to everyone who has played a part in my life up to now, thank you for playing a part in the person I have become.

Reminded.

So today I wrote out some long blog post. I just deleted it. I want to tell you a few things today/tonight/this afternoon. Instead of giving you a massive few paragraphs. 

I guess the first thing is more of an "ask."

My friend, and friends of our family are currently spending time in the children's hospital in Glasgow. Mark, the youngest in the family has been hit with a virus that his body is fighting hard to get rid of. His health is improving, but please, keep continuing to pray for him and his family. In the words of his dad, Brian, "If you pray, please pray. If you don't, please start. If you can't, please try." 

Tonight I spent my evening rocking a one and a half year old, little boy to sleep. He was so tired and just clung on to me and slowly finally let himself fall asleep to the humming of my voice. It made me feel so warm inside. Thinking about this now, and after some things I've heard recently, the way Teo was clinging on to me, and finding rest on my shoulder, this is the way we should be with our Lord. Clinging to Him for HIS strength, not our own. In June I got sick. I was stressed. I was lonely. I was lost. I was damaged. I was hurting. And I had forgotten about the one who could change all of that. I was in my final stretch of Bible School, and I had forgotten about God. I then spent a week and a half out of lectures, in the beautiful country side of England, praising God, talking to Him and giving my life back over to Him. I guess i wanna encourage anyone who's in Christian ministry, or is studying it, that just because you're CONSTANTLY in The Word, it doesn't stop Satan from slipping in and taking control. We need to daily spend time with God, not because we HAVE too, but because we WANT and NEED too. We need to cling onto him, in the good and the bad. 

Something else I wanna share is just how thankful I am. God has used so many people to speak into my life, especially in the last couple of years. I have been blessed with friends here at Moody, that I could never have dreamed of. To have gone from going to Capernwray Hall Bible School, in the countryside of England, for a year cause I never got into uni, to going to Moody Bible School, in down-town Chicago, USA to study Youth Ministry, because I know it's what God's calling me too is crazy! God has put me here, and I pray I never forget how much of a gift this is.

I have been blessed with not only a sweet, kind, hilarious  loving room mate, but a great, encouraging, beautiful, fellow sister in Christ. My floor never fail to make me smile, and our brother floor does the same. I have some amazing team mates, who encourage me when I'm so ready to give up. My coaches push me, but love me at the same time. I have friends in my classes who don't mind that I have no idea what there question to our CDOC professor even means and they are okay with that. I have friends from all over the world who love the same God as i do, and share in the same passion to serve Christ and to make HIS name known! I am truly blessed!!!

Finally, I want to share a few pictures of my recent antics. 

Thanks again for all the prayer and support, I appreciate it so much.

This is my hillarious room mate. She makes me smile
Constantly, and cheers me up so much.

This was taken after I played with a friend of mine for the opening
of a new Missions centre. It was a super fun night, and this
picture looks suppppper cool!!

As part of a program called FYT (First Year Transition) We went on a retreat,
I got to go to another new state! WOO. We had a lovely time of fellowship out by the
lake. It was super fun!

A little while I go, I got to be a part of a choir, singing with the
Thursday night praise group. We had a fun night of worship
in the plaza at school, and it was great to see so many people
gathered to worship God.

Finally, we painted. We painted a big black strip on our nice creamy walls.
But don't you worry, we haven't gone crazy, this black strip is actually
blackboard paint, and so we now have a super sweet
chalk board in our lounge!

Have a swelllllll day!