Check this out

You have to watch the first minute or so of this. It is A-mazing!

Also at about 2:30 there is a very fast rift that I'm sure anyone could do...

Fun times

So tonight I was driving around Omaha and I got a little turned around. I was chatting with a friend on the phone and realized that I really didn't know how to get to Millard from where I was. My instincts fooled me and I ended up at 120 and Fort which is pretty far from where I live. Anyways, that was comical in and of itself but I stopped at a gas station to use the restroom (because at this point I was SO far from home I couldn't hold it that long). I started talking to the gas station clerk who tells me... You have a very Amy Grant look. HMMMM.... I was perplexed. I followed up with are you calling me a ditz? (I had just told him about how lost I was and that comment in and of itself was probably a little ditzy). He procedes to ask me if I understand what he is talking about with the whole I look like Amy Grant thing. I clearly did not. But he said that Amy Grant was pretty. I was flattered. And amused. I am going to bed now.

Fellowship: the other white meat

Have you ever had fellowship with yourself? I think that I just did. I went back and read my blog from years ago. I was encouraged by what God taught me last year and challenged. What an interesting experience.

Pictures!

This is a strange thing me and my roommates did at the EDGE summit. I thought I would share our fun with you all!















This is me and Tracy on our 10 minute trip to Canada.











This is the most amazing 3 person kayak team ever. Aren't our skirts lovely?













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The things you do when its bedtime and you are not tired

The Five Love Languages

My primary love language is probably
Quality Time
with a secondary love language being
Words of Affirmation.

Complete set of results

Quality Time:		12
Words of Affirmation:		8
Acts of Service:		4
Physical Touch:		4
Receiving Gifts:		1

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don't understand our partner's requirements, or even our own. We all have a "love tank" that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

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Back to reality

So here I am needing to return to reality! The past two weeks have been a whirlwind of travel. I went to Seattle, the San Juan Islands, Canada (briefly) and Arches National Park near Moab Utah with my roommates Tracy and Sonya. I have never seen so many amazing things in such a short period of time. All we saw was absolutely beautiful. I also learned how little I know about geography, history and the like. I am not naturally very curious about the world around me. I am curious about people and what makes them tick but not things ya know?

This last week after all of the adventuring in the Pacific Northwest, I went to my final training for EDGE corps Navigator staff. My 2 year committment to EDGE corps is over but I am continuing on for at least another year. The summit was good but it was sad to say goodbye to people that I have had such sweet fellowship with over the years. I felt like I was with a group of fellow soldiers for the gospel and that we were sharing the stories of people who had gone to battle and come back victorious but not without scars. So some of the time was spent discussing those scars and some of the time we spent mending the wounds and some of the time we spent celebrating the victory and the God of the victory. It was really cool.

But now I am "back to real life". I need to fundraise almost 2000/month more this summer and I need to decide if I am going to live in Lincoln or Omaha. It will probably be Omaha since I haven't made any moves towards living in Lincoln and it is already summer.

Speaking of back to reality, one part of reality as I am calling it was getting to see my amazing boyfriend Phil. We got to spend most of the last 2 days together. A lot of it was with other people but it was so GOOD to see him. He is cool!

In other news though, I feel like I have forgotten how to function like a normal human being. Today when church was over I had NO idea what to do with free time. I have not had any free time in the last 2 weeks to choose how to spend my time. It has all been decided for me or at least partially by someone else. So naturally what do I do? Update my blog.

I hope you enjoyed it!

Week in the Word

In exactly 24 hours I will be on my way to the first half of week in the word. This is a very exciting thing minus the fact that I am supposed to give a message that isn't exactly started on Monday night. Umm you can pray for that. I have spent the better part of the afternoon researching relationships in the book of proverbs. Uggh. I really need something to say to the students. I need to pray.

After that I am officially running away to Seattle. Running from what, I don't know. Hopefully it will be a spiritual journey of sorts. I need to get good time with God. I am tired!

After that week I will be in Colorado Springs for a week. My final week with my EDGE corps class. That may be sad. It will undoubtedly be refreshing.

Random story: I gave my email address (and phone number to 1 of them) to 2 complete strangers at Parables (Christian bookstore in Omaha) today. They were both middle aged men who had very legitimate claims of connection to the Navigators. Hope that I dont get a stalker or something out of that deal! They seemed trustworthy and legitimate enough!

Have a fantastic 3 weeks!