PS...

While my previous blog remains entirely true and needs to exist, I feel like it left a negative feel in the air even with the redeeming end. And our world needs a heck of a lot more joy and hope and gratitude and a heck of a lot less negativity. So for that I say to God in the presence of all of you:

I am thankful for:
The Wheaton college van currently parked outside my roommate's window! WHAT!
The fact that I have a way in to creep on them and see who's here!
My group experience group who have been faithful friends since class forced us together ;)
My incredible church and all the ways that I get to be involved
My two beautiful mentors who walk through life with me
The incredible house full of women that I get to live with and learn from
The fact that on a street where many people don't have homes, I have not only a roof over my head and a bed to sleep in, but a place to do laundry, eat food, and shower in warm water
The three cousins that I get to live near (despite how rarely I see them) and the new life that one of them is about to bring about in the next few weeks/days
The amazing 2 and 3 year old boys that I get to spend most of my week with, the way we learn together, laugh together, and see through new eyes because of each other
The incredible friends that God pulled together to Denver from all areas of my life including Wheaton Christian Grammar School, Wheaton College (even CE!), YWAM, and my entire childhood and through high school years (shout out to Becca ;))
The amazing new friends I have met
Hiking every weekend
75 degree weather today
The most wonderful family anyone could ever have, even though I'm so far away and missing out on every family gathering now
The best sisters on earth
The opportunity to go to grad school
And of course, let us never forget, the most majestic and glorious mountains that I get to see every morning as I rise and every evening as I go to bed

Praise be to Him, the Creator of all that is, was, and is to come! Praise be to the Shepherd, the Savior, the Protector, the Defender, our Strength, and the reason for our song! All praise be to our Glorious Father!