Today was the last chapel service of the year.  We took communion to end everything.  It was a very sentimental day.  Everyone was hugging and laughing and taking pictures.  Tonight at 9:30 we had "Brain Food Breakfast" because finals start tomorrow.  I took so many pictures.  Man, I'm going to miss my friends this summer.  I never realized back in August that I would come to college and make brand new friends.  The same way I didn't want to leave my friends at home; I don't want to leave these people.  I'm so blessed.  God bless!

Christen

5 days!  I move out of here Saturday!  I can't believe my semester is almost over.  I have 2 exams on Thursday and 2 Saturday!  YEA!

I've come to realize EVERYBODY has their own opinion of me thinking about Master's Commission.  Some people are praying I don't go, some people think it will be good for me, some people think I should go to one closer to home.  When I first started considering it, Aaron Bradley (my leader in Los Angeles) told me that I would hear voices from every direction, but I had to decide what was right for me.  That's what I'm trying to do right now.  I pray that God will open doors where they need to be open and shut doors where they need to be shut.  I am completely confident that if I'm supposed to go, I'll go.  I'll have a complete peace about it, but if I'm not, I won't. 

I have an interview tomorrow at 3:30.  It's a phone interview.  Part of me is nervous, but I know that whatever happens is going to be God's will.

Master's Commission is a 9 month internship where you live in dorms/apartments and 7 days a week you are discipled and develop a servant's heart.  I have applied to the one in Rockford, Illinois.  I've heard wonderful things about it and feel drawn to that one. It's one of the biggest in America, but I've heard there's still lots of one on one discipleship.  You get to travel across country for school assemblies and mission trips. It starts at the end of September, you get 2 weeks off for Christmas, and end the last week of June.

Anyway, who knows where I'll be in the fall.  Only God.  God bless each one of you and I love you all.

Christen

Have you ever noticed that the days you are really tired are your busiest days?  Today all I wanted to do was sleep, but I did SO much.  At church this morning, I was informed that our young adults ministry was going to a Ranger's game for $3.  How was I going to turn that down?  So like 35 of us from church went.  It was fun but kinda boring.  It was boring because I was so tired, and we were in the severe nose bleed section!  Anyway, then we went and ate pizza at our young adult's pastor's house.  It was fun, but I left somewhat quickly.  I came back to school expecting to shower and then sleep, but I realized the Mavericks are on and if you know me at all, I'm a HUGE basketball fan. After the game, I wrestled like hardcore with my friend from back in the day, Oscar Jackson.  I think I broke something!  Hehe  Now, I'm finally getting ready to go to bed.

Encouragement:  You are here for a reason.  God hasn't and never will forget about you no matter how forsaken or betrayed you really feel.  God made you so, so special!

Christen

Well I'm one day closer to summer!  At the end of my hallway in my dorm, there is a dry erase board that has a count down.  Today I woke up and it said 9 days.  SINGLE DIGITS!  I can't believe my first year of college is over.   I feel like it was just yesterday I started high school.  Wow, time flies...life flies.  This has been such a weird year in my life.  I've loved every second of college, but at the same time, I can't wait to get away from it.  I look back to a year ago.  I was a week away from my senior prom and a month away from graduating.  I had waited my whole life to graduate high school, and now it seems so meaningless.  Nobody here cares what I did in high school.  I spent hours upon hours on my high school's newspaper and in the student council office, and now, no one really cares about it.  My past is just that.  My past.  I've got to live everyday for the future because that's all I've got now.  Today is gone.  Yesterday is gone.  Who knows if I'll have tomorrow.  Well, I'll get off my little soap box now.  God bless!