"Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure." — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I am officially the worst blogger ever.

Please don't yell at me! I know, I know, it has been forever since I have last blogged. I'm sure you want to all know what is going on with my life...but let's be honest with each other for a second.... to update you on life (with details) would take much longer than I believe both of us would ever want to sit through (and it quite possibly even be painful) so to make life easy (and painless) let's just say life has been a bit hectic. 


Here's some lessons that I have learned over the past few weeks...

#1) The gas from ovens make out for terrible room perfume.
#2) Stress + Stress + Stress + Stress = double of everyone.
#3) Running into a music stand in pitch black hallways always hurts.
#4) Ice packs on knees before bed = wet...everything
#5) bcmcn are letters that my computer loved and I hated.
#6) Surprise visits from Hope College Sisters = tears (and lots of them)
#7) Brother-in-law + College Profs = never good news.
#8) Ice Cream on a bike seat = stupid stupid college prank.

There are times...let me tell you, when the papers were piling high on my desk, my head didn't hit the pillow until 3, and i saw two of everything, that life seemed far from pleasant. There were times when I thought to myself... "Jesus please come back... annnnd right now yeah..that would be preferable just in case you wondered". It was after I got through the storm that I realized both God's help and humor that got me through the hail and wind. Have you ever stopped and thought about God's humor? I have. many times. In fact, I wonder sometimes if my purpose in life is just the simple fact of making a fool out myself for God to chuckle at. I mean please.... who else gets a concussion from falling off a bed.... or how about the new one... falling off the treadmill. YEP. I am that girl. Next time when you are searching through youtube videos and you see one of those people who are idots and fall while running...just imagine me. I promise you'll get a kick out of it.

So a lesson to everyone.... do not close your eyes while praying on a treadmill... otherwise your prayer will turn into a cry for desperation as you try your best to get back on the treadmill. Let me tell you... this is NOT an easy task. I almost fell twice. When you first hit the ground you don't even think...its like a 2 second rebound and you are trying the next stupid idea of jumping back on the machine that kicked you off in the first place. haha. wow. sometimes I am so clueless. I just pray that there is security videos of that. I would pay to see me kicked off of a treadmill like a bull. seriously... who does that? I bet God just watches re-runs of that. I would.

Seriously though... even through the stressful moments, I realized without God's humor stuck in every once and awhile I would have never gotten through it. I think we all need to be a bit more aware of God's work in our lives. Sometimes we expect so much of our blessings to be huge that we miss the most important blessings of all... the small every day ones. Man, God deserves so much more praise and glory that what we offer Him. It makes me wonder.... Who am I to deserve any of this? and that's the thing... I never have nor ever will.

God is SO good, what a fantastic Daddy I have!