Random Thoughts

There is so much going through my head right now. Since this is available for public viewing, I have to be careful how I word some of these things, which is almost impossible since I don't know what words to use to begin with. I think I'll just list them even though they aren't so organized in my mind.

1. What is it about book stores? I love going to book stores and just walking around and looking at the titles. I know this is weird, but there is something (not sure what word to put here) about being in a book store. I stopped by Barnes n Noble on my way home from church today. I could have stayed there a couple of hours, but I knew I would have bought something so I made myself leave.

2. What do you do when you find out disturbing news about a friend? Obviously I learned some (let's call it) interesting facts about a friend of mine just now and I don't really know what, if anything, to do about it. I don't even know how to process the information. I just can't reconcile this with other things I believed to be true about my friend. All I can do is pray.

3. Today is Collin's birthday and I just got off the phone with him. I hope he is having a good day, in his new town, with his new friends.

4. I miss Uganda and the people. I've been looking through the photos of others who were there at the same time I was and I've come to realize that a part of my heart (more so than I thought) was left there.

(Tyler Wellman took these photos. I love them. I hope he doesn't mind me using them.)

5. God has blessed me with some wonderful friends. The fun thing is that they are all different and all in different stages of life. Two in particular have been on my mind lately/today. My best friend is going to have a baby in December and I can't wait! I get teary-eyed every time I think about her and the whole situation. I immediately move to laughter at the thought of her being a mom. I can't wait to see that! I have another friend who has been in a funk lately and that has been hard to watch. I'm a fixer by nature but it was clear from the beginning of the funk that there was nothing I could/should do to help fix this. So I pray for my friend and for me that I would know how to love this person through it.

6. I'm really excited about tonight. Our church is having a special time for those who went on short-term mission trips this summer, to share about their experiences. I'm excited because I'll get to see my teammates, see pictures from the trip (like I haven't seen at least 1000 of them), and I'll get to hear what the Lord did, and is continuing to do, in the lives of all who took part.

7. Finally, (this isn't the last thing running through my mind, but it's all I'm going to write about right now) I'm trying to decide what to do with the remaining 1 1/2 hours until I have to be back at church. The choices: nap, watch the original Hairspray, or clean my room. I think I'll watch the movie and I'm thinking I'll probably fall asleep.