blossomingjoy

{fact: two weeks from tomorrow i am going to california to spend four days of wonder with rebecca the ram rigell.}

i might have already written a blog post about this but i am too lazy to look in my archive so sorry suckas. 

may 2010 i was a part of a awesome little craft show in bluffton, sc called mayfest. basically all sorts of vendors set up on a historic street and sell their stuff.

i had worked for months preparing art for this thing….it was a really fun day. seeing people look at my work, and like it!

my favorite part of the whole day was this precious little girl…maybe around eight-years-old who was walking the street with her dad. 

they were standing outside the tent and she was reading the things that the canvases said outloud.

“give love.”

“trust.”

“faith.”

“grace is enough.”

“truth.”

she was so cute. just standing there reading these words. after she had finished she looked at her dad and said:

“dad, this is the truth tent.”

to which he responded:

“what do you mean?”

she says:

“all of these things are just true.”

yes, little girl. they are all true. it’s something i have never forgotten. wouldn’t it be beautiful to have our lives be identified as a truth tent. that what we say and do, is true.

here is a horrendous picture of my tent. the truth tent.

to me and wheaton. one year ago today i moved to wheaton. yikes. more like i cried and cried and cried the whole way me and my dad drove here. 

but today i am not crying. and in fact, my house is hosting a little get together for the first-year students who have been crying.

i am thankful for this last year. even though it was so hard and so cold. but it was so beautiful. and i have been so blessed.

i have met some dear people.

laughed a lot.

read a lot of blogs in class.

gotten hilariously good grades.

i have loved murderers.

i am learning how to be a counselor.

and been reminded everyday of why i need the presence of the Counselor. everyday.

so congrats to us, wheaton. one down. one to go. be sweet to me this winter. i would be ok with no snow. mmmkay. 

every so often I google my jail women to see if anything new is happening in their cases. one of my women (who I knew had killed someone) was just convicted this for murder and will face between 20-60 years in prison. she’s 35. that’s the rest of her life. so sad.

can you imagine? I am sitting in bestbuy with my mom and brother as I read the news report. just blew me away. her final court date is in september. I wanna try to go.

thankful tonight that I’m sitting in bestbuy. And not in jail.