Rambling

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I can be really lazy sometimes. But I want to get better too. Last week I was at this HUGE mission conference in St. Louis, Urbana, and it was amazing and very challenging as well. I really want to verbally process everything out here, but I also have crazy goals like going to bed before 12 everyday, reading 25 books this year, getting off of my laptop and cell phone by 10. In combination with me being lazy and me starting to knit a new shawl, I didn't spend any time today posting blog posts.

I had planned to wake up fairly early, read + pray, go to school, get a good chunk of literature research done, skype with a good brother of mine, do some more work, then come home and be free. Instead I woke up a bit late, it was cold outside and I don't know how to bus to school anymore, so I stayed home and watched youtube and anime while knitting until skype time.

Getting to talk with my good brother allowed me to talk through some of the things that I have been thinking about since Urbana and I always cherish the times we spend talking. His heart for God is so true and I greatly respect the disciplines he has developed to really keep him grounded in Christ. I'll definitely let you know more about this later, but I've been thinking a lot about long-term missions and what I'd need to do to prepare for that. He's in a very similar position and it was great hearing him out on that too.

Man. I'm not really looking forward to this semester. It's gonna be really tough spending so much time at Health Canada doing research alone in a lab. It's gonna be tough living with my housemates that I never really see or talk to and whom I don't really see eye to eye with. It's going to be tough trying to live a life of witness while being scared of the potentially tough conversations I'd have with lab mates. It will be tough. But Jesus never said it would be easy and it can't be as bad as I think. There will probably be other students in the lab at Health Canada. My housemates aren't as bad as I think and let's hope we communicate more this semester. I'm sure my lab mates at Carleton will be respectful and I'll be reading some apologetics books soon.

My good brother had this thing he does. When he learns something cool about God or apologetcs he goes and has a talk with a non-Christian person about it. Crazy. / So cool. haha.

*sigh*

This year will be good through the challenges. God is greater than the highs and the lows

Ttyl.

D.Fa