No internet access, no cell phone service, and no tall buildings in sight.

Right now I’m in my loft in a giant bunkhouse in a valley somewhere in Colorado, and I’m so happy to be here… away from it all.

I won’t be able to post this until the weekend when I go into town, but today is Wednesday, it’s 9:38 pm, and the sky still has a hint of blue in it. I can’t wait to see the stars.

This may very well be the best job I will ever have. I’m getting paid to live out here, eat seriously good meals, hike and bike everyday, and experience life and Christ with strangers.

Going to Colorado, be right back.

I received the news on Tuesday that I got a job at a Christian camp in Colorado. I haven’t even had the time to think it all through, but I know it will hit me while I’m sitting alone on a plane this Saturday. The past two days I have been packing and buying gear for 3 months of hiking, biking, rock climbing, and camping. Of course most of the time I will be at main camp, but I still need stuff like clothes and shoes for all the stuff I will be doing.

I really can’t believe I am doing this, it’s such short notice. I’m so ready to leave though… to get up and do something. When I think long term, three months is nothing out of a lifetime. But as I think of it now… It’s a little scary.

Then I realize that this is what I have been praying for. I’ve been asking God for a new season, for healing, for discipline, and for change in general. I was wondering why I felt so led to not stay on the team going to Chile. I couldn’t explain it, and it was such a difficult decision… I knew Chile was a great opportunity, and that the team is going to serve God in such a beautiful way, but I also knew that God was leading me somewhere else.

Taking chances. Leaving the comfort of my home. Being brave. 

I say I’m all about it.

Now it’s time to do it. 

I might be gone for the next three months, and I might leave THIS week. 

…this could be happening. 

Lonely 4 life ✌

The fourth grade student I tutor just told me that I’m going to be lonely because I’m already in college and I don’t have a boyfriend. She said I can just live with my mother.

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Possibility Everywhere

So, here it is, SUMMER TIME. 

and that’s all there is to say about it, because I don’t have much to do, but I’m making every effort to use my time wisely. 

I got ahold of my old camera that I begged my parents to buy me back in the day. I do not have the slightest idea how to take/edit pictures. But I’m just going to start carrying it around and see what happens. 

Daniel made this for me.

I’m a heart breaker. I break hearts.

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anthropologie:

I was raised on the shores of Lake Michigan. We experienced all the seasons, but my favorite moments were always in late Spring when the first big storms would make their march across the horizon, blurring the lines between wind, water and atmosphere.

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Things that I say I will do when I get a job but in reality I probably won’t…

Buy new stuff ( like a chair) to rearrange my room.

Get a gym pass.

Start saving for a car.

Pay for my own piano/guitar/ bass lessons.

Pay for my own gas all the time, instead of 50% of the time.

I’m very serious about rearranging my room. My parents are very serious about me paying for my own gas. I’m not so serious about getting a gym pass. And buying a car is too serious of a task.

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