Trust. Hope. His Joy.

You call out, "Darling daughter
Won't you please draw near?
I'm your heavenly father
You have nothing left to fear

Fall into me
And accept my sheltering arms
Trust and you will see
I don't mean this trial for your harm
Let go and give me all your pain
Don't carry this worry on your own
I promise this is not in vain
You're not meant to bear this all alone"

I cry out, "Heavenly father
I really don't understand
But you want the best for your daughter
So I'll trust you have a plan

I'll fall into you
And accept your sheltering arms
I trust and I can see
You don't mean this trial for my harm
I let go and gave you all my pain
I won't carry this worry on my own
You promise this is not in vain
I don't have to bear this all alone."

Second Semester...

I am loving this semester of school... I love my friends, feel more comfortable in my environment than I was last semester, and I absolutely love all my classes. I'm taking English 110B (we get to read some Poe, Brother's Grimm fairytales, poetry, and The Importance of Being Earnest in that class, so I'm basically in love), Nature of Mathematics (super easy and my prof is really funny... and totally nerdy... he actually spent the time to figure out that his social security number is a prime number, and that's his favorite prime. he couldn't tell us that number, obviously, but he did tell us his second and third favorite prime numbers instead... oh my gosh! People actually spend time thinking about that??? it's a whole nother world...), Biblical Interpretation and Spiritual Formation (otherwise known as BIFS cause that's easier to say... great class about interpreting scriptures), Intro into public speaking (my prof is so great for that class... really funny and entertaining), Music Appreciation (my prof is from Seattle and we got to have a talk about Bellevue, Renton, and Everett where all her family lives), and finally, Intro to Guitar. I love learning how to play guitar. LOVE IT. can't believe I never learned how before.
A couple other new things as well... Mary and I totally rearranged our room and it's SO HAPPY in there now! We went dorm room shopping the first week and bought a rug, a mirror, and brought in a lamp from mary's house... it's all very bright and happy.
Alfred is a totally new fish this semester! He swims around all the time, is orange in color again, and eats 3 times a day! Such a change from him sitting on the rocks all day, turning white, and eating every 3 days... we don't know what happened. We think maybe he took on the spirit of Ducky (Anna and Hannah's fish who was left with Alfred in Mary's care over break... he died after a few weeks, and Alfred has been a changed fish ever since).
Mary and I have updated our youtube channel a bit, and posted a couple different videos... our latest one is a music video we made on "supernova day" last sunday. we have such fun together... oh! part of our new room arrangement is so that our beds are headboard to headboard against the window, and we sleep with our heads facing each other so it's like a sleepover every night ;)
The car has been in the shop for the past week and a half... poor baby. she needs a new throttle body. that's the short version of the story. it's was really scary to figure that out and find a good auto shop that wouldn't rip me off... oh man. but it should all be ok now... the part it needs is being shipped to the local Honda shop as we speak (it's a discontinued part because the car is "so old" so we had to buy the part on ebay), so please pray that it will get there safely and WORK in the car!
The past two nights I was tryin out a hip hop dance thing with my friend, Anna... oh we had so much fun! It's actually an audition proccess to get into the school dance team (why a school who doesn't allow dancing at campus events has a dance team is STILL so confusing to me). monday night we learned the routine, tuesday night we practiced, and tryouts are tonight. I just went for fun, but oh man, I loved it!
Okay, well I should probably hit the books... love you guys! Till next time :)