Midways

Midway thru summer. As in, its July 1. Who on earth allowed summer to move this quickly? I might have to toss them a quarter to slow it down because we all know nobody is ready for school.

I'm quite enjoying my time off from school. Every day is full of adventure of some sort. This could mean a day downtown Chicago or a birthday party thrown at Hogwarts. But it also means an evening watching Monsters University with friends or sitting in a hammock talking about who knows what. I was in a North Face store yesterday and as I was leaving the sign above the door said "Never stop exploring." Preach that. Let's go exploring.

Midway at 5am on a Wednesday morning. Woof. Not too many people function correctly in an airport at that time. Thank goodness pilots can though. Some Trinity friends and I flew out to Washington to celebrate the wedding of two great friends, Dan Thayer and Kayla Schoeneveld. It was such a fantastic weekend. They got the perfect day, everything worked and we danced it up on that floor.

It was rather expensive to get out there. I knew that going in but I couldn't pass this up. Almost all of the Trinity folk that were going had graduated and therefore they would not be returning to school in the fall. For a lot of those people, I honestly don't know when I will see them next. Dan and Kayla for instance. They are both teachers in Florida, so maybe I will see them once a year. Maybe. They only get married once. However, I will (God willing) continue to make money my entire life. So why would I ever skip this.

Midway thru life's many twists and turns. So much is going on. I have so many ideas that I want to share but I literally don't know where to start. Just ask me in person I guess. But in case you were wondering, in the past weeks since my last blog posts, I still haven't figured out where life will lead me. Surprise right? Causes a lot of complaining by me to God. Every time I complain he just shows me why I'm so blessed. I crawled into bed last night and realized that I have a mattress, a warm blanket, not one but two pillows, a phone with electricity to charge it, an alarm to wake me up in the morning and very powerful air conditioning to keep me from frying in my apartment. This is just to help me sleep right. And cue apologies to God for complaining and thankfulness for showing me what's up.

Yesterday I had a great conversation with my friend Calob. We talked about how we hate money because it causes relationship problems, anger, frustrations and greediness. Also as poor college kids, we want money just so we can eat more than macaroni and cheese on a daily basis. But we both talked about how if we had money we would spend it to help others and do cool things to further the kingdom of God. Knowing Calob, I'm quite positive he means that, as do I.

Midway thru summer work. I am currently working for the business department at my school. I have two tasks. One is to help plan lessons for classes this fall and the other is to start working on a financial plan for a ministry based in Ukraine. These people are super cool. They do drug and alcohol rehab in their community and my friends and I get to help them organize their lives basically. Mixing business and ministry. Can I get a double win? Yea I think so.

Two of my favorite people are turning 21 right around this time. Big shout outs to Andrew and Ryan for finally getting on our level. :)

Smile and wave, it just might make someone's day.

Also, no one has hopped on my offer for Cedar Point from my last post. Fine, I'll move on I guess

"I did it all. I owned every second that this world could give. I saw so many places, the things that I did and with every broken bone, I swear I lived."

Midway thru life as we know it.