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Kaleo! Right now the sun is setting and from here I can see it stretching across the hugeeeee sky and it is beyond beautiful, and I'm wondering how each of you are, how was your Christmas Day? What did you do? But I suppose this isn't a very personal way to find out, so I'll fill you in on my last few months.
The first semester at Ambrose was good, and I genuinely mean good. There were some really hard times, it was definitely a hard transition for me, and having Al as my roomate was such a huge blessing from God. During the summer I such an amazing time working at camp, and arriving at Ambrose almost immediately my habit of reading the bible was one that I struggled all semester to get back into. One of the coolest things to happen was in my small group I am a part of. We meet once a week, usually for breakfast, and we did a Samaritan's Purse shoebox together, but it was such a good time of community sharing where we were at that week and praying for each other... often reminding me of Kaleo. I have to tell you about precious Nora, one week I put out my fist toward her and said "pound it!" and she tentatively moved her lips towards my fist and says "I thought you wanted me to kiss your fist!" Oh Nora is precious! I have learned much from Nora over breakfasts at Tim Horton's.
Volleyball was definitely very different from what I had imagined. If you remember when I first blogged oh so humbly how the other girls weren't looking too talented, while for a couple weeks mid season I never saw the court and that was soooo humbling. I have never played on a Christian sports team and it really cool praying before and after games, practices, especially after some pretty big losses, or losses where we never should have lost, but staying focused on how we could apply that to life, what God could be teaching us was really challenging and cool.
I loved my psychology and soc classes this semester, and I am excited to see how God will use my passions for these subjects, and learning in general in the future! I am not sure what I'll be doing next year, but I have a lot of time for God to reveal his plans for me.
Lastly please, please continue to pray for my mom. She had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in August, and then shortly after Thanksgiving (spending two weeks in the hospital) an MRI came back clear, since then she's been unable to go to work, church or anywhere and has been at home with no diagnosis. I guess being at school and talking to her on the phone I somehow forgot how sick she was, it was almost nice having her not at work I could call and talk to her anytime, and she always had time for me, but since being home I have been again reminded how weak and fragile she is. There is no official diagnosis as of now, she is weak, dizzy, her legs and face go numb daily, it isn't unusual for her to be unable to get out of bed for an entire day. Her own faith amazes me, but I know she is frustered, and physically, emotionally and spiritually exhausted.... I flip flop back and forth from being so thankful that this holiday my family is not in the hospital, and we are together and then feeling like life is so unfair. Other families are all together, healthy, their biggest problem is wether or not they got the gift they wanted for Christmas, taking their health, something as simple as being able to go to the CHristmas Eve service together as a family for granted. Please treasure the time you have with your family this Christmas, if you're parents ask you to do something try not to feel frustrated, if they want to play one board game too many don't be grumpy but be thankful they can play...Trust me I'm not saying I'm good at this, in a day my mom asks me to get her a glass of water more times than I can count and truth be told there are times I feel like I'm on the verge of saying something awful like "can't you get it", but the truth of it is she can't and I'm sure she would be more than glad to get her own. I really love you guys, e-mail me or call me I'd love to hear from each of you!