Make it stop.

Time. I feel like the more you try to hold onto it, the quicker it runs away from you! Lately I have been trying to squeeze out every last memory from this year, but it always leaves me wishing there was time for more. Many of the things that I have taken for granted for so long are all coming to an end, and it is making me realize just how precious our time is. I would give anything for one last chapter meeting, another college spring break, one more Tuesday night with WEGP, and another year to live with the greatest roommates ever. It is teaching me that no matter how much I might want to wish for the future and think "I can't wait until this, that, and the other thing...", I need to seek to be content with each moment the Lord decides to put me in. Cause hindsight truly is 20-20, and you never know how much you will wish you could go back and love everything all over again! 

I had a wonderful weekend with some of my best girlfriends, celebrating the engagement and upcoming wedding of our sweet friend, Mandy Jones. After spending a fun night in Montgomery with Mom at Nana and Joppy's, I met up with them and drove down to her hometown of Troy. We spent some time catching up and getting ready, then threw on our boots and headed up to the football suite at the stadium for a night of good food and country music! We had a great time and I even got the special treat of running into my brother, who had come as the date of one of Mandy's family friends!

I received some INCREDIBLY exciting news on Thursday. After interviewing, I have been given the opportunity to intern with HFP Capital this summer in New York City. I cannot wait to work really hard and learn lots and lots about the practical applications of everything have been studying in college! I know it will be very challenging at times, but I am so very very excited to see where the Lord leads me in this process. I will be moving up to the city on June 5th and returning back to the South on August 6th. Ahhh...NewYork NewYork here I come!!

Tonight I am working on some final projects for my classes and I will probably go for a run to give me some time to think about everything I need to do in the upcoming week. Before gas prices shot up and the economy went bad, I used to love jumping in my car and driving down Wire Road with the windows down when I needed some good alone time to think and decompress. Currently, running has replaced this, and become my new, less expensive "me-time." I have found it to be much easier on my bank account, yet horrible for my ankles! 

Home Sweet Home

It never fails. There is nothing that can put a smile on my face like being able to spend a lazy weekend at home in Birmingham. There is plenty of good food, good wine, and long conversations with my parents that always serves to rejuvenate and redirect me. And this long Easter weekend has exceeded expectations...

The highlight of the weekend occurred Friday night when my entire family (grandparents included) attended "Secret Church" at the Church of Brook Hills. This 6-hour long lesson would be most closely compared to what I would call a Bible-Study-Marathon. It was an intense study on the "Cross of Christ" and turned out to be a night I will not soon forget. Throughout the night, we had the opportunity to gather together in prayer for the many persecuted churches around the world who are unable to meet as we do in the United States. The sermon given by Dr. David Platt was such a blessing, and I am so grateful to have had the chance to experience this event. 

Tonight, we are enjoying a relaxing night at home, complete with homemade spaghetti and apple pie! I am so looking forward to the large gathering of family and friends we will be having for Easter lunch tomorrow. I know it will be a special time of AMAZING food, fun, and fellowship as we remember the Resurrection of our precious Savior, Jesus.

My own little circus...

Per request of my Nonnie, I have decided to quit being a slacker and update my blog... if you would even call it that. I always have good intentions to update, but never feel as if I have anything very important to say. So, instead of waiting until I have some monumental news to write about each time, I have decided to just leave it to the various small happenings that occur in my every day life. So, overwhelmingly mundane or not, here I go! 

I must say that trying to find a path to take next year has become somewhat of a three ring circus juggling act. I've been tossing all of these random ideas around, trying desperately to catch just one. I've dropped many, caught a few, and a few times I have had the overwhelming urge to just hurl a few to the ground. Through all of this chaos though, I have learned one important thing. If you can just keep juggling a few at a time, and do your best to keep all your pins in the air, eventually the right one will fall into your hands. So, I am just going to keep on, one little bit at a time, and praypraypray that it works out! Ok, well I think that is enough of the circus analogy...

School is winding down, and I cannot believe just how quickly this semester has flown by. My pledge class just had our last Swampwater ever, and while we had a wonderful time, I feel like I spent the night trying to deny the fact that in just a few short weeks, we will all be separated for good. I can remember my Bid Day in 2005, running up to the hill to greet my new "sisters." We were all so excited to see where our time at Auburn would take us, growing together as friends along the way. And I could not have imagined another group to have shared this time with. Looking ahead, I cannot wait to see where the future takes all of us. From graduation, to summer trips, and many weddings and new careers, I know that we will all be very successful in our lives ahead, just as we were during our time on the Plains...