wisconsin and other things

we have a concert on saturday at Covina United Methodist Church and i walked in for the dress rehearsal yesterday and my first thought was,
"this place smells like wisconsin"
not in like a cheese and beer way, but in an old wood and black united methodist hymnals with favorite hymns marked way.
if you had asked me to describe home it would not have been old wood pews with outdated cushions and visitors name tags and tiny pencils and musty choir robes and closets waiting to be opened
but that's the most at home i have felt in a while.
funny where our hearts settle isn't it?



this is year is almost over and i barely recognize parts of my first semester self, and other parts i know far too well, now that i've sat with them on my own. but by the grace of God i'll have more time to figure them out, figure out how to get this right.
my friends Anna, Rachel, and i are going to baptize each other the last day of the semester so if you guys would pray that we would get this right, that we would do this with our hearts and minds in the right place to glorify God and to publicly proclaim that we are His children and co-heirs with Jesus, that we are not living for ourselves or for now, but for the city that is to come. Hebrews 13:14