Yesterday I could see a lot of prayers being answered! It was so amazing! In our bible study we have started filling out prayer request cards and exhanging them with the other girls in the study so that we can be praying for each other throughout the week. I had nearly forgotten my requests until I remembered what I had written down from the week before.

I had asked for prayers for my family that God might draw them into himself - I saw this one on Tuesday when I talked to my mom she said that my dad had mentioned sitting with my sisters through Sunday School, even though I can't see it happening - it means that he's been thinking something, a glimmer of hope - I was dancing around my dorm room!

I had prayed that I would meet more people on my floor and that I wouldn't be so lonely. This was fulfilled in that my friend, Lindsey, asked me to join her and Cindy for lunch Saturday. Since then I've seen Cindy everywhere and she's so open and friendly! She even mentioned that it would be fun to room together next year!

I also have been praying for my car situation that I would have a ride to my elementary school and that it would work out for the rest of the semester. God took care of this one by helping me to ask my bible study if any one could give me a ride today and Liz said she would!

On top of all these requests I've seen answered, I know there are more in the works. And yesterday God lead me to our tiny little nature trail where hundreds of monarchs came fluttering out of the bushes as a beautiful display of His love.

Write it on your heart...

Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day,
and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt, crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a
new day;
begin it well and serenely,
with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays...

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

So today was my first full day back at ol' KSU. It started with "RING"(my cellphone)-"THUMP"(my head hitting the ceiling as I shot strait up on my bunkbed). It didn't hurt, I just had to laugh. Then I clambered down only to find that the only clothes I had in my drawers were dress shirts and pajama pants, an attractive combination. I went out to my car and found the other 3 bags of my clothes, but I still was missing the charger for my phone and I hadn't met anybody new on my floor yet and I was about to die with the thought of not being able to call my mom and Jesse. And I forgot my bible!

I was feeling super disconnected without my material possessions and friends around. Then I went to church and we sang a song that went like

"All my soul needs is all your love to cover me so all the world will see I have nothing; I have nothing without you. Take my time here on this earth, let it glorify all you are worth. For I am nothing; I am nothing without you."

It just made me think about how when we lose things outwardly, it makes us realize how much those things mean to us. If I searched for God as hard as I searched for that charger - I would be a lot more connected to Him.

Well, I found a bag with my charger and a New Testament in it. I'll probably be pondering all I need and what I have and who I am for a while though. Goodnight.