Wednesday, August 28, 2013

things learned this summer of 2013



(in no particular order)

1. God is good
2. What a truly Christ-centered community looks like
3. There really are people out there like me
4. Tick tacks double as fantastic homesick pills
5. Slip n Slides become wayyy more fun when you cover the kids in soap instead of the tarp
6. Age is so relative.
7. Kids are way smarter and wiser than we give them credit for.
8. Mice have a ton of babies.
9. Kids have no conception of age. You're either really little or super old.
10. I will never (sans college) live without a dog.
11. I really do have fantastic friends.
12. I've got joy down in my heart, deep deep down in my heart.
13. There is a street light in the Harbor from the old Narrows Bridge.
14. Oranges can only hit the ceiling so many times...
15. Chaco tan lines are only cool in certain circles.
16. I am a bottom-rimless glasses kind of gal.
17. The narrows bridge is excessively windy.
18. Minor league baseball fans really are a thing.
19. It is NEVER a good idea to push a stranger, especially if they don't speak English, off of a cliff.
20. Gram Crackers with peanut butter and bananas... yum!
21. I do not own enough fleece.
22. Silhouettes are fun.
23. Olympia has nice sunsets (but not as nice as Gig Harbor).
24. It takes a while to move from the literal to the abstract.
25. The more I pour out myself to others the more Christ will pour into me.
26. I cannot save people. I can plant a seed, but the rest is God's jurisdiction.
27. My good friends stick around.
28. Never step on a sewer manhole cover.
29. I might be the last person ever who uses roller blades as their preferred mode of transportation. 
30. 2 Corinthians 3:17-18