Two Months Down....

Sunday means it's the beginning of a new week, which I am pretty happy about after last week. Last week was a below-average week on my scale, to put it in a positive way. Monday had it's disappointments. Tuesday was unexpectedly interesting. Wednesday was the longest, most dull day of work I've ever had (ok, maybe not quite that bad). Thursday was not too bad, I guess. Friday was one of those days where you just get something on your mind and worry about it till you literally feel sick and lose your appetite. I don't know why it took till Friday, but it did. But luckily, Friday night is my chill night and I got to spend some good time with the Man....which helped out a great deal.

The highlight of my week was definitely going to this restraunt (<--that's one word I will never be able to spell, along with 'museaum' ....i think i cheated on my spelling test on those words in elementary haha) called Z Tejas (that's Texas in Spanish for all you non-Spaniards and non-Texans) for a friend's 21st birthday. Got to hang out with some good friends there, as well as meet some nice people ;-) It felt amazing to hang out with a group of people my own age...all in college. I can't describe how much I miss that. Oh, and I actually met a girl with a southern accent....it only took 2 months!! She said there are lots of cowboys where she is from in East Texas. This was particularly exciting to me since my secret dream and true purpose for coming to Texas is to become a cowboy.

Yesterday was pretty good. I got two free meals, got to take a short nap, and hang out with some cool dudes around a grill fire and just talk about whatever we felt like. Today was good as well....free IHOP for breakfast! I still haven't figured out what to do with my Sunday's yet. Sunday's are boring when you don't have homework to do or friends to hang out with. I guess I could watch NASCAR :-/

I did go to Austin Stone church tonight...and it was amazing. They are doing a series called 'The seven sayings of Jesus on the Cross'. Basically, every week, they do a different sermon on one of the last things Jesus said while dying on the cross. Today's was from John 19:25-27. Basically, Jesus is dying on the cross, bearing the sins of the world, after just being beaten nearly to death....undoubtedly the hardest and most painful thing He or any one will ever go through. In this moment, He looked down and saw Mary, His mother, and said to her "Woman, behold your son" of John, and to John He said "Here is your mother." The point we miss in all this: even when Jesus was in the midst of such great pain, even when He was performing the most amazing and important act of salvation and grace for mankind, He still took time to look down and see that His mother's needs were taken care of. Even when God is busy doing these seemingly huge and important acts on earth, He still cares enough to see to our needs. Do we do the same for the people in our lives? Or do we get caught up in the big things, even if they are good, and neglect the people with needs in our lives that we pass by everyday. Something to think about.

I got a few nice phone calls this weekend from people I don't talk to often...including one from the man himself, Evan Griffin. Evan makes me laugh....we like to joke around and make fun of each other a lot, but I think there is a deep appreciation for each other under all that. There's not many people I would follow off a bridge, but I think Evan is one of those people.

Hopefully I can update this thing more frequently...although I don't know if anyone really reads it. I think people do. But you know how those things go. People never like to admit they read other's blogs...which I think has become a somewhat funny social norm. I don't mind at all when folks silently stop in, but I also don't mind when they let me know they were here :-)