It's Been Too Long

As you were expecting when you looked at the title, I have been thinking about how it has been too long since I last posted something. My summer got crazy in Europe and with school there. I then came home and didn't have anything to say or write or update you on. I think this moment may be the same too, so I am going to write away and we will see where it takes me. 

I spent the last 2 and a half weeks of summer with my friends. I had two papers to write and I could not get the energy to write them, so instead I was with friends all the time and caught up on each other's lives. I am thankful for the place that God has brought me and the friends He has given me. 

"Summer" at Home was filled with:

Caitlin and Josh sitting at this table until 2am reminiscing and talking about our lives in the future 

"summer at home" was filled with watching the olympics with the Fuehrings and Danka. Also watching Mary-Kate and Ashley movies. 

Sitting drinking iced coffee in downtown Geneva with Caitlin and Michelle

Late nights with this girl is our specialty. Love her 

Photoshoots with Fuehrings and Danka

Writing papers with Maxx as a faithful friend

Pre-wedding photoshoots

Carly and Kari! 

Getting ready with Kari. She will hate me forever for putting this up 

I am now back at Moody. I love Moody. I spent this weekend just realizing how much I love it and how happy I am that I am here. I love school work and the people I get to interact with here. I have been given a gift by being able to attend Moody and I am sad when people don't realize that. 

I am thankful for faithful friends who will be dumb along side of me and actually encourage it. 

I LOVE TENWEST! These girls are the bomb (also the ones not in this picture). I love to talk to them and live with them each and every day. 

I love roommate first day of school pics. 

Mercy. 

I am thankful for friends who understand my love for Daschunds and embrace it fully. 

I am thankful for friends who steal my phone and take rude pictures for me to find later. 

I am thankful for Allie and for her open door for my get away zone to keep me sane. I am thankful for her healing couch and trail mix.

I am thankful for the lightology roof. As long as i can i will visit this place. It is a secret magical get away from Chicago while right in the middle of it all. 

I am thankful for Europe Trip friendships that have continued. 

I am thankful for a roommate who knows me well and buys me tiny animals that she allows to grow in our sink, even if that means she has to brush her teeth elsewhere. 

I am thankful for friends who support each other in the good side and the bad side of Moody, and lift each other up with ice cream and grape juice. 

I am thankful for a high school/middle school dear friend to be at Moody. Its a little taste of home right down the hall. 

I am thankful for 10west understanding my need to get out some ghetto inside, wherever it comes from inside of me. I am thankful that they support my decision to wear high-tops and bring a boombox blaring to events on campus. 

I am thankful for syllabus parties and for support and candy during syllabus shock. 

I am thankful for God putting me in Chicago again this year with two fantastic women, I am excited to share life again with them this year and to learn more about them both as we go along and to learn more about Jesus through their experiences with Him as I share mine with them.

The last year at Moody Bible Institute brought many tears, laughs, lessons, friends, experiences, pain, illness, frequent visits to the hospital, and it was all a journey. I am ready for the second part to this journey and am excited to keep you all updated as it goes on. Here is to another wonderful school year filled with the grace of Jesus as we learn to walk in His footprints. 

Majesty Spread Thin With Grass.

I am sitting in a youth hostel in Wilderswil, Switzerland looking out a window into the majestic Swiss Alps. This is probably one of the most beautiful places in the world. Words do not express the emotions I feel toward this place. The feelings it brings up in me do not even let me get words out to describe it. If I tried to describe this majesty to those of you at home, I couldn't even do it justice. It is truly magnificent. Majesty spread thin with grass- this is what i feel about the alps here in Switzerland. 


While here I am memorizing Isaiah 42:6--
“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; 
    I will take hold of your hand. 
I will keep you and will make you
    to be a covenant for the people
    and a light for the Gentiles,"

As I prayed to have a verse for Switzerland, the Lord put on my heart, righteousness and just learning what it means for people and how Christ's righteousness. Through Him we gain righteousness. We inherit it. 

While in Interlaken/Wilderswil we got three day train passes to go up into the mountains and hike. Yesterday we went up to Jungfrau and went to the observatory there it was so insanely amazing! All i could do was gasp and say "oh my gosh" It was literally, glorious, filled with His vast majesty and proclaims all of the honor He deserves. I stood in awe of His majesty and it made me realize how small I really am and He is Lord over it all. We then hiked up to a hut on a mountain called the Mönch. Who knew that such thin air and snow could really make a up hill hike harder. Mercy. We finally got there, slipped off our shoes and put on the crocs provided and headed upstairs to eat some food. We left the hut and descended back down the path. 

After that we split up and some of us took a hike on foot of the north face of the Eiger mountain. It was epic. Snow covered the majority of the path we were to be on. So we dug in and walked at an angle on the side of this mountain that was slanting down toward civilization. We did this multiple times through snow in a single file line to make sure we stayed on the mountain and not sliding down. Very seldom times we would find gravel or hard ground to walk on. We decided to make it quicker, we would go off the path and sprint/penguin slide/or slide on our butts down the face of the mountain. It was so fun and so nuts. There will be a video of some boys doing it down below :)   After a while we found hard ground to walk on for the rest of the way down.  We got to a waterfall and took some pictures and then found a path that was a steep downhill to our destination of the train station. After probably about 4 hours we were at the train station and tired and wet.-- It was a scary experience for me at the start to think i could just slide down the side of this mountain.

-The pictures are so out of order and it stresses me out, but its fine, we will work with it. 

On the bus

Our Christianity and Western Culture class studying for our final

Before our EPIC hike 

Jin, Ches, Kory and I on the train up to Jungfrau...that view is real

Sleeping on trains

The group on the observatory of Jungfrau

Best picture

Train days

Dr. Litfin, Chesney and I at the Jungfrau observatory

All of us at the Mönch hut

So so incredible

Chesney and I and Johnny..

Ashley and I on the path to the hut...she is so amazing. So glad she is on this trip, she has truly truly blessed me. 

Its fine, we were in the Swiss Alps hiking

Before our epic hike..Ashley Me Chesney Jin

Love her so much

Ches, Dustin, Me, Kory

Waterfall! Kory Ches Johnny Me Dr L Ashley

We MADE it! 

Roommate pictures

Getting Swiss chocolate in Grindalwal

*THANKS CHESNEY MARIE CROUCH AND DR. LITFIN FOR THE PICTURES*