Climbing Trees and Pepperjack Cheese

This weekend, everyone went home for Easter... except me. I had agreed to babysit Friday night, and I had a paper due on Monday that I knew I would not be able to work on at home. Plus my family was busy working at the church all weekend doing set ups for everything going on, my sister had work on Saturday night, and my brother had a concert in Mabelvale (for the Christian scream-o band he is in... I am still not sure how we are related), so it made sense for me to stay here. The Foltzs invited me over for lunch after church on Sunday, and Marisa made Thai food despite being sick the night before and unable to go to church. (The food was FANTASTIC by the way, and it was such a blessing to be a part of your family, Marisa!)

It was pretty lonely in the dorms, though. I am not an introvert, so I have had enough alone time to last me at least a month! One of my friends lives in Fayetteville, so we got to hang out a little bit on Saturday, which was nice. This included making grilled cheese for lunch, singing Point of Grace and Celine Dion, and then eating Stoby's cheese dip (thank goodness they sell it in stores!) and watching a movie. Later that day, I decided to venture out to Old Main Lawn and attempt to climb my favorite tree that was damaged in the ice storm. I actually made it up for a bit, and could have probably gone higher, but didn't want to risk it since I was climbing by myself and no one knew where I was or was even around if I happened to get hurt (never happened before, but just saying). Soon, though, some guys were talking at the bottom and spotted me just sitting in the tree thinking. They yelled up at me to go higher, and I told them I wasn't feeling it that day... one of them offered to catch me, but that didn't sound too promising. I pointed out the black webbing at the top that forms a seat-type thing and told them I usually climbed that high. They were looking at it and one of them commented "You know what would be awesome? To climb up there and smoke weed." Pretty soon after that I decided to shimmy down and head back to my room...

Although I ate so much cheese on Saturday, I am still consuming it! I have a package of pepperjack slices in my room that I bought on Saturday, and it is almost gone. It's so addicting! And probably not the healthiest thing to eat a lot of... But it's so good!!

I am still working on memorizing Psalm 139, but I have written Deuteronomy 30:6 on a notecard on my desk and I am continually making it my prayer. It says, "The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live." Circumcision is normally seen as a painful image, and being a girl I can't relate but I am sure that it was, but I also think it is such a neat picture of God working in our lives, cutting away what needs to be removed. That is going to be painful, but at least in the spiritual sense it is worth it in the end. I want God to take out anything in the way of my whole-hearted devotion to Him. Ezekiel 11:19 says, "I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh."