Love.

I love my community group. Last night was our last meeting before we split, and it was definitely bitter sweet. It was a great night of discussion, we read through Collosians 3 & 4 and talked about as much as we could in the time we had. I really love hearing everyones thoughts on what we we’re focusing on. It’s always really inspiring and just refreshing to hear honesty and not Sunday School answers. I am pretty sad we’re splitting up now, but at the same time I’m really excited for the new group. For one, the younger group will be meeting at the KCKC house, so I won’t have to drive anywhere. And I’m glad that we will have the opportunity to really invite new people in to the groups because there will actually be room now. I’m gonna miss the others, but it’s for the best, and I’ll see most of them outside of the group anyway. That’s the beauty of creating true community, we are really friends, and we will really have relationships outside of our bible study group.

On that note, Karen showed me this wordle thing the other day, and so I decided to make a wordle of the things, and people I care about. If you want to make one check out wordle.net, you can just type in your blog address and it will make one with the words you use most frequently, or you can just type in a bunch of words for it to put in there. So, this is a blob of stuff that I really care about.

[the words in the wordle if you can't read them all are: Kayleigh, Monica, Christy, fashion, Andrea, Jesus, love, C3, art, Johnnier, Ashley, fun, friends, Chrissy, Adam, church, Darrell, Abby, Nathan, Josh, Tania, Jon, books, Barry, Amber, family, Powerhouse, Crave, music, lifeWay, Jeremy, Matt, prayer, Karen, teaching, students, life, laughter]

I tend to be a very sarcastic and slightly bitter person, so I usually am not the most positive upbeat blogger. So.. to counter that, I decided tonight I will just write some bulletpoints of things that make me happy, make me smile. Things I love, little things that seem extremely insignifigant, but I think are wonderful. For a change of pace..

• swing dancing
• feeling like I’m 12 years old
• chocolate milk
• reading music and trying to get it perfect
• flowers
• doing anything at 4am
• kids
• photography
• the sound of rain on the windows
• teaching
• talks with Johnnier in the break room about everything
• getting cards with little notes inside
• making people laugh
• hearing a song that describes exactly what I’m feeling
• reading books
• playing murder in the dark
• looking at the stars, especially out in the country in tennessee or georgia where there aren’t as many lights.
• finding sticky notes that mean nothing from Christy on my door
• watching Kayleigh get over excited about anything
• any time Jon Purvis calls someone an idiot
• making fun of horrible movies
• phonecalls from Kelly about nothing in particular
• hearing Monica yell at people
• every good ‘that’s what she said’ moment
• watching the Powerhouse kids dance like crazy on Sundays
• when my boss says southern sayings I’ve never heard before and reminds me of Billy Ray Cyrus on Hannah Montana..
• reading on the back porch swing
• working in the stockroom on Willow Trees (seriously.. I get a lot of happiness from that and I have no idea why)
• talking with Chrissy about our life drama and laughing the whole way through
• Michael Bubles voice
• seeing someone with a nascar sticker on thier car (so I can insult them or praise them for thier choice in driver.. haha)
• being in conversations with Andrea and Tania about the most random things ever. Often times, Edward Norton.
• games of catchphrase at community group
• changing all of the cards in apples to apples with Kayleigh everytime we play
• hearing Barry yell “Beirut” and “Cribbage Board”
• spending time with the Cox family
• taking theme pictures with Glen
• the interior crocodile alligator video
• singing off key on purpose with a group of friends
• the weather in December
• Billy from the Powerhouse videos
• Island Joe..
• hearing my middle school girls still rapping the JoJo song
• whenever Josh breaks into song at random moments
• failing at volleyball but having fun anyway
• Adam’s crazy Joker impersonation
• ice skating
• seeing deer on Alafaya in the middle of the night
• fight nights

A lot of those things center around my friends, they all have these fun quirks about them that I love and I can’t even imagine life without my goofy bunch of friends. I stinkin love each and everyone of them, and there are like a million more I didn’t even mention in there. I didn’t start that list intent on writing about all my friends habits, but they really are things that make me happy, and when I was done, my friends took up half the list. But that’s how it should be.

On a completely random side note.. I think everyone should listen to the song ‘Beautiful’ by Phil Wickham. I love it and just think it’s amazing, and I remember the first time I heard it being really struck by it, and it still strikes a chord with me everytime I hear it. Check it out. And in general any song by him. But specifically that one.

 

“Above all things I believe in love, love is like oxygen, love is a many splendored thing, love lifts us up where we belong, all you need is love.” – Moulin Rouge