And that is the thing about life. You go walking along, thinking people are talking a language and exchanging ideas, but the whole time there is this deeper language people are really talking, and that language has nothing to do with ethics, fashion, or politics, but what it really has to do with is feeling important and valuable. What if the economy we are really dealing in life, what if the language we are really speaking in life, what if what we really want in life is relational?

Now this changes things quite a bit, because if the gospel of Jesus is just some formula I obey in order to get taken off the naughty list and put on a nice list, then it doesn't meet the deep need of the human condition, it doesn't interact with the great desire of my soul, and it has nothing to do with the hidden (or rather,obvious) language we are all speaking. But if it is more, if it is a story about humanity falling away from the community that named it, and an attempt to bring humanity back to that community, and if it is more than a series of ideas, but rather speaks directly into this basic human need we are feeling, then the gospel of Jesus is the most relevant message in the history of mankind.

-Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

In the world of facebook and myspace, I have forgotten the ease and funness of xanga!

It was a boring break. I felt like a bum inside and out. But now I am back at school and am happy! I missed it here at CCU. So many good times...

Tata for now. I shall be back and I shall write more, even though no one comments anymore.

SO i am home for the Holidays, or so they say.

Nothing much going on around here except lots of rain, which was supposed to have been snow.

Rob is gone gone gone in a far away land that I do not know how to get to.

My sister is also gone gone gone in a far away land that I have never been to.

My Grandma left for Vegas yesterday.

And my bank account has officallly gone into the single digits.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Finals... Bahhumbug

Finals week should be crazy pull your hair out week, but in reality it is wind down and relax week for me. I only have 3, and one of them I don't need to study for because it is open note. The other two aren't going to be too bad, they are the kind you can study for the night before and do fine on. I am a master at cramming anyway.

I am looking forward to break for a couple of reasons: I get to go backpacking!, I get to bake xmas cookies, no homework or classes, time with family, I get to go to St.Louis and see all of my friends from Mexico!!, and snow (well, hopefully). I think it will go by fast with all of the activities I have planned, which is good because one thing I am not looking forward to is missing Robert (whom I will not see for pratically a whole month)!

It has been raining all day and it is cold in the dorms because the ppl who turn on the heat refuse to do so when it is 50 degrees, even though it is freezing to me.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)

No more classes. Finals next week. Boyfriend getting wisdom teeth out. First snow yesterday.

K.