break

so...my break is almost over. it honestly feels like i've been home forever. and as excited as i am to get back to school, i'm a little sad to say goodbye to the fam. won't see them for a good few months.

i finally have things worked out for my trip to germany! the center for worship at liberty is taking a mission trip to germany over spring break and i'm going with them! i'm super excited...more on that another day.

i'm currently reading TheShack. it's gotten a lot of attention and intrigued me so i'm reading it. it's very intense and very interesting. makes me think deep. i like that. it's plly something i could read again this summer and get a bit more out of - just so much to try and take in at once. it was part of one of my "break goals" to read that and WhenGodWritesYourLoveStory. i'm also slowly progessing on that one as well. it's a lot of stuff i've heard before, but really needed to be reminded of so that's good.

some other goals i had for break were:
- learn 2 new classical pieces and review some old ones (i start private piano this semester so i need to be prepared!)
- write a song (did that. not 100% gung ho about it but whatever...i wasn't about the last 2 and they ended up really growing on me so we'll see).
- take a walk in the woods and have some listeningtoGodtime (haven't done that yet...)
- do lots of baking (more than did that)
- have one-on-one outings with each of my sisters (did that)
- write/distribute support letter for germany (letter is currently written...but not distributed)

i really want to drive back to school on friday. i would get there in the evening, crash because i'd have driven all day, then have the day on saturday to run necessary errands to get ready for the new semester because NOTHING is open on sunday in lynchburg except like walmart and restaurants. by sunday most of my friends would be back and i could see them and have some time to get organized and not start my new semester all stressed out. the problem with this great-sounding plan is that i don't have anyone to travel with on friday. the only person i can find driving back at all isn't leaving until sunday. to me, this sounds like a recipie for disaster and the cause of much unneeded stress. my parents don't feel comfortable with me driving all that way alone and the more they talk about how uncomfortable they are the more uncomfortable i get (which is totally unfair - they are brainwashing me!)

i've been trying to pray that God would give me peace about a decision, but so far i don't feel peaceful about either option and the days are winding down and i don't really know what to do. any prayers offered up on my behalf would be much appreciated :)

on the upside - i bought an audio book to listen to on my drive. i've tried the insightful nonfiction audio books on roadtrips before and they put me to sleep so this time i got a humorous novel. hopefully it does the trick! when i drove home a few weeks ago i ended up spending 3 hours on the phone and using up all the family's minutes...so...no more long phone calls in the car to entertain me!

ross and i still owe each other our christmas gifts. i promised him a date in downtown plymouth and he promised me baked goods to take back to school...i'm gonna get on that...