So my birthday was last wednesday and turning 23 could be a whole post of itself (maybe later) but with school and moving and life I didn't have time to celebrate or maybe I just didn't let myself again different post.

Saturday my mom called and told me that dad went to the hospital cause he was in so much pain. He's fine. Turns out it was kidney stones. They gave him pain meds and sent him on his merry way. But nobody wants that phone call. Yesterday I was sick. So sick. I went to work for a bit but thankfully I have the best coworkers ever and they covered so I could go home. I took some tums and went to sleep. Last night I was feeling a little better and did a lot more packing. I have to be out of my house here in Clemson by Wednesday. All of the roommates already have their stuff out and that's freaking me out cause I haven't started. So packing was going well till THE headache. I mean think the worst headache you've ever had then times like 100. I thought a vessel in my brain was going to burst, but God is good and after a few hours it was gone. It did however keep me from sleeping. I've recently started Colossians but I've been dwelling in chapter 1. Especially these verses from the Message version:

"We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that He has for us."

I mean seriously holy cow man does that so fit the big small picture of my life right now. There's just a lot going on and I need to constantly be reminded that I have so much to be thankful for. A heart of gratitude is my daily prayer. He gives us strength to face what He has for us.

So after reading that and being already way past sleepy I had some energy and figured I'd knock the run out for the day. It had completely stopped raining and I wasn't going for more than 30 minutes so I take off. Right when I get halfway through as I'm starting to come home it starts flooding (thank you weather channel - light showers my foot!) Let's just say glory-strength and not grit your teeth mad at the world strength was a little difficult at that moment but it was also so absurd I had to laugh! So after running the 15 minutes home uphill in the flood I was soaking wet and I'm certainly sleepy now. I'm going to take a nap and yes its 7:40 AM!