I'm back!

Oh, gosh. Guys, I'm so sorry that I haven't been posting. I was robbed (as most of you know already) and then I couldn't remember any of my information to log in for my blog, but I finally figured it out! Woo! So, this post is going to be a brief and super rough recap of my life for the past few months.

1. I was robbed. $5,000 of stuff taken. They broke into my flat while I was at school and I came home to my flat torn apart with my laptop, SLR camera, over 100 DVDs, external hard drive, ipod, and all of my jewelry gone. :( Nothing's been recovered and it's hard to still come home some days and feel safe. BUT I know that God has me here for a purpose.

2. Speaking of being here for a purpose...I got to witness to one of my classes for oer 20 minutes at the end of last week. Oh gosh, it was so amazing. And scary. When there are 12 teenagers staring at you and hanging on your every word, it's a little unnerving. They were asking hard questions too. "Why do people suffer?" "If you say that God love everyone, why does bad stuff happen?" I tried to answer to the best of my ability, but I let them know that I wasn't a scholar and that some of my answers were possibly wrong, but it was just what I felt. When the bell rang, none of them moved. They were all so interested. Some even stayed after class to ask questions and keep talking. Definitely an answer to my question that has been running through my mind for a week or two, "God, why AM i here?"

3. Went to Spain for a week! I got some super cheap tickets and headed there for a week with two American friends for our fall break. It was fantastic. It was sort of a whirlwind tour, but I loved it. We got to see both Barcelona and Madrid. I think I'm a fan of Barcelona a bit more, but Madrid was super awesome too. La Sagrada Familia is so awesome. If you don't know what it is...look it up- it's well worth it.

4. God is working in my life- big time. I've NEVER been so spiritually stretched or challenged in my entire life. Honestly. I'm learning something new everyday. God is breaking me everyday. I've been broken before, but never in such a big way and so often. It's really humbling. But even through this, God is carrying me and giving me the strength to sustain me day by day. He's even molding and changing my concept of what being broken means. What grace means. What loves means. It's honestly the most awesome thing ever, but honestly and truly SO hard. There are days when I just want to cry. There are days when all I do is cry. But if this is what it takes to be more godly and for God to bring me closer to him- bring it on.

I love you all. For all of the people that support me and pray for me- thank you. You are a bigbigbigbig part of this journey and I'm pretty sure that your prayers are the only reasons I make it through some days.

I'm back in the blogging game! I promise that I'll be more on top of it now (and save my log in information!)