Long time, no see.

Greetings from the world's worst blogger! After WEEKS of letting this thing collect dust, I have returned. Hooray.

SparkNotes life update:
1. I finished my internship :) Over 320 hours in the bag! Let me tell you, it wasn't easy. There were days I wanted to chuck my alarm clock across the room and sleep in, days I just didn't know what to do with myself, and days when it was a pretty darn great experience. A mixed bag, really. Came out of it learning a lot-- not just about community psychology, but about myself as well.
2. That whole learning about myself tidbit? Yep. God has taught me so much this summer. I look back to when I got home in mid May, and can't help but think of how the things I've gone through this summer have shaped me. Psalm 73:26 sums up my summer experience. It says "my flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever". HOW FREAKIN' GREAT IS THAT!? Situations won't always rise to the expectations I have for them. People-- even my closest of family and friends-- won't be able to ever fully meet all my needs, or love unconditionally, or any of that stuff. I get tired and lazy. But God is constant. He has showed me this summer how He picks me up when I am down, that my love and dependency on Him can always increase, and that through frustrations, or times of depression or sorrow, or joyful moments or whatever it may be, He is there, He is strong, and He is able. There have been times this summer when I have been absolutely stripped of a multitude of internal and emotional things. And God showed up and taught me a thing or two about humility, dependency, and even gave me a few glimpses for the future.
3. I have decided that post-Gordon I will come back to Maine! Grad school at USM (hooray for Gordon debt!), leading YL, workin', and living at home til I have the moolah to get an apartamento. It's not for a while, but that's the current direction :)
4. I've been having fun with all sorts of neato burrito friends. Of course, it all starts to kick in within weeks of returning to school. Why couldn't it have happened earlier?! Like, in May?! Oh well. Blessed nonetheless :)
5. I GO BACK TO THE GC SOOOOON!! Can't even wait. I've never been this stoked for school, haha. Life in "The Projects", a new internship, a handful of neato classes, fabulous friends, a great church, and so much more. It shall be grand.

More to come soon, homies.
I'm outie.