Joy and Compassion.

Reader,

Last night was crazy. I woke up at about 2 am to a girl laying on my floor and my roommate going back and forth between her, the bathroom, and her bed. The girl had her face in a towel and was sprawled out on the floor making strange noises like you do when you're so sick that you're basically moaning out of pain. I was half asleep and confused by everything so I just went to bed and woke up again at 4 am to an extremely loud crashing sound. I freaked out and sat up and this girl had knocked over my roommate's laptop and was now cursing and saying that she was confused and she didn't know where she was. Then she stumbled out of our room almost forgetting her phone. After this I was wide awake and my roommate explained to me that she didn't know the girl and she had actually found her wandering around yelling for some girl named Kayla in our dorm without her shoes or purse or keys or anything. She was obviously completely drunk and didn't know what was going on so she stumbled into our room and my roommate took care of her. She tried to figure out how to help her and in the course of this the girl puked on the floor and I assume that's why she was holding the towel to her face. After I heard the whole story I was so amazed that my roommate had such patience and compassion on this girl who was the drunkest I'd ever seen someone before and went completely out of her way for her. It really made me think about the compassion I want to have for people.

After that crazy event my day was pretty good. I have spent all of it so far with my family and that's how things will be for the next few days. Wedding Saturday, birthday stuff tonight, and work and homework meshed in there somehow.
Yesterday I was able to meet up with Marc Sikma, which was super encouraging. He got me thinking about my career a lot and mentioned that I should look up social work. Tell me what you think, Reader, and if you can give me some info on this.

Just want to mention this too: it's been good because God has been working on some big things in my heart. I've been satisfied with not dating anyone right now and trying to be more patient with that. Still, it can be very hard to do that because whenever I spend time with my family I just long to share that with someone and whenever I do cool things like we did today (pumpkin patches and flee market shopping) I just long to enjoy that with someone. It will be okay because those things are still a lot of fun. But it really makes me long for the times when I can spend that with someone and it will actually mean a lot. I don't wanna just spend those moments with just anyone, but someone I really care about. And truthfully, I think that's making me more patient and more excited at the same time. For now, it's just nice to know that I have this great opportunity to be satisfied in my Savior alone, and that I don't have any distractions pulling me from Him, unless I allow them to be distractions.

So there you have it. It's been an awesome day to bask in the greatness of God. The weather helps too. God bless you too, Reader.

Chelsy.