O Happy Day! :)

I have noticed that lately I've been having just this uncontainable happiness sometimes and I just thank God for it every minute! This is what I was missing all those years that I tried to find something or someone to make me feel "whole" or content. I've gotten contentment and I know it comes from just one place. It's been one long journey to get me here but it's funny how hindsight makes things so much more obvious. I needed every bit of what led me here just to get here. I guess I still sure wish I HADN'T needed some of it... but well, what was, was. And it's just amazing to be able to finally forgive myself for some of it because I FEEL forgiven... it's so tough to explain without sounding like a wacko to those who don't already understand...

Anyway,
more on this earthly level, life's been busy but good for the past week or so. Not working as much as I would like, but that's starting to pick up a bit lately-- I work almost every day this week and next. So yay for that, it'll sure help when rent is due in a week!

I had the fitting for Jen's bridesmaid's dress-- (my brother's fiancee). I like the dress much better in person than in the picture! The color is a lot more flattering than just a bright yellow would have been. I need a LOT of alterations though. Apparently, I have size 10 hips and like a size 4 top. Oh well, unimportant really.

Thursday I was in Milwaukee and got to see Jenny's ring! PRETTY!! and then went out with the ladies for my birthday. Thanks for the good time girls!

I was home friday and saturday and that was really nice. My grandma, Aunt Jeanne and Aunt Ellen were around so I could hang out with them, a rare treat! I also got a chiropracter's appt in and needed a LOT of adjusting. Guess waitressing is throwing my back a bit out of whack. I notice that it's much better now though!

Then Saturday I got to meet with an old friend, an old GOOD friend. It was such a great morning, every time I talk to her I feel very hopeful and just generally good... plus I got to drink my favorite-an iced chai latte! :) So thanks Em, it's been good reconnecting with you!

Saturday was also Jen's shower--luau themed... very fun. The decorations were great and everything went off without a hitch. Even the rain had perfect timing.... we did gift opening outside and JUST after Jen opened her last gift, it started sprinkling and so we pulled everything inside and JUST after getting it all in--it poured down.

Speaking of rain... the sermon at Blackhawk Sunday was about Psalm 19, which is partly about how God reveals Himself in the heavens... so the storms of the past few days have just kind of been putting me in awe. Imagine the greatness of a God who can design and create our world. It's so complex and so GREAT and yet so ordered and just so amazing... the pastor said something that really made me think-- he mentioned a storm that he was watching from the top of a mountain out west on the annual high school trip out west with the church... and he said that it occured to him that he was watching a worship service... creation was worshiping it's Creator by doing what it was created to do (storming)... which got me thinking more about it and I realized that by doing what I can do and by being myself I worship MY creator... That I should use everything I have to do my best at whatever it is I end up doing and THAT in intself will be worship...
now the trick is just figuring out what in the world it is that I am supposed to DO!

So that's my brief rundown of how I've spent my time and what I've spent time thinking about... my life of the past 10 days, in a nutshell.

:)