Rosie Thomas has a new album out.  My word, I love her.
http://rosiethomas.bandcamp.com/album/with-love

More good news!  I am over halfway through my semester.  I have only three large projects left for class and two for the archive project I am volunteering for.  I have some packing done!  I have flowers!  I have pies!  I have a very cute fiance with very cute cowboy boots!

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The best news: I am slowly slowly picking up on this part of life.  I do not want to breeze by, get swept up in magic, forget to stop and get on my knees.  There is something sacred about it all-- I am preparing my body to be someone else's.  I am making appointments, running miles, eating with care, working on my character.  But it is about more than looking right, it is almost spiritual this discipline that I am practicing.

It is something I have been taught to do since I was small.  This body that He has given me, this temple that He dwells in-- it has never been mine.  And, in a way, this is all life is.  A grand practice at being with Him and I have not been intentional enough, I have wasted so much time.

The beautiful thing about my God is the kindness of His grace.  I am brushing against my sin more than ever.  I am a struggling, broken mess.  And He loves me.  He loves me into hard places that push me out of myself and I have days when I feel like I am crawling but I have those leaping days too.

There is something honorable and good and true about the act of giving yourself to covenant and as hard as it sounds, as tired as I sometimes feel, there is something in me: that primal desire for presence, that desperately needs to belong to a person.  It seems to be deeply connected to my need for Him and I have never needed Him more.