with fall break looming in the near future, a friend and i begin planning a road trip to Kansas City, MO to visit the IHOP (international house of prayer)...however...our plans didn’t fall through and a lot of baggage went with the very idea of going... so i was left a little bit disturbed...my plans for fall break just weren’t blooming as I expected...
i went home to do some laundry in preparation for the ex-trip...there I was: home alone in the dark with a load of laundry being separated from all the filth within their threads... my family had left with no warning and four empty boring days were rising in front of me... wasn’t exactly my idea of a great beginning... so i called up some friends...i knew they had no lives for themselves so they’d prolly be interested in becoming a part of mine...(that was a joke) thank goodness they were up for driving out to the boonies to watch a movie and hang out...
so half an hour later i get a call “umm...we’re lost” ...of course, they would attempt the more difficult way to my house... it was good though ...gave me a little extra time to spend with my Jesus... nothing like spending sweet time with the one that you love...
well... they arrived some 30-45 minutes later... i was kind of excited...i love having people over... we started watching a movie..hmm..interesting movie.. Farris Beuler’s Day Off (I’m guessin i spelled it wrong)...my roommate came not long after and was able to enjoy most of the show with us... i liked the movie for the simple fact that it was completely random... those kind of shows are pretty humorous... but really.. what else can i say about it? i just don’t know how you can expect me to go to school on a day like this...
the night proceeded into many different things.. pillow frenzies...(unexpected puffs of cotton shoved in your face randomly throughout the night), rounds of hide-n-seek (one round took 45 minutes... i would say i’m a good hider, but...ahem...helps when the seeker proves blind...woulda took longer but somebody put on their quitter pants, assumed i was a cheater, and attempted {failed} to trick me into hiding for no reason...it’s okay...i forgive you...[insert squinty eye smile here]), full-fledged attacks on one another (yeah, ticklish there..and there...and there...oh yeah, there too...and there), christian-style truth or dare (where you actually have daring dares, like sticking your hand in the pirana tank...none of that icky licky dirty stuff...), we watched a Goofy Movie (huhyuck huh huh huh), and in the midst of all this fun we got to know each other more so than before...i consider it one of the bigger blessings ... it’s hard to clearly remember... my mind gets a little groggy at 6 in the morning... but sometime during the wee hours of the morning...the conversation was of God... and it made me really happy...the inside-smiling-peaceful kind of happy that you get when the world seems to stop, you look around...and everything’s beautiful....stotrum
i’ve been blessed by the hearts of these people... being able to see and love the Christ in them... what can i say? i’m blessed...
we ended up staying up all night... ate breakfast back at campus around 7:30 in the morning... first time i’d eaten breakfast since i came to college i think... it was pretty good...biscuit and gravy is the bomb.... wow... what a wonderful day...
stotrum for the friends in our lives who make happy days happier... and for family vacations
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