The time has come...my 2nd year of college is about to be done.  Wow.  So strange to think.  I will be a 20 year old woman in less than 2 weeks.  Another Wow.  This week has been such a blessing!  I have really gotten to spend sweet time with my 3 roommates.  The Lord has blessed me so intensely with them.  I have been reminded of that this week.  It's so easy to get annoyed easily or frustrated, but ultimately, those things just go along with living with other people.  I could not have asked for a better set of Godly women to live with.  I look forward to a couple more years!  We have gotten to just enjoy eachother through studying for finals and just spending countless hours together laughing and playing.  It's been wonderful...because while they are fun fun fun girls, they love the Lord so much and hold me accountable and encourage me so much.  I'm so thankful!  Here's a lil photo of us and of course, I can't forget our 4th roommate...Lexy girl...the blonde in the middle.

Reflecting back over the school year, it's been fairly tough on my emotions.  I've been taught how to be steadfast even when I can't feel the work He is doing.  My walk isn't about my emotions.  It's not about how I feel...because my feelings change.  He is constant and unchanging.  I have really been able to get to a point where I just steadily seek Him even when I can't see where He's leading.  That's a really good place to be.  It's been a year that I never really saw coming...by far the most challenging of college thus far...but regardless of my question to Him this year...the answer has been plain as day, "Just trust me."  Even if that's the only answer I get...it's enough, because I can delight in His plans for my life.  Let that be an encouragement to you...yall, He knows...and He's Sovereign...so just trust.  I'm out...J

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What a pretty day!  Yuck, Amanda is cooking salmon and it STINKS!!!  Peee-Yoooou!  Anyway, this post is pointless really.  I just wanted to say howdy and such.  cool.  -J

"I miss you a little, I guess you could say
A little too much, a little too often
A little more every day" -John Michael Montgomery

Bradley-Bear got his Fightin' Texas Aggie RING on Thursday and celebrated last night.  His family came in and I got to meet his parents and Granny!  They barbecued all afternoon and we hit up the baseball game (whoop! #17, my husband) and then later that night, Tomileigh and I went back to Brad's to watch him dunk his ring.  Let me say, it was awesome!  I'm not a drinker and normally not much of a partier either, but I had to go support my beloved partner in his ring dunking endeavors.  He did great!  Mr. Brewer really isn't a big drinker, so he was pretty nervous.  He did fine though...no throw up and not much spilling either.  It was really great to see all the people come out to support him...shows a lot about him.  I'm glad everyone came.  Makes me smile!  I worked on a history paper ALL day today and thankfully am finished.  So, tomorrow, church and a lil more Fightin' Texas Aggie Baseball!!!  Heck yesssssssss!

I miss my Katie.  She went camping this weekend with her home church college group.  I put my paper off for so long that I wasn't able to go.  But, it's okay.  She called me on Friday and left the sweetest message.  I was so encouraged.  It is great to know that friends are praying for me.  We have such a precious friendship...she holds me accountable and bears my burdens, but at the same time, we have FUN!

Anyway, I've rambled a bunch.  (as usual...ha!)  Here are a few pictures from last night at Bradley's.  Mucho Amor, J 

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Yahoooooo!!  I am so excited!  I just got off the phone with Justin, my wonderful friend from my home church...who is now in his 2nd year of seminary and is a youth minister at another church in Greenville.  Everytime I talk to that guy I feel renewed.  He just makes me smile!  Anyway, so I'm goin to camp with his youth in June.  Whoop!!  He's taking his youth group to a camp in Louisiana and they're goin with 4 other youth groups.  It's so amazing because every one of these youth ministers who's groups will be going are a "branch" of Highland Terrace (my church).  I think it's so amazing how the Lord has used my church to send out all of these amazing men of God who are following in His call to minister to students.  God is definitely so smart!  I'm also incredibly excited about going with them.  It's very possible that I'll be goin to Centrifuge with my home youth group, too.  So...we shall see.  I love life!!!  And, I love you.  -J