faith-ful-ness

christmas has come and gone. i'd post pictures - except my computer is currently off getting a facelift in the keyboard region.

i'm definitely ready for home. and by home i mean holland. it is time for break to be done. my time here with my family has been good - definitely interesting - but two weeks is a long time to live out of a suitcase and sleep on a terribly uncomfortable bed.

i've realized, though, i probably won't come back to the sioux falls area until mal graduates this coming may. that's kind of a weird thought. and yet, i am strangely not troubled by it.

i'm ready for the next semester - for the challenges it will bring, for the new things it will teach me, for the deepening of friendships.....

yesterday, my dad preached on being faithful in the new year. in the morning, he focused on how we live faithfully. and in the evening he focused on how God is faithful to us, through good and bad. both sermon's were good reminders - and i wasn't even aware i needed to hear them. yet, it was a comfort to be reminded of God's graceful faithfulness and that even though we mess up every time we try to live faithfully to God's call, he is abounding in love. a beautiful reminder - at least for me.