It's worth your 10 minutes.

Listen. Question. Reflect.






"An unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates

Playing Mom

Hm, well for the past few days i've been hanging out with four crazy unique individuals: An old soul who shares a love for china, nature, and reading with me (i've never meet anyone more like my 9 year old self). A 6 year old who can't tie his own shoes but can beat me in HORSE (this might have something to do with a lack of talent on my part), a Justin Bieber loving mini-diva baby-talking 7 year old, plus a giant but gentle football obsessed highschool freshmen.

Life has been entertaining, to say the least. I just got done dealing with a fly infested bed due to some juice spillage that my favorite 6 year old didn't tell me about (on his big brothers bed of all places... "sigh")...

Through the craziness i've discovered that love and patience are constant necessities, more laundry will always need to be done, and cleaning is never something you can check off the to-do list. Most of all though, that my mom deserves an extremely large prize for all the little things she's always done for me.

A Beautiful Wedding Day!

Their love is the genuine kind that makes tough men cry and young girls believe in fairy tales. They’re the perfect tag team for a group of 7 individualistic and awesome kids.

Luckily, not only did I get to see them tie the knot, but I also had the awesome privilege of picking out wildflowers for the aisles and being one of ten people getting ready (yes, this included the bride ) in one house. I also had the best dance partners, getting to break it down besides some pretty legit break dancers (that just happened to be 6 and 7 years old) until the early morning (okay we might have all crashed at midnight).

Here’s a glimpse of the greatness!



P.S: I have the best brother in the world! Amazing beautiful girlfriends, and my God is so insanely faithful. "if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself." 2 Timothy 2:13 ".

God WILL BE exalted.

Be Still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, i will be exalted in the earth. - Psalm 46:10

Regardless of what I do (or don't do) - my God will be exalted.

Therefore, I will labor and thirst for God's Kingdom not because He needs me to but because The Gospel is:


---------*-------------Joy; regardless of circumstances.
---------*--------------Peace; when tomorrow is unsure.
---------*---------------Truth; in a world full of lies.
---------*-----------------Love; pure and whole
---------*--------------------Life-giving.

I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. - 1 Cor 9:23

Alpha Xi Delta or Alpha Delta Pi?

The looming & impossibly hard question had to be answered. I sat staring down at “the sheet” I had to write my decision on after the final preference ceremony on Saturday, August 28th 2010.
The fact I was even pondering that question is even ridiculous in some ways. Here I am in my third (and last) year at the UNI and I’m going through the formal recruitment process to join a sorority?! I honestly thought I’d gone crazy at one point during the process… but God is faithful and he showed me that it really was never about my comfort level but always about living for Him regardless of where I’m at.

So there I was, with a billion thoughts running in my head and all I thought was “God, why did I have to be invited back to BOTH preference ceremony’s!? I then, rapidly wrote down Alpha XI Delta and ADPi … I have no idea why I did it in that order other than Alpha Xi Delta was the last preference ceremony I went to but there you have it… my final decision and pledge. I have a fabulous pledge class and I’m extremely excited for the community I’ll have there!
I’m so excited to see what God has in store for me this year, and how He is going to fulfill Eph 3:20 in my life… and the life of so many others.

All for His glory – to know Christ and make him known to the ends of the earth!

Heather

P.S: Why doesn’t everyone go Greek? Seriously… I’m firmly convinced thus far that most everyone would love it!

Hello/Goodbye!?

Hello/Goodbye

I am insanely blessed. Insanely – that regardless of where I’m at I know leaving will be a little sad because of the fabulous people I’ll have to say “goodbye” to. At the same time, just knowing how many new individuals I’ll get to know and old friends to see makes me extremely stoked for the next adventure! This summer was EPIC – literally the best summer of my life (This is saying a lot, I’ve had some pretty great summers). My excitement level has been building as God continues to be unexplainably sweet and do immeasurably more than I can ask or imagine. (I am getting slightly overwhelmed with just how wide, deep, and long his LOVE truly is.)

So, I left Marshalltown for Cedar Falls – and here I am back at the lovely University of Northern Iowa! As previously stated, I’m so excited to be rushing! I meet my RHO Gamma (think of this as my Sorority Recruitment mentor) last night, and she’s great! Talking with the other RHO Gammas and fellow rushee’s (how precisely do you say that? Rush’s, girls who are rushing also, rushes’… hmm ) have also made me extremely ready for official rushing to start. I’m feeling an EPIC year coming – o wait it’s already begun!

Love.

Love.

You Know, the word everyone throws around left and right (myself included). The cliched term that can mean so many - millions - of different things. I want to live out that word. To truly give everything without wanting, expecting, or demanding any form of love back.

Action Step #1? Fighting the "all about me" nature.




Hannah Hummond "Love is to cast ourselves down like a waterfall, in happy giving."