Thanksgiving! :) God has been so faithful! I prayed for compassion and patience at work and strength and energy and the chance to be a light. I spent the entire day with the exception of one particularly foul customer in a great mood and actually was given the opportunity to remind several people that holidays were not about stuffing their faces or about stress but something far greater. And it was so cool. I really enjoyed being at work today. How often can we say that? :)

Pray for T. So much there. He is in need of Christ in the biggest way.

Tomorrow we will be having dinner in the evening sometime after Travis and I both get off work. Dinner will be at the Thompsons. Actually, so will breakfast (brunch, really - 11am), then work from 230-630, and then dinna. Then just to hang out. Until an early bedtime because I am going to work at 5-freakin'-am on Friday so that all the crazies can buy their Christmas gifts. Then, after I get off work at 9am, I will run away with some of the guys and Deeds (hopefully) to go up North and play for awhile. Excited about that. I am thinking it sounds like a great weekend. And that's still just the end of the week itself.

Guess what guess what guess what! :) I will be in Texas this time in exactly one month! WOOOOOT! So stoked. :D

Saturday was an awesome day. I went "up north" with Zach, Rusty, and Gabe. We just hung out for awhile - Dessert Industries - the absolute largest thrift store that I have ever been to. Think Walmart supercenter sized. Seriously crazy. It was so good to just go away for awhile and not be here. It felt very LU-like because it was 1 girl and 3 guys, but not odd or awkward. Just good.

Today, I am dragging. There is a weight. I can't name it but I can feel it. My shoulders physically ache and my spirit is quiet. I slept last night and dreamed of the people that I have been given to minister to the entire time. Over and over again, they came through my mind, images that would not go away. But the weight that I feel tonight is not totally connected to that. Like I said, I can't name it.

This week will be an intense one for work. We are and have been super busy but this week is the start of the craziest of all for us. I work almost every day for at least a few hours but each shift feels like much longer when you have customers haggling with you over prices. It will be an opportunity to show grace and compassion. And patience. Pray that God grants them to me. Hopefully, without too many troublemaker customers to cause the need for it. You know what I mean. :)

Check out 1 Peter 2:6-10. Our sermon passage today. It was intense.