Went "up north" today to Provo to spend a day away. It was great - car issues (crazy!), Chinese food (amazing!), new earrings (needed!), DI (exciting!), and Costco... and meeting new people (Gabe's brother and sister-in-law who bailed us out when the car died...)... So yeah, it was a great day!

And tonight promises to be pretty great as long as Liz and I can stay awake - one of the girl's who comes to the cafe will be joining us for movies, foot soaks, and just all around hang-out time. Sleepover for the girls. :)

Morning promises breakfast at Subway - as has become our tradition. A few of us go every Saturday. No real reason other than it's fun. It was Tyrone's idea and it just stuck.

Pray for the family of two sisters who were killed last week in a car wreck from Snow College last week. I believe that one had been in the cafe before but I can't be sure and the other I don't think any of us knew. The school is hurting though, and as many of you LU people can understand - it is crazy hard to lose a fellow student at your school. Pray for healing and for opportunities to point to Christ through this.

Gabe and I had an AWESOME opportunity to witness to a friend last night. Pray for rescue for C. God is sooooooo moving in her heart and it is INSANELY EXITING to see. Like, crazy. :)

I have more thoughts, but maybe they would be better in a separate post and I don't feel like writing them now, so... yeah. Later.

Take me to Your secret place of thunder.
Let me hear the voice of the One...
The One my soul longs to hear.

Take me to Your secret place of thunder.
Let me see Your writing on the wall...
The message causing all to fear.

Take me to Your secret place of thunder.
Let me know Your words of truth...
The dividing of my soul and heart.

Take me to Your secret place of thunder.
Let me feel Your holy touch...
The healing of the broken part.

Shut the door,
open my ears,
eyes, heart, and mind.
Make me one with You.
Whole. New.
Take me to Your secret place of thunder.

So I wish I had something witty and inspiring and deep and just "WOW" for you like Tyrone did for his Valentine's Day post, but I don't. Not that I am not ALL of those qualities ALL the time... ;) ... but meh... I just don't. Besides, it is now 3 days after Valentine's Day anyway.

I do have some food for thought for ya... Jeff, a ministry leader from One Way ministries who came to speak with us one day last week (was it last week or the week before? I can't remember now...) told us this: "If you are not fellowshiping in light, you ARE fellowshiping in darkness. We all must be fellowshiping in something." He is sooooo right. I know it is a pretty elementary thought but you would be surprised how often we think "well, I don't really NEED to do this or read that or blah blah blah..." And then when we are miserable, well, who doesn't love company....? Seriously, think about it. Where are you fellowshiping? It does matter.

I am so excited that exactly ONE month from now my best friend, some of the coolest guys in the world, and a whole bunch of LU people will be HERE! With me! Sitting beside me! The world will be good again, because once again we will have combined my favorite things - LU and here. For those of you from outside our LU bubble, you may not know that this is THE first Utah trip that I have NOT been on (I was one of the ORIGINAL team...) so it is a little weird for me to be on the recieving end of the team but I am so freaking excited to see them that I almost don't care. They should have kept me on staff for admissions. I still talk that place up like crazy. How can I not? I met God there...

I want a koi fish. And new chopsticks... but not to eat the fish with...

Kate, can you bring my cat with you, please?