back to Jerusalem...

so i'm interning at my home church this summer, and i'll be honest. it's really never been my exact dream job to go back home and spend the rest of my life in hp. to be honest, my dreams were/are probably pretty opposite. HOWEVER, this summer the Lord has called me home for whatever reason (which i am beginning to find out) to hang with jr high kids for two whole months and has somehow (unbeknownst to me) gotten me really excited about it! we just got back from our staff retreat and having been away for about three years in college, it was crazy! a good crazy though:) Basically, our church is super traditional which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes (like in any church) it holds too tightly onto the traditions. Going to a church that is completely different in College Station, the Lord has given me a passion to see some of the fruit i see in cs at my church in dallas. The retreat this week pretty much was a part of several answered prayers. The staff is seeking Jesus like I've never seen before in my church with a desire for renewal, which, needless to say is SO TIGHT! I feel as though an appropriate description of where we are right now is "Growing Pains". Trying to be respectful of the older in the church yet not in such a way as to hinder anything God is trying to do. Complicated balance for sure. Anyway, I have no idea what the Lord is planning on doing with this summer but it's really cool to come home and see a place that invested so much in you as a kid attempting to change for Christ, because being a Christian is about making a commitment to change. I know God is starting something big and I am SO excited to see what it is. And the coolest part is that I can to be in the middle of it!

Oh yah, and we went to the lake for our retreat! I got to wakeboard and it was so fun. I haven't gotten to do that since K-1 and I think it's one of my top 5 favorite things to do. I get to work with some sweet people. Check out the church website if you want! www.hppc.org
Have a great day!

Male Spiritual Leaders...no, don't worry, this is not a serious blog:)

So I made a visit to good ole CS this past weekend to play with my friend Megan and my new-found friend Melissa (twins). So amongst some amusing babysitting episodes including Megan getting locked in the pantry by one of the babysittees:), and me getting to babysit the adorable Sam Kinnard (we had a sticker war!), we went to our favorite slam poetry on sunday night in bryan...this is one of my new favorite activities actually...we're in the process of buying a cd or two from some of these people. It's tight, you should try going. So anyway, we went with my friend Josh to that and it was SO good. You learn so much about people when they are open and real with you. We should all work toward this...then we can truly share in each other's lives. Anyway, way off subject really. We're looking up this cd we want to order online and we happen to check megan's facebook account. She is typing in mallory and she gets to mal- and what comes up but male spiritual leaders. So needless to say we questioned megan as to why this was in her facebook search engine and she had no answer for us... then we rolled on the ground laughing for about ten minutes at the fact that someone in their household was checking for that through facebook. Awesome. That was just very entertaining so i thought i'd share. I start my internship at my home church today and we're going on staff retreat to the lake! whoop! more updates wed/thurs ish...have a great day!

let the scattering begin...

so this semester was pretty insane, let's be honest. but this summer I am at home and will have time to write on my blog, so i promise updates and of course reading of some of my other favorite friends who have them as well...I've been reading some 1 Peter lately and in the very first verse or so, he talks about the scattering to all different places around the world. Oh how I identify with Peter so much right now! The scattering of the class of 2006 has begun. D.O., I dared to read the Hendricks' and Brooke's blogs and yes, they did make me cry. I love you people a whole lot. While I will still be in CS for one more semester, so many of these people I have journeyed with through college are moving on. No longer can I go visit my favorite kids at the Luther House or the Extreme or go play at the Guernsey Girls House...not even F3 will be the same anymore as my sweet Lo has moved on and just T and I will remain. But ya know, these people have been put in my life for a reason, and my life will never be the same because of them. Just a few memories with some of my favorite graduates...with more to come i'm sure.

Not wanting to be elise's friend because we went to high school together and i wanted nothing to do with my high school, Pasture dancing freshmen year and being dropped and on crutches for 2 weeks:), movie nights at Trad Pad, our Christmas card, Mullet Week, DO's awesome outfit he wore all week and still wears, Sbisa freshmen year, Mikey putting food in people's drinks, Jessie Harris's many haircuts...ridiculous...cutting a rat tail off of Colby's head (disgusting, never really grow one of those please!), learning I definitely do not know everything, 6 o'clock church, Youth group craziness, riding around in Grant's jeep, constantly invading jack, logan, and grant's room with elise, playing in the mud with Elise, driving to Calvert with Lise, Jess, and Linds, living on the purple walls while Laura inhabits the green side, Lo and T dancing on top of Tori's car, Luther House Parties, dinners at the Guernsey house, Edinburg 2005 and Claire Borne and i being Butch's sidekicks (I love power tools), Claire also singing show tunes and falling flat on her face while building:), for Elise's birthday, Paul, Jonny, Jack, Nate, Ben Graves, and maybe more dressing like cows and grazing on the side of the Theta house, Colby telling me I should go overseas the day I decided I wasn't going back to kamp and telling me about Camp China (by the way, thank you, really.), BCA Yuk Crush, a zillion meals and coffees with all of you people, the bizillions of blessings I have received in my life because of knowing you and that I am not the same because of you. We will scatter, but I am so thankful for you because I am constantly amazed and inspired by all of you and praise the Lord for your presence in my life. But I can confidently say, the wonderful times are NOT over yet...we are so not the same people we were, even twenty four hours ago.
I start my job at the church monday, be praying! I have no idea what is going on this summer, I only know that this is exactly where the Lord wants me right now. Oh yes and I think I'm going to start filling out my Focus On the Family Institute application...craziness.

oh yes, and I just put my first picture on ever, so this might look terrible:)