He loves me =]

I was very tired today...but God romanced me in ways that He knows speak straight to my soul.

*My mom came to my dorm unexpectedly to bring me home-cooked food...and she cleaned my bathroom, my front room, did all the dishes, and put some of my clothes in the wash for me! And she left me $11 on my desk, along with a note! I love my mom...and it makes me laugh how much we are alike in our cleaning habits. =]

*There was a devotion presentation on Sam Gamgee, my favorite Lord of the Rings character, today in Christian Imagination. I started tearing up because they read example excerpts which illustrated his servant heart aloud to the class...and I realized that Jesus, the ultimate servant, will never let me go to Mordor alone, to the point of carrying me when I have no strength left to go on. (Yeah, I'm a nerd. Get over it.)

*I also started crying a bit in Pauline Epistles today because I decided to carry along my Message bible. We studied 1 Corinthians 7, and part of it, in that particular translation, struck every heart string that was tense within me:
"And don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there. God, not your marital status, defines your life."
1 Cor 7:17
I found it odd at first that this particular passage hit me so hard, but after all of these engagements...it was definitely what this over-emotional, prone-to-jealousy girl needed to hear. I am content where I am. I am in love. That is enough for me, because God is my portion, and He is worth waiting for, just like the rest of my life and the man who will be in it for the long run.

*And this song:

"Slow down, darling, slow down
There ain't no reason you gotta be moving around like that
There ain't no reason you gotta be moving so, so fast
Slow down
Slow down"
- Shawn McDonald; Slow Down