I officially fail at this

Who am I kidding? I'm no blogger, I'm no bonafide Myspace regular. There are things I would like to say on here - but the motivation usually passes before I sit down to the computer. Well ... I will share some photos from my month with the Hampton family because that wonderful 3-week period cannot go undocumented. But hey, it's getting late, and I just realized that all my pictures would have to first be resized before I can post them on here. Ridiculous, let me tell ya.

So my mom may go on an African safari. I think that'd be pretty sweet - but I'd be kinda concerned that she'd get trampled by a rhino or something. I guess I would get a taste of what my parents go through whenever I'm traveling.

So my ex-roommate and one of my best friends is getting MARRIED this summer. She is home from China for about a month, and her boyfriend decided to pop the Q. Congrats Keiz and Aaron! Keiz will be coming up to Davis next week, when we will attempt a roommate reunion of sorts (sans Rystrom, who is currently in Thailand ... which is quite far from Davis). I realized today that I've been naively assuming that I magically won't have work or nanny duties to tend to next monday, tuesday and wednesday. Um, hello Katharine.

I went to this absolutely amazing conference called Urbana last week by the way. It ROCKED my world. There were over 22,000 missions-minded college students in attendance, in St. Louis, MO. We went to seminars, worshiped with amazing cross-cultural flare and celebrated the global church, the true body of Christ that spans language and country and cultural barriers. It was challenging and humbling and uplifting and overwhelming ... so much goes into that conference and in turn it plays a big role in inspiring and convicting an entire generation about God's powerful, unconditional heart that seeks to heal and restore the world.

This world is hurting. It is broken and in pain, but there is hope because God works His plan of redemption in mysterious ways. And Christ came to heal and serve others, and to give that hope to the lowly, the outcastes of society. So I am encouraged by that. And we should all be moved by that.

A friend said something really profound, I think, tonight. He said that "a lot of people don't think." They don't think about issues, about worldviews, about why they do what they do -- they don't even think about what they believe. And it's because we don't have to. In this society we have the choice of distraction. We have so many things to distract us from having to think. And that's not good, to put it simply. I think it puts us in a rut, and we're missing out on the world, and what's real and what God's doing in the world, what God thinks and feels about us and the world. When we're not thinking, we're letting others think for us. We're subconsciously adopting some opinion that's being fed to us by the general society (how does that happen? i don't know) - and it's probably usually crap. This friend really made me think about this, about thinking.

Good night and good luck (I have yet to see that movie, it's been on my list for over a year now). Bon voyage if you're going on an African cruise like my mother, and I should stop now ;)

And probably no one is going to read this because it's too long. But that's okay.