Life in the fast lane.

Wow, it's been about a month since I've done one of these. I suppose I'm a little "jetlagged" because I have been going to bed at around 3 a.m. for the past 2 nights. Today I got back from the KKPsi officer's retreat, which was in Orange Beach, FL at Richard's beach house thing. It was a lot of fun. We got a lot of planning for the upcoming year done, and got to ride around in his boat. Despite the oil spill, we even did a little swimming! Unfortunately, we did encounter some oil. Going down there was such a reality check. You hear and see all of this news about the oil spill on TV, but it is soooo crazy to see it all in person. This oil spill sort of breaks my hear and makes me angry at the same time. It breaks my heart that so many animals and forms of sea life are dying and losing their homes over this. It breaks my heart that so many families are having to move from their homes because they no longer have a way to support themselves. It makes me angry that BP could be so careless and not have like, 5 gazillion backup plans if something like this were to happen!! Really, people?? I guess when it comes down to it, I sort of wonder what God is thinking while he is watching all of this happen. I'm not mad at him for letting it happen, just sort of curious about the lesson he is trying to teach us. I genuinely believe that God does everything to teach us something. He gave us free will and we have to deal with the consequences of that sometimes. If he wanted this oil spill to be fixed already, it would be, but I think there is something bigger to all of this. I think part of it is that He wants us to realize that we can't control everything like we think we can. Our society seems to have fallen away from our dependency on God and has for some reason started to think that we can do everything by ourselves. Maybe this is God's way of showing us that this is simply not the case. It kind of stinks, though. This sort of reminds me of the phrase, "one person can ruin it for everyone." Because a company with an oil rig decided to be careless, everyone on the southeastern coast has to suffer. I promise this isn't a ranting type of blog, I'm just thinking. Maybe you agree, maybe you don't.
On another note, my mom and Kenzie flew in from Belgium today! Kenzie is going to Camp War Eagle this week and I am so excited for her. I can't wait for her to start her Auburn journey because I know that she will come to love it as much as I do. We drove past her dorm tonight and she got so excited and I just thought it was really cute and sort of refreshing. It's weird to think that I am one of the old people on Auburn's campus now. I'm a senior. Wow. That feels really weird to type. I really wonder where the time went. It feels like I'm still a freshman... still learning the ropes around here.. I've been taking classes this summer and even watching this summer makes me realize how fast time goes by. Every time I just sit still and realize how much time has gone by. Days, weeks, months just seem to melt away these days and remind me that my time here is limited. Thank goodness we have something to look forward to--- eternity :)


This has to be one of the spazziest blogs I've written yet, so congratulations if you made it through! I need to head to bed now. I have a pretty early morning ahead of me, and another super crazy week!

Nighty night, folks :)