Farewell Summer

This was my last true “summer vacation” – as long as I pass all of my classes this year, of course.

It went by so quickly! I know that’s cliche to say, but it really did.

• May I worked and went to Nick and Jamie’s wedding. It never really seems like summer is beginning until
• June anyway. At the beginning I got very sick, and that took me out for at least a week. Then I worked more, enjoyed our cousins’ visit, and got ready for Peru.
• July was all Peru. I got back a week into
• August, worked for two and a half weeks, spent a few days at home getting ready, and now here I am, on August 24th, preparing to leave home again for my senior year of college.

I truly can’t believe where I am. I can’t believe I’m 20, almost 21, and nearly finished with college. I can’t believe that in a year from now, I could be anywhere.

Jesus is so constant. I don’t know what people do without Him. The simple reality of always having my Bible on my nightstand, of having its ancient, piercing, beautiful words there to greet me with every new sunrise – that is something I could never value enough.

Here’s to the end, to the beginning, and to the One who will be right there beside me every step of the way.