Only 15 days, 22 hours, 34 mintues and 45 seconds till I get to go home and see my family for the first time since September 19 at about 3 in the afternoon. Yes, I am so so so excited!!! It can't come fast enough for me. I can't wait to see all their faces and go get our tree, and make cookies and other food for Christmas, spend the day playing with our new toys, then spending the next two days after Christmas with extended family and getting to meet my first second cousin!!!! It's all so so so exciting. Today I am having a hard time focusing on homework and other things that need to be done because all I want to do is go shopping for gifts!!!! But with two weeks left, I don't want to rush it away.
This past weekend we had a busy time!! Friday night was Christmas caroling with on of the churches. Then Saturday was our monthly homeless outreach where we served food, handed out clothes, and just talked to a large number of homeless people downtown Oklahoma city. I have never really worked with the homeless before so it was kind of sad to see so many cold people who would come through the line over and over again just to get good meal for once. then Sunday was riverside school Christmas party. This is a school for kids who are in trouble or are just not wanted by their parents and pretty much every single one was Indian. So a bunch of churches from all over the state work together to buy gifts for some 600 kids who live there. We helped pass out gifts and got to spend some time just talking with the kids. It was cool to reach out and be able to minister to these kids.
So two weeks left, I'm not going to waste it. I am going to enjoy this Christmas season, and enjoy where God has me. He is going to do amazing things in us in these two weeks, and I don't want to miss it. So I'll spend a few more minutes acting like giddy excited chipmunks waiting for Christmas, then off to reading and memorizing for me. So enjoy this happy time to celebrate what God is doing, He is working and moving and you don't want to miss this one!!!
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