Feel Good Friday

Life has been crazy busy and fast-paced lately.  I love having a full schedule, but this week I just felt a little tired and a lot homesick.  I miss my family and Tulsa.  I miss my friends and college life.  I am so so excited to marry Daniel and really start navigating life together, but I'm also kind of mourning the end of my childhood.  Maybe that isn't the best choice of words.  I think it has a lot to do with going through the end of college again with Daniel--I'm just remembering how it felt and all that.  

But, it's mostly a really happy, really exciting time in our lives, and I am so proud of my future husband! He was just honored this week with the Outstanding Service award in his fraternity, BYX, and it makes me happy to know his brothers recognize how hard he's worked for them the past four years.   

God is good, and I'm thankful for this truth today:

"Listen to me, O house of Jacob,

all the remnant of the house of Israel,

who have been borne by me from before your birth,

carried from the womb;

even to your old age I am he,

and to gray hairs I will carry you.

I have made, and I will bear;

I will carry and will save.

"To whom will you liken me and make me equal,

and compare me, that we may be alike?

Those who lavish gold from the purse,

and weigh out silver in the scales,

hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;

then they fall down and worship!

They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,

they set it in its place, and it stands there;

it cannot move from its place.

If one cries to it, it does not answer

or save him from his trouble.

"Remember this and stand firm,

recall it to mind, you transgressors,

remember the former things of old;

for I am God, and there is no other;

I am God, and there is none like me,

declaring the end from the beginning

and from ancient times things not yet done,

saying, 'My counsel shall stand,

and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

calling a bird of prey from the east,

the man of my counsel from a far country.

I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;

I have purposed, and I will do it.

"Listen to me, you stubborn of heart,

you who are far from righteousness:

I bring near my righteousness; it is not far off,

and my salvation will not delay;

I will put salvation in Zion,

for Israel my glory."

-Isaiah 46:3-13

I'm also thankful for weekends, library books, time to craft, and this ridiculous, big-eared pup: