last minutes & advent reading 7.

Wow!  Well, I am finally home for good after a long day full of events!  This morning around 9am I decided to join the SO group going to Lasagese Beach - a beach I had yet to venture to - and it was very pretty.  Lasagese has a little darker water, but it is set in a cove-like location, and the water is very shallow for a long time.  I packed my lunch and headed to campus where I also dropped off J's lunch, and then a bunch of us headed out.  It was nice to finally see, and good to get directions for when our visitors come :)  I had a pretty wicked headache, though, so when we got back [around 2pm] I completely passed out on the sofa and didn't wake up until almost 4pm!  [I guess it was a much-needed nap!] At this point, I ran to the store, picked up some last minute dinner ingredients, made dinner, and also threw together some cookies for a girls' hangout tonight with Natalie and Marieke.  I went to campus, ate dinner with my man, and then Marieke and I headed over to Natalie's house.  We ate cheese, apples!!, crackers, cookies, and had a lime drink concoction while we watched Gnomeo and Juliet :)  It was cute, and a good time - we chatted about our proposals and how weird it is that this term is almost over, and then Marieke dropped me and some of her stuff back off at my house so we can move things in once we get into the new place.  It was a very full day indeed, and I think I am about ready to go to bed :)  Tomorrow will be full of some Christmas projects and bagel making for the week...interspersed with cleaning and laundry, I'm sure.  And then this week will be last minute hangouts before everyone ventures home, and J's finals!  Wow - times flies!  

Hope all is well with everyone reading this!  Continue to enjoy the winter season for us!  Much love.

Isaiah 40:1-11
Comfort ye my people.

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

and cry to her

that  her warfare is ended,

that her iniquity is pardoned,

that she has received from the LORD’s hand

double for all her sins.

A voice cries in the wilderness:
"Prepare the way of the LORD;

make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be lifted up,

and every mountain and hill be made low;

the uneven ground shall become level,

and the rough places a plain.

And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,

and all flesh shall see it together,

for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.”

A voice says, “Cry!”

And I said,  “What shall I cry?”

All flesh is grass,

and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

The grass withers, the flower fades

when the breath of the LORD blows on it;

surely the people are grass.

The grass withers, the flower fades,

but the word of our God will stand forever.

Get you up to a high mountain,

O Zion,  herald of good news;

lift up your voice with strength,

O Jerusalem, herald of good news;

lift it up, fear not;

say to the cities of Judah,

“Behold your God!”

Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might,

and his arm rules for him;

behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense before him.

He will tend his flock like a shepherd;

he will gather the lambs in his arms;

he will carry them in his bosom,

and gently lead those that are with young.