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Learning To Be Still

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Are any of you ever guilty of living your day-to-day life in a constant rush? I know I sure am. I'm the type of person who is always on the go, terrified I'm going to miss out on something if I even blink. But why do I do that? Why am I always in a rush? Why do I worry that I'm not going to have enough time in the day to get everything done? No matter how many things I "check off" my to-do list, I always seem to find about 3495874 more things to add to it. Sometimes I feel like this... I feel your pain, Julie Andrews, I feel your pain. Oh, and have you ever noticed that everything seems to go wrong when you have to be somewhere at a certain time? Your alarm clock doesn't go off, you can't find anything to wear, you're having a terrible hair day, there's no food to eat in the kitchen, your car won't start, your gas gauge is on the dreaded "E." Yep, without fail, things are gonna go wrong when you have a deadline to meet. ...

PUR Atlanta Trip

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Let me just start off by saying this weekend was absolutely amazing!!  Our college Bible study group, PUR, left Friday afternoon to head to Atlanta for the weekend. Allow me to take you through our journey. :) Friday: Friday was just our travel day. We met at the church at 4:30pm to leave and ended up rolling out around 5:00pm. We rented a 15 passenger van and a mini van to travel with, and we had 17 of us go on the trip. We stopped at Moe's in Montgomery to eat dinner and then arrived at our hotel in Atlanta around 11:00pm.  Our hotel was literally like .1 miles from Six Flags. The roller coasters were in our backyard; it was awesome, hehe. I apologize for the lack of pics on Friday; we were all pretty tired from traveling, so I spared everyone my compulsive picture-takingness (at least for the night anyway, haha). I did manage to get a quick video though. Check out the Backstreet Boys jam sesh we had in the van on the way up: Saturday: Yay, now time t...