So many thoughts...

I haven't blogged in a week and a half. That's ridiculous. I don't even know what to write about because there is so much....
I'll manage.

Today we had two baptisms at CEC. It was awesome. We dunked them in our hot tub at my house. It was so much fun. I love my friends.

So God is teaching me a lot right now and it's super overwhelming. But in a good way.... know what I mean?
I want so bad to be a person of humility. and integrity. and justice.
Ya know, I pray for these things all the time but boy... apparently God is aware of the fact that I'm a "hands-on" type of learner because I am in the middle of situations where I'm constantly challenged with exuding the things of which I pray for.
It's rough.

Thanksgiving was good. It's always different spending holidays away from family... especially because my family is so tight.

So, many of you know this, but my sister recently got a breast reduction. Things went awesomely. here's an lovely picture of her drugged self just out of surgery.
She's going to love me for this:
bah.

So I went to Costco today. If you don't know what this is, it's basically a west coast Sam's but bigger and "better".
Or worse.
Depending on how you look at it.
I tell ya what, I was disgusted there today.(dont get me wrong... I had a ton of fun because I love my friends and they make me laugh really hard.)
But my heart was broken.

It was crammed packed with people shopping for ridiculous amounts of crap. At one point in time, I voiced my opinion rather loudly and got a few bad looks from a couple ladies around me.
shrug. Whatever.
I looked at my friend Billy and said, "I feel so American. Look at this place. It's disgusting. People are starving all over the world and we are surrounded by all this stuff. We can get whatever we want whenever we want it."
I was quickly sooshed because people around me didn't like what I had to say.

Get this:

An estimated 923 million people in the world go hungry.

In developing countries nearly 16 million children die every year from preventable and treatable causes. Sixty percent of these deaths are from hunger and malnutrition.

In the United States, 11.7 million children live in households where people have to skip meals or eat less to make ends meet. That means one in ten households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger.

sad.

I want so bad to be more like Jesus and less like Bailey. Careful. When you start praying for these things, it's a hurtful process. You have to become very vulnerable.

Good luck.