Who are your links?

Brian preached about missing links. How different people in life are links to God and who you are today. Its funny to think about different links in my life. Chain of events that have brought me to where I am today. I sometimes play the "What if" game. What if the BCM ad hadn't come in the mail and salad been on sale...would I still have gotten a job there? Then would I still have met Eric? What if my mom hadn't gone on a road trip and I hadn't stayed at Brian and Jaye's? Would I be as close to them as I am now? Would we even still have a relationship or would I just be another one of the youth group kids that get pushed to the back of your mind when they graduate and move on?

Its crazy to think about how you got to where you are today. What has happened in life that has made you who you are? My next personal mission is to somehow let the links in my life know how much them mean to me but I'll get on that after Thank-you notes are done.

Life is all about change.

I'm now married. I live in Marion. I start school tomorrow.

I start my final semester at IWU tomorrow. I'm only there for 2 classes. It feels so weird though. I'm not living on campus and I don't have a full load. My friends are all gone. I'm sitting in the Student Center right now because I'm using free internet and it is rather awkward. I'm still one of these people that are walking around conversing with friends but yet I'm not. I won't have a campus life, I will put in my 6 hours a week and head home. I know people on campus but they aren't people that I would hang out with. Good thing I work before and after class.

We have a place in Marion. Its weird because I don't quite feel comfortable calling this place Eric and I live in home. It is slowly becoming a home but home will always be where I lived for 22 years. It will always be JC. Sometimes I call our house home but it doesn't come out easy. I'm working on it.

I'm married. For over 3 weeks now. Its crazy. I don't really feel any different. Just now when I do laundry, I have boy clothes with mine. There's more crap in the bathroom that isn't mine. I have to fix more food because Eric eats a lot more than my mom. I now feel broke because we've had to buy stuff for the house that's been needed and I don't have money like I used to. But all in all, married life is good. We've had our fights but we had our fights before the wedding.

So life is full of changes. Good, bad, inevitable changes. Its just a part of life.