real life

I've been officially living in Denver for almost a month now and I'm feeling pretty settled, I'm slowly becoming less GPS dependent and I have a pretty normal routine. Overall my experience of living in Denver can be summed up in one word: blessing. From the beginning of this process to now I have been consistently blown away by how God has blessed me and reaffirmed my calling to be here. I'll be in graduate school at a great university that I thought was impossible for me to attend financially, I have a wonderful job where I get to work with people that I already love after only 2 weeks of being there, I have a place to live and awesome roommates to live with, and I get to be a part of what God is doing in the city of Denver through the Summit Church.

Someone told me before I moved out here that after college "change would become the new constant," and things in my life have certainly changed since May, but they've also become constant. I have a normal life here, which is comforting to me because it reminds me that God prepared my heart to come here and He has been the one guiding the whole process of my adjustment to life in the city. Plus, that was the whole point of coming here, I didn't move here because it was going to be exciting all the time, I moved here because I wanted to plant my life in this city for the glory of God.

Maybe as a symbol of my adjustment to Denver, my room has basically come together over the past few weeks. It looks much better now that I have curtains, though I will admit that my first experience operating power tools by myself in order to hang the curtain rods was slightly unsuccessful (Daddy, you need to teach me how to do this the right way the next time I'm home). But they're on the wall and haven't fallen down yet so maybe that's a good sign.

spindle bed that I repainted and the clothespin frame I made

This picture sums up much of my life at the moment... Stockstad's western art history text book with macbook and study schedule in the background

macrame planters that I made to hang these cactus plants in... more on the inspiration and the mechanics of this project to come 

bedside table that used to be ugly before I spray painted it green

in-process painting