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| well, i leave tomorrow for another excited year at camp! but i wanted to send my address out to people in case you decided that you wanted to send some mail or something to me while im at camp ;) getting mail at camp is so wonderful!! anyway, here is my addy
Brigette Sowder
MAC staff
P.O. Box 37
Bagdad, Ky. 40003 | | |
| Battle wounds!
So, Theresa came down to help me watch my grandma for a few days so that i would not go completely insane, bless her heart for that....i definitely need that being here alone for the 9 hours a day able to do nothing----anyway, today was a special day in the life of us.. we were real real bored, so we decided to go outside and play some golf, then got the bright idea to cut a tree down that was in my side yard!!!!!!! hahah it was so so funny becuase i am rather sick with the flu or something like that, so im real dizzy and sorta loopy in my head,but we were kicking that trees butt!!!! it took us quite a while to get it down and several cuts and especially funny falls, but yay! we did it! | | |
| its almost mothers day...tomorrow, and as i have just been thinking and such, i really just dont like mothers day at all, it brings this bitterness to me...i guess when i think of it, all i can think of is my mother, the stripper, and how she walked out on us and all that... it sorta stinks to see everyone so excited over it, and i try to be, but inside there is nothing at all-- i sit and reflect on times i wish i would have had my mother there, but didnt, or just times i wish someone was there to be that in my life to hold me when i needed or for that matter still need to just cry.... thats what i have always wanted, more than anything...
maybe this is just me being a little selfish, but thats the way i am feeling right now. a girl needs a mother in her life...i go to church tomorrow when that is what the whole service is going to be about... from the moment we get to the sanctuary, even when i take the kids back to my class....so what do i have to do, put on this face for the kids and when we end the day leave my flower sitting in the room, and go about my day....
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randomly, i got to travel back to my past tonight... i put my all black attire on, grabbed my flashlight and took a trip to possum land...
Vicki, the lady that takes care of my grandma in the mornings has been having horrible possum problems at her house lately. one night 3 of them actually got in her house, and they would steal the food out of th cage trap, so we had to fix it up a little bit so they couldnt get out ..and well tonight, she called and there were 2 possums in the trap, so of course my love for possums got me real excited, and i suited up and went down there to find the 2 baby possums in the cage as wild as anything!! wooohooo well i put them in the car and headed down to an abandoned area to drop them off, but they didnt really wanna leave that cage...haha i had to shake the cage to get them out, and after lots of struggles of them running back up the side of the cage to stay in, they plopped out and headed their new way!
after feeling as though my days here have not been productive, i think i can say this was very productive, and it definitely took my back to the days from when i was on the farm working and well playing possum and coon hunt at 4am to stay awake on the job!! haha i miss those days and its always great to remember them!!
 the twins!!!
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| i guess coming into college i
listened to the people saying "make the most of it, it goes by so
quickly" and i have to say also that i didnt believe them, the
neverending work and neverending classes and this and that, joining
every club that i could get my hands on and going out on this revival
team or doing this for the summer, so so many things that at the time
of my freshman year seemed like they would never ever ever end, like
this time would just keep going on and on, but now, after last nights
senior night at Celebration, i began looking and thinking back to those
people who said it would fly by and realizing how much they are right.
I sound so old saying this, but time has definitely flown by. I have
spent the last 4 years of my life at this campus and they have gone by
quicker than anything, and have changed me more than words could ever
say. I have met people and forgotten people, but have these lasting
impressions in my life that will never ever go away.
Last night was senior night and i have to say even though i get to come
back for a 5th year to this campus, my heart was just breaking seeing
everyone that I came in with as a freshman getting ready to go
off...and i think of how we were these silly little freshmen coming in,
getting yelled at the first day for being late to the caf and not
knowing the times, i thinkof the hall parties and tea that we would
drink at 3am, i have so so many memories from each year that i could go
on for hours and hours about, but i look at what God has molded me into
mostly. When the pastoral team was up last night listeneing to the
words that people from our family group had to say, I was brought to
tears looking at what He has made me into. Coming into college, I never
thought I would be one who surrenders to ministry, but that changed. I
am this completely different person than i ever saw myself becoming and
i just love it! Praise God for what He will do!
I think of the Scripture that says, "Make the most of every
opportunity..." and wow what a time to do it! Some of us
are given these 4 or maybe more years to spend in college, to make
something of ourselves, and we must make the most of every opportunity
and live these years so that we wont look back and regret something we
didnt do, because these 4 years really do fly by and once they are
gone, there is no turning back to change something....
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