• running shoes
• my iPod (and the music it carries around)
• getting my ears pierced. 
• tea
• scarves
• my faithful little ESV that travels everywhere with me 
• the love I received from my home-away-from-home Lutheran Church last spring 
• two dear friends (Jenny and Abigail) successfully publishing their books (squee!) 
• time with Mutti and the green-growing things last spring
• a little Puritan paperback called Glorious Freedom by Richard Sibbes
• hiking in Colorado last summer 
• the ministry given to and received from the high school girls' group at my old church. 
• NaNoWriMo. 
• God's continued faithfulness to me in bringing me to a nursing school and sustaining me through the program. 
• an awesome little webcommunity called The Lion's Call, where I hold a dubious staffieship and many thoroughly established friendships. 
• my current hometown and the continual outpouring of love from the Ws and the ERC. 
• the fellowship-through-letters that I enjoyed greatly last spring in my pseudo-exile, and the continual ministry they provide. Abigail, Jenny, Abigail, Rachel, Hannah, Megan, Elizabeth, Jessica, Marthe... that I would know so many people willing to correspond in this fashion (thankfully with varying rates of communication-flow, else I should be always swamped instead of only mostly swamped) in a culture where this has gone out of fashion so much is not something I can take for granted. I love mah peoples. ^.^ 
• my family-family. I am so tremendously blessed to be the second of eight, born to parents who are honest about their sin and passionate about holiness, and who love me because He first loved them. It's not perfection, but it is a joy.
• God - who made tea, and music, and exercise, and nature, and people, and words, and vocations, and above all who Is Who He Is... for the ability to Know Him by His Word and Spirit... for the way He loves us in and through every circumstance and relationship... for the way He works through the broken and foolish things... for the way everything is about Him, and His glory and His perfection...

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4 Missages

1. (hannah) on January 26, 2011 at 5:40 PM

   HAPPY BIRTHDAY! May God bless you this year and all years.
   
   love,
   The Odd Fish
   
   PS. I love getting your letters, they are an encouragement to me. :)

    
2. Unknown on January 26, 2011 at 9:01 PM

   HAPPY BIRTHDAYYY!!!!
   
   May God bless and keep you, and give you peace.
   
   much love from the Libz

    
3. Anonymous on January 26, 2011 at 11:34 PM

   Happy birthday!!!! I knew it was your birthday--I had it written in my faithful calendar, but I'm almost late in wishing you a happy birthday. I'm so glad you have so many things to be thankful for, and I hope you have many more in your twentieth year. :)

    
4. Sparrow on January 29, 2011 at 9:26 AM

   And I am thankful for you. ^.^
   
   Happy birthday, dearest of friends. I love you.