An angel came to visit me

and her name is BRITTANY OZMORE!  Please entertain me for a second as I dote on her.  Brittany and I have known each other since 2nd grade. However, we weren't really friends until our Junior year of high school.  Since then we have shared countless moments together: Junior Prom, Senior Prom minus the prom, watching her like/date/get engaged to Tyler Hazel, many...many...many praise band practices, a lot of tears, and watching each grow in our relationships with Christ.  

5 years ago...

2 years ago

And this is her new Best Friend which honestly I'm pretty ok with because he is pretty great. Tyler don't get a big head or anything. 

This weekend I had a blast with her! She got a good sampling of the Clemson life: the football game, hanging out at the toolshed (my guy friends house), hanging out with my crazy roommates, pillow talk, scrounging for food in my apartment, and my awesome church and friends. Oops all of those things have nothing to do with actual school...I did that when you left Brittany.  

I love you Brittany!  You are welcome to come visit any time! Who's next?

Modern Day Poetry from a Christian Hipster

My new favorite song is Farther Along by Josh Garrels.  It's genius.  Pure poetry.  I'm not much into poetry so don't chastise me if you are a connoisseur.  The way he weaves the words with his unique rhythms is like nothing I've heard.  Go HERE and listen to it.  PLEASE read the words as you listen because if not you'll miss something. 


Yes, he is a Christian Hipster.  Please forgive him he is just a little caught up in this generational fad.  We can all laugh about it together in 30 years but please refrain from your laughter right now because some people haven't realized that it's a fleeting fad.  As I like to say there is a little hipster in all college students.  Think about it, you come of to college and you get to reinvent yourself.  You can change your clothes, hobbies, friends, even the way you talk!   And yet at college everyone loves to be just a little different.  Unique.  Most of us want to go back to our home towns and have the little middle schoolers look up at us and say, "Wow, they are so cool.  They are in college!"   Striving for our distinction in culture and society is definitely a hipsterish mindset.  Just embrace it.  If you are no wondering on a scale of 1 to hipster just how hipster you are go take quizzes online.  Yes...that actually exist.  So go thrown on a dirty scarf, your grandma's old costume jewelry, thick rimmed glasses and listen to this song and watch the video of Words Remain underneath it.  


Farther Along 


Farther along we’ll know all about it
Farther along we’ll understand why
Cheer up my brothers, live in the sunshine
We’ll understand this, all by and by

Tempted and tried, I wondered why
The good man died, the bad man thrives
And Jesus cries because he loves em’ both
We’re all cast-aways in need of ropes
Hangin’ on by the last threads of our hope
In a house of mirrors full of smoke
Confusing illusions I’ve seen

Where did I go wrong, I sang along
To every chorus of the song
That the devil wrote like a piper at the gates
Leading mice and men down to their fates
But some will courageously escape
The seductive voice with a heart of faith
While walkin’ that line back home

So much more to life than we’ve been told
It’s full of beauty that will unfold
And shine like you struck gold my wayward son
That deadweight burden weighs a ton
Go down into the river and let it run
And wash away all the things you’ve done
Forgiveness alright

Still I get hard pressed on every side
Between the rock and a compromise
Like the truth and pack of lies fightin’ for my soul
And I’ve got no place left go
Cause I got changed by what I’ve been shown
More glory than the world has known
Keeps me ramblin’ on

Skipping like a calf loosed from its stall
I’m free to love once and for all
And even when I fall I’ll get back up
For the joy that overflows my cup
Heaven filled me with more than enough
Broke down my levee and my bluff
Let the flood wash me

And one day when the sky rolls back on us
Some rejoice and the others fuss
Cause every knee must bow and tongue confess
That the son of god is forever blessed
His is the kingdom, we’re the guests
So put your voice up to the test
Sing Lord, come soon 

Here is my other favorite song by him.  Words Remain.  Enjoy!

Sometimes being a girl has its perks

So the weekend is over and I'm exhausted but I had a blast.  I only had to skip one class to recover from my lack of sleep over the weekend.  (sorry Mom & Dad) I went with two of the dearest people Megan Jessee and Lindsay Shane to a NEEDTOBREATHE concert in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  The concert was so much fun since I had awesome friends to jam out with all the way to the concert...at the concert...and home from the concert.  They rival for my favorite band ever.  I cannot stop singing them!  It got so bad that when we stopped for lunch at Subway the Subway worker asked us if we were in a chorus since we were unknowingly singing the same song underneath our breath.

After the concert we stayed with our awesome, one of a kind friend, Carre Coy.  Who was a great hostess.  We lived with her this summer at Drytle Beach and I miss her dearly.  After a short tour around Covenant College, where Carre attends, we were off on our way back home.      

The interesting part of the trip lies in our visit to Subway on the way back.  After we sang our way through the sandwich line we sat down to eat and I found out Lindsay had NEVER had a Subway cookie.  NOT ok.  So I went to buy some and the sketch high school boy asked me what I wanted, proceeded to put my cookie order in the bag, looked at me and said, "just give me three dollars" with a little wink.  I was confused because I only order 3 cookies which was $1.50.  You know those times when you don't mean for something to come out of your mouth?  Well I looked straight at him and said, "you are being very sketchy right now" and handed him my three dollar.  Then he proceeded to put the money...ready for this?...IN HIS POCKET and gave me the cookie bag.  When I realized he wasn't going to give me any change I just backed away slowly and went back to my table.  Then I realized the bag he gave me was bulging at the seems and he gave me SIX cookies.

Let's do the math shall we?  3 cookies cost $1.50 therefore 6 cookies will cost $3.  It only took a few minutes and some commonsense from Lindsay Shane to realize that I did NOT get a deal and that he in fact was the one who walked away with a few extra bucks and me a few extra calories.  I mean really dude?  I did not want to spend $3 on cookies I wanted to spend $1.50.  In his lame attempt to cut me a deal, he ripped me off.

So girls watch out next time you're traveling through somewhere in Georgia for the sketchy subway character.  He is out to steal your money, wink at you, and make you think you just got a deal.  Sometimes being a girl has its perks but when dealing with boys that can't do math, this is not one of them.