1. Congrats on the new sister! That sounds like an astonishing experience I cannot even imagine. I would love to get the password for your pictures. Can you send it to mmellers10@georgefox.edu? Thanks!

2. In response to your comment on my post–yes, playing with POV is super fun. I really like your idea as well and I hope you get time to work it out. I finished the piece I was referring to a few months ago and it was certainly interesting. I found a purely objective first person to be too cold and unnatural, so I relaxed it slightly. The narrator is a mix of what I said and what you said, actually. The main character (“I”) tells what “I” did, but also tells the other main character (“you”) what “you” did in response. And its in present tense. Wahhh. You’re welcome to read the finished piece if you like–let me know and I can email it to you as a response when you send me the photo password.

3. I can totally sympathize with this post about the madness of growing up. It really hit me about 10 months ago, at the beginning of sophomore year. I couldn’t figure anything out and I became really depressed and confused. It has taken ages of praying and talking since then without feeling like I was going anywhere at all. But just in the past few weeks I have seen the enormous journey God has taken me on and how I am a completely different person. So hang in there, just as you are, and I can tell you that the light will come.

Oh, I guess you probably didn’t know this since you aren’t on Facebook. I got my first piece of writing published! It’s a poem in a poetry magazine/journal thing. It took a lot of rejections but I’m super excited to have “broken through” so to speak :). You should try this too sometime–it’s actually easy because you send stuff away and then do nothing for months while they ponder.

All my love in Him who gives me strength,
Cassie

I love the lyrics of Laura Story’s “Blessings”:

“and what if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You’re near…
and what if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights,
Are Your mercies in disguise.”

Keep dwelling in that rock of habitation =)