spring break: part one

Saturday through Wednesday was spent in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with thirty-ish friends in two cute little beach cottages.

Day One

can be summed up as this:

driving. driving. driving. misery.

driving. bathroom break. driving. lunch.

driving. driving. five pounds of peanut m&ms.

arrival!

excitement.

all remaining energy spent on excitement.

sleep.

Days Two and Three

were somewhat cloudy, a little chilly, but still warm enough to go on the beach for a few hours. There was a lot of frisbee and longboarding and bocce ball. A lot of sandwiches. A lot of blue bell ice cream... two ideal spring break days.

Day Four

was cold and cloudy and awful. We stayed in our sleeping bags in our eno hammocks all day, reading and trying to stay warm. I read a huge chunk of my book The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs. The day ended with dinner at River City Cafe.

Day Five

was the day we left. Therefore, it was another day filled with driving and sleeping and reading. After ten hours on the road, it felt so wonderful to walk back into our apartment. Katie and I decided that it was the most we had ever looked forward to being home.

Throughout all of this (and the rest of the week, really) I was listening to the sweet, sweet sounds of The XX, Mumford & Sons, and Florence + The Machine. I associate almost every album I own with a specific time in my life, and these three will definitely remind me of sb10.

Christ + Atlanta = WONDER

[where I've been: with 21,000 college students praising God]

I have spent the last four days in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, freezing my toes off in 22 degree weather, but enjoying myself nonetheless. I, along with 21,000 other college students, from all over the world, attended Passion 2010. I honestly have no words at the moment to describe the joy that has filled my heart and the desire to glorify God with every ounce of my being - all ignited from worshipping and studying and just being with people who love the LORD as much as I do. I'm still processing every session, every lyric, everything that I absorbed within those 72 hours. I would give anything to be back at the Philips Arena at this moment.

Being Atlanta not only refreshed and refocused my spirit... it also made me realize that I am completely, absolutely, without a doubt, meant for the city. I love the tall buildings, the culture, the streets... I will be settling, God willing, in a city (or at least within a half hour drive of one) when all is said and done.

So: I couldn't ask for a better kick off for 2010: spending a weekend in such a great city, worshipping my God, completely refocused.

http://www.268generation.com/passion2010/