this precious life.

it's been a busy (yet restful) last 9 months since the five of us first met on that rainy saturday afternoon and now here we are at the end of our internships. next week we transition into serving at the sos summer camp in orange mound for two months but last night we celebrated with our last tuesday night academy intern dinner. the hamp line is just across the freeway from our house so we scrounged up enough bikes for everyone and rode to overton park for a little picnic and some tree climbing.  there's a whole lot of unknowns and scary transitions staring us in the face but we're learning daily to leave it in Jesus' hands as we seek to faithfully put one foot in front of the other. we aren't the same 5 people we were 9 months ago and that's a gift. the Lord's grace has been abundant in every moment. there are a countless number of people who have poured into us, stopped to share wisdom, and embraced the questions we posed. we'll always be learning a...

just one week ago, the three of us girls were sitting around our table eating breakfast with jonquil and talking all things prom. "you're not going to your senior prom?!", we gasped. "but jonquil, you're a senior. you HAVE to go to prom!"  as we talked through it and heard her reasons, we realized that we knew several others who weren't going to their senior proms either. "what if we threw our own prom here next week?", said tara.  and that, friends, is how the princeton prom was born.  actually, we didn't even decide until monday whether or not we were actually doing it so technically we planned prom in less than 5 days.  but thanks to some amazing people (taylor, schniepp, tasia, tara & devin) things came together REAL QUICK!  that's how we roll y'all:) we had a very diverse age range of people attend our prom (including 2 three year olds and several people well past high school), neighbors stopped by at random ...