refresher

1. this last week was seriously an emotional roller coaster. i don't remember crying that many tears in so long...and looking back on it now, it all seems so trivial and insignificant. emotions are such a fickle and uncertain thing, and yet knowing that, it is still able to shake so many things up all at once and throw us completely off balance. it's funny how feelings and emotions are like that sometimes. they seem to be huge one second, but before you know it, it's not.

2. why is it that God is teaching me now, more than ever how blessed I am to have the family/ parents (and also friends) that i do? I mean I'm glad for it...because it teaches me to me more appreciative and thankful for what i do have...but I hate that I have to see so much pain mirrored on my friends faces and in their words.

3. masks are still a huge thing, and continue to be. i complain about that a lot..but it makes me wonder..what mask do i put on everyday?

4. 2 weeks tomorrow, i leave for the philippines...i'll miss everyone, but i'm so ready to just take a vaca..

5. we listened to Ravi Zacharias (?) speak yesterday. Basically, he's a theologist, and he specializes in apologetics, which is defending the faith..it was all so great, but a part that stood out to me a lot, is how he was talking about Jesus gave us the two most important commandments, which were 1. To love God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul and with all our strength. and 2. To love our neighbours as ourselves. and without the first one, the second one is pointless.