This semester's good fun, highly abridged

• talking to a new brother in Christ about how radically He is changing our lives
• speaking to parents on the phone
• Obama quoting 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 as he spoke to Newtown
• starting a weekly prayer meeting at work
• hearing about prayer for revival on campus
• the civil engineering firm
• surveying such majestic beauty in DC
• God inventing ice skating, Bon Chon, and mochi ice cream and letting us have at it all in one evening
• Tufts Med School accepting a brother so quickly
• really good Mexican food
• meeting a middle school student who was ridiculously frightened at starting school in America, spending five evenings a week with him, watching him learn, and leaving knowing that he is going to be absolutely fine next semester
• looking forward to running and tennis all of winter break, playing in the sun
• hearing from an old friend's little sister that my brother got a 1st place math trophy
• going to a sermon entirely about God's love
• watching Lost in Translation
• visiting school for a weekend
• talking on the phone about God and civil engineering for quite a long time
• marveling at Boston's night skyline from the top of a high school roof, for work (though it was so cold)
• spending much of a day emailing friends, telling them how precious and loved they are
• when a Korean mom made us breakfast for a few days
• a supervisor who firmly believes in self-sacrifice
• smiling at strangers or telling them when the bus is going to come or that it has just arrived around the corner so they can sprint over (hopefully) in time
• listening to hipster worship music at church
• really comfortable Clarks heels
• listening to Francis Chan's sermon, The Biggest Lie In Your Life, and this before going to sleep
• having a cell phone that can check email and take pictures and everything
• Google making a maps app
• the T
• finding that our alumni really are everywhere and eager to help
• experiencing a power outage at P&G/Gillette (which wasn't exactly fun but I did wonder what the robots that drive themselves would do if they had to stop)
• feeling so small in Boston's beautiful business district
• trying out the cutest, most economical little sushi shop
• a Yale a capella concert in which they bashed Harvard
• visiting the Museum of Fine Arts
• spending Fall Break basically just eating food with friends, so much that we only went to important landmarks in order to find more food
• getting to thank God in all of these moments and falling deeper in love with Him every day