24-hour fail...

Lol, missed my blog post by a little, but I guess I'll exercise the 24-hour grace period Carol came up with...

I've been so exhausted in the evenings lately and literally don't want to do ANYTHING when I get home! Today's no exception, especially because today's just been really long and kind of emotionally draining.

But I just want to start off with two really big praises. First, I got up early this morning to work on a paper and I checked my email and...there was a financial aid notice. Basically, for this coming fall/winter, the university is offering me enough scholarship and grant money to cover tuition, rent, and some of my food expenses as well! I almost fell over when I read it. And then I emailed my mom with a billion exclamation points. And then I just stopped and sort of traded off between praying and just randomly like squealing for joy to myself. But seriously, this is such an amazing blessing, and it's really an opportunity just to turn to God in praise for his faithfulness in my life.

Second praise, my dad and I met Sunday for the first time in about 10 years! I was nervous and thought it would be awkward or sad and all these other things, but it was actually really really good.

So, I think that usually I choose to talk about a bible passage that I pretty much have figured out--not to undermine that I might still find more the next time I go back, but I don't usually choose a passage that I'm still really stuck on. But I've come back to this passage a few times this week and am still wrestling through it.

I'm getting really sleepy as I'm writing this, so I'll share it today, and I'll come back to this tomorrow and share some of my thoughts on it!

"Let me sing for my beloved
my love-song concerning his
vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of
stones,
and planted it with choice
vines;
he built a watchtower in the
midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
he expected it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.

And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem
and people of Judah,
judge between me
and my vineyard.
What more was there to do for
my vineyard that I have not done in it?
When I expected it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?

And now I will tell you

what I will do to my vineyard.

I will remove its hedge,

and it shall be devoured;

I will break down its wall,

and it shall be trampled down.

I will make it a waste;

it shall not be pruned or hoed,

and it shall be overgrown with

briers and thorns;

I will also command the clouds

that the rain no rain upon it."

-Isaiah 5:1-6