my soul leaps with joy!

it has been a fantastically great weekend here in little rock. busy as all get out (sorry i didnt call you back allison!) friday night i got to spend some quality time with my roommates (and cara!) eating really good food and watching Vantage Point. We also got to meet one of our neighbors - although not under the most normal of circumstances. saturday morning i woke up and attempted to clean my room (aka unpack). i made it through getting all of my clothes put away (which is quite a large feat) but didnt get to anything else. but that's okay. it's one step closer. i ran some errands, watched a movie, and then had another great dinner w/ friends and played some Wii and watched the olympics. today i woke up, listened to 2 Passion Podcasts and then went to church (for the first time in a while!) and let me tell you, it was a good idea! no idea if it'll be a long-term thing, but for today, it was just great. maybe i'll go back next week. came home, ate lunch, then went to my first soccer game! (well, it was just a scrimmage really) i knew i was out of shape, but WOW - i'm REALLY out of shape! i did a LOT of walking - it sucked. i mean, it was fun, and i tried to make all the guys laugh with lots of ridiculous comments, but i'm pretty hard on myself so to play and just not be able to really play was a challenge. needless to say, i thought the game would never end, and it was beyond exhausting! i did score a goal though! that was fun! i thanked the other teams defenders for going easy on me - hopefully they knew i was just messing around (i mean, if they werent going easy on me, i wasnt trying to make them feel bad or anything!!!) that took most of the afternoon, then another fantastic dinner (i LOVE a cooked meal shared with friends - its so good.) from there we started watching Invisible Children videos. [insert here soul leaping with joy] for one, i get goosebumps almost every time i watch any of them because there's a love deep inside me that stris for the people of Northern Uganda, and for the americans here doing anything they can trying to end the war. with every video we watched, i just fell in love with these kids all over again. and as we watched, and how they bring music and life together in such a brilliant way, its crazy how it made me feel more like ME than anything else. i'm beginning to get eager, wondering when it will be my turn to go to Africa, where i'll go, and what i'll be doing. i daydream about falling so in love with it, thinking that if just watching the video makes my soul leap with joy, i dream that when i get there, i wont want to leave because it will just be beyond me. isnt it interesting? where in the world did this come from? on the podcast i was listening to earlier, louie [giglio] made me laugh b/c he was in south africa saying how when he was younger, someone had said to him 'oh, dont accept Jesus - he'll send you to Africa!' and when he finally went, it was just incredible. and now he jokes, wondering if people in Africa will say 'oh, dont accept Jesus - he'll send you to America'. i hope sometime i'll get to go to africa. and i wish my soul would always be leaping with joy!