God is Not a Life Jacket
Let’s just start with today. Today is the day I am to land (literally and figuratively) in my sophomore year at Belmont University. I started the day already in a flurry. I spent the summer working. A whole lot. I wasn’t dying or anything, but there were moments in my own dramatized world where I felt I might. Nonetheless, there was little time in my schedule these past weeks to get my brain in order and start packing for my journey back to Nashville. I thought I was pretty much packed when we left on Monday for our three-day family “vacation” to Chicago (I say “vacation” because who can really be properly vacation-ed in 72 hours or less). It was a wonderful mini-getaway and we arrived home at approximately 1:30am. I woke up this morning realizing that in less than 6 hours, I needed to be in the car ready to drive to the airport. Our vacation to Chicago had excluded my little sister Carly due to all the variables and struggles of vacationing with her and we were all in need o