I’m a “Redhead” Now… I Sleep Where I Sit, and Dream When I Please

I dyed my hair, tinted it red.  Think melted dark chocolate with some strawberry syrup mixed in.  Yum.  I wanted to go for an edgier look to match my dark pool of emotions… just kidding.  I was getting bored, and some lady gave me the hookup for a 45 dollar cut, color, and style  Major Steal !  So, of course I’m a sucker and bought in.  Literally.

Lately I’ve gone to a lot of meet-and-greets and everyone is eager in the get-to-know-yous to ask what I like most about college.  I’ve given the same answer each time: naps- anywhere and everywhere.  I went back to my dorm and took a nap in between my anthropology and math classes.  I set two alarms, one on my phone and one on my actual alarm clock.  My alarm clock has a nap setting, and I managed to snooze that a few times as well.  Luckily, my coffee pot has a time setting for when to start brewing so it turned on by itself, and I was able to roll out of bed 10 minutes before class and hustle to  the Arts and Science building, my mochalicious Starbucks caffeine in hand.

 

Ellie and I have decided that sleeping is the greatest earthly good, and in college, I’m finding there are suddenly a lot more places to do it.  Random bench outside Lowry: check, random comfy couch in random lounge in Memorial Union North: check,  random comfy chair in random lounge in Memorial Union South: check, Katie’s bed: check, Ellie’s bed: check, Kasie’s bed: almost check, Trevor’s couch at Phi Psi…… uhhhh, check.  <--- that one was an oopsie haha.

 

So in college, I’ve been sleeping a lot, giving me plenty of time to dream.  And let me tell you, I’ve got dreams. Which brings me to my second favorite thing about college… dreams—hearing them.  I am loving the sight of so much passion.  Yes, Mizzou is the “party school.”  And yes, there are plenty of slackers, kids that skip class, and kids that don’t care about school or making anything out of themselves.  But there are kids of passion, too.  You just have to look a little harder.  I, myself, am one of those kids.  I’ve got maaaaad dreams, and not one clue of what I should do with them.

So I figure my best bet is to lay them before my Father.. which is what I’m working on now. 

I want to love deeply.

I want to discover beauty.

I want to witness miracles.

I want to grow in wisdom.

I want to thrive in my studies.

I want to work for trust.

I want to stand firm against transgression.

I want to be a peacekeeper.

I want to thirst daily, hourly, every second.

 

And I want to do it all for my King.  I want to let go of me, in order to cling to Him.  That is my biggest dream, my most uninhibited passion; that is what I find true in the depth of my heart… well, as deep as I’ve dug thus far.