I Miss You + RROTW

[posted by Rachael]

EDIT: Hey guys, I have recently developed a severe allergy to tomatoes. I have a rash on my hands and feet, my joints ache, and my top lip has swollen ridiculously. I have to wait until I get some money before I go to the doctor to have the allergy tested. Please pray that it is temporary and only a result of my cold. I personally would hate to have to avoid tomatoes for the rest of my life. I know God can heal, I believe He can heal me, and I ask that it is His will that He does heal me.

Well, first things first. I had my first day of grad school yesterday. Dear God, I miss Biola. I miss everyone. I walked through the campus, alone, friendless, missing the people I know and love. My heart aches for my second home. And for my second family, you guys. It just hit me yesterday and today, I'm not going to school where I used to, I won't see my friends as often as I used to, I don't know who's a Christian, people smoke. Everything is so different. I actually cried about it today. I miss you guys. A lot. Seriously. We HAVE to keep up with our get-togethers. Plus I'm going to make a concerted effort, once I get a steady paying job, to visit each and every one of you wherever you are in life. I feel so terrible, to not have realised what good friends I had, what amazing people you are. Thank you so much for being there for me these past few years. Always know that my house is open to you all, just drop me a line and you can swing by for a visit.

Okay, onto the rant. I HATE PEOPLE!!!!! So, you all know about the project car my father and I have been working on for the past 10 years. We finally got it all fixed up (there were some minor details here and there engine-wise). Dad had it parked across the street from our house. And... BANG!! Some jerk hit and runned us. We think it was our gardener's truck actually, but we have to measure it first. We got the police to come out and take a report, but they didn't check the back of the gardener's truck even though we'd asked them to. Oh well, we're going to measure it and if it matches the same height as the marks on our car we're going to have a talk with our gardener about it. It's not even a little scratch either, they dented the front fender really good and scraped a great deal of paint off. The really frustrating part is, when you paint a car, you have to wait for a few years for it to fully cure before you can wax it and we had finally gotten to the point where we were about to put the first coat of wax on the car. Well, that's screwed. And to top it all off, our insurance doesn't cover hit and run accidents, so we are out the money to fix the car, unless our talk with the gardener changes things.

So, I have a couple of prayer requests: The first is for me at school to not become so discouraged. The second is for the car thing to be resolved in a manner that is fair and just to both parties.

Thank you guys again for your amazing friendship. I miss you all, you're like family to me.