SO,

It's been ONE WHOLE YEAR since I was in the throes of my directional crisis thinking what in the world is going to happen to me next? and feeling like I'm going nowhere, stuck, lost, alone forever!!

And then also I remember having this incredible sense of peace that things will Turn Out Fine. That, I'll be Okay. Incredible even. That I'm being taken care of and I don't have to Fight or Struggle or Worry.
That God will Lead and all I do is Follow.

(I think this post summed it up quite well. Actually may be not really. Don't read!!)

Anyway, it's been ONE WHOLE YEAR and things have been Pretty Amazing (like Grace). AMAZING!!!

I spent my last few minutes being *cough* eighteen talking, laughing with my homies, counting our blessings, tears of joy and laughter filling our eyes and I know that there's nowhere I'd rather be than here.

I'm nineteen, I've got a jPhone I didn't buy, a car I (hardly) pay for, and a boyfriend in Hong Kong! I've got a job which sends me to London, a vacuum which sucks and an iron I don't use. And I have a Ribena Playsuit!
(can you tell how grown up I am??)

I share a room with an Australian girl, in a house with a South African girl, a black South African man, a Philipino woman and her daughter and a Turkish Muslim girl. I love them all to bits.
(Oh I've got a story from last week I need to share! wait for it!!!!)

Have I mentioned the BOYFRIEND!? I have a boyfriend! I l(ove)ike him so much and his anal retentive English ways!! (and then there's also the Italian Stallion ways........)

And Oh, things are so much more awesome this Next Year!! Don't you know it!? I know it!!

GOD IS SO GOOD TO ME.

(Note the past tense, present tense, like in Hebrew, the faith language, like from Young's Literal Translation, like from the Church of Joseph Prince)