outpouring

Blessings upon blessings! I am now both 22 and graduated and much surrounded by people who love me. This week has been extraordinarily hectic and exhausting but full of gifts and words of encouragement and congratulations. It has been a week of goodbyes to all in Bowling Green, greetings to relatives in town to celebrate from all over the country and world, and fun times together. My family is endlessly delightful, in that they are CRAZY, smart, and O so funny. So witty and hillarious. What a bunch of delightfully supportive, funny, loving characters. I treasure having my nurse Aunt Cheryl in town from Bangladesh, all of my grandparents here from New Orleans, Cousin in from Jackson, and California relatives as well. Add that to my groovy immediate family and it is a cool fest to the max. Laughing our heads off. Me being overwhelmed with generosity and them being so proud of me. I don't know how to take it all. I don't even know how I made it through the past 2 years of school; Nursing kicked my butt. It wasn't me that got me through, but Grace. But God placing people in my life to challenge and encourage at the crucially needed moments and somehow surviving. All I did was not quit, and even that, a miracle. A deep and contented and grateful {SIGH}. Help me pour into others with all that I have been deluged with, Lord.