Of Cabbages and Kings

Well girls,

"'The time has come,' the Walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings; and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings!'"

Okay, so maybe not to talk of those such things, but pretty close! Time is swimming by quickly with the current and the hourglass is losing its sandy beads. That's right - school is nearly here! How are you all doing? Are you ready for this coming year? Have you begun to say your last goodbyes and packed your last article of underwear? Are all your pens sharpened and your minds keen to take on those dastardly empty white pages which desire to be written upon?

The answer: OF COURSE NOT! How could this summer have gone by so fast!? For myself, I could have sworn I only arrived in Illinois last week! Alas, still, time does not stop for preparations, but there is still lots of time left to get ready!

To talk about myself, I am getting more and more excited every second of every day to begin this road trip back to Eugene! Rachel and I leave for Chicago on Wednesday, then we'll be heading out on our journey, with my friend Erin, at 7am on Friday! Yet, there is still so much left to do here, that I'm anxious with every passing hour. I have a couple of prayer requests for while I'm still in Illinois:

The biggest request is for my parents. During this summer, God gave me a couple of dreams in which I had to defend my parents against a few spirits that were coming against them. They were terrifying dreams and these demons were crouching all around us to try to kill my parents. In the first dream, I put my dad behind my back and fought the demons with him watching (my mom had run off during this time in the dream). But in the second dream, they were sleeping beside me and these demons came into the room we were sleeping in and tried attacking them while they dreamed. I woke up to them starting to come onto the bed and fought them off while my parents slept. I talked to my mom about these dreams and she became teary-eyed and said that they were having problems. Yesterday, I talked with my sister and found out my mom had told my dad that if he didn't make her happy, she wanted a divorce in a couple of years. I've been praying for my parents and I told my mom I wanted to pray for her before I went back to school (which means we'll be praying either tonight or tomorrow night). I want an opportunity to talk with my dad as well. This is, I believe, the reason why I came home this summer. My prayer request is that the Spirit would take over during the prayer times I have both with and without my parents and victory will be known throughout my house.

The smaller request is for safety driving back to Eugene. My car currently has over 207,000 miles on it and, although it's a great car and I'm not too worried, it's pretty worn out. Prayers, please, that we make it to Oregon!!

As always, let's keep pushing forward and be praying for our girls this year!

I can't wait to see each and every one of you VERY soon! I love you all so much :o)