arbitrary 03.

So, my final semester of grad school happened and I forgot I had a blog. Fortunately, I'm graduating in less than two weeks (God willing)!

+ remember. Please consider supporting a friend's daughter on March of the Living--she is the granddaughter of a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau. March of the Living will enable her to travel to Poland and Israel.

+ nudity. Recently, nude photos of Kim Kardashian made their way around the internet. I found this article, 5 Things I Plan to Tell My Teenage Boys About Kim Kardashian, and bookmarked it because I think the points could be relevant for a variety of situations. On another note, I think we need to talk about the church's view of purity (or at least the concept of purity that I grew up with), because those photos popped up in one of my social media feeds and I wasn't even looking for them.

+ free. Relevant Magazine released a free-to-download Christmas album.

+ vlogs. My friend, Annie, vlogged about youth ministry because I asked her to. I'll be creating a response vlog at some point, especially because she mentions She Reads Truth and some other cool things. (I say "at some point" because if I give myself a deadline, I'll most likely just watch it pass by.)

+ running. Several weeks ago, I broke one of my toes. By walking into a chair. In my own home. I didn't realize how important running was to me in regard to my personal self-care routine, so I'm grateful to be back on the roads again--and just in time for Alan's brigade run coming up soon!