Chocolate with kidney beans!

The other day I went to the store strictly to buy milk and eggs and of course a baguette...and somehow some chocolate hopped in my basket when I wasn't looking! I decided it wouldn't be right for me to abandon it so now it has a home next to my sugar cubes on my shelf:) Okay, so this chocolate has something special. It's not your ordinary (but extrodinary) French dark chocolate. No, it has tiny pieces of kidney beans mingling inside. Your probably thinking "that's just wrong" like my roommate Jenna informed me...but don't judge until you try it! To me it's perfect...just a little square of chocolate with my tea in the evening and all the worries in the world just dissapear. Is that what they mean by food-therapy? Maybe I'll switch to retail therapy tomorrow! At least for the afternoon.

Tonight, I got the best news! Emily is coming to stay for Christmas!!!!! Do you know how much that makes me just want to sing? Like tons. My roommates were studying when she told me and I didn't want to disturb them, so I just did my happy dance! No doubt about it, my siter is the best!

Guess what? Tomorrow I don't have any classes! Another great thing...today couldn't be any better. I'm really glad to have a long weekend so I can have a little fun and still get my presentation ready to go for Tuesday. God is good.

Well, I think I'll share this last little thing just as a bit of encouragement. A few months ago, I was in a bible study by Beth Moore and she was talking about trusting God in everything and she made a little side point that has kind of stuck with me. She talked about playing the "worst case senario" game when problems arise. My first reaction was "what, that seems kind of backwards" but now I do it all the time without even realizing it. Okay, this is what you do. When a worry pops into your head take it to the extreme and see how even if the very worst were to happen, God is still in control. For example, lets say I'm worring about a test in school (totally hypothetical) I say to myself...what if I get a C on this test. Quelle horreur! Then I say, no, what if I fail then I'm kicked out of school next semester and I have to go home and clean scum off of the toilets in some reandom restaurant because I can't find a job. (I come from a long line of worriers so this comes pretty natural to me) Even if I "lose" everything, I've still gained everything. I still got to spend a semester in France, live in an apartment with its own set of challenges, meet new people at church, and hopefully grown in some aspect. And as if all of that were not enought, I still have Christ! And in Christ we can find joy in any circumstance. How could we not?

Sorry to go on and on...I don't want to preach to you but I do think it's really cool how God can make something you heard months ago just pop into your head to comfort you. Not that I'm really worring about school this point, but like I said I'm a natural.

Well, time for me to go to bed. This has been such a great day and I don't want to it to end, but if I want tomorrow to be equally as enjoyable I should probably get some sleep. Night everybody!