bambi, bambi's baby and babying

have had a lot of craziness in the past couple days - watched a deer get pummeled right in front of me, and then saw it's poor defenseless baby wandering around this next morning, unable to take care of itself and truly unaware of how dangerous humans and cars are.  couldn't help but wonder, how much people are like that.  not aware of the evils that lie directly in front of us...

on an entirely different note, a recently married friend commented to me just the other day "marriage ages you, it makes you feel waaaaaay older."  i had to disagree with him, genuinely.  one of the reasons was that my darling husband is just, well, extremely talented at bringing out my immaturity :)  he is someone that makes me feel younger, makes me want to be irresponsible and reckless, in the most wonderful ways.  the other reason though, is that i don't think that it's marriage that ages you, it's this idea of "settling down."  i mean really, whoever came up with this concept of creating the perfect little life, some sort of crazy-unrealistic version of a sedentary and mostly-passionless life, based primarily on stability (and not the good kind)... well that sounds pretty gosh darn old to me. anyway, just a thought really.

i have been super blessed recently by the opportunity to be a part of a group of awesome girls doing a beth moore study.  debachels (and God) should receive all of the credit for a much happier and peaceful version of me in the past couple of weeks.  based on how crazy (externally) my life has been, this study and amazing group of girls could not have come at a more crucial and necessary time.  funny how i almost said no to doing the study because i was "too busy" and didn't think that i had the time to commit.  they have completely babied me in a blissful way.  during our prayer time last night i felt so very blessed, encouraged, supported and loved.  it's been quite a while since i have felt that, especially with a group of girls, and even more so, especially with a group of strong christians.  this is one of the few times i can utter the term community and not cringe from it's unfortunate implications.  these women, i should say we, we have created a refreshing community, one that has been healing my soul (and God of course :)).

random thoughts from kelly? complete!