To all my dear friends:

My bags are packed and suitcases loaded. I am ready to leave! (No, I'm not moving out - that happens next year, when I head off to some obscure and yet-unknown four-year university.) Tomorrow my parents and I are traveling to Oregon City, and on Tuesday we will make the rest of the journey down to Northern California, with a stop for lunch with Nathan and Colleen on the way (am I not making any Rebelutionaries jealous? Just kidding, just kidding...well, maybe not).

The reason - I'm going to a worship school and am extremely excited. A chance to paint and do music and the arts again. When one is bogged down with a dreary psychology class with a professor who glorifies in sharing his Freud-like (I despise Freud) mind and perception of life, as well as early finals and loads of reading and book reviews, the arts are thrown aside. But now it is summer, and time to practice, grow, and release expression of creativity to glorify God. Thus the worship school.

I'm not sure what it will be like. But anything to do with God has got to be enjoyable.

I may not have very much access to the internet; I will try the public library every once and a while to reply to emails. It will be this way for a month, and in the middle of July I will return home. Then I will make an effort to keep out of my antisocial hole.

Pray for me! I will miss everyone immensely. More than you can know. I love you all. Praying for my dear friends! I will keep up by phone.

*hugs*

-Elisabeth