Well. Casey taught me how to make these cool photo slide show thingys...so now I am a blogger and a techno-picture-savvy kid. Thanks Cas -

The thing is... I miss soccer already. that's what the slideshow is about... I miss playing, and being done with my college soccer career reminds me that I am really really close to being done with my entire college student career. Life as I know it is going to change bigtime really soon. I have been a student for the past eighteen years. (yes preschool totally counts). It has been a really good ride. Biola was definitely the place I was meant to be for the last four years. God has met me in incredible ways, I have learned lessons I never could have learned any other way, and I have made friends that I will have for life.

amist all of the nostalgia, and craziness of ending so many things at once, I've entered into this really fun and exciting season of life where my days are filled with dreaming. I've never before been in a place where I am so free to dream about the future and how God might want to use me. It is so weird to have so much freedom. I'm not really tied to anything, no commitment to a job, no boyfriend, no school schedules after june...
It's exciting to sit and dream about going to the nations, maybe spending time working with my (honorary) brother Brent and Virginia in Uganda, or interning at my church learning how to pastor, recording a worship CD, leading small groups or diving into outreaches... I dream about all kinds of jobs, from teaching to coaching to barista-ing, to working in a youth group, to worship leading, to being a missionary. It all sounds good to me. I dream of living back in Bend, I dream of living in Idaho with Danny and Jamie, I dream of living here in Southern California, I dream of living in Japan or some other far-off-country that needs to hear about Jesus.

this conversation inevitably leads to the question, "So Keri...what are you really going to do next year?" And really, I don't want to jump straight to answering that yet, I am enjoying the season of dreams...
but if you must know... I am plannig on interning in my church at least until November (but coming home to Bend for part of the summer - Kristin's wedding, and to be with family), and working on staff with the Biola Soccer team (coaching goalkeepers), and trying out some substitute teaching in the public schools.

until next time...
what are you dreaming about?