7 Days

Finally. It came. SNOW!!! I woke up to a Wegberg coated in that magic powder I love ever so dearly! The snowflakes fell the entire day and the most magical moment for me was when evening hit and the sky darkened. The lights from the city were hazy and when I walked to the train station, it was quiet and peaceful with families trudging over to the ice rink with their tiny children squished onto toboggans. Magical is not even a word powerful enough to capture the moment, and I happen to really love that adjective! On Sunday, during our Christmas party, Johanna and I built a snowman and named him Calvin. Then she said, "Karly, I know something!!!" as she started rolling together a head, and then while she shaped it she said, "We build now a very baby snowboy." And so we built that snowboy and we dubbed him Poopsie. So I have to tell this story because it's just so funny...Christoph and I were doing the dishes after the Christmas party and there was a huge wooden board we were trying to clean in the sink. It was not working so nicely since it was about three times the size of the sink. We'd placed it awkwardly inside and I attempted to scrub it down while he ran water over it with the faucet. As he was spraying water over it, he suddenly jerked the faucet somehow, and it ran water right down my shirt for a good five seconds before he pulled it back quickly and said, "Don't tell anyone that happened!" And I promised I'd tell my dad. We joked about how funny it would've been if my shirt had been white. Thankfully, it was black! 

Yesterday was Gereon's birthday and he was so sweet. The day before, he came over to me shyly and asked, "Um Karly, could you please make your cookies for me with the chocolate in the middle?" Way to break my heart! His party is this weekend and there will be 12 boys here. It will be crazy. Less than a week from now I'll have my suitcase packed and I'll be heading to my friend's house in Düsseldorf so I can leave early Wednesday morning to the airport. :) Dun dun dun!

I mentioned earlier my overwhelming sin. It opens my eyes to what great lengths Jesus went for me! He died for that filth that is me. And I never saw that so beautifully because I never saw myself so ugly. I have seen the evil heart that is inside me and I want a new one. That is my promise from the cross. And that is where I look, and I am clean. Every day, through every thing. That is what I cling to through each struggle and sin and disappointment and every thing in my life. It's the only answer. Despite doubts and questions, it's the only answer.