God is so amazing. Sooooo amazing. Wow.

I don't know if I can adequately convey this in words. But you know earlier how I was saying that there was some tension between my roommate and I? It sort of exploded last night. Yeah. Before there had just been this unspoken but mutually acknowledged irritation and then last night it all boiled up and we got into a huge argument about very stupid and insignificant and petty things. It carried on, with neither of us really hearing what the other person was saying and no progress being made and both of us ready to find some way to separate. I was so frustrated and I am sure that she was too. Then suddenly I felt inside such calming, and new that I had to take a step back from what was going on in our petty argument and find out what there was that was deeper. And everything that I had learned this summer about speaking and being honest and direct instead of keeping things inside, it all came back, and all of my frustrations and impatience went away as I just listened and I realized that there was definitely something deeper that was going on for me and very significantly for my roommate too. I feel like our living together is a testimony in itself to how God works and the ways that he pushes us and guides us and brings us together to make things happen. So we ended up talking and talking way late and at the end both of us felt so much better. Not just about our living situation, but about what we were doing here and about lots of things from the past. I went to bed smiling with just this wonderful, overwhelming feeling of contentment.

Oooh! On another note, I had the most vivid dream last night! It was about 80's guy (Bea, you know exactly who I'm talking about!) and a friend of his from home, named Noella, came and visited him and brought her son. Well, it turns out that the son was his son! Not only that, but he refused to acknowledge really either of them and Noella came to me for help. Through this all there was the lemon song playing in the background by Peter Paul and Mary. It was very strange.

Lemon tree, very pretty
and the lemon flower is sweet.
But the fruit, of the poor lemon
is impossible to eat.