so i just found out something that has really radically changed my life.  It may be a small feat for some but for me i marks a changing of the tide, a blowing over a new leaf, a turning of a new page in a favorite book-- ok get the idea? I just found out that more than one person read my blog.  So this is a shout out to Ashley and Morgan [my namesake ;)]- thank you for enduring this blog and maybe, just maybe, your eyes landing upon this thoughtful page might provoke me to write just a little bit better.  

i love all my friends

I got a JOB i got a JOB i got a JOB WOOOOOHOOOO YEAH. Its official come Sept 12 I will be a barista. I will devote as much time to coffee as it has delighted to give me over the past years. I am not sure whether or not I will enjoy it to the fullest or not, I'll have to try it out but I am excited to be making money. Money is good. Coffee is good. God is good. Life is GOOD. So I have a few more weeks to lie around and do absolutely nothing but come end of September I will be crazy busy doing all the crazy college things to do-- you know parties and all that stuff ;) I heard there are some pretty bumpin ones around these parts.

But none the less I am most excited about working at Starbucks for this reason and this reason alone [although there are plenty good reasons- like free coffee, discounts, chonga bagels, making friends and being about 10 steps from the beach] the main reason is that I, Morgan Gilbert, will get to hold in my hand Starbucks RED Christmas cups the MOMENT they come out- I won't wait in line, NO, I won't buy one, NO- I will simply walk to the box they are so fragily kept in and then TAKE IT. HAHAHAHAHAHA. YESSSSSSSSSSS.

So please feel free to visit me Kati [as you are the only one that reads this blog] and we will go to the beach together. Now you may comment...

Its Official

I am no longer able to consider myself an "MC". Its done, its over, two great years of my life now officially behind me. I am actually over taken with quite a bit of joy and anticipation thinking about what the Lord is going to do in these next few years. They officially graduated us yesterday but I think everyone completely forgot, including myself, that we graduated upon receiving the delightful news that Jeff and Elise are courting. I was beyond shocked- I can't even describe accurately the astonishment that overwhelmed me. I new that they were going to be an item but never, in a million years, thought that they would be courting so quickly. And the even more crazy thing was that its Elise. My lifelong friend, she's the first....the first to go in the direction of marriage- not saying that that will happen definitely but the steps are there, and it makes me wonder if I too am closer to courting then I thought. It scares me a little to think that way, aren't we still to young to be doing adult things? DO we really have to grow up so fast? Life is changing and it is good, really good. I am just bracing myself.

LAST DAY OF EXTERNING

Yes it is true....today was my very last day going to the church as an extern. I graduate on Sunday which is like, five days away. I can hardly believe it. Next year I move on...into, dare I say.....the WOOOORLD- duh duh duh duuuuh. The term "world" has become the nemesis of every Christian kid who has grown up in the church- its evil, its bad, only those fully equipped with all super hero powers can even dare face it and come out alive. The really successful superheros go on to train other kids about the evil ways of the "world"- they don't say much about it though [after all it is "the thing we don't speak of"] but what they do say is horrible enough to keep even the best of us away. I have had friends who have gone out into the "world" and at first we mourned their moving on but awakened only to see them rip off their pedestrian, college kid, coffee shop aprons etc.. and became what we know as the "REVIVALISTS" duh duh duh duuuuh. But a word of silence please for the few we have lost along the way, they let the kryptonite of this age get to them. But as for me...I do not fear the "world". It is the lot of some to fear what they do not know, the lot of even more to fear what has caused others to fall, I cast my lot where the fear of the Lord is the only thing that holds me back for I too wish to one day be known as a revivalist.

Start of Something New

So I definitely am not one of those qualified as the "faithful blogger" perfectly demonstrated by my dear friend Kati...but nonetheless, I am gonna try.

My days as a dear MC are almost over which comes as a very bitter-sweet taste in my mouth. With less than a week left I think it appropriate to recount all the good times that have made these past two years a highlight of my life. My first year as an MC student was irreplaceable. And as I think more and more about- I can't believe how privledged I was to spend that year with some of the most amazing people I have ever met. There is nothing like advancing the kingdom of God then with some of the people who are most on fire for the Lord. I will never forget the first few car rides in Gumbi with Todd, Ricky and I- Ricky sitting in the front seat not saying a word staring at me and Todd like we had lost our minds as we played our favorite disney tunes, or driving to class that first day and realizing that after seeing cow after cow- we were probably not going the right direction, or Ricky and Dustin being "lost in the woods and dancing" or Larissa's fascination with elbow skin, or after every hard, tear jerking discussion me and Kati running down to Fred Meyers to get lost in a Ben and Jerrys pint of our favorite ice cream, or the awesome talks I had with Elise at the dreadful character building outreach known as Avondale, or Dustin McCuen singing the robin and the sparrow song during worship, or terryiaki and a movie night at my favorite home away from home family the Stevies, or spring break on Todds trampoline and me and Elise screaming out of his moonroof, or having Lou Engle all to ourselves for a whole week and then meeting him at the nations capitol for a life seige or so real, not forgotten, playing a more than interesting character in confessions with Aime [which did build our relationship :)], somethings missing, here is our king, girl america and our infamous class dance with a wonderful rendition of "Hail, Hail Lion of Judah" or all those other memories I am forgetting at the moment or just dont have the time to put down becuase they were far to good. And then there was this year, as an extern, where the Lord tested me in taking me away from most of my closest friends and having me seek after Him for a whole year. It was very hard and at points very very frustrating. But in the end God had His way because it too has been one of the best years- one of the hardest but one of the best. I can say that I have never been more confident in who I am in the Lord than right now and its awesome to feel like that. I have started prophetically painting- which is my new favorite form of worship. Its like when I paint, its what I was born to do. I amazed at how with each one God majorly comes through. I love it. I love beauty and creating beauty with my hands. I see it as a major priveledge every time I bring a paint brush to the canvas. I love worshipping God through it.

The year is almost done and then I am off to BCC to start my journey as an interior designer. I feel very ready to go out and start that phase of my life. I am really passionate to bring a little revival to that campus. I want to definitely see healing miracles happen next year- ALL THE TIME. I love seeing that happen for Gods glory and I feel very confident. Where does fear of man come from anyhow? It is the silliest thing that plagues man. My goal is to one day be able to say that I fear nothing except disobeying the voice of the Lord. Those who are the people who will shake this world and bring heaven to earth. I will be one of those people, I am becoming one.