We'll its been a while again.
Here is a little up date for every one. :D
It's been some intense months for this Little Ruth Campbell girl. 
too much at times... just enough at others.
but what pulls me through is My faithful God.
And some pretty amazing friends.
:D
I'm very thankful for life, for time, SPRING (when it gets here) and beauty.

Maybe I'll be using this again.... or more often. 
I hope this find you well and may you have a blessed rest of the day... night... week... :D you know.


     

So its been a very long time since i have put anything on here. but i wanted to give a update of sorts.
i am the girls RA (resident assistant ) for a discipleship program my church started this fall.

i also work at starbucks and go to school.
so i have a full happy life.
filled with GOD teaching me to trust Him over and over again.

God bless.

    It was a full week of quizzes, work and emotions. But I looked forward to Saturday night, because I knew that I was volunteering at a homeless shelter PADS in Ottawa.  It has been since last May when I had last Volunteered at a homeless café or shelter.  But what awaited me in Ottawa was far from what I expected.  
    I was happy to get there and ride in the truck to get the food and hall the wagon with a wide verity of foods and left over from that days pick at the hospital.  Then get out many plastic containers with the food in them and serve it to those waiting food, even possibly the best meal of their days.  We had 10 staying the night and about 5-7 take away meals.  
    I served the sauerkraut and the sausage to those who wanted.  As I asked each one if they wanted some I tried to just be friendly and normal to everyone.  But as I asked about the 7th person in line, I looked up and saw a face I recognized from my childhood.  To my surprise I was looking at a friend I was quite close with in Jr. High and earlier.  We grow up hanging out at Sunday school and she would come over for the afternoon and play with my kittens in the barn for hours.  We both were taken aback at first and let it just be surface, she asked what I was up to, and introduced me to her babies father.  
But then I let her go eat, and finished serving the remainder of the line.  Catching her later and hearing of some of what is going on in her life.  Having three children (twin boys who are 4, and a 3 year old boy) and yet not taking care of them herself, but her adopted (legal) mother has had the kids, but no longer does.  She was living with a distant cousin but got kicked out the day before, so now she had nowhere to go other then PADS.  But she is working at Hardy’s 4-11am everyday but Sunday, 30 to 40 hours a week.  But still not having enough to make a home for her self and her life choices.  
    We stood and talked for a while during clean up was going on, but then she needed to call her mom, and asked to use my phone because her phone was dead, so I let her.  And I washed her laundry, a pair of pants, two shirts, and her apron for work.  It was so surreal to me.  And watched Men in Black 2 until she went to bed.  I loved her before and still love her every much now. Nothing has changed in my view of her other then a grown amount of compassion.
Things were so simple back when we were 10 years old together.  Now at I am 22 and she is 23, and we have lives at very different places then I ever would have imagined.  The choices of friendships have had their impact on both our lives.  Support and respect of our individual family are at extremes. Though I loved our nostalgia about all the fun we had when we were little, I hurt deep inside.  I did not let it affect me that night, but the next day it hit me again.  But I think it still is a reality that is very hard for me to accept.  This experience was a very real truth about homelessness close to home, and close to my heart.