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| The trip to Scotland was amazing!! I had such a great time with Marta. It's incredible how even though we don't see each other regularly, when we meet again, it's like we were never separated. I'm so blessed to have such a friend!
So, we spent a few days in Glasgow. Walked around the neighborhood and on Friday and Saturday went to the Destiny Church Women's conference. It was very interesting. People were incredibly nice and everything was well-organized. I enjoyed the presentations and got a few good insights, though most of it was just reminder of things I've already learned and they've been hiding or so  It's good though. I was happy to be able to experience a different kind of worship leading. I want to learn more and more.
Anyways, Saturday evening after the conference we went to Stirling, to Marta's apartment and then walked around Stirling for about 2 hours. Amazing views!
On Sunday we attended a service at the church Marta goes to. It was good. And on Monday I was happy to get a taste of what studying looks like at Stirling Uni., meaniing i went to one of Marta's lectures  The experience itself was great, though I have to admit economics and me are not at all friends. On Tuesday I came back but it was a whole day trip in 2 trains and a plane. It was worth it though. I miss Marta. Hopefully we'll get to spend at least part of summer together again.
Here are a few photos from the trip:
Here's Marta with her teddy bear
Here we are at church after the service. There's Michael, Marta, Rhian and me.
Stirling's train station
At the conference.
Diamonds spelled out with jelly beans
In Glasgow
Glasgow University...very old but so beautiful!
At the conference during worship
And us. It was very dark then, that's why the picture is a bit blurry
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| I'm going to Scotland for 6 days tomorrow!  
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| Oh my gosh, it's been foreeeeeever since I've written smth over here... OK, well I'm doing alright. very busy but alright. It's Christmas break now so I've got a bit more time on my hands which feels good and will fel that way probably for the next couple of days and then it'll stop. Then I'll obsessively start looking for something to do. That actually works out for good cos I should start studying for exams
Anyways, I had very nice 3 Christmas days with my family. Ate TONS of food! Too much! well, tons is always too much...  But i had a good time. And today the plan was to do absolutely totally fully nothing. So far mission accomplished I'm so pleased with myself. hehe.
Ok, so I thought I'd add a few pictures here as an update, in case anybody needs to hunt me down or smth.
This is my mom and me at Nowy Swiat. You can see the beautiful decoration in the background. So gorgeous!
This is my cousin and me being goofy at Christmas eve.
Here we gotta go back a few weeks to the Students Min Christmas party. It was a lot of fun and here some of you might remember Maja.
And here's a Christmas party at school. Our Psychology Club (that is more people than that group btw...) has organized a smal celebration.
I just realized smth... look at that, I'm almost always on the left side!!! Hahaha. Well, what you gonna do when you're a lefty um, it also has to do with the fact that half of these pictures I took with my left hand and being on a left side was just convenient... 
Well, I guess that's it for now. Happy New Year!!!
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| I'm reading an article by John Piper and one paragraph really stroke me, so I decided to share it
Enjoying God Is Not a Means but an End
The enjoyment of God above all else is the deepest way that God’s glory is
reflected back to him. The enjoyment of God terminates on God alone and is not performed as a means
to anything else. It is the deepest reverberation in the heart of man of the value of God’s
glory.
We can do good works as a means to many things. We can speak good words as a means to
many things. We can think good thoughts as means to many things. But we cannot enjoy God as a means
to anything. We don’t choose joy in God as an act for the sake of something beyond joy in God.
That’s not the way joy works. You don’t enjoy your wife so that she will make
your supper. You don’t enjoy playing ball with your son so that he will wash the car.
You don’t enjoy a sunset so that you can become a poet. There are no so
thats in the experience of joy.
It’s the very nature of joy to be a spontaneous response to something that you
value. Joy comes to you. It rises spontaneously as witness to what you treasure. And therefore, it
reveals more authentically than anything what your treasure is. “For where your treasure is,
there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:21). Joy is unique in its capacity to witness to
what we treasure.
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