You're the one I want to be with when the sun goes down.

So much going on! Let's go in reverse order - and you'll have to excuse my blunt tone, I figured a short summary would be better than nothing, and I also need sleep right meow.
1. Today was Day 1 of my new job - Administrative Assistant to the Youth Department! I'm looking forward to it...it has many of the same elements of my last job, just in much different balance - not to mention it's very stable, full time, and a HUGE raise. Also I get to live out at camp during the summer. For free.
2. I'm injured! Despite my best efforts to not train so hard (which weren't that much, I'll confess, I've been much more motivated to run my hardest all day every day), I strained my left quad a week ago. I've been resting, stretching, icing, and taking mass amounts of ibuprofin as the doctor ordered, among other things, but it should have healed several days ago and I see almost no progress. It is beginning to worry me. I have just under a week left to get this under control.
3. Yesterday was Easter Sunday, meaning that my Lent from music is officially over! It's been a long and strange ride. I'll probably talk about that more later.
4. My mom found out that she has cancer. This has been an ongoing process for awhile, but the details are coming so slowly from the tests that I can't keep holding this to myself. We desperately need prayer, and to see the presence of God, and to live and love in the name of Jesus.
5. Along with that, my friend and I did not get the apartment we were looking for, even though it seemed like everything was coming together perfectly for that to work out. We've been continuing the search, but since #4 I've had to rethink this. Long story short, the best solution right now may be for me to pay for half of an apartment while staying at the house to help out.
6. Nate is amazing. He's been a rock of support and encouragement and an honest point of view.
7. I've been learning more and more about myself, but what I've only just begun to touch on is how I am around my family. God is teaching me some lessons about myself that are painful to realize. But I'll be a better, more loving person because of it.

Love each other. Pray with faith. Act with courage. Never surrender.