I'm a new creation.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; 

the old has gone, the new has come! 

2 Corinthians 5:17

I am a new creation in Christ. My old, wretched, torn-up life means nothing because He covers me with His love (and more appropriately, His blood). We should live as new creations, not clinging on to our past lives with the sins and muck, but press forward in pursuing righteousness and holiness. And not righteousness as in "holier than thou" but righteousness as in making it our primary goal to act out the most important commandments: 1) Love God. 2) Love others. 

This is what I've solely meditating on this past week. 

Saturday! Probably my favorite day of the week. During the Fall, there is most likely a football game to attend, and in the Spring, lots of retreats and time to hike the gorgeous mountains that surround my university. I thoroughly enjoy spending Saturday mornings with a cup a tea and my laptop, scrolling through Newsfeeds and enjoying the nature of having nothing in particular to do. 

Two of my good friends, Matt and Nate, decided they wanted to make a calendar of their Bible Study guys (the one they lead), so I spent a good portion of the afternoon taking photos of them. Here's a some (well, twelve) of my favorites. We found some AWESOME trees on campus and, because they are guys, they were all over them. Honestly, taking photos of them was a lot more fun than I expected. Yay!