This roommate review is so overdue that it isn’t even funny. 

So in September, Texas sent me a Courtney Werner as my final subletter. She was  to be an intern for the Origins Missions Base that launched this year. I didn’t really realize it until later, but when she moved in we barely knew each other —we were something like acquainted strangers. I remember the first time I met her was 7 am after about 3 hours of sleep, jetlag and having a ten minute conversation asking if she played any musical instruments since she was from Austin (to me, Austin = Austin City Limits music festival. Excuse my ignorance). I think I hung out with her once after that day and then she moved in a year or so later. Ah, life is a fun surprise sometimes.

When she first moved in, we had a conversation about how I had diagnosed myself with FAWP (fear of white-people) and that having her in my room would probably help to treat this strangeness that developed from living in asian so-cal where said white folk were quite rare. It was kind of like we were from different planets cause I liked to eat meat and warm things while she liked to eat raw organic things and smoothies. Yet, at the same time it was like we were from the exact same planet because we would talk about Jesus and our worlds would converge! It was weird… but also fantastically fun. I don’t really even know how to describe this living experience. She provoked me to jealousy to love both God and people more. I was taken aback by the continuity of her inward life. To see intimacy lived out in this way by yet another person convinces me more than ever that its possible to live and commune with God seamlessly (its a nice feeling). 

Here’s to the end of roommate-hood but the beginning of a long friendship! Huzzah!!! Prayer closets wherever they are available in the pit of the night and adventures whatever they look like!