Life

Life is cool when God is at the center of it!!! I was reading over my last update list. and its funny to see how old that is. Some of those things really need to be updated again.
I am very excited to say that the one about me reading my Bible everyday though has not changed. I still haven't missed a day. And let me tell you how that is affecting my everyday life!!! God works in some wonderous ways.

Last semester wasn't very good. I dealt with a lot of lonelyness and homesickness. and it didn't help that I didn't get to go home the entire semester. I also wasn't walking with the Lord consistently. The times that I would spend reading my Bible and journaling were very speradic and only at times when I felt I was about to burst I couldn't hold the turmoil in any more. But this semester has been so radically different. and it's a difference that I don't want to see change. It is amazing how just spending a little time each day reading God's word can change your whole attitude and thoughts and willingness to be used and taught. I have been more involved in leadership in CRU which I've said before.
But more exciting for me, I have been able to see growth, a steady growth. I'm actually able to point to specific things that I've seen God do and teach me. and lessons that I'm learning. There are definitely days when I think the world is going to crash down on me and days when I wish that it would. But I can turn back to God and he gets me through it.

God has also brought some great people and friends into my life who have showed me and taught me so much, and they don't even know they've done it. I had a very encouraging and inspiring conversation with a new friend last night. and then I read a chapter in this book that I'm reading "Speechless" by Steven Curtis Chapman and Scotty Smith that showed me something that I was thinking wrong about. this book is so cool. It is all about grace, which if you have ever gone through the process of learning even a little bit more about, is such a life changing thing. It is also one of those dangerous prayers to pray, because when God gives it to you it's not always easy. but I see more and more as I continue to give my life to Christ daily, he is lighting the fire inside of me and preparing me for greater and better things.

There is so much that I want to write about and little things that I want to say. But they would be really weird all written in one post and I don't want to make you have to suffer through reading them all so I'll end now. But just wanted to give you some encouragement that I'm still alive and God is moving!!!

I can't wait for the summer!! Cause that means that next year is closer to being here and all the great plans that we have we can start doing.

Well in the words of my friend Matt,

holla!

Listening: Goes Around Comes Around By FONO