college station normalcy...sort of
I'm not sure how much i'll write on this thing now that i'm back in civilization and can just talk to most of the people that read it, but i thought i'd give you guys a few quick updates on life right now.
Firstly, Impact was absolutely incredible. If there's one thing i've learned it's that no matter how much we pray for things contrary to the Lord's will He never answers those prayers because that just wouldn't make sense. So with that in mind I went ahead before we went to Impact and prayed with my guys that it wouldn't go smoothly, that there would be complications and frustrations and that altogether our plans would fall apart becuase ultimately He is glorified when our plans dont happen and his do, and when he breaks plans to show us His better way. For example we have Lazarus. His sisters and the disciples urged Jesus to quickly get to him so He could heal Lazarus. What did Jesus do? He waited till Lazarus died and then glorified God even more by raising him from the dead, not just healing his ailment.
With all that in mind Impact didn't "go off without a hitch" and it was awesome. On the evening of the third night the power went out right about when we were ready to have the basically climactic speaking/worship awesomeness that was planned for the third night. The band didn't want us to go ahead and have an acoustic concert and so some of the guys on exec got really busy hooking an amp up to a car stereo to make the whoel thing happen in the basketball court outside. At first I was really frustrated becuase we don't really need a band to worship the Lord, we can do it anyway anyhow, that's when i realized exactly what we needed to do.
I led our camp in the direction back toward our camp room and veered off into a clearing in the midst of alot of trees. I emplored them all that we give God the glory in this, that we pray over the freshmen's years, over their time here, over really how awesome God is, and just whatever people felt led to pray about. I really expected our counselors to pray, but after i opened it up only our freshmen were to be heard. It was really quite amazing to sit there with my eyes closed in the middle of the woods listening to the cries of the hearts we'd been praying for for so long.
So after that we went back and joined the worship session and the spirit was absolutely alive and moving in that place I could feel Him there amongst us and it was breathtaking, i wish you could have been there to see and feel and hear Him make himself known to so many hearts that needed exactly that. I know in my heart He released people from bondage that night, he freed people, and he redeemed people that thought they'd been previously saved but didn't know Jesus in spirit and in truth.
Ultimately, "His ways are higher than our ways..." and always always better than our own.
An amazingly huge blessing upon returning is the fact that our camp still wants to be a camp. I mean last year our camp didn't make as much of an effort and might not have been as close as this time, add to that the fact that my heart was totally elsewhere last year when i was at impact, but i mean tonight we had dinner and played games at my house and i had about 30 people in my living room and i absolutely loved every second of it.
School starts in less than a week and the job i thought i'd have when i came back ended up not being available. Turns out the bike shop i worked at for about 10 months before i left to go to africa hired up everyone they needed over the summer because they got slammed with business. I just love the apparent change in my heart though. To see Rod feel really bad that he coudln't offer me a job, and then for me to just smile at him knowing that i am not supposed to have a job right now, at least not there.
Then today here's something to get excited about. I ate lunch with a friend of mine who has been accepted into IMB (international missions board)'s Journeyman program. So for hte next two years she'll be a missionary in southern China reaching some unreached people group, the details of exactly what she is doing were kinda fuzzy, or i just cant remember. But the point is I got really pumped hearing about what I'm going to get to do in africa when i get done with school. Then also in the past few days i've really felt a conviction about how much I dislike my major especially now that i know it's not where my life will take me, and that while i may dislike it, I am here right now, because I amo supposed to be here right now, and it's as simple as that.
So i'm excited to find the purpose of my time here for the next 1.5 to 2 years, to see what i need to see, do what i need to do, meet who i need to meet, and move in the way i need to move.
Life's never been more exciting, and i've never felt so alive...
Firstly, Impact was absolutely incredible. If there's one thing i've learned it's that no matter how much we pray for things contrary to the Lord's will He never answers those prayers because that just wouldn't make sense. So with that in mind I went ahead before we went to Impact and prayed with my guys that it wouldn't go smoothly, that there would be complications and frustrations and that altogether our plans would fall apart becuase ultimately He is glorified when our plans dont happen and his do, and when he breaks plans to show us His better way. For example we have Lazarus. His sisters and the disciples urged Jesus to quickly get to him so He could heal Lazarus. What did Jesus do? He waited till Lazarus died and then glorified God even more by raising him from the dead, not just healing his ailment.
With all that in mind Impact didn't "go off without a hitch" and it was awesome. On the evening of the third night the power went out right about when we were ready to have the basically climactic speaking/worship awesomeness that was planned for the third night. The band didn't want us to go ahead and have an acoustic concert and so some of the guys on exec got really busy hooking an amp up to a car stereo to make the whoel thing happen in the basketball court outside. At first I was really frustrated becuase we don't really need a band to worship the Lord, we can do it anyway anyhow, that's when i realized exactly what we needed to do.
I led our camp in the direction back toward our camp room and veered off into a clearing in the midst of alot of trees. I emplored them all that we give God the glory in this, that we pray over the freshmen's years, over their time here, over really how awesome God is, and just whatever people felt led to pray about. I really expected our counselors to pray, but after i opened it up only our freshmen were to be heard. It was really quite amazing to sit there with my eyes closed in the middle of the woods listening to the cries of the hearts we'd been praying for for so long.
So after that we went back and joined the worship session and the spirit was absolutely alive and moving in that place I could feel Him there amongst us and it was breathtaking, i wish you could have been there to see and feel and hear Him make himself known to so many hearts that needed exactly that. I know in my heart He released people from bondage that night, he freed people, and he redeemed people that thought they'd been previously saved but didn't know Jesus in spirit and in truth.
Ultimately, "His ways are higher than our ways..." and always always better than our own.
An amazingly huge blessing upon returning is the fact that our camp still wants to be a camp. I mean last year our camp didn't make as much of an effort and might not have been as close as this time, add to that the fact that my heart was totally elsewhere last year when i was at impact, but i mean tonight we had dinner and played games at my house and i had about 30 people in my living room and i absolutely loved every second of it.
School starts in less than a week and the job i thought i'd have when i came back ended up not being available. Turns out the bike shop i worked at for about 10 months before i left to go to africa hired up everyone they needed over the summer because they got slammed with business. I just love the apparent change in my heart though. To see Rod feel really bad that he coudln't offer me a job, and then for me to just smile at him knowing that i am not supposed to have a job right now, at least not there.
Then today here's something to get excited about. I ate lunch with a friend of mine who has been accepted into IMB (international missions board)'s Journeyman program. So for hte next two years she'll be a missionary in southern China reaching some unreached people group, the details of exactly what she is doing were kinda fuzzy, or i just cant remember. But the point is I got really pumped hearing about what I'm going to get to do in africa when i get done with school. Then also in the past few days i've really felt a conviction about how much I dislike my major especially now that i know it's not where my life will take me, and that while i may dislike it, I am here right now, because I amo supposed to be here right now, and it's as simple as that.
So i'm excited to find the purpose of my time here for the next 1.5 to 2 years, to see what i need to see, do what i need to do, meet who i need to meet, and move in the way i need to move.
Life's never been more exciting, and i've never felt so alive...
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