running through my head

and i hope it doesn't stop. truth and my life right now.

thoughts

so i've been back on campus for about three weeks and i haven't been more excited those three weeks than i am right now.

friends have come back and i've seen growth in them that only God can be responsible for. a love for Him where there wasn't one before. outlooks that have shifted and focused. maturity that seems to have been gained. opportunities that have presented themselves. conversations that have gone deeper than before. each of these have brought me a deep joy to be around the people that i am. God is good.

i am also excited for the guys that will be living on my hall. i am in charge of all 24 of them; from being a rule enforcer to being their friend to (hopefully) spurring them on to a deeper love for Christ. i have just met them and each one seems to come from a different background, interested and plugged in to different things. i am counting on God's work to bring the hall together. nothing succeeds outside of his control.

inward glance

God, we need your strength to fight,

your light to guide us through the night.

You're our only chance.

Messiah. Messiah. Messiah. Save us.

i'm growing, but it's so hard to tell when i'm not used to this. take me as i am

love

i have heard the voice of God in the last couple of days, and he's talking about the same thing each time: love. just returning from biola's ra retreat, i am amazed at how simple/deep the love of God is, and i'm only scratching the surface. a lot of conversations and reading and praying and meetings were centered around the idea, none of which were connected together. here's a quote that explains how God's love is really and truly all we need.

"When you know yourself as fully loved, you will be able to give according to other's capacity to receive and you will be able to receive according to the other's capacity to give. You will be grateful for what is given to you without clinging to it, and joyful for what you can give without bragging about it. You will be a free person, free to love."- Henry Nouwen

"i've found a love, greater than life itself. i've found a hope, stronger, and nothing compares."

worship

here in your presence, we are undone.
here in your presence, Heaven and Earth become one.

Wonderful, beautiful, glorious, matchless in EVERY way.

-new life worship band