Hello world! Wow, so lets just say since I was last on, a lot has happened. Definitely some clarity and some growth in my relationship with Christ. So..where to begin?! Since I last posted I guess! :)
When I got back from Dallas, I was so pumped and ready to find a job. Of course I thought that part of life would come easy, but it didn't. Many weeks of dead ends and almost losing all hope, I turned to my small group at church and received so much wisdom. One friend was gracious enough to give me a ride to church and I was telling her about my frustrations and she made me listen to what I was actually saving. When planning my unemployment I made one mistake.. I PLANNED it. By now, you'd think I would know that its God's plan, not mine. And then later after small group another wise friend told me about the book of Matthew and how it would be good to read and dive into. And that we have to just wait and listen to God, we can't rush things because in time we will see His beautiful plan. As the week went on, it was worship night at Elevate (our college/career) service on Wednesday nights at 9 at Victory (you all should come!). Worship that night was so clarifying and I realized that I was holding back from God once again. I wasn't truly trusting Him with the job He was preparing for me. So after that night it all seemed to change. Thursday morning I decided to call this one contact one last time before moving on. She ended up calling me back 20 minutes later and told me to come in Monday so we could talk! I was so excited--finally a door! Later that afternoon I received a call from another friend who told me I needed to come apply for a job opening where she was at. So I did on Friday morning! I just couldn't believe it--2 doors in just a couple hours?! I was seeing God's plan starting to unfold. That following Monday I went and spoke with the woman and when I left I had 4 more job possibilities. I am stunned by this point! Of course when we really give Him everything, it all seems to work out!
Well that's now all the exciting news that I have... this past weekend I attended by first (and definitely not last) Passion Conference in Ft. Worth, Texas. I went down there with a few of my small group members and it was such an amazing time getting to spend time with them and 10, 500+ other college-aged students from around the US and the world. As we were traveling down there early Friday afternoon, I had no idea what to expect. I still had no idea till the intro to the conference started. Worship was great the first night as well as Louie Giglio's sermon, but it didn't really hit me--I guess because I was just in a daze. After the service we went to our community groups and I was lucky enough to be in the BEST one--the RED group (shout out!) and then we split into family groups of 8. It was cool because we were all different ages and in different stages of college. Beginning, middle, finishing, grad-school, working/not working. It was awesome! So Saturday is really when it all hit me.
Our time with our family group that morning and worship was so great and I was just stunned at everyone worshiping the one same God above. Our morning speaker was Francis Chan and wow how great is he! It was awesome seeing a man so in love and in tune with God. What he said really started to sink in. What Louie had spoken about was how if we were to live another day, it would be great because we'd still be preaching the word of God, but if we were to die today--how much of a GAIN that would be. Francis backed this thought up and really made me understand it. I guess that is an issue I've always had within myself. How could people be so excited about dying and going to Heaven? Look at how beautiful life is here on Earth. But I finally GOT it and realized that Heaven is going to be such an amazing place when we get there, that why would we want to stay here on Earth another day? It was such an eye-opening experience that when we started worshiping again, I couldn't help but cry and thank Him for all that He has blessed me with in my short little span of life so far. Later that night we all gathered again and worshiped and listened to John Piper and man did he bring it. He spoke on how God loves us and why He would do what He did for us. Then ending answer came out to be that our heart was MADE by God to love God. Man, He gave up His son for us. For us to live and breathe and to serve others for Him. Crazy when you think about it! Sunday was a big wrap up and I couldn't believe it was already time to go home. By the time we left, I felt like all 10,500+ of us were a family and our reunion was over for now. I just look back and remember all the great people that I met this past weekend and I thank God for bringing them into my life. I thought I was so in love with Christ, but its crazy because my love for Him grows more and more each day! Wow, oh wow! I'm excited for life and whatever may be ahead :)
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