What A Week.

Wow.
What a week.
This week has been my calm before the storm. The peace before the madness of finals. And I've enjoyed every single second of it. Well, maybe not the time spent in class... but everything else has been awesome. Spending time relaxing with my roommates. Sitting on the porch 3 different afternoons, soaking in some Vitamin D while digging into God's Word. Having dinner with three different friends, two of whom I rarely get to see. Watching TV. It has been such a refreshing week. And it is exactly what I've needed before the craziness of the next 12 days ensues.

The highlights of this week, aside from the stuff mentioned above? God has been rocking my world - in a good way :)

1. Tuesday night I had dinner with my small group leader from high school. A woman who has known me and been living life with me since I was 14. How crazy is that? God is so good and I am so thankful that she is a part of my life.


2. I'm reading Crazy Love. And it is awesome; it slaps you in the face pretty much every other page. But it is so good. Favorite quote from this week - "Most of our thoughts are centered on the money we want to make, the school we want to attend, the body we aspire to have, the spouse we want to marry, the kind of person we want to become... But the fact is that nothing should concern us more than our relationship with God; it's about eternity, and nothing compares with that." Why do I love this? Because this is me - in a nutshell. I'm worried about student loans, and therefore think about how much money I can make some day. I want to go to physical therapy school - I've been "school shopping" aka website stalking for months, looking into different programs. I freak out about my grades so that I can hopefully get into said programs. But in the grand scheme of things, why does any of it matter? God should be my primary focus, and everything else will fall into place.


3. The whole - focus on God - idea was reiterated tonight at Cru. A few things stuck out to me. First, my plans are crap compared to God's. So I want to stay here at GV for their DPT program... cool. But what does God have in store? Who knows? I sure don't. Another thing - "I don't ask God to open doors, but I do ask him to close them." Wow. How often do I blow past opportunities because I don't see the open door? I'm waiting for God to open different doors, when what he wants for me may very well be right there waiting. And if it's not supposed to be, he can close that door. The final thing that stuck out was a question posed at the end ... after an awesome message, describing God a couple dozen ways including "slow to anger, transcending all understanding, gracious, merciful, etc etc etc" ... Is this the God we are showing to people? How are we representing Christ? I've heard it said so often that "You may be the only taste of Jesus they will ever get." Yikes. What am I making Jesus look like? What a reality check.

So yeah, everything is good. But, it is 1am, and I need to get some SLEEP!