I've been writing a ridiculous amount lately. From reading the entries over a week's time, or even over a day's, one would think I suffer from schizophrenia . . .
And it's true, I do.
No I'm just kidding. It does seem like I tend to turn to writing at the highest highs and lowest lows of meditation and emotion, though. I'm not sure what that says about me. I think it might be one of the things God could be revealing to me in the next week or so.
I say the next week or so for two reasons:
1. I received Velvet Elvis for my birthday from Alan. That was two days ago and I've already read half of it. It's full of new perspectives . . . so full I know I'm going to have to read it at least once more, probably a good number of times more, and much more slowly, to evaluate and absorb them all. I hope this week will be full of those new perspectives and what they mean for my life.
2. This Friday morning the FBC Student Ministry leaves for our Winter Retreat, my very last one, at Shepherd of the Ozarks. I'm already smiling with anticipation of our group of students seeing God in that place . . . and of what He might reveal to me if I could be so blessed.
3. And finally, I'm beginning this week with a lot of change to adapt to . . . to take on . . . to grow from . . . to rejoice in. I feel so aware of the freedom of following Jesus today, and of the freedom of this time in my life. I am eighteen years old. I look before me and I see the world. I used to be afraid of what my life might bring, what God's place for me in it all might be. Now, today, this moment, my worries seem so small compared to how big His plan is.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
-Isaiah 6:8
And it's true, I do.
No I'm just kidding. It does seem like I tend to turn to writing at the highest highs and lowest lows of meditation and emotion, though. I'm not sure what that says about me. I think it might be one of the things God could be revealing to me in the next week or so.
I say the next week or so for two reasons:
1. I received Velvet Elvis for my birthday from Alan. That was two days ago and I've already read half of it. It's full of new perspectives . . . so full I know I'm going to have to read it at least once more, probably a good number of times more, and much more slowly, to evaluate and absorb them all. I hope this week will be full of those new perspectives and what they mean for my life.
2. This Friday morning the FBC Student Ministry leaves for our Winter Retreat, my very last one, at Shepherd of the Ozarks. I'm already smiling with anticipation of our group of students seeing God in that place . . . and of what He might reveal to me if I could be so blessed.
3. And finally, I'm beginning this week with a lot of change to adapt to . . . to take on . . . to grow from . . . to rejoice in. I feel so aware of the freedom of following Jesus today, and of the freedom of this time in my life. I am eighteen years old. I look before me and I see the world. I used to be afraid of what my life might bring, what God's place for me in it all might be. Now, today, this moment, my worries seem so small compared to how big His plan is.
Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!"
-Isaiah 6:8
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