Praise

I don't even know where to begin. The last few months have been a blur. We've had intramural frisbee, camping trips to Cullman, disco club nights, i've taken up the hobby of rock climbing/bouldering at nearby moss rock, and we even filled someone's room to the brim with newspaper.

But I really don't feel like talking about all of that right now, or at least not yet.

I'm learning how to be alone, and have nothing but God. I just started Crazy Love and it's reminding me that I'm focusing on me way more than I should be. This life isn't a movie about me, if it was, in the grand scheme of things since the beginning I don't have a main role or even a name that people will remember when the movie is over. My part will be over before I know it, and it's really about God.

Then there is the idea of how much I love God. Do I love God like a child who will run to God when I see Him? Like a little son or daughter who sees their Dad when he comes home from work?

Man. I fail in my attempt to love God and in my tries to make life about him. Thank you for grace. Recently, I finally understood and actually put into place ideas that make fasting so beneficial. When I want something that I've given up, I just realize and remember that I want God more than I want whatever I'm longing for. And He is SO much more than whatever I long for on this earth.

He is bigger, stronger, more beautiful, lovelier, greater, more powerful, more awesome, more knowledgable, and more gracious than anything in all creation and He chooses to love ME? Why? Because, I am His creation, and he loves me. And, I've come to know that neither death or life, neither angels nor demons, neither present nor the future, nor any powers, neither heights nor depths, nor anything else in ALL creation can separate me from the love of God that is in Christ. That is why I want God. Thank you God for wanting me.

Lamentations 3:21-23
-"Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness."