January Twenty-third...

Because I'm slightly OCD and like everything to look a certain way, I wanted to make all my posts look the same, but I think I'm giving up on that. Today has been really good and really bad. Really bad in the sense that the productivity I was supposed to have to do a lot of homework really never happened today, so now I have to do that tomorrow. oh joy. But, that's okay. Because today I got to hear a great sermon, but I also got to have an incredible night of worship. This morning, our pastor Carlos at Watkinsville spoke on the importance of a healthy church and what that means. He uses 1st Corinthians 9 to base most of the sermon off of and it was really interesting to just hear him speak on how important it is that we truly be a body. However, I must say that the highlight of my day had to be worship at Watkinsville tonight. The worship band there actually recorded a live version of the CD that they've been recording, so everyone there tonight will actually be a part of their CD. But, that's not why it was awesome or great, it's because it was worship, real and authentic, but also participatory. The way worship was designed. Not for us just to stand and sing, reading the words off of a screen, but to actually be involved, to communicate with our Creator and glorify God. And aside from the worship Vick, the youth pastor there, also said something that I really hadn't thought about. He began talking about how we are to be in love with Christ. Notice we say in love, not just to love. To be in love means that you are focused and completely wrapped up in another person, it's not temporary but a state of being. That is how we are to be with Christ, completely in love and fully committed to Him, longing for no other or nothing besides Him for He is the one we love. That, I just thought was really cool.

There was one other really interesting thing that happened tonight. So, it's the end of the service and the pastor tells us to write our names and addresses down on these labels that he's placed in all the seats, because they are sending everyone there a copy of the cd...but anyway, so I was writing my name and address and decided to use my home address because I didn't know when it would be coming in. Anyway, the woman beside me looked down and saw Glennville and as it turns out her mother is actually from Glennville, and she was just the sweetest lady. She gave me her number and told me to call her if I needed anything...It's just cool to see God work in those ways. Because there is no way that I randomly sat down beside one woman out of probably two-hundred people that would actually know where I was from. That's simply and only the work of the Lord, putting people in each others paths. and that is just so incredibly cool!

I do however have a prayer request tonight, two actually... 1: Abby- she broke her finger playing basketball and her surgery is tomorrow and I just ask that You would give her a sense of peace and that You would just heal and restore her and care for her. 2: my friend, Laura Father. Though I do not know all of what is going on with her Father, I do know that she is asking for prayer Lord and that she needs your strength. I just pray that you would fill her with the Holy Spirit and draw her close to you now as she is in need of the peace that only you can give.

:)

...i'm tired, so no real picture for tonight. That will have to suffice.