Euchristeo

Winter break was so great. It was just a perfect escape from the stress of school.  I loved being with my friends from home and making new friends in Atlanta praising God at Passion.

I loved seeing how God has been working in my friends lives at home. How God's working around the world at Passion. And how his beautiful always works for the good of those who love Him and work according to His purpose.


Over break I FINALLY finished Ann Voskamp's book One Thousand Gifts. A bit dramatic, but I learned a lot.  Ann really challenged me to be thankful. Not just be thankful, but to be the kind of thankful that produces joy, faith, trust, and perseverance. Full life is hard to be found with out this euchristeo, this complete thankfulness.

Through trials, stress, feelings of unworthiness, mourning from losses, and unwanted change it is hard to see all there is to be truly and utterly thankful for in our lives. So just like Ann, I'm making a list, a list of ways I have seen God work and be faithful this weekend.

1. Playing harmonica's with the kids at Kaleidoscope. (50 kids with no idea how to play a harmonica, never sounded so beautiful)
2. Carmel Basketball games
3. Watching a little brother take care of his sister
4. Meeting Jamie, a foreign exchange student from Kazakhstan
5. Getting to see my young life leader Collette, IN INDY!
6. Eshan forcing me to stop at McDonald's and being so impatient
7. Not getting into the multiple almost accidents on the way home
8. Tears for loved ones who have passed
9. Adventures with the suitemates
10. playing peek-a-boo with cute little kids
11. Visits with smelly
12. AN AMAZING BULLDOG VICTORY
13. Getting to be with Libby and Kelsey

  Well.. you get the picture. The list could go on for years.  It's incredible the joy that comes from recognizing the gifts that God gives us every hour, every minute. I have to say I'm most thankful for Romans 8..

 'No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.  For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither the present nor the future,nor any powers,  neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'  That NOTHING can separate us from the unfailing love of Christ.