Moments to Take One's Breath Away

I'm outside on my balcony right now, one of my roommates and my co-leader for our bible study are playing worship music right next to me. Eric is jamming on the guitar, with Clay providing awesome harmonica playing. They're playing "Divine Romance" by Phil Wickham and I'm loving every minute of it.

There's a certain amount of autumn crispness in the air, and it makes for a truly beautiful night. I'm watching the moon set over the ocean right now; its not a bad place to be :)

I've totally been awestruck and blown away by the events of the past couple days. Eric and I are leading a missional team at one of the freshman dorms and it has been so incredibly awesome. We've been hitting the dorms for the past couple days having conversations with freshman men. It's gone so great. We've got about 11-12 guys that seem pretty stoked on the idea of being in a study, and we've still got more work to do! It's such an awesome blessing from God.

I'm just praying that Eric's and my eyes would be focused on the Lord for the whole of this year. I firmly believe that if we ask for his spirit to consume us on a daily basis, He will work through us and make the impossible, possible. Right now, morale is high, so its easy to give thanks to God and praise him for what he's doing. For now this is awesome, obviously we'll encounter many tests in the coming weeks with school, but I'm just praying that we'll rely on God and for his will to reign at Santa Cruz dorms, for Real Life, and for UCSB and Isla Vista.

I'm praying for more joy from the Lord, so that when barriers arise, He will fill me up. Hope each and every one of you reading this is doing amazingly well!