when you say hi.....

after man weeks of thinking about going to kerbey lane, I finally went. Gingerbread pancakes are SO worth the long trek in the very cold weather down guadalupe. On top of that 2am excursion, study parties really blew this weekend away. I still can't believe I'm in college...the things we do.

Lately, God's been helping me understand a little more about prayer, Christian living, and suffering. What do you think ties those three things together? A lot of the time, I find myself sending too much time thinking about what to pray versus praying through the Spirit and laying all of life's circumstances at God's feet. If I didn't spend so much time thinking, maybe I would know what it is to experience praying in accordance to God's will....even when we pray, we want to be in control of our prayers. The concept is simple, but execution is hard: Let go and let God.

"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express." Romans 8:26

hm...Christian living and suffering....we often think about being persecuted for our faith, by non-Christians, but ever thought about being persecuted for your faith by your brothers and sisters in Christ? It's sad that sometimes how our Christian community is just as human as the next joe. Aren't we suppose to be set apart? The challenge comes in following Christ, rebuking your brothers for their actions out of love, and being shunned for doing so. Is there any way we win this?