God is amazing. The stress is over, 4 midterms are down. It's Saturday morning and nice and stormy. The God is great, and has given me a life to the full. Coming out of the difficult weeks is awesome because we turn out that much stronger. White is so much whiter and more vibrant on black because of the stark contrast. Same with life. Last week was disgusting and today is beautiful, therefore today is so much more epic! Tomorrow we're going to have an awesome church service on campus because God is behind it, He is fueling it. Yesterday Sam, Jack, Joe, Azzie and I went over by the dorms and invited a grip of people to our church service. It was so awesome! we were all on fire! I'm super grateful for the time we got to have and they each inspired me in different ways. Then I got to go to my brother's basketball game, saw him make 4 points for the team! and though they lost it was still cool to be there cheering him on :). My brother is currently sleeping (or trying to sleep) on the couch at my house because in 2 hours we will be at SDSU getting ready to cheer the Aztecs to a mighty victory against BYU! It's going to be such an epic game, students waited in line since 6AM Wednesday morning! And my dad got there at 4AM monday to get us 2 awesome tickets :). It's going to be so fun I'm totally looking forward to it. I've also been thinking a grip (possibly too much) about Lisa. She loved the poem I sent her for valentines day, and I really admire her. They are starting a series on prayer and have such an awesome goal for this semester to reach out to 20 people every day this next week :).
Right now I'm reading Galatians 1 in my year bible and it's so gnarly the language Paul uses when addressing the fact that there's only ONE good news, only ONE gospel, only ONE and all others are false with such strong language in the NIV:
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called youy by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
(Galatians 1:6-10)
I love Paul's strictness here, he's so stern, and has no care about what other people think about him! Even today I live life trying to please men, and I no longer want to do that, I need to get more radical, i need to be a true servant of Christ, I need to strive to win the approval of GOD, NOT MEN!
Father in heaven,
You are SO great. I admire you beyond belief. You are majestic, perfect, and praiseworthy.
I love the way you do what you do all the time you are such a mighty Lord and savior. Please help me to step my own game up and strive for perfection everyday. Lord you fill me with a deep joy that is unlike any joy possible without you. You fill me with faith, showing yourself to me throughout the day, thank you for whispering to me, thank you for leading me to where I need to be. Lord I glorify you to the best of my ability because you are so grand and you have granted me a faith that can move mountains, I can bend bronze, I can change souls, your word pierces to the heart. Thanks for giving me such easy tools to work with like your word to change this dying world. You have saved me, helped me , challenged me, and I am strong and will continue to grow everyday because of you. Lord I love you, thanks for giving us victory already. Thanks for all the visitors that you're bringing to church tomorrow, thanks for all the people who will get up on stage and do an amazing job representing you. Lord thanks for life, thanks for love, thanks for everything you've done and are doing for us. I love you like crazy, you are the only God. I am so grateful for Lisa, please continue to bless her, you fill her with joy and security and peace. You are the one that makes our relationship possible, and refreshing everytime we communicate. You are the one that gives both of us confidence and joy everyday. I love you lord you are mighty.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
COMMUNICATE (wild at heart)
Satan's greatest tool is to cut off all communications. Communication with God, with Lisa, with the household, with our discipler. WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY!!!!!
Satan can put any number of spins on our lack of communication. He'll make us think we lost all faith, lost all love, whatever he wants he can do to us if we cannot communicate.
SO LONG AS A MAN REMAINS NO REAL THREAT TO THE ENEMY, SATAN'S LINE TO HIM IS YOU'RE FINE. BUT AFTER YOU DO TAKE SIDES, IT BECOMES "YOUR HEART IS BAD AND YOU KNOW IT."
Satan can put any number of spins on our lack of communication. He'll make us think we lost all faith, lost all love, whatever he wants he can do to us if we cannot communicate.
SO LONG AS A MAN REMAINS NO REAL THREAT TO THE ENEMY, SATAN'S LINE TO HIM IS YOU'RE FINE. BUT AFTER YOU DO TAKE SIDES, IT BECOMES "YOUR HEART IS BAD AND YOU KNOW IT."
Cutter's Point RK
I'm chillen inside of Russ' favorite coffee shop. This morning I messed up, had a shady dream and God knows the rest. I hate it. I thought I was over it. THe moment we let our guard down, the times we think were doing well are the very times we need to check ourselves most. I feel like an utter failure, a ridiculous mess. I know I messed up and I know that it was a lazy preposterous pretension. I don't even know what pretension means but it sounded cool! The standards are high, which is definitely good, as long as I struggle with all His energy, with all Your energy because Your energy works powerfully and mine is disgustingly. THanks for giving me the coolest friends and family and people in my life to help me understand and live and move and dream big dreams. Lord I know that right now WInter teen camp is starting. PLEASE be with all those kids and the leaders and everyone up there. First help them to be safe drivers and second help them to be fantastic listeners and participants to really understand and live and breathe the scriptures every day. I pray that hearts will be moved, that lives will be changed, that people will wake up and people will step up. Please guide Pete's thoughts as he gets to lead an awesome lesson, i pray that you'll just use him in an awesome way! Please work in all the D-Times, all the lessons, all the talks, all the new friendships that will be made, please allow everything to just go smoothly and beautifully.
Father please also help Nic's tests to go according to plan. I know he's kind of worried about it and I know I'd be scared out of my mind! plese Lord help him to understand that everything's going to be okay, give him boldness and confidence as he's pushing through the difficult times of life. I pray that you'll be with the doctors or interpreters of the CAT scan and allow them to really look at them with wisdom and know what the perfect remedy will be. Father we love you were so grateful for you and I pray that you'll really guide our entire household, please give Joe the strength to pick up his dog's poop, its really getting annoying and i pray you'll just help him step his game up.
Father please please please be with my relationship with Lisa. I love her so much God and if I don't then please help me understand and see what that means and how I should act upon it to make it better. Lord we love you and need you desperately and I pray that you'll just help me to be more humble to be more kind, more patient, more protective, more truthful, more hopeful, more persevering and more optomistic about everything. I love you i need you I so desperately long for a deeper relationship with you and I pray that you'll just help me to step up. Help me to be consistant with my life, to make up my mind and everyday trust and believe and know what I need to do in order to be the best i can be. I love you help me to express it. I believe in you but please help me in my unbelief.
Please be with my time I get to have this morning with Russ, help me to ask what I need to ask and say what I need to say and act the way I need to act in order to pick his brain and get his help. Lord I love you and everything you do. Please give me the strength to get through the tough times.
Sorry one last thing please be with Alex Wertz. I know he's kind of been super busy and out of it and I p;ray you'll help him to but you first in all that he does and really live accoding to your will. Please give him boldness, confidence, love, joy, perseverance. Please help something amazing to happen at UCSD I want to see your miracle! Lord I love you I need you, your awesome its in your name I pray AMEN!
Father please also help Nic's tests to go according to plan. I know he's kind of worried about it and I know I'd be scared out of my mind! plese Lord help him to understand that everything's going to be okay, give him boldness and confidence as he's pushing through the difficult times of life. I pray that you'll be with the doctors or interpreters of the CAT scan and allow them to really look at them with wisdom and know what the perfect remedy will be. Father we love you were so grateful for you and I pray that you'll really guide our entire household, please give Joe the strength to pick up his dog's poop, its really getting annoying and i pray you'll just help him step his game up.
Father please please please be with my relationship with Lisa. I love her so much God and if I don't then please help me understand and see what that means and how I should act upon it to make it better. Lord we love you and need you desperately and I pray that you'll just help me to be more humble to be more kind, more patient, more protective, more truthful, more hopeful, more persevering and more optomistic about everything. I love you i need you I so desperately long for a deeper relationship with you and I pray that you'll just help me to step up. Help me to be consistant with my life, to make up my mind and everyday trust and believe and know what I need to do in order to be the best i can be. I love you help me to express it. I believe in you but please help me in my unbelief.
Please be with my time I get to have this morning with Russ, help me to ask what I need to ask and say what I need to say and act the way I need to act in order to pick his brain and get his help. Lord I love you and everything you do. Please give me the strength to get through the tough times.
Sorry one last thing please be with Alex Wertz. I know he's kind of been super busy and out of it and I p;ray you'll help him to but you first in all that he does and really live accoding to your will. Please give him boldness, confidence, love, joy, perseverance. Please help something amazing to happen at UCSD I want to see your miracle! Lord I love you I need you, your awesome its in your name I pray AMEN!
Friday, February 18, 2011
Taylor's Love Scripture
1 Cor 3:3
Rev. 3:19
Heb 10:24
1 JOhn 4:18
Deut 30:6
Micah 6:8
1 John 3:16-20
John 15:9-10
Psalm 97:10
Prov 4:6
Gal 5:6
Jer 31:3
Rom. 13:10
Col 2:2
Matt. 5:43-48
John 15:13
Romans 12:9
Zeph 3:17
Deut 11:1
Prov. 10:12
1 Cor. 8:3
Ps 145:20
Eph 3:16-19
Rev. 3:19
Heb 10:24
1 JOhn 4:18
Deut 30:6
Micah 6:8
1 John 3:16-20
John 15:9-10
Psalm 97:10
Prov 4:6
Gal 5:6
Jer 31:3
Rom. 13:10
Col 2:2
Matt. 5:43-48
John 15:13
Romans 12:9
Zeph 3:17
Deut 11:1
Prov. 10:12
1 Cor. 8:3
Ps 145:20
Eph 3:16-19
Transitions
Father in heaven you are amazing!!!
I love you more than words can explain. Father I pray that through this extremely difficult transition losing as an intern you'll really help us excel. God I know he's down and feels like he might have lost his dream or whatever but I pray that you'll help him see that this is what he needs to grow even stronger. Help him to understand all the details I'm sure he already does but give him strength and courage and boldness to not worry about what other people say or do behind his back or anything like that but instead please help him to push forward and not let anything stop him from growing. Lord I pray that you'll help Sam grow in humility. I know he has a very hard time submitting to your will and seeking advice and following through with that advice and I know that it's a huge challenge for him to seek you first all the time when he can turn to other things to try and fill the void. BUt PLEASE lord help him to see and understand that a relationship with you needs to be all the time and help; him to really overcome the hardness of heart, the untrustworthy attitude, the lack of love, or whatever it is when he gets in his moody times of pride. Help him to better understand your will, your love, your plan for his life and for him to really live it out to the best of his ability.
Father please be with Reachard as he too is going through a radical transition in life. I'm so proud of him getting the awesome job at Mater Dei and I know that he's going to excel there and really just do an amazing job as a varsity coach. Father please help him to not lose focus and not spread himself too thin as he takes on all the challenges of life. Father I pray that you'll instead fill him with an abundance of discipline, help him to wake up and get his feet on the ground when he knows he needs to, help him to stay on task and not drift away, not waste time watching TV or playing video games but instead I pray that he can act out his discipline every day in a radical way. You've given him some awesome talents, these great abilities to connect with people and love people on a deep deep level and I pray that you'll continuje to mold those talents and hone them so that he can bring you glory!
Father please please please be with Jack. I love him so much and I know he's going through and extremely difficult time right now with the death of his Grandma and never being able to see her again. I know this would be difficult for anybody and I pray that he won't let it ruin his life, God help him to not blame himself for the mistakes of his grandma made and help him to see the good behind it, that maybe his parents will think deeper about death and what they want to do with there life. Help him to not be depressed not blame himself for other's mistakes, but to really rebound and have a much more radical zeal, a bolder attitude. I know he can take it one of two ways and I pray that he'll take it the right way. That instead of hanging himself like Judas and getting all mad and depressed that he'll really decide to take it, overcome it like a man and allow it to inspire him to change the world, to not make the same mistakes if mistakes were made and to focus on doing everything he can to help his family and friends make it all the way so he can have some joyous deaths in a way.
Father I pray that Kevin Tang can be a man of honesty. That he'll be known for being completely honest at all times in all ways even when it hurts, even when it's challenging to be honest when the truth hurts. I pray that he'll overcome his insecurities that he'll hate what is evil and cling to what's good. Father help him to focus on the future and not dwell on the past, to truly love people not just by compliments but by instiling courage in their hearts and minds. Father I pray that you'll help him and all of us to be known as a household of deep integrity of truth and love, not saying the easy stuff but dealing with the hard stuff. Father I love you I need you and so does kevin help him to understand that a lie is one of the scariest most serious things and I pray that he'll fully grasp the concept and be completely honest even if it's going to make him or someone else look bad to a certain extent. God I love him and I know that he'll be a mighty man of God if he can conquer thesethings, please give him strength to overcome them.
Lord I pray that I will overcome the rollercoaster ride of life that i"ve been so caught up in lately with my high hi's and lowlo's I'm so sorry for not being consistantly epic. And instead being an epic failure. Help me not to be discouraged or angry or blame anyone for my shortcomings but rather I pray that you'll help me to overcome evil with good, to NOT delight in evil but REJOICE with the truth. Father I need your help in this it's not something I try to do or plan to do in any way by no means but I know that you can make anything happen and I know your spirit is prevalent in my life and I pray that you'll really help me see and understand how great you are indeed.
Before I forget Lord help Joe to really be epic. I know he's kind of bummed about work and it's been a huge chalenge for him, I know that your really using him in a great way just using his gifts to really connect with people. Lord please be with his health, help him to really excel right now and shine the way that you've caled him to shine. I know that he has a lot of challenges with the debt and with school and stuff and I pray you'll really encourage him today, please do something in his life right now to keep him up and keep him staying up so he'll never look down. I pray that you'll bless his time his life his everything so that he can remain the faithful bold man he is. Please also help him find a wife someday, the perfect wife though. Help him to see and understand that it doesn't really matter what she looks like but whether she's going to help him make it to heaven.
Father I want to pray for Kirk, help him to really use his radiant beautiful talents to give you an immense amount of praise. You've really blessed him with an amazing amount of talents and i pray he'll stop using them for selfish motives and really start using them to glorify you in a more radical way. Please give him the motivation to not be an observer, not a follower but a leader, an inspiration to the world and to the ministry. Help everything to just go amazing with his young single's group he's starting I know that it's going to be excellent that he's going to do a great job and I'm super grateful that he's already denying himself by going to this concert tonight. Please help him to keep up the good work, keep up the love and just glorify you with all his talents and his life.
Lord please please be with Nick I know he's doing so great just connecting with brothers and getting out of his comfort zone. He's such a cool guy and another man of many rad talents. He's athletic and sharp and I know that you're using him right now but I pray you'll use him in even more radical ways that he'll use his experience to connect with people and lead them to you. Please help him to build an immense knowledge base in the bible, to really be prepared to answer questions and get deeper with people who might be on a higher biblical knowledge. But I pray that he'll also remember that it doesn't matter how much you know but rather how much you care. Help him to also get bold and radical in his prayer life. It's cool he's going to read through the psalms and I know that will help him connect with you deeeply, I pray that everyting can go amazing with him and Olivia that they can really grow in their friendship and that that can lead to whatever will be best for both of them and their relationship with you!
And once again lord please help Rhett. I know he's going thru a super difficult transition right now like it must be impossible for him to not have regrets but I pray he'll keep up the faith, not blame anything or anyone or you but that he can really just persevere through the challenging times ahead and wake up and change the things that need to be changed and really fight with all his heart and mind for the singles minsitry. I love him and know that your going to use him wherever he is.
Your awesome god I love you like crazy, please fill us ALL up with wisdom and discipline and an immense amount of joy. Your the best. much love.
C
I love you more than words can explain. Father I pray that through this extremely difficult transition losing as an intern you'll really help us excel. God I know he's down and feels like he might have lost his dream or whatever but I pray that you'll help him see that this is what he needs to grow even stronger. Help him to understand all the details I'm sure he already does but give him strength and courage and boldness to not worry about what other people say or do behind his back or anything like that but instead please help him to push forward and not let anything stop him from growing. Lord I pray that you'll help Sam grow in humility. I know he has a very hard time submitting to your will and seeking advice and following through with that advice and I know that it's a huge challenge for him to seek you first all the time when he can turn to other things to try and fill the void. BUt PLEASE lord help him to see and understand that a relationship with you needs to be all the time and help; him to really overcome the hardness of heart, the untrustworthy attitude, the lack of love, or whatever it is when he gets in his moody times of pride. Help him to better understand your will, your love, your plan for his life and for him to really live it out to the best of his ability.
Father please be with Reachard as he too is going through a radical transition in life. I'm so proud of him getting the awesome job at Mater Dei and I know that he's going to excel there and really just do an amazing job as a varsity coach. Father please help him to not lose focus and not spread himself too thin as he takes on all the challenges of life. Father I pray that you'll instead fill him with an abundance of discipline, help him to wake up and get his feet on the ground when he knows he needs to, help him to stay on task and not drift away, not waste time watching TV or playing video games but instead I pray that he can act out his discipline every day in a radical way. You've given him some awesome talents, these great abilities to connect with people and love people on a deep deep level and I pray that you'll continuje to mold those talents and hone them so that he can bring you glory!
Father please please please be with Jack. I love him so much and I know he's going through and extremely difficult time right now with the death of his Grandma and never being able to see her again. I know this would be difficult for anybody and I pray that he won't let it ruin his life, God help him to not blame himself for the mistakes of his grandma made and help him to see the good behind it, that maybe his parents will think deeper about death and what they want to do with there life. Help him to not be depressed not blame himself for other's mistakes, but to really rebound and have a much more radical zeal, a bolder attitude. I know he can take it one of two ways and I pray that he'll take it the right way. That instead of hanging himself like Judas and getting all mad and depressed that he'll really decide to take it, overcome it like a man and allow it to inspire him to change the world, to not make the same mistakes if mistakes were made and to focus on doing everything he can to help his family and friends make it all the way so he can have some joyous deaths in a way.
Father I pray that Kevin Tang can be a man of honesty. That he'll be known for being completely honest at all times in all ways even when it hurts, even when it's challenging to be honest when the truth hurts. I pray that he'll overcome his insecurities that he'll hate what is evil and cling to what's good. Father help him to focus on the future and not dwell on the past, to truly love people not just by compliments but by instiling courage in their hearts and minds. Father I pray that you'll help him and all of us to be known as a household of deep integrity of truth and love, not saying the easy stuff but dealing with the hard stuff. Father I love you I need you and so does kevin help him to understand that a lie is one of the scariest most serious things and I pray that he'll fully grasp the concept and be completely honest even if it's going to make him or someone else look bad to a certain extent. God I love him and I know that he'll be a mighty man of God if he can conquer thesethings, please give him strength to overcome them.
Lord I pray that I will overcome the rollercoaster ride of life that i"ve been so caught up in lately with my high hi's and lowlo's I'm so sorry for not being consistantly epic. And instead being an epic failure. Help me not to be discouraged or angry or blame anyone for my shortcomings but rather I pray that you'll help me to overcome evil with good, to NOT delight in evil but REJOICE with the truth. Father I need your help in this it's not something I try to do or plan to do in any way by no means but I know that you can make anything happen and I know your spirit is prevalent in my life and I pray that you'll really help me see and understand how great you are indeed.
Before I forget Lord help Joe to really be epic. I know he's kind of bummed about work and it's been a huge chalenge for him, I know that your really using him in a great way just using his gifts to really connect with people. Lord please be with his health, help him to really excel right now and shine the way that you've caled him to shine. I know that he has a lot of challenges with the debt and with school and stuff and I pray you'll really encourage him today, please do something in his life right now to keep him up and keep him staying up so he'll never look down. I pray that you'll bless his time his life his everything so that he can remain the faithful bold man he is. Please also help him find a wife someday, the perfect wife though. Help him to see and understand that it doesn't really matter what she looks like but whether she's going to help him make it to heaven.
Father I want to pray for Kirk, help him to really use his radiant beautiful talents to give you an immense amount of praise. You've really blessed him with an amazing amount of talents and i pray he'll stop using them for selfish motives and really start using them to glorify you in a more radical way. Please give him the motivation to not be an observer, not a follower but a leader, an inspiration to the world and to the ministry. Help everything to just go amazing with his young single's group he's starting I know that it's going to be excellent that he's going to do a great job and I'm super grateful that he's already denying himself by going to this concert tonight. Please help him to keep up the good work, keep up the love and just glorify you with all his talents and his life.
Lord please please be with Nick I know he's doing so great just connecting with brothers and getting out of his comfort zone. He's such a cool guy and another man of many rad talents. He's athletic and sharp and I know that you're using him right now but I pray you'll use him in even more radical ways that he'll use his experience to connect with people and lead them to you. Please help him to build an immense knowledge base in the bible, to really be prepared to answer questions and get deeper with people who might be on a higher biblical knowledge. But I pray that he'll also remember that it doesn't matter how much you know but rather how much you care. Help him to also get bold and radical in his prayer life. It's cool he's going to read through the psalms and I know that will help him connect with you deeeply, I pray that everyting can go amazing with him and Olivia that they can really grow in their friendship and that that can lead to whatever will be best for both of them and their relationship with you!
And once again lord please help Rhett. I know he's going thru a super difficult transition right now like it must be impossible for him to not have regrets but I pray he'll keep up the faith, not blame anything or anyone or you but that he can really just persevere through the challenging times ahead and wake up and change the things that need to be changed and really fight with all his heart and mind for the singles minsitry. I love him and know that your going to use him wherever he is.
Your awesome god I love you like crazy, please fill us ALL up with wisdom and discipline and an immense amount of joy. Your the best. much love.
C
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Another low low.
Today's been the worse day this week. It's tuesday and I have more work than I even know how to get done. Trying to study for this stupid test on the Qur'an and reading the most disgusting book by Myhre about myths and inclusivity and pluralism and just straight up ridiculousness is killing my convictions. The last thirty minutes I've been super angry and just want to take all my anger out on someone. I've been cursing in my mind about how bad I want to make someone's life miserable and just put a grip of pain in them. Though I'm a pretty weak guy, when I'm mad I could probably hurt just about anyone. I'm feeling pretty faithless right now, listening to blink 182. But I think about the apostles and the epic things that they did as a result of seeing the miraculous Jesus raise from the dead. I want a zeal like that, I've had a zeal like that. Just last night I was preaching the word at USD and down to talk to anybody...basketball players, football players, anyone! It was an encouraging night. I had a fairly awkward conversation with Lisa though and I just don't know. I've been kind of faithless with that whole thing, doubting myself, being REALLY hard on myself. My expectations for my life are out of this world. If i'm not perfect than I'm failing in my mind and I always forget how beautiful grace is. Though we've had various lessons on living like your forgiven and grace I just get ridiculous sometimes...IT SUCKS! anyways I got about 50 hours worth of studying the Qur'an so PEACE!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
I've got a HOME
I've got a home
ive got a crown
ive got a love
wont let me down
I've got a home
I've got a prize
he'll wipe away
tears from my eyes
This morning was epic. I woke up at 5:00ish with an immense amount of back pain. It was extra bad because yesterday I had the honor of snowboarding with the family (which was super rad by the way). But lately my ankylosing spondylitis has been destroying me. God has been humbling me. It's amazing how perfectly he works though. So i woke up used the restroom tried to go back to sleep but he wasn't having it! the pain was way too bad. I was a bit grumpy but was like alright whatever lets do this thing! So i ate my oatmeal, drank my green tea and started the day :). What a blessed, joyful, happy Sunday morning it's been! Around 6 AM I arrived at Mt Helix one of the coolest mountains in San Diego. It's very high but you can drive up to thetop and there's a beautiful cross up there along with God's majestic view of the city of San Diego. Add His sunrise to that and a spirit filled prayer--you've got one EPIC morning. It was just such a great time connecting to my Lord. The sunrise vibrantly illuminated the clouds with a neon orange directly above the perfectly silhouetted mountains. On the other side was a clear view of the ocean and a 360 view of the city. The best aspect of it was the previously mentioned spirit-led prayer that he did for me...It was just an inexplicable connection. I read psalm 103-104 and I'm just so grateful for God's love and majestic nature. Though I was stressed out about the 2 midterms, lab write-up, graph, site visit paper, and whatever else I don't even know about that's due this week...it doesn't really matter because God is good and he will take care of it all. Even if I fail...who cares? Maybe the family but oh well they'll get over it because I've got God on my side and nothing else matters!
ive got a crown
ive got a love
wont let me down
I've got a home
I've got a prize
he'll wipe away
tears from my eyes
This morning was epic. I woke up at 5:00ish with an immense amount of back pain. It was extra bad because yesterday I had the honor of snowboarding with the family (which was super rad by the way). But lately my ankylosing spondylitis has been destroying me. God has been humbling me. It's amazing how perfectly he works though. So i woke up used the restroom tried to go back to sleep but he wasn't having it! the pain was way too bad. I was a bit grumpy but was like alright whatever lets do this thing! So i ate my oatmeal, drank my green tea and started the day :). What a blessed, joyful, happy Sunday morning it's been! Around 6 AM I arrived at Mt Helix one of the coolest mountains in San Diego. It's very high but you can drive up to thetop and there's a beautiful cross up there along with God's majestic view of the city of San Diego. Add His sunrise to that and a spirit filled prayer--you've got one EPIC morning. It was just such a great time connecting to my Lord. The sunrise vibrantly illuminated the clouds with a neon orange directly above the perfectly silhouetted mountains. On the other side was a clear view of the ocean and a 360 view of the city. The best aspect of it was the previously mentioned spirit-led prayer that he did for me...It was just an inexplicable connection. I read psalm 103-104 and I'm just so grateful for God's love and majestic nature. Though I was stressed out about the 2 midterms, lab write-up, graph, site visit paper, and whatever else I don't even know about that's due this week...it doesn't really matter because God is good and he will take care of it all. Even if I fail...who cares? Maybe the family but oh well they'll get over it because I've got God on my side and nothing else matters!
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