Is this what growing up feels like?

So...things aren't exactly the way I thought they'd be, but today, especially, has taught me that God's plan and His power are so much greater than we can imagine and sometimes...heck, all the time...we need to let go and just allow God to work.

I have learned soo much about faithfulness and God's will lately and I feel like He is using everything in my life to teach me and show me Himself. I am completely and utterly amazing at how broken I am but how great He is in me. I am nothing. He is my everything.

At work (the italian ice shop) this past week, things seemed to go wrong every time we turned around. Machines were breaking, we had a million things to do, and we had very little time to do it all. Somehow, God pulled us through. The machines are all working fine and the ice I screwed up is back to normal. The icing made from spoiled milk got thrown out, thank God. And, now we're a week away from Thanksgiving.

As for Campus Ministries at Huntingdon, from the outside looking in it might look like things are falling apart, but really, God's just showing us a new plan. Things are changing, and I think we'll see its for the better. Worship today was so incredible. We were reminded of how the persecuted church gathers everyday as we sat in the basement of Flowers Hall with roaches and water leaking from the storm outside. Closed in that small room, we simply lifted our voices to God. One guitar and nearly 40 voices all singing different praises to God. There is nothing more beautiful than that. The power went out while we were down there, but no one flinched. We kept singing and praying. That is what worship is supposed to be. It is supposed to be a never ending prayer and communication with God. We shouldn't let anything make us even flinch because our love and our fear of God is so much greater than anything else in this world.

I'm leaving this weekend for a conference in Atlanta (the National Youth Workers Convention) and I am incredibly stoked to see what God has in store for us, and especially me. In  the past few weeks I've been to Secret Church, a seminar on the book When Helping Hurts, and now NYWC and maybe even passion 2012...I am so incredibly blessed to be able to go to these events. I dont want to take any of them for granted.