Powerful moments.

Today after the sermon, during the response time, I witness an extremely precious and powerful moment that was literally almost bringing me to tears.

Pastor Brian had just finished his second part in his current series about the Holy Spirit, which is so amazing. I'll have to post my notes so far on it at some point because I know I'm learning a lot through it, and hopefully I can share what I've learned and maybe teach others something as well. Anyways...so it was during the response time when people are invited to come up to the stairs at the front and pray if they need to and the following scenario was played out....

A few weeks ago a member of our college group lost his father, and obviously is going through some rough times right now, as is his whole family. He went up to the front and knelt down at the altar to pray. Then seconds later two of his great friends (also great men in our college ministry) knelt down beside him, laid hands on him, and they all prayed together. It was SUCH a precious, yet crazy powerful moment. Through everything going on in all 3 of their lives...it all stopped right there. The world just froze, and they were all united there through prayer.

I don't really know how to adequately describe the feeling I got from watching that. But y'all, prayer is powerful. God is powerful. He can come through ANY situation, anything going on in life, get 3 young guys in different situations and bring them together in an incredible moment of prayer and fellowship with Him.

It was a moment I won't soon forget. And I think sometimes we so often (we meaning me included FOR SURE) get so caught up in the day-to-day business and that prayer is a part of it and it just becomes too common. We forget that we are talking to GOD! We get to talk directly to the Creator of the entire universe!!! It is such a powerful thing and is life changing, and that is something we should never take for granted.

Technlogy.

So, not many of you know this unless you've been in my car, but for about the past year or so I've had a pedal extension on my accelerator. It makes it so much easier for me to drive because I don't have to extend my leg as far, and I can basically use it while keeping my foot on the floor so I don't keep muscles flexed for long periods. It has become increasingly apparent in the last few months that I'm having a lot of trouble using the brake, which was just like any other car. Sitting at long red lights was becoming a painful problem, and it seems that the time has come to get an extension on my brake.

I tried to hold off as long as I could, because to me getting something like this done is just another thing on the list of "normal" things I can't do. But with technology these days and all the amazing stuff that's out there now, I can do "normal" things...just a little differently! So yesterday my dad and I went to get my extension on, and it is HEAVENLY!! This is going to allow me to drive for who knows how much longer now! Using the pedals are SO much easier now, and it doesn't hurt anymore! Always good. Posted below is a picture of it for you visual people.

Anyway, just thought I'd update about that. It's pretty cool all the crazy things they can do now to accommodate for things like this.

Craft Day!

Anyone who knows me well knows that I definitely do NOT consider myself a crafty or creative person. I'm super left-brained and overanalyze everything way too much to find creative things a stress relief...in fact, they actually tend to stress me out throughout the process, but after it's finished I love it! Haha

All this to say, today my mom and I had a craft day! For Christmas this past year, my roommate at the time gave me the first picture below. It is SO cute and I absolutely love it!! We were going to hang it above my bed at home, but it's too small on its own. So my mom had the great idea to make two more and hang all three of them! So we made the last two! All in all it was a really fun day. Despite my craziness of needing everything to match and be perfect, we had a great time and I wanted to share with you our amazing (in my opinion) project!!

(**Excuse the not super awesome picture quality, they were taken with my phone**)