I'm excited!!!

Last night was our annual Campus Crusade for Christ fellowship dinner. It was amazing!! It's basically a celebration of everything God did on all the Ontario campuses throughout the year, and it was an amaaaaazing year. :) We saw more ppl come to Christ, more students go on summer missions trips, and more and more ppl are making the decision to go into full-time ministry. It was just amazing at York to see so many new, excited people. It makes me SO excited to go overseas to see what God will do over there next year. :) I'm uber-excited for the short-term trips that'll be going over this summer, too. Honestly, there's nothing I'd rather be doing than serving Him full-time!!!! :)

Today's message at church was interesting, too. Pastor Ray compared humans to porcupines. The closer we get to each other, the more prone we are to hurting others with our quills...and it's true. Being close to someone requires vulnerability and letting your walls come down. It's baring your soul, and trusting that they'll be careful with your heart. As that happens, we get closer, but more prone to hurting each other. Being hurt so many times makes the walls come up, and it separates us from others, when we were really made to be in fellowship with one another. But being able to feel that emotional pain is what makes us human, and being able to grow from those past hurts and allowing God to heal our hearts is a transforming thing. I can't wait until the day I am presented holy in his sight.

"Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation– if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel." - Colossians 1:21-23