Be BOLD...

We are going through the book of Ephesians in ISP, which happens to be my favorite book of the Bible. Every time I read through Ephesians I feel like God makes me realize that I will never know or understand it all. Each time I learn something new and it makes me marvel at what an amazing teacher Christ is, if only I could feel that way about all my teachers =)

Anyway, last night we were reading chapter 3 of Ephesians and I was stuck on verse 12. It says "...in Christ Jesus our Lord in whom we have BOLDNESS and access with confidence through our faith in him." Now I do not see my self as bold or full of confidence when it comes to most things especially sharing my faith with complete strangers. But as we were reading God smacked in the face with the realization that he has made me BOLD and because of that I have no excuse to not be confident it sharing Christ and living a Christ-like life. God has blessed us with all the tools necessary to share his love with others, the only problem is it is up to us to decide whether or not we are going to use them or let them go to waste.

So I encourage you to not see yourself through your own eyes or the eyes of others but see yourself through the eyes of Christ because to him you are perfect and pure, BOLD and confident!

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!"
Philippians 4:13

I dearly love...

...these three people. They are the ones that I get to see all the time and the ones I open my heart up too. I trust them with all that I am and they continually support me on a daily basis. They know the best of me and the worst of me and still want me around. I can't imagine my life without them and I consider myself truly blessed to have them in my life.

Today at church my pastor talked about the vision of our church and how it was created to be a place where everyone is accepted, the best and the worst of them and it made me thankful to be a part of such an awesome community and for having people in my life who do the same for me.

Oh the pressure...

This being my first blog I felt the pressure to write something profound that will keep you coming back to read it. However, the profound things I think of usually come to me spur of the moment so instead I’ve just decided to be me and tell you about my life at the moment.

This week has been a fantastic ball of stress! I got the pleasure of planning, alongside my friend Shelby, a concert featuring Tyrone Wells. I cannot tell you how it felt to sit there and listen to that amazing man sing and think how crazy it was that not too long ago I was living in Fullerton going to CSUF and doing nothing with my life to being at CBU, being involved in student leadership and getting to help plan events for our student body. The stressful part of the week came from taking an event that was completely planned to be outside and having to figure out how to turn our cafeteria into a coffeehouse environment because of the rain. Well, we pulled it off thanks to the CAB staff, 75 RA’s, my family, and 1 ISP team! I could not have dreamed of a better event, Tyrone was incredible to work with and to listen to, my bosses and our staff was super supportive, and we had at least 350 people come to see Tyrone.

The second awesome thing about my week was going my first NBA game. We took about 100 students to the Clippers/Jazz game at the Staples Center last night and it was a lot of fun to relax and watch basketball, I can’t even remember the last time I got to do that.